How many of these techniques have you seen on bitcointalk?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-28/cointelpro-techniques-dilution-misdirection-and-control-internet-forumNow, I don't believe the CIA/NSA/FooBarA is involved in this forum (aside from maybe assigning a few interns to lurk). But I've seen all of these techniques used, and I'm pretty convinced there are at least a few parties with a gaggle of hired meatpuppets. The "five hours or X posts" rule is ineffective against MechanicalTurk-style meatpuppetry.
The lack of any sort of upvote/downvote/reputation system makes all of this stuff work so much more easily, and the cryptic security-through-obscurity orange-ignore algorithm is not helping. I agree with Theymos that reddit/stackexchange/slashdot style post-voting turns things into a competition for witty one-liners, but the current situation is only a very little bit better and is devolving rapidly.
There must be some sort of alternative. Maybe a per-post version of the orange label, like "more than X% of the accounts which have viewed this post clicked the 'this is bullshit trolling' button". Basically downvoting only (no upvoting) without displaying the score unless it's obviously very negative.
