You have heard of Bots right? -What Is A Digital Cock Roach?

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There are always new people coming, not just to the Warrior Forum, but to the world of forums PERIOD.

Many times they dont know how to recognize the occasional "less than scrupulous" personalities they see on here, and in other places on the internet.

Especially in the offline sub forum, many are new and havent read some of the awesome insights in the MAIN Discussion Forum , that can really expand your mind and give you a broader perspective.

Also,

Many of us who have spent significant time here, tirelessly spend hours on end regularly battling with these people, wasted hours that make the forum look bad and FEEL bad...

And so, without further due, to ease some of that discomfort, and to make it less necessary for us to have to get into 20 hour debates in order to help people recognize some of the things that are important, I offer you this link:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ckroaches.html

Enjoy!

Ps. Taint for the faint! Be warned.
#bots #digital #heard #roach
  • Profile picture of the author David Miller
    Thanks for this information John, it's an important reminder for many of us, and particularly as a reminder for those of us who, on occassion take the bate.

    I don't find it hard to identify the trolls or roaches. I use the the little icon to report posts and move on. But there are a few among us who have become tireless promoters of their own products or wso's. I find this practice to be far more bothersome than the trolls.

    I see threads being bumped in oddly suspicious ways and I get infuriated by this type of self serving hypocrisy. Coming to this forum to gain trust for the sole purpose of self promotion is a dispicable practice.

    It's this sort of thing that makes it difficult to accept the motives of some of the forum contributors. If I were to craft a wso I would only request a few of the participants in this thread to review it.

    Past that point, it would go to the wso thread and I'd hope it would do well, and that is where it would remain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Domino
      I don't mean to be a jerk, but times have changed since 2009.

      The WF admins implicitly encourage people to post all day with WSO links in signatures. I've even seen "get rich with WSOs" WSOs recommend to post all day. But really, who has the time or the knowledge to post all day, everyday, except closet spammers?

      Even if I agree, I don't know why this thread is in the offline forum though
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  • Profile picture of the author Jgregory
    This is good to info, John... and a good reminder for new people too green to see between the branches. Aand our man, Paul does has a way of saying it like no other.

    David, it's good to see you starting more threads... on good topics worth discussing. I've noticed that for you, Ken, Jason, John and other contributors... there are loads of posts replying to some other thread... often trying to correct the OP.

    The offline area seems to be going off on weird Threads like this... "I'm thinking of diving into Mobile. What do you guys think?"

    When I see one of these examples, looking for something worthwhile to read, in an odd spare moment... it is depressing. And moreso after scrolling down farther and seeing more of the same threads.

    Those old Greeks in the shady parts of the Agora had a great idea with a forum for like-minded peers to share ideas... I think that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle would be turning over in their graves if they could see the electronic equivalent today. And John makes the big point... there are lots of forums too. And so many these days are sounding like cell phone chatter in a mall walkway...

    "Hey, whatcha doin?"
    "Nothin', what are you doin?"
    "Sittin' around."
    "Who's with you?"
    "Jim."
    "What's he doin'?"
    "Nothin'."
    "Awesome. See you in a minute then."

    All that so they can all sit around and do nothing together.
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    not everyone feels the need to write an epistle to express a point
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    What is the motivation to post something like this, totally irrelevant?

    Originally Posted by oncewerewarriors View Post

    not everyone feels the need to write an epistle to express a point
    True, and not everyone has a thousand people posting online saying that they made their first real money reading that persons posts! Touche'

    Mostly they dont because they "cant".

    I dont know what category "You" fall into, or what your motivation for saying that was, and Im sure there is a reason you hate these kinds of posts and resent them...But, just for the record:

    Here's another epistle for you:


    One thing to take note of about Pauls post, thats very true, is that sometimes you think you see a senior being "out of character", but they are just sniffing out a rat!

    I know because I do bait them sometimes myself.

    Learned to from the article you just read...and I dont mind saying this publicly because he's right, the forum really does kind of shake it self out every 3 months or so...(Cycles)

    I and other do this for exactly for the reason Paul mentions in the article, so newbies can see behind the veils and learn to recognize them.

    We do alot of things here (Warriors who have been around a bit ) that some dont understand...but the longer you are here the more you understand.Cycles).

    Sometimes you may look at a senior warriors "insight" and say "wow, how did they perceive that", its because we have been around long enough not to miss articles like you just read, and now you have too.

    That will quantum leap some peoples understanding who read that today!

    They like to say when we call them out, that we are just being predatory under the name of protecting it from predators...tand play on peoples suspicion... In fact one tried to do it to me when I took a 3 day bann for myself the other day...and if had read it you would see that it started to work...

    Theior goal is to get even ONE rebel rouser to jump in with them and start something... But I proved them wrong solid evidence...and the people who jumped in with them right now are very embarrassed.

    I hate to keep quoting PM but he also taught us all here "Dont follow them to hell...".

    Well a couple guys followed them last week, and while they didnt go to hell, they learned an embarrassing lesson about assuming...

    So if you ever see me, or another Warrior who you usually think of as rational , baiting someone...and going on for 10 posts in a row...and you think "Wow, I never thought I would see that out of them...", usually its because we see a roaches true colors and we are trying to bring them out!

    Wow this place is cool! Your understanding of human nature grows sooo fast here!

    Hope everyone enjoyed...and "Give Paul a Thanks for that", later when that knowledge comes back up and you are able to see these things too... it will have been such a worthwhile read, and you may want to go back and thank him then if you didnt now!

    You may also understand why we all think he's so smart!

    PS:

    Shortly after you call out a guy like this this, you may find yourself being attacked by others with low post counts, thats a sign that he told his fan boys on you!!

    They all will try to take you down...not realizing that you have seen them a thousand times before...

    Most smart ones will stay away from a post like this one, or better yet, they will come in AGREEING...and thus attempt to perpetuate the belief that they arent one...

    You know.
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    I'm new here, can you teach me IM?
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    • Profile picture of the author John Durham
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      I'm new here, can you teach me IM?
      Sure just PM for more info! lol


      Edit: OH I get it now Kim!!!

      He is showing you youngin's something else they do... to help themselves stay under the radar. They pose as damsels...Yeah we get that alot too! Alot of them have been IMing for years!

      It takes awhile to know the difference, so if you ever see a senior not taking the bait, and you think they just arent being helpful or being rude....Now you know!

      Thanks Kim.

      What are some others?


      Another thing they will do....


      If you wrote a post that they dont like, or that exposes their kinds of games...and you have a name that people click on.... they will post a one liner with an anonymous name right behind your post, so your name doesnt show up on the front page , knowing that no one will click on the name they did it under...
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    I love the ones that just post something like great video,It helped me a lot.
    When there are no videos posted in the thread.
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