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There are various conservatives on this forum who are either shills or are paid to post, it's pretty clear their posting style is the same tired propaganda. One poster is always posting threads on the failures of alternative energy, Obama "killing jobs" in oil exploration and disparaging threads on climate change.
With all the trillions of dollars the oil companies pull in, you don't think they pay some stooge to post propaganda on forums such as these?
There are several Romney campaign "volunteers" that spam the Elections forum with campaign talking points and links to stories written by people friendly to the Romney campaign. They are fairly easy to spot, lots of posts almost exclusively about Romney or the campaign and it is clear from the content and style that their posts are either provided by or at least reviewed by the campaign staff.
Can you link to some examples? I'm genuinely curious about your charge.
I think that poster has some connection to the Koch brothers or one of their many front groups. I knew someone that worked for one of the right wing front groups similar to ALEC, AFP, Club for Growth and they claim that they were being paid to produce letters to the editor, internet posts, call in to radio shows on those same topics. I am not sure why the mods can't just ban certain posters with IP addresses from known PACs, think tanks, etc.
Go to the next post or thread it you already knew that much.
So what other nefarious intentions did you have by posting this? Is this your attempt to stir up anger and outrage from your friendly *******s in an attempt to get the mods involved? LOL.
Most posters here are easily spotted by being new (ie: post #1 out the gate on a controversial subject), never to be seen again after posting, post on nothing but.
It's easy to check someones post history and that's how we (well, most of us) recognize trolling when we see it and don't even bother.
There is not a plethora of "paid posters" on anything here. When someone is passionate about a subject, knows it well, and post tons of facts they will be called paid posters, bots, whatever...because the opposition has nothing and it's their last gasp before they scurry off.
Can you link to some examples? I'm genuinely curious about your charge.
I think it violates TOS to call out other posters in a public thread. If you are genuinely curious you can read through some of the Romney threads and you will be able to spot them. A couple of them have admitted that they volunteer for the Romney campaign.
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