there are a lot of shills etc in the world. marketing, religious conversion, politics related. interpersonal drama. people who just want something from you.
I guess I just answered my own title question about where they come from.
Is this what people mean by NPCs? The people who repeat shill stuff, lots of it, without realizing it?
it's like a more sophisticated form of spam? I guess spam is everywhere. so it's not really surprising to find it anywhere.
Why would people come to saidit? I've seen marketing shills come to saidit plenty. So I guess others would. There aren't very many people here though are there? Saidit just seems so small to attract the attention of agents. I guess ip2 caught attention, but it was very active and that was just one content creator. There are pretty much no trans rights activists here.
So shills aren't shills they're just doing shilling for a job, usually, when they come here. Or for a cause they believe in. I guess that's a straightforward answer to my title question. Or someone told them they could get their way by behaving that way.
I guess "why do people shill for stuff" is a pretty broad question with a lot of different answers.
I don't know quite where I'm going with this now. Feel free to comment I guess.
edit to add:
what do shills from different "camps" do when they interact with each other? do they argue? do they quietly recognize each other as shills? do they fight?
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