Why are trolls allowed to post on GLP? What is the difference between a shill and a troll? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1427470 Australia 06/14/2011 03:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well? There are hundreds of troll threads on GLP everyday as well as 100s of shill posts on here. What is the difference between a troll and a shill? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views. What is a shill, I ask? txshill4jewdick comediangimp chumthetexfag fubarfagman |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1427566 South Africa 06/14/2011 03:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well? There are hundreds of troll threads on GLP everyday as well as 100s of shill posts on here. What is the difference between a troll and a shill? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views. What is a shill, I ask? txshill4jewdick comediangimp chumthetexfag fubarfagman |
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stormer User ID: 1427574 South Africa 06/14/2011 03:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery - Bob Marley |
stormer User ID: 1427574 South Africa 06/14/2011 03:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here in SA they are more commonly referred to as a 'bladdy agent!' Last Edited by stormer on 06/14/2011 03:46 AM Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery - Bob Marley |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1329594 United States 06/14/2011 03:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1427566 South Africa 06/14/2011 03:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1427591 Slovenia 06/14/2011 04:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “… a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.” Specifically on the GLP, a shill is a person who doesn’t agree with my opinion, regardless how delusional and unsubstantiated it is and how many times it has been debunked. * |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 991956 Australia 06/14/2011 04:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for. The person or group that hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by confidence artists. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he or she is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent). Quoting: stormertroll: somebody who posts some stuff that makes themself look so stoopid that people can't help but correct them. flamebaiter: a poster who tries to get people mad at him so they will flame him |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1427566 South Africa 06/14/2011 04:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Generally, a shill is: [link to dictionary.reference.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427591“… a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.” Specifically on the GLP, a shill is a person who doesn’t agree with my opinion, regardless how delusional and unsubstantiated it is and how many times it has been debunked. * ...I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566... oh and BTW: A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for. The person or group that hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by confidence artists. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he or she is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent). Quoting: stormertroll: somebody who posts some stuff that makes themself look so stoopid that people can't help but correct them. flamebaiter: a poster who tries to get people mad at him so they will flame him A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he or she is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) that he or she is secretly working for. The person or group that hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by confidence artists. Plant and stooge more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he or she is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization (see double agent). Quoting: stormertroll: somebody who posts some stuff that makes themself look so stoopid that people can't help but correct them. flamebaiter: a poster who tries to get people mad at him so they will flame him |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1296332 United States 06/14/2011 04:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well? There are hundreds of troll threads on GLP everyday as well as 100s of shill posts on here. What is the difference between a troll and a shill? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views. What is a shill, I ask? A shill is a paid idiot. A troll is obviously a troll. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1427124 United Kingdom 06/14/2011 04:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1427566 South Africa 06/14/2011 04:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1412509 Australia 06/14/2011 04:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A shill is a person who shoots down your post regardless of how much documentation you have to prove your point. Sometimes their reasonings are absurb. If they don't turn general opinion against the thread they are trying to shill, then they usually turn into a troll. A troll is a tard who tries to disrupt a thread with general retardness. |
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Tess User ID: 1427610 Ireland 06/14/2011 04:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was just called a troll. I had a debate with the OP. I used facts and logic, he had nothing but an invalid concept. He then ran to the troll card. LMAO, pathetic. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1329594Same shit here. If I say anything against muslims I'm a jew, .... plus the usual Paddy insults because I'm in Ireland, even though I'm English .. they're just saddos who can't take criticism. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1427543 Australia 06/14/2011 04:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1426688 United States 06/14/2011 05:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well? There are hundreds of troll threads on GLP everyday as well as 100s of shill posts on here. What is the difference between a troll and a shill? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views. What is a shill, I ask? Without reading any posts but yours, here is my answer. Your definition of a troll is correct. A shill is someone who is paid to post a specific way, just as the classic definition of a shill was a person who said specific things to help perpetuate con jobs. The problem is that no one gives a fuck what anyone on GLP says. Most of the people here are either minimum wage workers or they're on some form of disability. No on, no corporation or government, is going to pay anyone to convince these idiots of anything. For the most part, shills are either trolls or they're sane. The post things that the paranoids on GLP don't want to see, so they get labeled "shills". |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1426688 United States 06/14/2011 05:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think the difference between a shill and a troll has been lost, if someone disagrees with you , just call them either one of those names...you will feel goood Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427494You said what I was trying to say, but you used a lot less words. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1283085 United States 06/14/2011 05:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well? There are hundreds of troll threads on GLP everyday as well as 100s of shill posts on here. What is the difference between a troll and a shill? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1427566I think trolls are your average internet jerks sitting at home and posting threads full of lies to stir up trouble and gain thousands of thread views. What is a shill, I ask? Trolls are losers who get their kicks by starting arguments and derailing threads. Shills are posters with an agenda. They want to promote certain specific topics or viewpoints, but they make effort to not to be discovered as the biased and closed-minded source that they truly are. |
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