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In reply to the discussion: Is there trolling going on here in regards to Obama? Like [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)A person was reported because he was confirming what he saw as a pattern of trolling. Most of the jurors, including me, said "leave it" because we felt he was trying to help confirm a known astroturfer. But 2 jurors voted to hide one for "abusing position" and another for "calling a troll" (even though the post called out was already jury-hidden, i.e., probably trollish). It seemed to me that those two people ON THE JURY might be astroturfers trying to protect other astroturfers. I've been on other juries where the results were suspicious but none as clear-cut as this one.
I was recently embroiled in a discussion where a person kept rehearsing GOP/Tea Party talking points meant to encourage cutting SSDI/SSI. It wasn't just one point, the person used multiple angles as if he or she had listened to a presentation on the topic and already had the complete argument against SSDI/SSI in their head, even though they were pretending to be for SSDI for people who "deserved" it. I don't know what the rest of the history of this person on DU was (their post count was too high to be a new account), but in this one subject area they were GOP shills and they needed to be called on it. I attempted to get them juried but somehow they slipped through (other GOP on jury?). So I called "GOP concern troll" myself. Was that "abusing position"? I don't care. This person was planting GOP talking points meant to influence people to cut SSDI/SSI and comment after comment and no one was doing anything about it.
Do I think there is trolling going on here? Yes.