Not a blog post

 This isn't meant as a formal post, but it was a thought I had after being accused o being a paid Zionist shill because I corrected someone's mistake on an online forum. The person asked if I was paid to post and if so, how much did I get per post. I ignored his accusation, but it set me to thinking about the business model there so I quickly jotted down some notes that I want to save somewhere.

Welcome to somewhere:

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if I were to consider a policy of paying people to engage online (money per post) I would consider one primary goal to be the dissemination of information about my position (true or false -- normative), another primary goal would be to spread selected information to make the counter position look flawed or weaker. But I would also have a goal of getting the opposition to betray itself. If a post elicits a response, pay. If the post elicits a response which opens the opposition up to countering, more payment. If the post elicits a response which provides otherwise unknown information, more payment.

maybe more views/click thrus, more payment

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thank you for not paying attention.

Some additional notes: based on what I have seen in multiple forums, I have developed a new conspiracy theory -- Israel is paying people to write the dumbest anti-Israel things ever so that people will correct them with facts, thus making the Israel side look reasonable. There is no way that so many people are so dumb and say such obviously wrong things. I think the Mossad creates these people to make the anti-Israel side look stupid.