(11-22-2012, 04:00 PM)Ashim Wrote: Sorry to bump again but I just remembered that one can go into 'chat mode' - also very effective at de-railing athread.

(11-22-2012, 08:52 PM)plenum Wrote:

(11-22-2012, 04:00 PM)Ashim Wrote: Sorry to bump again but I just remembered that one can go into 'chat mode' - also very effective at de-railing athread.

that one made me laugh out loud. seriously

(11-22-2012, 08:16 PM)Goldenratio Wrote: Id be curious to know about what percent of the population goes to internet forums. Specifically the ones that are high enough volume to make many of the listed tactics worthwhile. By and large while I do not doubt that most/all internet forums are data mined and tracked for key phrases, im not sure how much manipulation takes place on that end. As ive never really heard of a story that really broke out on an internet forum (that I can recall at least), im a little skeptical of the idea of active manipulation on forums.

Especially since some of the ones listed as examples tend to be "tin foil hat brigade" type forums.

(11-22-2012, 03:54 PM)Ashim Wrote: Found this on the net.
The info is good and worth a look.

COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'

Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.

Source
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

(11-25-2012, 08:41 PM)xise Wrote: I have a friend who is closely associated with the democratic party and its well known in political circles that it has been standard practice to pay people to.post anonymously in forums but especially the comments section of news articles in order to spin public opinion. Apparently its not even considered secret or a big deal, but rather standard practice.

(04-28-2013, 10:24 AM)kainous Wrote: All your base are belong to Dinko! Someone set us up the bomb.

(04-28-2013, 08:58 AM)Ashim Wrote: Probably the fastest way to 'flush' important or sensitive posts into obscurity would be to make a bunch of senseless comments on other peoples threads and just bump the message not meant to be seen.