Comment by sombremesa
5 years ago
It doesn't really matter who you are, you could still be a paid shill.
Or do you have some way to definitively prove that you are not on pc's payroll?
Paranoia goes both ways, and I think it's sufficient to just have the reader use their best judgement...otherwise we'll just always be in an endless spiral of "no puppet no puppet you're the puppet."
How can I be a paid shill?
I am not giving any facts or creating impression I know any facts.
I am just discussing the general process of what is and what is not ok to post online anonymously.
Well, for starters, what if I wanted to discredit any negative opinions, so I paid a team to work on that for me? Wouldn't that team want people to also post arguments like you are, where in principle it sounds reasonable (because your position is) but the source and scale were not?
Like, I could see some merit in convincing people that they aren't "allowed" to post anonymous criticism as a means of quieting bad press.
Well, I am not saying you are, but it's not really that hard to imagine that someone would pay a "troll farm" to write facially reasonable concerns that cast doubt on what are actually true allegations of misconduct. It's no less plausible than a competitors paying a troll farm to post false allegations.