These guys who were spending 6+ hours per day trolling with dozens of different accounts on BTT and Reddit did not simply quit and go home:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=826008;sa=showPosts
They changed their accounts and style to something much more clever and less recognizable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Concern_troll
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=826008;sa=showPosts
They changed their accounts and style to something much more clever and less recognizable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Concern_troll
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A concern troll is a false flag pseudonym created by a user whose actual point of view is opposed to the one that the troll claims to hold. The concern troll posts in Web forums devoted to its declared point of view and attempts to sway the group's actions or opinions while claiming to share their goals, but with professed "concerns". The goal is to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt within the group.[51] This is a particular case of sockpuppeting.
You look less like a nutter when you're actually replying with arguments/refutations, rather than this concern troll theory.
Is snkns (the person you just replied to) a concern troll? Because he's been very active on reddit, with his concerns.
Is it possible for anybody to raise any concern at all, without them being labelled a troll?
You're being a silly billy. Alex Jones level silly.
Oh, and don't think I didn't notice when you replied to me from your newbie account, and promptly deleted it the other day. I wouldn't be throwing trolling accusations at other people, while you're using sock accounts to agree with yourself
You're being silly if you think the guys behind the February troll campaign aren't still trolling under different names with a different style.
It's obvious to anyone who has been paying attention, including you. Although, you may not admit it if you think the trolling aligns with your interests.
It actually doesn't align with any of our interests because the biggest source of profit in this venture is not wasting energy trying to influence someone to dump (seasoned people in crypto are immune to these tricks and will dump when they need liquidity or want to take profit anyways), but rather using energy to welcome new investors/users to ICN and the platform.
Neither of us can prove that one way or the other.
The alternative is that "everything is all fine, and nobody has anything to be concerned about", though.
Who decided that?
The concerns raised make sense, given the information available to those raising the concerns, regardless of intent.
You can't simply dismiss those concerns as trolling/FUD, just because you're unable to address them.
I'm not saying you've definitely invested into a team of unscrupulous individuals but, if you have, you'll feel a whole lot stupider if you look back at how you religiously defended them from the people you're currently dismissing as trolls.
A lot of their "concerns", on r/ethtrader for example, don't make any sense so you know they must be trolling.
ICN has always been a profit-sharing token. The switch from dividends->buyback & burn did not change the fact that it's still a profit-sharing token.
All the sudden people are very "concerned" about the fact that it's a profit-sharing token with no use other than to share profits.
This has been the case ever since we read the whitepaper. The majority of people who are suddenly campaigning about this particular "concern" are most likely from competing projects and/or trying to trick people into divesting from ICN.