I agree! Just reread this persons posts! Not here for the same reasons we are! A spy for sure which is fine, the traveling side show is too busy to keep up with us here thus, a spy! Enjoy the topics
Y'all, seriously.
First of all, there's no need for "spies" on a very public website. No one needs an account to read here.
Second of all, if you think this is some person in the Maass orbit here to try to make them look good, you have no idea how a targeted campaign
actually works. This ain't it. Let's remember, it's my job to track and analyze
professional, organized discourse manipulation. If you know what to look for, it's fairly trivial to pick out bad actors on big social media platforms who have incredible funding and training behind them; it's
nothing to spot some lameass social media influencer using socks or proxies to try and change the tide of opinion on a small to medium site.
Wanna know what to look out for if an actual Maass proxy or a humper were to get a little knowledge on discourse manipulation and head over to tattle?
They wouldn't show up and be obvious by extolling the virtues of Slimelife makeup or make claims about the Maasses being pillars of their community. They wouldn't post here and try to make them look good.
No. That doesn't work. That never works. That barely works with funded groups well-versed in wide scale propaganda.
They would try to make tattlers look deranged, nutso, deviant, horribly bad.
They'd post alarmingly bad takes, things that are shocking but obviously untrue. They would steer conversations back to those bad takes over and over again. It would take a few tries to find an angle that sticks, to land on something that resonates with a few other posters, but they'd find a narrative, run with it, and wait for others to get on board.
Let's say, for example, that Nefarious Poster insists that Asa & Priscilla feed Abbie live mice - like a snake.
That's nuts. LOL no one would believe that.
But no, seriously, Nefarious Poster works at a pet store nearby. They come in to buy pinkies like three times a week while wearing shoddy disguises. Think bad wigs and Groucho noses.
Nefarious Poster posts about this
a lot. Fairly soon, Occasional Poster is like "I heard that Abbie eats live mice." Someone else agrees that they've heard that too.
Pretty soon a handful of regular posters will latch on to the live mice thing, because others are saying it, and then there's a contingent of Live Micers on tattle while Team ButterRanch is over here like "WTF they feed her like
tit but they're not feeding her live mice!"
And, just like that, Asa has a lovely example to point to - "What site? Oh, that crazy place where they claim we feed Abbie live mice??"
And anyone who might have looked for more information about the Maasses shady
tit only knows tattle as the crazy place where crazy people think Abbie eats live mice for dinner. Anything else said, like, say, her lack of stim toys or the fact that she's left unattended, is considered to be just as crazy. The well's been poisoned.
Bad actors have significantly more success making their critics look bad rather than making themselves look good. It's easier to do it that way.