Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies wrote:Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.

The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies wrote:Technique #3 - 'TOPIC DILUTION'

Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and non-productive issues. This is a critical and useful technique to cause a 'RESOURCE BURN.' By implementing continual and non-related postings that distract and disrupt (trolling ) the forum readers they are more effectively stopped from anything of any real productivity. If the intensity of gradual dilution is intense enough, the readers will effectively stop researching and simply slip into a 'gossip mode.' In this state they can be more easily misdirected away from facts towards uninformed conjecture and opinion. The less informed they are the more effective and easy it becomes to control the entire group in the direction that you would desire the group to go in. It must be stressed that a proper assessment of the psychological capabilities and levels of education is first determined of the group to determine at what level to 'drive in the wedge.' By being too far off topic too quickly it may trigger censorship by a forum moderator.

The five master suppression techniques according to Ås wrote:1. Making invisible

To silence or otherwise marginalize persons in opposition by ignoring them.

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

OrangeDragon wrote: ... ow that you've brought this to his attention I dread what awaits me on 440...

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

I guess that it is not as funny when you have to explain it to the lower orders.

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

I guess that it is not as funny when you have to explain it to the lower orders.

That, or you and I are deranged same same.

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:Actually, it was self-deprecating humour based on how many people refer to me/440 as Nazis/Fascists/et cetera

I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

I guess that it is not as funny when you have to explain it to the lower orders.

That, or you and I are deranged same same.

Now I am worried !?!

Kampong Spooner wrote:Now to grow that silly beard and start telling everyone to believe in fairy stories. And buy a tuk-tuk.

Kampong Spooner wrote:

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote:

Playboy wrote:

StroppyChops wrote: I'd picked this and thought it was cute. Well played, PB.

I guess that it is not as funny when you have to explain it to the lower orders.

That, or you and I are deranged same same.

Now I am worried !?!

Now to grow that silly beard and start telling everyone to believe in fairy stories. And buy a tuk-tuk.