On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:29:43 UTC+1, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
On 06/08/2014 21:23, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 21:09:00 UTC+1, Malcolm wrote:

In article , Joe Egginton



writes



If crossposting is frown upon, why is it possible? Did a troll invent



the crossposting mechanism?







No, but trolls abuse it.







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Malcolm



How is it worse than sock puppetry?

This generally the purpose of fake accounts:

The entire thing is super shady (don't talk about clients, don't talk about targets, ect. ect.) but is surprisingly well organized. They actually have three 'groups'.

Group A farms accounts, that is they make a bunch of social media accounts and forum accounts and spend all day contributing to these communities building up a reputation within that community. These accounts get passed off to Group B and sometimes are sold in batches.

Group B takes established accounts from Group A and actively ****s on client competitors ect. talks up/lies about the usefulness of their clients. Eventually Group B's reputation plummets and they are known to be a biased unreasonable person. Now they go to Group C

Group C essentially is cold storage used for new clients that may require your services against old clients. Having a community member with a history of supporting client A suddenly endorse their competitor or perhaps even start to change their tune about client A is a useful service.

Of course given how shady they do everything clients don't know that they are working for both sides...it's a total ****show.

http://www.vice.com/read/trolls-paid...y-articles-806

Obviously Dawlish isn't in that league he is far too naive.
But for reasons that lack explanation a team of Usenet abusers think it is good sense to overwhelm a thread full of reason with one of rhetoric.

Let's start one off:

The GOES format at the moment literally shows the free fall of cold air into a calm lower atmosphere, transforming the outer margins of the Hadley Cells in two oceans into trains of vortex clouds.

One in the North Pacific is running west north west from Mexico to China, the other is running north east from Mexico to Europe.

This effect or phenomenon has the theory of Coriolis effect by the short and curlies. Which raises the question:
What colour is carbon dioxide?