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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 24, 2010, 01:45:45 PM
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linky link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x194801)
HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-13-08 07:13 AM
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Thom Hartmann: Board disrupters being paid ten cents per post
DUer Cleita reported this in GD, in case you missed it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2847829
Ten cents a post for posting on liberal message boards?
So what I suspected all along is true. Thom Hartmann mentioned getting freeper-like disruptive posts on his show's message board, trashing anything being discussed from a leftist POV. His people traced one of the posters to another RW board who bragged about getting paid 10 cents a post to spread disruptive messages with RW talking points straight out of conservative talk shows like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly by some RW organizations. He didn't mention who paid them.
It seems to me that a lot of the Hillary bashing and Obama bashing posts might be from these posters. There is a certain difference between stating that you have concerns about some things about the candidates than out and out calling them names and accusing them of things that aren't even remotely true. Maybe we should be alert for these kind of posters and alert the mods when the BS gets too much
HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-13-08 01:33 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. You mean those "urban legends" reported as fact by the NY Times? The OP is simply about the bottom feeders of professional forum disrupters. I'm sure that some are paid much more to post a little more thoughtfully, as the NY Times reported last September. After all, the Bush administration has stated many times that the internet is a "front" in their global struggle.
Even the DUmmies aren't buying it.reprehensor (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-13-08 10:23 AM
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4. Not surprised.
It does explain the dogged adherence to the 9/11 Torture Story in their sub-forum, though...
salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-13-08 01:59 PM
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8. Ten cents a post?
Pfft! Stupid bottom feeders bringing down the average wage of trained disinformation technologists everywhere. I never settle for less than a quarter a post. It's this kind of behavior that shows how desperately we need a union.
SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-11-09 11:15 AM
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24. My going rate is a buck a post...
and $1.50 for anything outside of normal business hours. I also take all major creditr cards and PayPal.
Denis Kucinich has the answer:TheUnspeakable Donating Member (769 posts) Thu Jun-11-09 09:27 AM
Response to Reply #13
15. on Tuesday's show-Sock Puppets!!
he went into a rant about these posters being paid by the RW-said they have "dozens" of "Sock Puppet " identities, and they argue with themselves-they pose as a leftie and a rightie and the rightie wins the argument. Says they're all over the internet. I absolutely believe there's some of them here. (I won't mention any names,they know who they are, LOL)
The True Believers are refusing to listen to the naysayers...Marksbrother (653 posts) Thu Jun-11-09 09:35 AM
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16. This is not exactly a big revelation. There are many people who have long claimed that PR firms hire people to post disruptive messages, insult posters, and otherwise suppress the truth about various and important topics.
This guy isn't having any of it.
SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-11-09 09:48 AM
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19. ''suppress the truth''
Isn't it far more likely that the more ''out there'' elements of the ''truth movement'' (no-planers, etc.) just can't sustain their claims? Claiming someone is trying to ''suppress the truth'' is pretty lame.
Benedictine_09876 (6 posts) Tue Jul-28-09 01:48 PM
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66. Technomania hires conservative posters/chatters
People are getting paid to post on liberal and other boards and forums to push the right wing pov. One company in particular, Technomania, used to advertise very blatantly that you could hire their people to make board postings and chat on a pro-conservative pov. Issues would be: arguing against climate change theories, arguing for a specific politician or policy or against others, etc etc.
There are multiple other PR companies out there performing this service. I know of only right wing companies- no liberal ones. This is a very large and growing business model- selling disinformation. Right now some of the hot button topics that are being hired out to pro-conservative posters and chatters are Health Care, Climate Change, abortion, TARP, Tea parties, and believe it or not- people being hired to argue for the re-opening of horse slaughter plants in the US.
They understand that it is public perception that counts- not truth or facts- and that the more public perception SEEMS to be on your side, the more influence you have. It is important that DU'ers go out onto major commentary boards and forums(nytimes, cbs, nbc, cnn, etc) and don't just hang out here preaching to the choir. Sometimes it is just a vast wasteland out there of liberal bashers and pro-conservative viewpoints because the progressives are all hanging out on friendly forums such as this one.
MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-22-10 11:23 PM
Response to Reply #69
71. kick
More Paid Mole outings from super sleuth, Thom Hartmann. The DUmp is on to us:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x36735
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Where can I get in on the gig?
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Where can I get in on the gig?
I think the VRWC budget is tapped out for this year! I suggest hittin' 'em up around the end of May as our fiscal year starts in June!
We already have enough for the duration!
