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Q: Is there a connection between troll activity and recent events?

Stocks, explosions, parades, crackdowns, a lot of stuff in the last few weeks...

...at the same time the forum has a lot of troll activity and stupid questions. There is even a new blog post about highest paid actresses, an obvious cut and paste job...and not related to China at all...

So is there any correlation between the two?

 

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Wumao school

 

Level 1: Down-thumb all comments.

 

Level 2: post one-off questions and run with no follow up.

 

Level 3: establish a 'character' that posts questions full of holes and follows up with retarded comments of the 'I'm not, you are' variety.

 

Level 4: graduate to a more visited forum as new character and better pay. 

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Probably.

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Likely a CFTU teacher giving holiday homework to his/her students.

Shame really, because if my theory is correct, these kids could learn a lot by posting sensible questions on here.

philbravery:

I never concidered that angle

good thought

 

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Interesting thoughts gentlemen.

My theory behind the rash of moronic questions is much more mundane.

The new school term has started and with each term there is a certain number of retards. It seems several have found their way here, as they do each term.

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I'm wondering if there is a guy, or people out there who wants to make foreigners look like idiots, maybe for propaganda purposes, maybe just for whatever thrill trolls get out of doing what they do.... so they go online posing as a simple minded loser.

 

 

 

 

iWolf:

Are you referring specifically to Cub-tard?

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Good point Stiigs. But I don't think it would be worth the effort.

 

The numbers are staggering. 

 

How many people in China? 1.6 billion? How many regular posters on here. Maybe 40?

 

Go to any "expat" website in China, and the traffic is small. Even the Beijinger will only get about 15k reads for a popular thread.

 

Shenzhen has 10-15k foreigners apparently. But again, only about 40 are regular posters on Shenzhen stuff.

 

So, from the million or so foreigners here, put into the number of expat websites, we can probably say there are a few thousand foreign netizens in total. I am talking about public forums of course. Not facebook or similar personal social media.

 

Public forums such as this are different. And I think the number of people posting and reading on these forums is insignificant. It's the same everywhere. Because if the form becomes too big, the individual is lost in the crowd and individuality is lost.

 

Ah. I see your point. Thinking as I write. Why employ wu maos to post among millions where their posts vanish into the ether?. Sites such as youtube etc where videos get million of hits. Maybe better to post on low readership sites?

 

Not sure.  I think this whole wu mao concept is a failed one.

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@ iWolf. Whoever the hat fits really. Actually I'm not convinced that guy is  a troll, he might really what he says he is..

 

@ScotsAlan.  I was thinking more along the lines of something they could use as a 'credible source' in some stupid article in the Global Times or something.

They write one of their sensationalist stories about loser expats who can't make it at home coming here for easy work and to get laid etc etc - you know the stereotype they like to push - and use a series of posts written by a supposed expat (the troll) to support their crap.

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Level 3: establish a 'character' that posts questions full of holes and follows up with retarded comments of the 'I'm not, you are' variety.

 

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What's quite funny is the people who post things on the diplomat, such as "the author doesn't understand Chinese history/culture/etc" while ignoring the author's byline includes "MA in East-Asian Literature" or "Worked for the government of Taiwan"

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