A second highly effective technique is what we call “consensus cracking.”

Here’s how we develop a consensus crack: Under the guise of a fake account, a posting is made which looks legitimate — but the critical point is that it has very weak back-up. [Ed.: We assume this counterfeit posting contains some of the same points being made by those attempting to reveal the truth, but in a weaker form. Think of it as an “inoculation.” ]

This is done every single day. And when I try to point out that the post has weak or no backing. The true shills like remedy4reality and other useful idiots bombard me with accusations of being a shill, when all I'm doing is pointing out the very weak nature of the argument that put forth. We all need to stick to FACTS so we stop falling victim to this tactic.

Pretty much describes Twatter, YT, FB, Go0g and nearly every forum very well. Thanks for posting

Remember: these techniques are only effective if the forum participants do not know about them

Once they are aware of these techniques the operation can completely fail, and the forum can become uncontrolled. At this point other avenues must be considered such as initiating a false legal precedence to simply have the forum shut down and taken offline.

Heh. Welcome to Voat.

i also read a while ago that another tactic is to become forum moderators

Been watching this place closely. Things will be moving fast soon. Might be interested to know that someone will catch a case before long. Good luck.