Mention 'Obama' and the internet trolls will be on you like a cheap suit. Here's why....

[LongTomH]

The paid trolls aren't just people sitting in their parents' basements typing on cheap laptops; many of them work in offices with million-dollar computer systems and expensive software 'bots.'

From The Knowledge Movement's Facebook page:

So I posted a thread last night musing why our Rightwing trolls completely ignore the threads we post about their ignorance and crackpottery but swarm any thread remotely praising Obama. Well, below is the answer Jenell Yarbrough-Brinson gave. Something I was totally unaware of but makes a whole lot of sense.

"Because they are using computer bots their Tea party-Pac paid employers provide that scan for 'key' words, terms, and names, like Obama, Obamacare, and hot button issues.

I'm not joking. I worked for a telemarketing outsource company, and while I did not work in the department of that company that provided their clients internet 'trolling' services, they had them. Most commonly are groups of products, companies, the bots would search the internet, consumer websites, and yes, social networks, for key words and terms relating to their clients' (and their competitions') products or services, where ever "comments" features are available, and pop them up on the troll's screen, so they could post some comment, like a positive review for their clients' product, bad one for the competitors, etc. I last worked for that company in 2009, and they had just started really getting into handling politically related clients in quite a few departments. In the department I worked, phones, we were commonly offered the chance to work campaigns, not trolling stuff, but making those annoying phone calls to people to tell them the good stuff about 'our' candidate. I see the mindlessness and repetitiveness of these conservative, Tea-Party right-winger anti Obama anti Democrat trolls, and I've not doubt many if not most are actually paid trolls. That is why you can't get them to engage in actual conversation, they are paid by the posting, and new spots on the web for them to post comments to are constantly popping up on their screens.

Also, one person working that will be sitting there will many different 'identities' up at once, so it can seem a dozen different trolls with different names have hit, when it may be only one, using multiple FB profile accounts."

[Dawson Leery]

1. This is important.

Not many people know this. There is a reason why there are at many times, comments 9:1 against any progressive ideas.

[Scuba]

7. Bingo.

[Dawson Leery]

8. This applies to all sites.

Youtube, CNN, NYTimes, etc. The trolls are over at The Nation and Thinkprogress pushing their approved talking points.

[Scuba]

9. They seem to be everywhere, but then I don't go everywhere. They own the Milwaukee ...

... Urinal/Sentinel, YouTube and a few others I do visit.

[hollysmom]

2. oh, I have so much fun picking on my facebook friends -

well my dogs facebook friends anyway. I swear I see more stupidity posted there, ha ha . I love to debunk their posts and get them to remove them. It is so easy when you have friends who have shame, ha ha, My favorite was when breitbart picked up an Onion headline and ran with it, Like shooting fish in a barrel and causing then to not trust brietbart was just the cherry on top.

[bbgrunt]

3. this helps explain the swarms

[freshwest]

6. And why they are overwhelming negative. We can't pay for that, but the Koches can.

Their billions of dollars versus our millions of flesh and blood.

Oh, it is flesh and blood posting, but there is a script they can't deviate from, even if they wanted to do so. Telemarketers and 'news' reporters are told to stay 'on script' or else lost their jobs.

And each story is always coordinated, just like Rush, FNN, Ingraham and others pick a theme of no importance whatsoever to bash Obama on any given day of the week. They add a little of their own style, but it's the sames story.

Remember the Muslim style haircut, no ketchup on his burger makes him elitist, umbrellagate with the soldier holding one, and other petty memes?

When it's coming from so many sources at once, it garners the attention and suddenly it's a 'crisis' or has 'great meaning' or whatever.

Basic psychological technique. Lather, rinse, repeat until the brain is washed thoroughly.

Sigh...

[Coyotl]

4. This is not a Facebook issue because your social circle is self-determined.

It is a public websites issue, like DU, where infiltration is intended to disrupt activism.

[LongTomH]

5. The same paid trolls are at work here and other websites / blogs

[Cha]

10. Of course, they are. they cannot abide that Obamacare

is so successful! think of the children!!11 or not.