05-04-2013, 06:33 PM
(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.
I've heard from knowledgeable sources that here in Canada the Conservative Party gets their young staff to post alot of comments on news website articles. Presumably the other parties here and in other countries do that too. But news websites are different from forums, especially the type of forums which the Cryptome article probably has in mind (e.g. us, conspiracy theory forums, Edgar Cayce related stuff, etc.). I think that the only people who would want to purposely poison the well, derail, distract, etc. on these kinds of forums would be people in secret societies fighting for control of everything because they're probably afraid of anything close to the truth getting out, even if its to a small group of people.
Other than the occasional troll or closed minded preacher I don't think there's anyone malicious on this forum, for now. If LOO gets popular enough this forum might become a target and we and the moderators should be prepared for it, it would be a shame to have such a great forum corrupted.