Professional Trolls

[BlackVelvet04]

One more reason to be wary of feeding trolls
Published by Amanda Marcotte June 13th, 2006 in Interblog

What a lot of us suspected—that conservative trolls that seem to generate knee-jerk right wing talking points are just plants that are put there by the endless stream of right wing money earmarked for propaganda—looks like it’s probably true. People are reporting that they’re getting these comments from people that are coming from this company called Netvocates. The company sells itself as a company that will defend your organization’s reputation by sending people to fill blog comments with defenses. The blurb from the site is quite telling:

For many organizations, blogs represent an uncomfortable topic. Unlike traditional communication mediums, blogs frequently impact an organization and its products and image in uncontrolled and often unexpected ways. In addition, the sheer volume of blogs, message boards, and other discussion forums makes it difficult for organizations to effectively monitor the activity relevant to them.
http://pandagon.net/2006/06/13/one-more-reason-to-be-wary-of-feeding-trolls/



The NetVocates Solution
http://www.netvocates.com/nvsolution.htm

I think many of us suspected there were professional trolls....guess we were right.