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I'll have you know that my mole wasn't paid 1 freaking dime to post TYVM! :tongue:
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Uh, Chris, sir, you should've made the notation that the campfire's from 2008.
I checked the date when I noticed the "HamdenRice" primitive present at the campfire.
The "HamdenRice" primitive, the only authentic black man on Skins's island, was exiled by my fellow alum earlier this year.
Sorry to have to point that out.....
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Ooops, I take that back, Chris, sir.
I just read the rest of the campfire.
It was originally lit in 2008, but it's still burning.
Sorry.
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I think the VRWC budget is tapped out for this year! I suggest hittin' 'em up around the end of May as our fiscal year starts in June!
We already have enough for the duration!
Just think, if I knew about this sweet deal I could have spent all my time on DU and raked in a grand total of $772.10 in almost three years (as of my last post count of 7721). I'd be RICH!
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Don't forget to sign your timecard at the end of the week.
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What can I say? The PACs treat their people well...
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I joined the union.....we get a $1 per post plus benefits like free health insurance and retiement.
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.10? That's all? Man, those people don't know how to negotiate. I'm getting $10.
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.10? That's all? Man, those people don't know how to negotiate. I'm getting $10.
Oh, so you're the union shop foreman, are you? Are you high enough up that they let you use the union golf course?
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Oh, so you're the union shop foreman, are you? Are you high enough up that they let you use the union golf course?
No union. Just a master negotiator. I went to school with the guy that runs that division, as well.
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Oh, so you're the union shop foreman, are you? Are you high enough up that they let you use the union golf course?
I resemble that remark! Ever heard of "Hidden Lakes"?
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The real money is in consulting.
DandiCo Consultants, LLC
Serving Your BFEE Disinformation Needs Since 2001
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Where do I sign up?
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-13-08 01:59 PM
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8. Ten cents a post?
Pfft! Stupid bottom feeders bringing down the average wage of trained disinformation technologists everywhere. I never settle for less than a quarter a post. It's this kind of behavior that shows how desperately we need a union.
Meanwhile...DUmmys throughout the nation are buzz...whirr...click...click...buzz...whirr...click... scouring the Internet looking for the 'method'...buzz...whirr...whirr...click...click...to "post-for-pay" dope and Cheetos buzz...whirr...whirr...click...click...boink...funding...buzz...whirr...click...click...
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Meanwhile...DUmmys throughout the nation are buzz...whirr...click...click...buzz...whirr...click... scouring the Internet looking for the 'method'...buzz...whirr...whirr...click...click...to "post-for-pay" dope and Cheetos buzz...whirr...whirr...click...click...boink...funding...buzz...whirr...click...click...
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Now that there would be extremely hilarious if it weren't so true!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think Thom needs to get fitted for a new tinfoil hat. His ego is making the one's he's wearing a tad bit tight.
He WISHES people were getting paid .10 per post to disrupt his board.
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Ten cents!!! Woohoo! I'm rich, bitch!!!!!!
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Hmm you would have to post at least 75 times an hour to make minimum wage. :lmao:
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Hmm you would have to post at least 75 times an hour to make minimum wage. :lmao:
I think that would be a piece of cake for Doug's stupid ex-wife, the "EFerrari" primitive, who's been on Skins's island only since late November 2004, but is the premier poster there.
But as for other primitives, it might prove a challenge.
However, remember that primitives tend to be lazy. Making a dollar an hour posting ten comments per hour on Skins's island is preferable to honest work in a factory at $10-15 per hour, to a primitive.
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I think that would be a piece of cake for Doug's stupid ex-wife, the "EFerrari" primitive, who's been on Skins's island only since late November 2004, but is the premier poster there.
But as for other primitives, it might prove a challenge.
However, remember that primitives tend to be lazy. Making a dollar an hour posting ten comments per hour on Skins's island is preferable to honest work in a factory at $10-15 per hour, to a primitive.
I wonder if K and R counts as a post I could be rich in a week if that is the case. :lmao:
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Where can I get in on the gig?
No kiddin...I could make almost as much sitting in my jammies here at home as having to drag my ass out of bed and go to work!
Or perhaps the DUmmies are projecting, wishing they could get that kind of job; i.e., professional troll...
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Hmm you would have to post at least 75 times an hour to make minimum wage. :lmao:
Insert smilie, hit ENTER.
Repeat.
Piece of cake.
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Moonbats are self-disrupting. Not to mention delusional if they think they are important enough for anyone to pay so much as a dime to disrupt them.
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Insert smilie, hit ENTER.
Repeat.
Piece of cake.
n/t
eom.
Kick!
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