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This and the "Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies[0,1]," obviously a troll post from 4chan or somewhere similar given the language, which basically takes the normal activity of trolls and internet argument and tries to convince the reader that it's all the work of government agents.

Great way to stir up paranoia on a forum where people tend not to be able to grok humor, but also tend to believe in conspiracy theories.

[0]https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277278



https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=750070


Why did you repost the document that is already the subject of this entire thread?


I posted the link that is from the Homeland Security Digital Library.

It's pretty much not a troll post from 4chan.


It's also not the document I was talking about. The OSS wasn't discussing forum sliding or "anger trolling" in the 1940s.


So "this" doesn't refer to the subject of this article?


But then every once in a while you run across someone who makes you say, "Hmm."




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