by psyop samurai » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:31 am
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Can you now with reasonable confidence identify them?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Quite often, yes.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Are there any here on RI?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Don't know..., fortunately, I'd say RI hasn't attracted much of that element.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Are they "bad"?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Considering the seriousness of matters at hand, and how twisted their agenda would have to be, I can say with full confidence that they are evil.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Surfing, or browsing, the Web.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>um, no.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Posting ... messages about sensitive subjects to bait users into responding.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>That, and disrupting consensus for the sake of disrupting.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Hanging around in a chat room without saying anything, like a "peeping tom."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>um, that's "lurking".<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Are they trolls..or paid disinfo agents?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Hard to say... Judging from the number of freely available mind controlled robots, one wonders if it's necessary to pay anyone. (look at Freepers, for example.)<br><br>I think a troll is someone who specifically seeks to "stir up" a forum for their own perverse reasons, while a disinfo agent has a larger tactical agenda. ...my 2 cents. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :p --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":p"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>