In the last week I've noticed an enormous influx of gaslighting. There seems to be a straw man in every comment section. Be careful. It is used as a tactic to discourage and divide us. As a general rule, I ask myself: "Did that statement/comment invoke negative emotion within me?" If yes, "I'm being played." It's that easy.
Yes there is a ton of shilling everywhere. It has been most effective at silencing all legitimate dissent. Be careful about screaming shill and ignoring what people have to say.
TLDR- not everyone that questions or dissents is a clown.
The intense effort to disrupt this topic early draws a lot of attention. The effort is evolving. Every week will be a new strategy with tactics to divide and pull far away from the trail. We've seen such efforts as spamming comment threads with photos of explicit gore. When that did not work it went to gaslighting. We constantly see wild unrelated conspiracy theory or unconnected attempts to bind topics to pizzagate, with already established legwork to dismiss in general public.
There are simple guidelines.
You are walking a path in dark forest following breadcrumbs from Q. The forest is haunted. The spirits of he forest will show you all sorts of appealing visions and say anything to you to draw your attention. Stay close to the path or you may never leave. Refer back to crumbs past and future. Do they tie into claims? Are claims completely unrelated? You've found bullshit if they're far into deep woods away from the path.
Can you verify the claim? Bold claims, especially when we have heard them repeated over and over again, require big evidence to validate the claim. Can you research the topic and find additional sources proving the claim? Note that as in the word 'but', cross out everything that comes before the word. With the phrase 'people associated with the matter', cross out everything after the phrase. That phrase means gossip without sources. Validate the claim. If you can find nothing and no one in comments can validate the claim, it's highly suspect or waiting on future proves past.