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VMI77 wrote:This goes on all over the internet. A lot of supposed comments, tweets, product reviews, and the like, are fake. I'd be surprised if this gang of criminals didn't exploit techniques that are so widely in use.

It is pretty much internet knowledge now, in a serious way, that many of the worst trolls are paid trolls. Its done through one of those "work from home" things. They get a mass email telling them what sites to visit and suggested topics to chime in with, often encouraging as much foul language as they can muster. That way, it comes from "real people", but it still accomplishes the focused intent which is to shut down dissent, or to derail any actual conversations. You will find these folks all over the place and there aren't as many as you would think, either. Just the same ones doing this stuff over and over. A lot of time, the stuff they write is boilerplate, almost the exact same wording from site to site. If they get banned, they just start a new account and away they go again.