Coordinated posts intended to mould opinions and silence debate

[LordshipPain]

I have been thinking about using an AI to cross-reference comments; between public commenting platforms along with the news of the day, for past events (that needed to be "dealt with" for narrative management), future events which need to be "shaped" or "nudged" to move the public in a particular direction (narrative control) and what it is that forms the "community". I think it is happening on a large number of comment forums.

I can already see a pattern with a number of single-issue commenters (that have the nerve to accuse others of being "obsessed" or of being a member of certain political parties) that make feeble attempts to comment on other subjects but really have only one obsession. They are obvious. But I also want to see the patterns of enforcers and Igor / Renfield types.

Edited 10 hours ago by LordshipPain
Missing comma.

[Spartacus]

Interesting experiment 

Look forward to the results 

[KalamityKel]

Have you been able to clearly define your categories? 

[LordshipPain]

1 hour ago, KalamityKel said:

Have you been able to clearly define your categories? 

I have been thinking about it and what I have loosely come up with so far are sites and types.

Sites

Here, Comment is Free, the Independent, the BBC (difficult as their comments section is only ever on trivia), The Telegraph (less so but increasing), The times (rapidly increasing), New Statesman, Spectator (much less so but some increase) even the Daily Mail and UnHerd (perhaps even union platforms, agit-prop and "progressive" platforms, XR, "middle-East", Just Stop Oil, Reddit, Bluesky, Truth Social etc.) I am sure the AI will find more to cross-reference.

Types

Astro-turfers, single-issue obsessives (frequently overlap with Astro-turfers), floral enforcers, ideologues, political staff, hypocrites, luxury belief pushers, Igors and Renfields.

The vast majority are; normal local residents a bit frustrated with something; those looking for a tradesman; or just the friendly saying hello and looking for a bit of community.

1 hour ago, Spartacus said:

Interesting experiment 

Look forward to the results 

Spartacus thank you. Although you should probably find something else  more interesting to occupy your time; my energy for this is rapidly deflating. It won't disappear and I will get it done (once I work out which AI and which parameters to use) but it might not happen for a while.

I saw your comment on the PIP thread; you have to use your single worst day to apply. Being bravely determined not to be defeated (a quality most normal people find admirable and honourable) means your claim can easily be rejected or at least made difficult. "I will get up, I will walk to the shop, I will cook". Those are the tests you have to make clear you only ever fail at. Sorry but its the truth. I wish you good luck with it.

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Proof reading.

[LordshipPain]

I have been doing a lot of posts and liking a lot - to see if we are rate limited. It appears we are to some extent, with "likes". How do people manage to get into the mid 20,000's of posts on here? That is some commitment.

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[Sephiroth]

What does “rate limited” mean? 

[Spartacus]

2 hours ago, LordshipPain said:

 How do people manage to get into the mid 20,000's of posts on here? That is some commitment.

In the beginning, when the earth was still flooded, Noah started posting about cycling on tne EDF 😅

[Moovart]

16 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

In the beginning, when the earth was still flooded, Noah started posting about cycling on tne EDF 😅

Those bloomin' Arks are a menace!

[Sue]

6 hours ago, LordshipPain said:

I have been doing a lot of posts and liking a lot - to see if we are rate limited. It appears we are to some extent, with "likes". How do people manage to get into the mid 20,000's of posts on here? That is some commitment.

By being on the forum for nearly twenty years?