paid trolls

The point being, who has the time, or the energy, to be in here that often disrupting threads? Unfortunalty, there are many paid trolls on controversial forums (paid by teacher's unions, other unions, political groups, religious groups. governments, PACs, and other special interest groups.) Notice how divisive these forums IC (or IT, inner turmoil) is on are, and how people are confused and wondering who's the planted troll? 

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On another article, I mentioned that I had encountered on a message board that there were "paid" trolls. These people were surfing the internet and joining discussion boards solely for the purpose of disruption of any discussion that was adverse to their employers. Since I hadn't researched it or googled the subject I got to it. Here is a copy of the list on just one page of a search. I was appalled that not only was there one person that had mentioned this but that many people were discussing this issue.

Representing yourself as a "real" person that is interested in the subject and has a valid different opinion is practicing democracy. When you are being paid to promote the opinion of someone else that is not necessarily yours, that is wrong to me. I will not advocate for something I do not believe in firmly. I will question and discuss until I work out an opinion.

What are your thoughts on Paid Trolls, not just the usual unhappy place troll. The list follows and again this is only one page of a search using Paid Trolls as the search on Bing. I didn't Metacrawl search it.

Noble Realms / Paid TrollsPaid trolls is a subject we've thrown around in the abstract, but here is a link to a ... that there are people soullessly and robotically defending a company or a political ...

forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3554 · Cached pageDo Paid Trolls... - Urban LegendsPolitics / Government / Law; Print Discussion ... A lot of forum and digg trolls are paid. It’s pathetic but there it is. .....

forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-urbanlegends&tid=9770 · Cached pagePaid Political Trolls on ATS...I fart in your general ...Discusion about Paid Political Trolls on ATS...I fart in your general direction! in the AboveTopSecret.com website alternative topics discussion forum Politicians & People.

www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread360380/pg1 · Cached pageIf I report the paid political troll issue to Yahoo ...Best Answer: You have got to be kidding me. You'd probably would end up with violations for old posts.

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answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070421163507AAWjd62 · Cached pageEconomist's View: "Astro-Turf Trolls for the ...Great. Organized, paid blog trolls: Make no mistake: GOP is paying trolls to "blog attack", by Politics and Technology: This is unbelievable. We always knew that there were right ...

economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/08/astroturf-trolls-for-the-blogosphere.html · Cached pageTrolls Exposed: What kind of troll is disrupting your ...There are also paid political trolls. They actually get paid to surf through online communities and disrupt meaningful conversations while touting their party line.

www.times-standard.com/davestancliff/ci_12489233 · Cached pageWhat is the motivation of a Y/A Politics conspiracy ...Is it paid to create to havoc by political organizations to bash Bush? Is it a Yahoo employee as one has ... The troll is you who keep opening accounts to answer these questions ...

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070427190841AA2TqNB · Cached pageDo Paid Trolls... - Urban LegendsPaying for trolls seems like just another step on the ladder ... I would certainly not rule out "paid trolling" as a possibility - particularly in political and religious ...

forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=2&nav=messages&webtag=ab-urbanlegends&tid=9770 · Cached pagePaid troll - Consumerium... to intervene nor to take any political stance. This is obviously ideal, and discourages the very enthusiastic contributors less. If there are other types of paid troll identified ...

develop.consumerium.org/wiki/Paid_troll · Cached pageWesleyDonehue.comGodin says that as professionals, we are paid to ignore them. In politics, we cannot and we must not because sure, trolls “live in a tiny echo chamber,” but so do some other ...

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