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Isn’t it typically the comments that are shitposts? Trump posts and the comments look like: “Liberals are the worst” “Trump is a god” “Send 5 ETH to receive
by eksemplar 9y ago
Isn’t it typically the comments that are shitposts?
Trump posts and the comments look like:
“Liberals are the worst”
“Trump is a god”
“Send 5 ETH to receive 10ETH”
Obviously Trump is a great shit poster himself, but virtually everyone with a lot of followers end up with nothing but stupid as their replies.
A Danish politician recently commented on the problem by saying that we’ve alway had village idiots, but social media let them lose.
- tajen 9y agoAre you by any chance a believer that half of the political spectrum is wrong? When people talk about trolls, it always seems like they talk about people they just don’t agree with, and conventional media is a more comfortable space for them because all the right wing doesn’t have the possibility to speak. You may consider the It’s-the-Russians disorder is not a disorder, but that only works if you want to live in a bubble where the other 50% citizen shut up.
- sleepychu 9y agoI don't think your parent makes judgement on the value of any political position. Trolls here just refers to people who are shouting without contributing to the discussion. What they're saying is that once any user has a sufficiently large following the replies to their tweets with any signal are lost in the noise of unrelated political rantings (both sides) and scam bots hoping to take advantage of the exposure that replying to big users has. These groups both manipulate the rankings. Political ravings are upvoted by the similarly inclined politicals. The bots work in swarms to favourite their own posts and reply with "Wow, worked for me, thanks!"