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Pretty sure BADecker's job is to spread misinformation. I'm betting he literally gets paid by a government entity to spread bullshit.

He's a troll, but is he working professionally or not is the real question.

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I just noticed I didn't really add a solution to the state sponsored-ness. I'd suggest the capitalist way of just paying him off and letting him freely contribute to the community, but his totalitarian handlers probably wouldn't like the resistance.

Conspiracy theories belong in Off Topic. This one might be eligible for Reputation. Certainly not Meta though.

I see you to decided to dive into the realm of chaos and madness that is the Politics & Society board.

I really doubt he's state sponsored unless the government, that's paying his salary, is anti-vax (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1905551.0).

https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-08-23/russian-trolls-targeted-vaccine-debate-to-sow-division-researchers-say

Actually, Russia is spreading both pro-vax and anti-vax propaganda. Just part of their campaign.

I think this topic belongs in meta as state sponsored activities are threats to this community.

But I mean, there's not really any great solutions to the problem.

If anyone's paying him, they're clearly not getting their money's worth. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

EDIT: Typo

This seems like a fairly credible accusation.

I demand a full FBI investigation into this matter.

Until BADecker can disprove this, the administration should label all of his posts "potential state sponsored propaganda" despite the lack of evidence to corroborate this accusation.   

Whilst investigations for suspicious behavior are the topic, I suggest the Quickseller account be closely scrutinized for showing a previously unheard of sense of humor.

He's been in that board for far too long for that theory to even be plausible.

Rest assured, there is nothing wrong with Quickseller - the things he says or does are still based on his personal butthurt¹ and not on some newfound sense of humor. Save the investigation costs and instead send that money to theymos so that we could get the new forum sooner.

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¹ - this latest one may be in part caused by me pointing out that "innocence" (or "guilt") doesn't apply in a civil matter but you can never be sure what sets him off.

I think he's just a troll. Or an idiot. Doesn't matter either way. On pretty much every forum you get a couple of hardcore trolls who's mission is just to annoy and aggravate people, and usually there is one who is overly-religious and won't actually listen to anything anyone is saying because they're so fundamentally fixed in their views (or trolling). I don't see why he would be state-sponsored though and there's certainly no evidence for that, but of course it is the sexiest conspiracy theory.

If there's any paid trolls here then they will probably be paid by rival companies to attack other services, and if there's any government backed ones (which I personally find unlikely) then I think they'd probably be spreading more fud about bitcoin rather than just posting easily refutable crap about Christianity.

It seems to me that he likes saying some outlandish things, and then enjoys watching other people debate over nonsense like it actually makes sense. Whether he's a troll or genuinely believes some of the things he comes out with. Most of his posts aren't worth the effort of reading unless your looking for a good laugh.

I'm almost certain that this happens with competing ICOs & altcoins.

He holds the record for writing the stupidest thing I've ever read, and I've read several Trump tweets.


As others have mentioned, there is no point even responding to him. Either put him on ignore or just stay out of his threads.

I was just reading the Reputation board and you guys made me curious about this person, I just checked their posts and you are all absolutely right, this guy just speaks nonsense. As I remember he had not negative feedback before but now he has 2, it seems he has overdone it a dozen times. I don't think though that some state can sponsor such posts , well may a state like Republic of Wadyia(taken from the dictator movie) can sponsor such person, other than that I am sure no one would ever sponsor him.

Oh, he dun fucked up. So he linked to a freedomsphoenix site which openly admits to be Kremlin propaganda.

So, let's assume that he's a low wage Kremlin employee paid to push propaganda sites setup by paid off American actors.

yup I concur.. that dude is a total nutter but I really doubt he's state sponsored, albeit much of his pious nonsensical drivel on these 400+ page god swill threads ....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=737322.msg16920223#msg16920223
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1054513.8260

I got bored and gave up trolling him awhile ago.

I have to try and figure out what is on topic, what is off topic and so on while he literally makes up definitions to words so his insane rantings some how come out rationalized in his obviously under developed brain.

I mean I doubt hes state sponsored I just think hes a typical Trump base constituent, IOW a right wing religitard with too much time on his brainwashed hands!

It's posts like this that make me think he's just trolling, but you never know. One thing I've learned over this years is to never underestimate human stupidity.


State-sponsored trolls usually have an agenda and are either pro or anti-something to promote whatever their agenda is. What is BadDecker's agenda? Promote God/Christianity? What good would this serve any government. He either genuinely believes this crap (and there are these sorts of people) or he's just trolling for kicks. Either way, if everyone ignored him then he'd probably get bored. I don't think there's one thing that trolls hate worse than the silent treatment because they then realise they're just wasting their time. When they keep getting a rise out of people then they keep doing it because it's fun for them.

If it is fun for them then they should go and see a therapist. He is living in a distorted reality and his brain does not function well for the moment. Nowadays thank God there are medicines for every illness out there. This would be more beneficial for his health and  life rather than spending time behind a keyboard and writing nonsense in order to attract attention.

Pretty sure creating back links is his job too. Advertising revenue and higher results on Google.

There's threads where there are several posts in a row of just his pointing towards a 3rd party site without any rationalization.

Lol there is no way, if anything this guy is against the government and the agendas they are trying to push.  I don't think BADecker is a troll either, think he really believes in the stuff he posts.

After debating with him for hundreds of pages I can guarantee you he is not trolling. He is truly mentally ill, it's really funny when you check all his beliefs because they are so random. He believes heavily in God, the christian god but doesn't believe the earth is flat and makes fun of people who think so, he doesn't believe in evolution, he thinks vaccines are harmful and he thinks cops are worse than ISIS because cops are supposed to be good people.

But how would you truly know whether he's trolling or not. I've had a couple of run ins with him recently and I think it's hard to tell whether he actually believes what he even says but I did think he was being serious at first but now I'm not so sure. I don't think he's mentally ill but rather he either radically believes these things he's saying or does it just to irritate and provoke people as trolls do. I think people who are mentally ill probably don't articulate themselves as well as he does or would devote this much time to such a hobby but unless he confesses to such behavior then I guess we'll probably never know and is pointless even discussing it. He's probably even enjoying such speculation and attention.  

We should probably stop trying to play chess with pigeons, though.

http://thememesfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1911887_472121082913705_1194146690_n1.jpg

As for him being paid to do this activity by some government or organization, I would find that very hard to believe, but we do know some governments have troll armies that try sway public opinion in their favor but they probably do so more subtly.  

There's an interesting article about troll armies on Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2018/04/11/the-russian-troll-army-isnt-the-only-one-we-need-to-worry-about/#744212102334

The question is what country would he be an agent of and what is he trying to achieve on this board?

Well there has to be a point when a troll becomes mentally ill. You can't be trolling people your whole life, can you? At least I don't think you can do it without going insane.