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It's mostly on twitter or reddit. As a side-note another thing that bugs the shit out of me is when someone looks at my history to find a reason to disregard my
by gnarbarian 8y ago
It's mostly on twitter or reddit. As a side-note another thing that bugs the shit out of me is when someone looks at my history to find a reason to disregard my comment. (Not accusing you of this by the way)
"Oh I thought I was going to have to respond to you until I discovered you've posted somewhere I don't like."
followed up by a flood of down-votes accusations of being a bot and sometimes a ban when I was posting legit content and previously with a very positive score.
Happened to me twice last month. Once for bringing up the Code of Conduct on /r/linux.
edit: here's a perfect example that made it into print and halfway around the world while the flawed reasoning and debunking has yet to gain traction.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927696/star-wars-the-last-jedi-russian-trolls-bots-study https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927696/star-wars-the-la...
followed up by:
https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-haters-were-not-russian-trolls/ https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-hat...
http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/10/02/my-russian-bot-review-of-the-last-jedi/ http://monsterhunternation.com/2018/10/02/my-russian-bot-rev...