patience
09.09.08, 01:22
Tactics
* Frequent changes of pseudonyms.[1]
* Informational noise and fraudulent use of nicknames.[1]
* Attempts to increase credibility. Brigades often tell stories about
themselves, their work, and even publicize phone numbers, something which
other forum participants don't do.[1]
* Round-the-clock presence on forums. At least one of the uniform members
of the team can be found online at all times, always ready to repulse any
“attack” by a liberal.[1]
* Introduction of arbitrary tracts full of facts and events. They are
often completely fraudulent, but force their opponents to do extensive
research to refute them.
* Intentional diversion of pointed discussions. For instance, the brigade
may claim that Pol Pot never had any connection with Communism or that not a
single person was killed in Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by
Soviet tanks.
* Individual work on opponents. "As soon as an opposition-minded liberal
arrives on a forum, expressing a position that makes them a clear "ideological
enemy”, he is immediately cornered and subjected to “active measures” by the
unified web-brigade. Without provocation, the opponent is piled on with abuse
or vicious “arguments” of the sort that the average person cannot adequately
react to. As a result, the liberal either answers sharply, causing a scandal
and getting himself labeled a “boor” by the rest of the brigade, or else he
starts to make arguments against the obvious absurdities, to which his
opponents pay no attention, but simply ridicule him and put forth other
similar arguments."[1]
* Accusations that opponents are working for “enemies”. The opponents are
accused of taking money from Berezovskiy, the CIA, the MOSSAD, Saudi Arabia,
the Zionists, or the Chechen rebels.
* Making personally offensive comments. Tendency to accuse their opponents
of being insane during arguments.
* Sexual vocabulary and accusations. For instance, "Make your skirt a
little longer-ly, so your balls don’t show.".[1]
* Remarkable ability to reveal personal information about their opponents
and their quotes from old postings, sometimes more than a year old.
* Teamwork. "They unwaveringly support each other in discussions, ask each
other leading questions, put fine points on each other’s answers, and even
pretend not to know each other. If an opponent starts to be hounded, this
hounding invariably becomes a team effort, involving all of the three to
twenty nicknames that invariably are present on any political forum 24 hours a
day."[1]
* The original publication described how mentioning the word "lustration",
formerly a secret police term in the Soviet Union, led to a choir about
"bloody repressions by democratic murderers" and "witch hunts". In some
popular forums, discussions marked with this word are automatically deleted
from the search system.
* Appealing to the Administration. The members of teams often "write mass
collective complaints about their opponents to the editors, site
administrators, or the electronic “complaints book”, demanding that one or
another posting or whole discussion thread they don’t like be removed, or
calling for the banning of individuals they find problematic."[1]
* Destruction of inconvenient forums. For example, on the site of the
Moscow News, all critics of Putin and the FSB "were suddenly and without any
explanation banned from all discussions, despite their having broken none of
the site’s rules of conduct. All the postings of this group of readers, going
back a year and a half, were erased by the site administrator."[1]
* Infecting opponents' computers with viruses and trojans.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades
E tam. Mlodzieżówka PO więcej od nich umie. Ale stylu to się chyba nauczyli na
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