Could there be disinformation agents operating on boards?

As a person who gets regularly accused of this, there probably isn't.

For example, you accuse people of having "similar posting patterns", but I think that if you were challenged on this, you couldn't actually provide solid examples that support this.

The accusation only seems to get thrown around when people are upset and are losing arguments.

It also doesn't make a whole bunch of sense to me as there doesn't seem to be much on this forum that would warrant them needing to stifle any discussion. I doubt they'd need to spend that much stopping people from being convinced that space missions are fake or that the vaccine makes you magnetic.

If anything the more likely culprits, if there are any are the types who link dump things and post generic open ended statements and don't seem to be actually engaging with the words written to them.

Or perhaps it's just people refuting complete horseshit.

Of course, you could try going to any other forum, e.g. the medical forum with "certain" views and see what happens.

Have to love the irony of it all. This forum is packed with people who swallow spurious stuff from Facebook or wherever then evangelise it around the internet without question. Disinformation. Almost like some sort of disinformation agent if you will, unpaid of course ;)

Careful, mentioning the I or J word alone could get you banned for "anti-semitism".

I created a thread once about a documentary featuring a range of Israeli "historians" claiming that the very concept of Easter was antisemitic. Within seconds there were 3 mods in the thread threatening to close it down

Not now that I've set my profile to private, thanks.

It might stop this creepy practice of people of your ilk following others around the site to continue the bully tactics when the conspiracy forum is quiet.

In the interests of transparency and to highlight that your claim that the mods were threatening to close it down is a very tenuous stretch.

Here's that thread for anyone who cares to read it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058174806/easter-is-antisemitic/p1

@sydthebeat 'If the OP got out more they would see that this is reflected in general life and living.

Seeing shadow agents everywhere is a sign of paranoia and possibly a condition that may need treatment.'

On the contrary, anyone who has so much as glanced at a newspaper in the last decade would know that governments and intelligence agents try to actively influence social-media.

They've supposedly helped to throw elections in the United States and Russia (which I think may be overstating their influence but that doesn't mean there been zero attempts to gain influence).

It is so commonplace as to be banal.

Precisely, some people race to assume victimhood when they are actually the problem.

Some people may be disinfo agents without even knowing it :)

Plenty of do-gooders in the last year willing to fight anyone who mentioned vitamins or lifestyle, or that masks will protect you, or that it is just 2 weeks to flatten the curve, or that vaccines will protect you from getting it, or die from it, or ending up in hospital, or 95% protection, then 60% then "whatever just take it".

Zero covid nonsense, closing up airports with army on the borders, refusing to handle cash, virus lingering on shopping trolley handles and all surfaces for days, that lockdowns work, that we all are in this together...

Have you guys considered that these are just examples of people not agreeing with you?

Or is everyone who doesn't agree with you a government agent out to get you?