Why would the SS need to troll? Can’t they just read the posts they are interested in?
“Why would the SS need to troll? Can’t they just read the posts they are interested in?”
Right. I am guessing the SS posed as a Freeper to get more information, like “maybe this poster is stupid enough to send me an email revealing his name”— which I did.
It could have been to see if he could gain trust to get more information from me. Blending into the group you are gathering intelligence on is a common tactic I think.
Seriously, the wording of the two posts by “NU Grad are strange. I know the culture of my school and we don’t talk like that. So, the wording as suspicious. Then he became a member that same day, never posted again and didn’t reply to both mail and a post directly asking who he is.
Add to this that our campus was crawling with Secret Service, snipers, about 100 soldiers and that the place had been under surveillance for a couple weeks and was being watched very intensely all that day.
Also we we told that the SS need access to monitor our email system on campus. They were interested what anyone was saying about the Prez online.
It is possible that “NU Grad” wasn’t a SS, but I am about 95 percent sure that he was. A real NU Grad wouldn’t say stuff like that, defending the university as if he were a PR guy. Also, it is such a small school that a graduate who shares the same views on politics would certain reply to my message. Absolutely sure about that.
Then the FR monitors here must have agreed, since they have pulled the original thread for being “wired”.