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In reply to the discussion: Does ANYONE here SERIOUSLY believe that DU is full of paid trolls? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)77. Nice smear. Show where I'm wrong.
Otherwise, you echo what the hacks say:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=3jacpj0acrpg7nrh6sna4m72m1&topic=99014.0
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Does ANYONE here SERIOUSLY believe that DU is full of paid trolls? [View all]
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2015
OP
Some try to come here, but I do think we have a pretty good system of weeding them out
hlthe2b
Jan 2015
#2
I received an offer to post on Mitt Romney's blog to cause confusion and doubt in 2012.
Major Hogwash
Jan 2015
#164
several years ago before baggers had their "twitter training camps" there were craigslist ads asking
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#219
I don't think they are paid for it, but yeah and I don't think they are working for the candidates.
Autumn
Jan 2015
#3
Jeebus, I come back from my agency's mandatory holiday break to this crap thread?
msanthrope
Jan 2015
#12
It isn't pleasant to be called a paid shill when you're a supporter...tell them you 'work' for free!
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#222
Sweet, could you come over to my cube and finish this engineering documentation?
snooper2
Jan 2015
#186
Thank you for the source. Anyone who doesn't consider this at least a possibility
canoeist52
Jan 2015
#32
It would be foolish not to think that there are people here that are paid to stir the pot
notadmblnd
Jan 2015
#30
Paid by ALEC callers call into all radio shows, read the same script over and over
randys1
Jan 2015
#33
I suggest to google "propaganda" and read a little how well that concept works today.
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#220
it's a website where people post. Of COURSE there are trolls. But paid trolls?
KittyWampus
Jan 2015
#62
When issues pretty much settled in the democratic party, like women's rights or
applegrove
Jan 2015
#66
Yeah, that actually explains some otherwise inexplicable shit around here.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2015
#95
Of course not...it's just what people want to believe when they can't beat an argument.
ileus
Jan 2015
#80
Probably not. But, if they're making more than a dollar a week, they're overpaid.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#84
I must say, the results so far slightly disappoint me. I wish people could see that people simply
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2015
#88
I think it is batshit crazy to believe people hold different opinions because they are paid to. This
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2015
#168
Both can exist you know. There are people on here who simply disagree. There are some on here
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2015
#177
o you then believe that people who disagree with your initial premise are not "simply disagreeing"?
LanternWaste
Jan 2015
#214
I have more of an issue with people not being transparent about who they work for.
Starry Messenger
Jan 2015
#89
I suspect there are almost as many reasons for posting on DU as there are DUers
petronius
Jan 2015
#92
well Mr. Wolf, Could you kindly direct me to a progressive group that would pay me to swing DU
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2015
#169
I don't think your attempt at what you thought was a push poll worked out the way you thought. nt.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2015
#100
why do you think I was attempting a push pole?. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that there are several paid
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2015
#184
To believe there are paid trolls, one would need to believe there's a reason to have them...
brooklynite
Jan 2015
#111
Full? No. Are there some very prominent, very vocal, very anti-Democrat ones here?
LadyHawkAZ
Jan 2015
#147
Must be, because I've lost count of how many times I've been accused of being one...
Blue_Tires
Jan 2015
#157
No, and DU is one of the few places on the internet we can have a real discussion.
chrisa
Jan 2015
#192
I have always thought we should be PAID for our information collected online. :)
Sunlei
Jan 2015
#218
I think there are more who are not honest about their personal motives for posting what they post
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#195
Only the people that take this site (and themselves) too seriously... n/t
leeroysphitz
Jan 2015
#201