It is possible Effie is a Ruskie sent there to sow dissention. After all didn't the Ruskies finance BLM too in 2016?? A fifth colum operation?? Or a very clever paid mole?? Shazam. DU may still be infected.
Effie is Bravenak. Despite being a blatant troll who does nothing but sow dissension, who already has at least one of her other accounts banned, Skinner still allows her free rein of the forum.
She works with a group of other paid trolls. stevenleser is one of the "head trolls". Never far behind leser is bettyellen. Then there is NurseJackie, one of the most immature and obnoxious paid trolls. Not forgetting of course Cha, DanTex, George II, Gothmog, DemocratSinceBirth, LexVegas, pnwmom, erhnst and ismnotwasm. It's still up for debate whether sheshe2 is paid for her trolling, or whether she's just really that dumb and does it inadvertently. These people are the most prominent paid trolls, and are usually the first to arrive in a Bravenak thread to give her some "high fives" and "+1's". You'll also notice certain controversial thread topics seem to trigger them to arrive all at once. A few of them, such as DanTex and LexVegas, can turn dormant for a while, only coming back to life during election season or during a crisis period.
Bravenak also has a lot of fake bots following her on Twitter. At first, I couldn't understand why (judging by their profiles), there'd be apparently hundreds of young, attractive white women hanging off and retweeting every word of an ugly, little, racist, black troll like Bravenak, until it was pointed out that many of these accounts were linked to paid troll companies. While some people speculate that these are all Democratic Party or David Brock trolls, it's not clear what they think they'd gain by driving white voters away from the Democratic Party, although I still appreciate them doing that and helping Trump get elected.