Timeline for If, (and only if), there were professional trolls and moles here, what if anything should be done?
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| Jun 25, 2018 at 15:54 | comment | added | Thern | Well, it is the task of sites like stackexchange to separate the true part of an answer from the false part. Cutting away the complete answer together with its true parts just plays into the hands of those that cry "censorship". | |
| Jun 25, 2018 at 15:19 | comment | added | agc | @Thern, Propaganda, (and many a resilient lie), often employs quite a bit of truth to help the lie blend in. A kind of Trojan Horse for the public mind. | |
| Jun 25, 2018 at 13:46 | comment | added | Thern | @agc I doubt that this would be useful. If the content is proven to be untrue propaganda, it can be erased right now. You don't need to wait until it is revealed that a user is a paid troll. And if nobody is able to discern those propaganda posts from quality answers, maybe there is quite a bit of truth in the propaganda... | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 22:44 | comment | added | agc | We certainly agree on the impracticality of witch hunting. But suppose after the fact a news story or leak reveals, maybe years later, that users X, Y, and Z were paid trolls working in concert, and their posts when later reviewed in that context, and taken as a whole, prove to have been far more effective as propaganda, (ingeniously so, diabolically so...), than the activities of three random partisans for the same cause would be. Would having such knowledge change anything with regards to their completed activities? | |
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