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hazards:shills [2024/07/06 07:58] – [Deeper Explanation of the Shill] Humphrey Boa-Garthazards:shills [2025/11/22 12:30] (current) – [Dealing With Shills] General MacOwlthur
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 ====== Shills ====== ====== Shills ======
  
-Bane of online discussions and communities everywhere, is the shameless **shill**. The shill has one purpose and one purpose only: To covertly market for someone or something, while not disclosing who it is they actually work for. To the professional shill, no thread is off limits and no community sacred.+Bane of online discussions and communities everywhere, is the shameless **shill**. The shill is a one-man [[hazards:astroturf]] operation with one purpose and one purpose only: To covertly market for someone or something, while not disclosing who it is they actually work for. To the professional shill, no thread is off limits and no community sacred.
  
-Similar to the [[hazards:agent-provocateurs|agent provocateur]], the shill can come in varying power levels. The shill may just be a surface level internet marketer, taking advantage of [[diy:staying-anonymous|anonymity magick]] to blend in to a community to shill a product, tv show or memecoin. Other times, the shill may be a deep undercover political operative who has spent months infiltrating a news forum or activist community. These types of shills may [[tactics:lying|disingenuously]] direct the group to cooperating with mainstream political campaigns, or even state-level [[diy:propaganda|agitprop]].+Similar to the [[hazards:agent-provocateurs|agent provocateur]], the shill can come in varying power levels. The shill may just be a surface level internet marketer, taking advantage of [[diy:staying-anonymous|anonymity magick]] to blend in to a community to shill a product, tv show or memecoin. Other times, the shill may be a deep undercover [[hazards:wingnuts|political operative]] who has spent months infiltrating a news forum or activist community. These types of shills may [[tactics:lying|disingenuously]] direct the group to cooperating with mainstream political campaigns, or even state-level [[diy:propaganda|agitprop]].
  
 ===== Dealing With Shills ===== ===== Dealing With Shills =====
  
-When a shill is identified, it is absolutely imperative that they be isolated, and everyone made aware of the things they were shilling for. Many times, follow-up shills will show up to replace outed shills, so be ready for them as well.+When a shill is identified, it is absolutely imperative that they be isolated, and everyone made aware of the things they were shilling for. Many times, follow-up shills will show up to defend and/or replace outed shills, so be ready for them as well. Some follow-up shills will attempt to gain credibility by [[tactics:kayfabe|aggressively]] targeting known shills, so be ready for those as well.
  
 ===== Further Explanation of the Shill ===== ===== Further Explanation of the Shill =====
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