Odd online behavior ...

[tatertot]

A member joined this website in 2019, posted 67 times that year, and then disappeared ... now, they're a persistent advocate for the LIV fighting against all comers for the new tour. Seem odd?

[tatertot]

Oh ... and they've never posted in a non-LIV thread since their return.

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

Interesting...and not altogether surprising. Not 100% sure what it is.

 

Some of the posts I

have seen

involving the 

LIV golf

League Is not what

I'd call 

normal for someone just interested in 

Golf.

 

[TiScape]

On 6/28/2022 at 7:20 PM, tatertot said:

A member joined this website in 2019, posted 67 times that year, and then disappeared ... now, they're a persistent advocate for the LIV fighting against all comers for the new tour. Seem odd?

Gee, it’s not @bighitlama by any chance is it?! 😂 Yeah, obvious what’s going on. He/she isn’t the only one. Definitely the most obvious lately though. 
 

biglivshill

Edited June 30, 2022 by TiScape

[grm24]

On 6/28/2022 at 10:20 PM, tatertot said:

A member joined this website in 2019, posted 67 times that year, and then disappeared ... now, they're a persistent advocate for the LIV fighting against all comers for the new tour. Seem odd?

Wouldn't surprise me at all if there are some alleged members here whose sole job it is to be nothing but a LIV wonk. 

[BlackDiamondPar5]

10 hours ago, grm24 said:

Wouldn't surprise me at all if there are some alleged members here whose sole job it is to be nothing but a LIV wonk. 

Yup looks like some Norman shills. 

[TiScape]

2 hours ago, BlackDiamondPar5 said:

Yup looks like some Norman shills. 

Perhaps the site can start adding the ‘sponsored post’ moniker to their posts like on other social media sites?!😂 

[BlackDiamondPar5]

4 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Perhaps the site can start adding the ‘sponsored post’ moniker to their posts like on other social media sites?!😂 

There's definitely some hocus pocus there 🙂

 

[TiScape]

3 minutes ago, BlackDiamondPar5 said:

There's definitely some hocus pocus there 🙂

 

It’s like when ppl came out of the woodwork prior to the Stealth release. Names you’ve never seen posting all the sudden pushing and making extraordinary claims about ball speed. Which of course turned out to be totally false. I think it’s a good thing when a “community” exposes or calls out a snake in the grass. Like Jimmy Fallon would say “Go on, git!” 😂 

[MtlJeff]

6 hours ago, TiScape said:

Perhaps the site can start adding the ‘sponsored post’ moniker to their posts like on other social media sites?!😂 

 

Can't do that based on conjecture alone, otherwise i will have to wear the scarlet letter of a PXG shill, something i have been accused of many times now!

 

BTW---Did you know PXG makes the best and most cost/value friendly clubs on the market? If you are looking for new clubs, look no further than PXG, they make excellent clubs at very competitive prices. Nobody makes clubs like they do. KABOOM

[TiScape]

1 minute ago, MtlJeff said:

 

Can't do that based on conjecture alone, otherwise i will have to wear the scarlet letter of a PXG shill, something i have been accused of many times now!

 

BTW---Did you know PXG makes the best and most cost/value friendly clubs on the market? If you are looking for new clubs, look no further than PXG, they make excellent clubs at very competitive prices. Nobody makes clubs like they do. KABOOM

But see, we know you and know ur not a PXG shill! Plenty of wonderful posts not pertaining to PXG! 😊 

[Hawkeye77]

Problem with the LIV trolls is the same problem with LIV - the “message” (if you want to call it that) isn’t consistent or reasonable or sensible in any way because at the core it’s sports washing, “bribery” and it absolutely has no soul. It’s been almost comical how these folks spending $$$$$ came up with a strategy that was Greg Norman saying stupid stuff and players saying stupid stuff and I guess now internet plants saying stupid stuff. 
 

So it’s blah, blah, deflect, dodge, blah, blah. 
 

It is not sustainable. 

[chisag]

9 minutes ago, Hawkeye77 said:

Problem with the LIV trolls is the same problem with LIV - the “message” (if you want to call it that) isn’t consistent or reasonable or sensible in any way because at the core it’s sports washing, “bribery” and it absolutely has no soul. It’s been almost comical how these folks spending $$$$$ came up with a strategy that was Greg Norman saying stupid stuff and players saying stupid stuff and I guess now internet plants saying stupid stuff. 
 

So it’s blah, blah, deflect, dodge, blah, blah. 
 

It is not sustainable. 

 

 

 

... I am amazed some evidently have no mothers, sisters or wives. 

[ThinkingPlus]

I wonder how much money the posters are getting to shill for LIV?

[Hawkeye77]

And plenty of normal folks chiming in, but the plants have been obvious. 

[Hawkeye77]

1 minute ago, ThinkingPlus said:

I wonder how much money the posters are getting to shill for LIV?

Based on the quality of the “points” made I’d say they are so smart they are paying LIV! 

[ThinkingPlus]

Just now, Hawkeye77 said:

Based on the quality of the “points” made I’d say they are so smart they are paying LIV! 

Or maybe playing LIV. Surprised site mods haven't banned the lot.  They probably can't prove the getting paid part so can't ban them outright.  Some long time posters joining in.  Sad times.

[Fuscinator]

How do I get on as a LIV troll? 

[NJBigFish22]

If they want me to sit on this forum all day talking up LIV, I will gladly accept for the same signing bonus as DJ! 

[JungleJimbo]

1 hour ago, ThinkingPlus said:

I wonder how much money the posters are getting to shill for LIV?

Perhaps they’re organised similarly to the “50 cent army”?

From VOA: “Who Are the Chinese Trolls of the '50 Cent Army'?”

Link: https://www.voanews.com/amp/who-is-that-chinese-troll/3540663.html 

[TiScape]

1 hour ago, Fuscinator said:

How do I get on as a LIV troll? 

Good question! I asked the big alpaca  how they recruited him/her and surprisingly no response 🤷🏼‍♂️ Like Thinking+, I was curious about pay. Is it per post, flat rate for a certain # per day??? 

 

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Internet-shill?amp=1

Edited July 2, 2022 by TiScape

[shoot4par]

You guys the golfwrx bureau of disinformation?  I couldn't say I care what random people post on the internet that much.  

Edited July 2, 2022 by shoot4par

[TiScape]

10 minutes ago, shoot4par said:

You guys the golfwrx bureau of disinformation?  I couldn't say I care what random people post on the internet that much.  

Yes. The BOD! 💪🏼

[Gxgolfer]

There is plenty of discourse on both sides.  
 

Arguments can be made on both sides of instigating attacks. 
 

Looking at the activity, it seems more likely people are trying to push narratives their side agrees with to stir up controversy and thus the car wreck ensues. 

Yes,  moderation will be uneven and best effort and no their will not be a LIV forum created. Yes, members have unregistered and yes members on both sides of the conversation will be penalized for conduct violations.  The attacks on players has been borderline to way past the lines, those need to stop. 

As usual, if there is proof of any adverse conduct, report it to mods.