Post AO0cMgHWt2OGdEa5w0 by ducc@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #ANbBL7po7QOeMet8Bk by Duine@detroitriotcity.com
       2022-09-15T19:52:29.207910Z
       
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       After poking around and lurking on various interesting substacks I've noticed a few archetypes of commenters somewhat unique to substack as a platform and sometimes prevalent in other comments sections. I will now longpost about them here.The Disguised Shillposter>Probably named Margaret, this poster usually just has 1-2 generic sentences marginally related to the topic at hand and then goes into full-on shilling for a recent substack post of theirs, sometimes with an excerpt if they want to go the extra mile<Most successful if they post early after the initial post, that way they can suck up views and extra comments, this tumor of a person is more of a side-effect of substack as a platform since it's hard to discover other blogs.The Religionposter>This poster is devoutly religious and will do something similar to the previous poster type. 1-2 sentences marginally related to the topic at hand, if that, and then launches into a full on gigantic excerpt from the bible, usually the old testament. You can tell the difference between male and female posters because the male poster often starts marginally fedposting in addition to it.<This one is semi-unique to substack since you get people everywhere, including fedi, whose entire life revolves around being loudly religious on the internet.The Conspiracist Plant>So most of the substack blogs I follow are relatively covid-related or are pivoting into soft covid-related politics posting. This guy takes it one step further and starts posting shit like flat-earth or phantom time theory or arguing if germ theory and viruses are real. Gets obnoxious when told that the comments section of a post about the europoor energy crisis is not the time and place for it.<I'm almost certain these guys are meant to latch on to comments sections, communities, or even convince the original poster in order to psyop a community revolving around "maybe these injections aren't tested properly and are having bad side-effects" into one that also says "flat-earth is real and cellular biology is a myth because I can't see cells with my naked eye"The Confused Boomer>An obvious boomer and/or foreigner that treats a comments section of a blog post as personal mail/email correspondence with the poster instead of it being an open letter. If you follow up with some of these guys on their own accounts they often get mad that their comment in an already-busy comments section got ignored.<Who let these people use a computer?The Undisguised Shillposter>Just the disguised shitposter but doesn't even try to keep it vaguely relevant or on-topic. They're called spammers elsewhere.<Again, substack is a miserable platform for finding other blogs on it so it's built into the system.The Pathetic E-Beggar>Not actually a commenter, but rather a substack blogger who doesn't realize that all he's doing is blogging. Usually dedicated to a topic and posts a lot about it, calling it important, etc, but demands payment for the actually good posts claiming to have a lot of information that will change how everyone sees it (but nobody can share it unless they pay him)<COUGH EUGYPPIUS AND BERENSON COUGHThere's the nameless masses of course, but you find those everywhere.Substack needs changes but I'm sure if they do they'll have to get even more restrictive.
       
 (DIR) Post #AO0cMgHWt2OGdEa5w0 by ducc@spinster.xyz
       2022-09-28T02:17:45.892339Z
       
       2 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @Duine holy shit, no glowies?