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Anonymous ID: dbbb85 Feb. 6, 2020, 6:41 p.m. No.8055485   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5757

>>8055441

>>8055428

newfags

Dealing with Clowns & Shills

New?: Use logic and reason when evaluating posts, look beyond the content of the post(s) and evaluate intent. PB>>7683307

how to quickly spot a clown

They will:

  • Attempt to get a divisive or emotional response from you to derail research.

  • Concern troll and copy/pasta spam shill to contradict confirmed findings.

  • Employ faux debate tactics: Generalizations, gas-lighting, projection, misdirection, false equivalences, confusing correlation with causation, appeal to authority, transference, false precepts, personal attacks, straw-men, red herrings, etc.

  • Promote social ethics that are disingenuous like doxxing, "reverse psychology", or promoting propaganda.

  • Promote tactics that are unethical, illegal or involve violence outside the scope of the Law.

  • Employ Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to dissuade research.

Topic sliding If information of a sensitive nature has been posted on a discussion forum, it can be quickly removed from public view by topic sliding. In this technique a large number of unrelated posts, or posts aimed at diluting the information presented, are submitted in an effort to trigger a topic slide to literally push content out of view. Operators can control several fake UIDs via the bots they make use of; these can also be called upon in the other techniques to mask the intent of the operator from the users at large. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and bogus postings.

 

Seeding bad information Operatives will insert flawed or bogus information from time to time as an ongoing tactic, depending on their skill set and the needs of their mission. Their most common ruse is providing information or evidence which is backed by bad source material in the hope that the "source of the source" is never checked. This serves several objectives, mainly resource consumption, evidence pollution, discouragement and misdirection.

 

Astroturfing consensus This is a technique that attempts to build a manufactured consensus around a flawed set of statements or compromised information. This is related to consensus cracking, where false evidence is injected in an attempt to dispute or discredit what the current consensus is, and push it towards the desired false consensus. Misleading and false evidence and information are often salted into the evidence pool, with an aim to impede organic consensus building, while also poisoning the available information and evidence.

 

Cultivating tacit approval (The legal term for this is 'silent agreement') Attempting to attain this state is done using a technique where operators will try to convince the user population to ignore, or not respond to bad information or false assertions. This is done in a bid to reduce push-back against the above mentioned tactics. It's worth noting that the reply filtering mechanism of the boards (which currently can't be disabled without code changes from the site admin) is used as a weapon of sorts in this tactic: Filtering with software prevents anons from defending against seeding bad information and astroturfing consensus. This is why the operators push so hard to condition anons into filtering material they disagree with.

 

How to spot a Clown's bot

 

NEVER DIRECTLY ENGAGE A BOT It just wastes bread with their responses, and hands them a target to programmatically lock on to without handler interaction. It seems that the easiest way to foil the bots is to point them out by proxy, by copy/pasting the user's ID as a quoted reference and intentionally breaking its post link in your response and/or answering it with a meme until they start misfiring because they can't parse the response to lock onto a target correctly.. Doing this can also make the bots look artificially erratic and easier for other anons to spot.

 

What we know about the cl0wnbots

 

  • Are used to facilitate topic sliding, manufacturing consensus, obfuscation of intent, and general disruption

  • Require a handler to watch for and be in the thread

  • Cannot enter threads themselves

  • Respond to replies and each other, and can create replies

  • Can pick up random or contradictory meme flags

  • Activate on lists of trigger words; these can change over time

  • Use a combination of legit pasta, pre-written points, or spam targeted at various objectives.

  • Have unwittingly pasta'd supportive replies

  • Are employed mostly at night and on weekends (US time)

  • Add to bump limits

  • Can be filtered by ID once they are observed

  • Are not perfected and can be easily spotted

  • Were deployed starting on the /CBTS/ board

  • Have certain flaws that can cause them to misfire in sometimes comical ways

  • The handlers can make bogus clown threads, but also can be confused by accidental ones

  • Handlers still cannot access the servers

  • Have still not succeeded in their mission

  • Still can not meme

Anonymous ID: dbbb85 Feb. 6, 2020, 6:59 p.m. No.8055701   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5894

>>8055588

and Kristin Synema?

Just like McCain, Flake and Romeny are not real (R's) they are leftists.

I even think Ilhan Omar is a plant in the Dem party.

She probably cut the deal to make the D look bad to lessen her prison sentence for being illegally in the country and her not be legal to even be in our government.

So she is do prison work release of sorts?

Anonymous ID: dbbb85 Feb. 6, 2020, 7:05 p.m. No.8055769   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5790

>>8055631

read the bread top entries

you missed this:

 

Welcome to Q Research

(README FIRST, THEN PROCEED TO LURK) https://8kun.top/qresearch/welcome.html

 

lurk

/lษ™rk/

Learn to pronounce

verb

verb: lurk; 3rd person present: lurks; past tense: lurked; past participle: lurked; gerund or present participle: lurking

(of a person or animal) be or remain hidden so as to wait in ambush for someone or something.

"a ruthless killer still lurked in the darkness"

Similar:

skulk

loiter

lie in wait

lie low

hide

conceal oneself

take cover

keep out of sight

sneak

sidle

slink

prowl

steal

move furtively

move with stealth

(of an unpleasant quality) be present in a latent or barely discernible state, although still presenting a threat.

"fear lurks beneath the surface"

INFORMAL

read the postings in an Internet forum without actively contributing

 

until you understand the culture

Anonymous ID: dbbb85 Feb. 6, 2020, 7:13 p.m. No.8055862   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>8055749

on my end as well

and i have to go to the top of the bread reply box and manually delete old images or it says already in thread, but they do not show in pop up reply box when down in th the bread, i have to x them out top of bread, my reply is there already as well, and then all fine, i just hit reply and all good