Reply #94: "The poster said they had ways of finding out which trolls were paid".

[Joe Chi Minh]

Only in response to the sneering, but customarily vapid question of yours: "How did you find out their salary?"

What a girlie concern! I won't sleep a wink tonight... Nor will the DU administrators. As a matter of fact, I was unaware of it, but I suspect it was the level of rancour expressed in the post as much as the technical offence of accusing a poster of being a troll. Or as good as.

And I can't complain about that, as I don't feel comfortable about expressing that degree of rancour, however well merited by the recipient. Indeed, I feel demeaned responding to your posts, which read to me like sneers, but of a very low and infantile nature. And in spite of all, I feel as if you have triumphed, not me. Technically, it is evidently extremely irrational to feel that, but nevertheless, there must be some kind of truth in it. The goal of our human nature is very much more exalted than to put down people whose actions you consider to threaten the wellbeing, if not the lives of many people; important as it is to do everything in our power to combat their knavery.

In fact, I think that, so far, at least, DU's administrators have been very tolerant with me over the years, when technically I might have been sanctioned.

"How much do the best get paid? Have you published their names? This kind of thing ought to be properly exposed."

And without a vestige of shame, you throw that back at me. Now where have we seen that level of shamelessness....?

"I don't think Republicans would bother paying people to disrupt sites like DU, actually. Plenty of Republican supporters might do it for their own kicks, but I don't think any political party would think it's worthwhile paying for something that some of their supporters will do for free."

For all their villainy, they're professionals. You're too low in the pecking order, so you think like an amateur.

"'A hitherto very focused thread'? This thread was all over the place, right from the first post."

No, from the fourth post.

"The EU directive is related to people who pretend on the internet to be someone else, for monetary gain. Some people, such as yourself, think people get paid to disrupt DU. In both cases, money and deception about identities are involved."

I see you can't stop burbling on about that EU Directive, either. Trying to expain away your diversionary exotica.

If you're lucky, this will be expunged. But here's hoping.