Reply #198: Fast simple rules to make your DU less polluted by paid trolls... [View All]

[Evasporque]

1. Ignore any tit for tat argument participants...

I found that a handful of posters were entering into tit for tat arguments on distraction type posts. You know the long diagonal threads between two people....after I ignored several, the number of distraction news items and RW echo posts at the top of GD and LBN dropped dramatically. Use the ignored people to identify posts targeted by paid trolls for promotion. Other distraction originating posters will attract these ignored people and you can see it clearly by sheer number of ignored threads arguing with each other in a long chain. After the same poster has attracted the ignored to their OP distraction posts repeatedly...they get ignored. Genuine debate is easily differentiated from tit for tat distraction for post bumping.

2. Ignore Limbaugh, Colter and other RW Repeaters

There are also a handful of poster responsible for re-posting daily topics spewed by Rush Limbaugh. After I targeted Rush and Colter posts...I am now mostly free of seeing that dribble. It was pretty clear that a handful of posters were again responsible for polluting DU with numerous RW echo posts.


Overall the paid trolls are about distraction and dilution of discussion while propagating RW talking points.

I don't have but a couple dozen people on my iggie list but as a result my DU has become a more civil and informative place after I started ignoring a handful of people