Quote from: Kakmakr on April 25, 2017, 05:21:38 AM

BTC Core shills will force people to use SegWit? Tell me, how do those people force other people to do anything? The
only people I see that are forcing others to do something is the BU miners with their hash power. This is a bunch of crap, and you know it.

If anything like this happens, people will just resort back to a Alt coin where SegWit or the LN is not applied. The network will quickly adapt to the new coin and the old Bitcoin will be dead.

Miners will stop mining it and move over to the new Alt coin.

You are a Naive Soul are'nt you?

LTC does not need segwit, it is all a propaganda technique to trick BTC community into activating it.

http://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/war_peace/media/hpropaganda.html

Quote

Attitudes, Belief's and Behaviors

The previous picture and poem is a clear example of propaganda which is a form of persuasion used to influence people's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. A working definition of propaganda is the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. While propaganda has been around for almost a thousand years, only recently (last 100 years) with the advent of technologies that allow us to spread information to a mass group has it evolved to a scientific process capable of influencing a whole nation of people. While propaganda is most evident in times of war as in the poster, it is constantly being used as a political and social means in even less obvious ways to influence peoples attitudes. This is currently evident with all the election commercials on TV, where the candidates are using propaganda techniques to elevate themselves above their competitor. Another place propaganda is being exploited is by the use of the media in its portrayal of countries that have nuclear technology.

Modern propaganda uses all the media available to spread its message, including: press, radio, television, film, computers, fax machines, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing, handbills, buttons, billboards, speeches, flags, street names, monuments, coins, stamps, books, plays, comic strips, poetry, music, sporting events, cultural events, company reports, libraries, and awards and prizes. It is most likely that some of these media uses are surprising, but that only serves to show how easy it is to not even recognize propaganda as such. For the purpose of our paper we will focus on mainly the usage of the press in their tactics of shaping people's opinions. The press (newspapers and magazines) is important because the most current news and issues are spread every day through them. The Dune affect is a term we coined--after the movie Dune--which explains that those who control and have access to media have access to and potential control of public opinion.

Indeed, propaganda is so powerful because everyone is susceptible to it. This is true as explained by Robert Cialdini, an expert in influence, because people exist in a rapidly moving and complex world. In order to deal with it, we need shortcuts. We cannot be expected to recognize and analyze all the aspects in each person, event, and situation we encounter in even one day. We do not have the time, energy, or capacity to process the information; and instead we must very often use our stereotypes, our rules of thumb, to classify things according to a few key features and then to respond without thinking when one or another of these trigger feature are present (Cialdini 6). While this makes people highly susceptible to a propagandist who understands persuasion, in general it is the most efficient for of behaving, and in other cases it is simply necessary. Additionally, propaganda includes the reinforcement of societal myths and stereotypes that are so deeply embedded within a culture that it is often difficult to recognize the message as propaganda.

For example I just used a persuasive technique that propagandist use all the time by introducing Cialdini as an expert. The heuristic this follows is the obedience to authority and is a rule that when someone credible and in this case by title of an expert, a person will automatically believe the information to be correct. "Titles are simultaneously the most difficult and the easiest symbols of authority to acquire. To earn a title normally takes years of work and achievement. Yet, it is possible for somebody who has put in none of this effort to adopt the mere label and receive an automatic difference" Cialdini 181). After all, what really makes Cialdini an expert?

Why is Propaganda such a powerful instrument , because the 99% care what others think about them, it is all part of the herd mentality,
they seek agreement and acceptance from the herd, threaten their standing in the herd and they will do almost anything to still be accepted even against their better judgement, in fact they shut down their cognitive abilities and rely on the herd's leader who interests may not match theirs whatsoever, but will grant the leader authority over them in their own mind. Kind of pathetic actually , but it is how the majority of humans have acted for centuries.
You always have the 1% that can think for themselves and not be swayed by propaganda techniques , but their low numbers prevent them from overpowering the 99% , unless that 1% is extremely charismatic , which is not usually a trait they have.

Watch the BTC Core Shrills in the coming months, they are going to be sprouting how BTC community is now missing out , and how LTC will overtake BTC, if segwit is not implemented immediately , how that is the bigest failure in BTC history letting LTC activate 1st. The Forums are going to explode with Core Shrills making up everything under the sun , and all they have to do for the final step, is wait for a sell off of a $100 or so , and then blame it all on not activating segwit.
Most will fall in line behind them now screaming for segwit and LN, like the little children they are.
LOL, Don't take my word for it, just sit back and enjoy the show, it's coming.

Cool

FYI: It is already starting:
Observe the new topics, it is only the start.
SegWit on Litecoin, make it be used in more mainstream platforms than Bitcoin?
The impossible has been reached: LTC has 100% SW support! Can BTC ever do it?