How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

[JDPriestly]

190. Do you think that any of the people posting on DU get paid to do it?

Why wouldn't they admit it if they were?

Do you think that someone paid to post on DU, say by the government or someone in the Obama campaign or some similar group would feel ashamed or embarrassed by what he/she was doing?

Or do you think they would be proud to be doing it and let other DUers know about what they were doing?

Do you think that it might be very easy for regulars on DU to figure out who might be paid to post here?

Don't you think that people who always perfectly take the side of the government might be suspected by other DUers of being paid shills?

What is your opinion on the substance of the OP?

As I wrote below, I think one indication that someone might be paid to take a particular position would be that the person always followed a particular party line.

I ask that because I have been paid to write during my write -- grant requests and other things -- so I know what it is like to write in a voice and for a purpose that is not personal to you.