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Aside from the bot question - how many here are paid shills?

Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:21 am
Posted by Kramerica Inc
Member since Nov 2024
15 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:21 am
Pretty confident that the most prominent and prolific of the prog posters on this site aren't just organically as idiotic as they appear.

- Normal rational humans don't keep coming back for more and more beatdowns when they've been demonstrably proven wrong/retarded time and again.

- Normal productive functioning humans don't have enough free time to post drivel all day every day (childless boomers possibly the exception)

The paid posters are clearly intelligent enough to string together coherent sentences, but lack the wisdom and awareness you would expect from someone communicating with sincerity.

So why engage with the paid trolls? We all know who most of them are. I'm not generally in favor of banning and stifling debate. But when it's been demonstrated time and again that certain posters aren't here in good faith but are just paid to be here to promote leftist propaganda, why do anything but ignore?
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
17205 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:23 am to
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So why engage with the paid trolls? We all know who most of them are.


Kramerica Inc
Member since Nov 2024
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This post was edited on 1/29/26 at 9:24 am
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
94299 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:23 am to
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So why engage with the paid trolls? We all know who most of them are. I'm not generally in favor of banning and stifling debate. But when it's been demonstrated time and again that certain posters aren't here in good faith but are just paid to be here to promote leftist propaganda, why do anything but ignore?


Mods could do a better job of regulating this w/o infringing on free thought.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
9464 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:24 am to
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- Normal rational humans


Most on the left are not rational humans. They're emotionally weak, soulless weirdos who choose politics as their deity. Complete individual freedom, no individual consequences (see minnesota)

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- Normal productive functioning humans

cognitive dissonance

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The paid posters are clearly intelligent


They are just cashing a check, dont take it personal
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
89902 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:25 am to
Honest questions here:

1) Who exactly do you think is spending actual real money to pay people to post here?

2) Why would this be their destination? Paid agitators at riots in leftist cities get on the news and go viral and yadda yadda. The political forum on tigerdroppings is going to have...a lot less reach, to put it mildly.
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
7656 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:25 am to
I’m pro-Israel so I can keep getting those $7000 checks. I’m a millionaire now!
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
68176 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:25 am to
Where do I apply?
Posted by Kramerica Inc
Member since Nov 2024
15 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:26 am to
Long-time lurker. Freely admit
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
17205 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:29 am to
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Why would this be their destination? Paid agitators at riots in leftist cities get on the news and go viral and yadda yadda. The political forum on tigerdroppings is going to have...a lot less reach, to put it mildly.


IF they are here... the point isn't to convince others, the point is to derail threads dealing with certain topics.

Who pays and why?

The Biden administration blew that wide open and didn't even try to hide, but were weirdly proud of, the fact that they depended heavily and paid handsomely, "influencers".

No corner of the country or internet is too small as they are ginning up false "consensus".
Posted by Kramerica Inc
Member since Nov 2024
15 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:29 am to
I think a lot of people are like me - I honestly get a lot of my news & insight on this site. In terms of true conservative (MAGA, patriotic whatever we want to call it these days) discussion & engagement I think this site ranks pretty high
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86609 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:30 am to
Bots/shills/etc. is probably the most overplayed topic on this board, TBH

We occasionally have someone who comes with a contrarian viewpoint and spams the board and then they're gone soon after.

I just don't think this is a type of place where a) you can get the benefit of a volume of shills to reinforce concepts like you can on Reddit or X and b) most of the contrarian positions here just aren't that persuasive and don't really move much of the needle. I don't think it's fertile ground or format for what people often claim is happening.

If on a random Tuesday you had a dozen coyly presented pro-Israel, why Trump needs to intervene in Iran threads by fairly new posters, sure. But that doesn't really happen. We have a handful of the same lefties saying their usual stuff - I highly doubt anyone is paying them for it.

Now, they might be trolling you guys, but that's different.
Posted by thejuiceisloose
Member since Nov 2018
6240 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:30 am to
SDVTiger has to be a paid troll
Posted by BoomerandSooner
Member since Sep 2025
1953 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:31 am to
Do SNAP benefits and Medicaid count? If so 4cubbies is shilling hard for the money.

Posted by EastWestConnection
Denver/Shenzhen/Belfast
Member since Jul 2024
1656 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:32 am to
Why would someone get paid to post here? It’s not that big a forum and everyone here already has bat shite insane ideas
Posted by VOR
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2009
68176 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:32 am to
So you evaluate a source based on whether you agree or not?
Posted by ob1pimpbobi
College Station
Member since Jul 2022
3206 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:34 am to
Paid, maybe. Is it maybe one or two guys with a lot of alters trying to make it look like more people think like they do. Probably.
Posted by OU81TOO
Member since Jul 2024
208 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:37 am to
First of all - love the handle

Second of all, I've been thinking this for a long time. There are a small amount of people who get on here and derail every thread with no push back from the administrators. They are obviously paid or gain some sort of benefit from it. I have a hard time believing there are that many organic idiots that would frequent this forum.
Posted by Kramerica Inc
Member since Nov 2024
15 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:39 am to
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VOR


Exhibit A
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
84860 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:42 am to
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There are a small amount of people who get on here and derail every thread with no push back from the administrators


Derail the thread by doing what? Disagreeing with the OP or someone else? It’s a message board. The whole idea is the exchange of … ideas.
This post was edited on 1/29/26 at 10:18 am
Posted by OU81TOO
Member since Jul 2024
208 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:47 am to
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Disagreeing with the OP or someone else?


No, that's not what I'm saying. Threads that go on for 18 pages of semantics that have nothing to do with the original OP is derailing. I'm sure you can recognize that based on your vast post history and level of intellect.
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