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RE: Will Steemit's New 'Smart Media Tokens' Mark The End For Comment Trolls?
Trolls have many forms and agendas - I have posted previously a fairly exhaustive list of tactics used by professional trolls to specifically target political opponents and pretty much deliberately ruin their life and career. If you really look through the documents leaked by Edward Snowden and via Wikileaks you will see that the governments basically have large scale professional troll teams for .. reasons..
These are the biggest problem online as they actually effect life and death issues - whereas the shit posters just annoy and waste mental and network bandwidth!
That is very true, the governments have professional "Trolls", but since it's government, would they rightly be called "Propagandists"?
Just food for thought.
It might be fair to say that it is propaganda to upgrade government trolls to the title of 'propagandist' ;)
I imagine there is a mix of all of it going on - it's probably quite cheap to hire low IQ trolls just to annoy certain groups - or maybe there is a particularly angry AI supercomputer that has developed some kind of quantum troll capacity.. Let's hope it doesn't figure out how to hack into the nuclear codes! lol and not lol.