Are DU readers and participants susceptible to Psychological Operations?

If you opened this thread, you are. This is just a test to see how many people fall for the title
when they could be reading about Bush scandals or doing what Woodward and Bernstein did instead.

Leave here now. Get out fast. Don't get sucked in by this kind of crap.

***** Go be the "Media that the Media Reads" instead. ****

Good Day and Good Night.

I'm curious about that as well. if it sucks I leave anyway.

Good on you.
I got it.
See my post below.
BHN

I am consciously ignoring you ;)

You have no idea what people have or haven't read or done other than look to see what you have to say. However, buying your line and leaving without comment calling you out on it may be.

You're giving him the attention he wants. Don't post here. If yoy do I'll have to reprimand you again here. :D

despite your subsequent statement.

I believe it is very possible that we could be the victims of well-designed psy-ops.

I believe that 911 was psy-ops.

See, psyops isn't really all that hard.

It ain't every day a boy gets to paint a picket fence.

I used to be a painter, and if you put a "wet paint" sign on something there is invariably at least one person that will come up and touch it "just to see if it's really wet".

Kudos Coyote.
BHN:thumbsup:

Ah, but I see what you mean -- we're supposed to be hoodwinked in the process of your diabolical scheme to change the goal-posts while looking righteously indignant.

Bush already tried that & lost in '06.

:rofl:

I'd like to know so I can avoid it at all cost.
BHN

Are DU readers and participants susceptible to Psychological Operations? Fri Jun-01-07 11:06 PM ... = 10 replies ... 1 rec ... 6843 views

6843 views in 30 minutes. You just know the Admins are having a little fun of their own tonight!!! :rofl:

...unless it wasn't a catch :scared: :9

:rofl:

...in order to maintain my individuality, dignity and integrity.

Yeah right :rofl:

Actually, I wanted to cut loose after a day of serious posting.

...serious?

and, someone does inflate thread view numbers. The image had 570 hits while the thread had over 7,000.

And it took far less than 30 minutes too...

Looks like I got ya.

You know, so we can get some pointers on how to do it ourselves. Are you able to do it without leaving the computer den?

Googling the combo 'Abramoff Siegelman' produced this thread, with about an hour of reading time invested:

Abramoff and Kark Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor and Campaign Finances
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1023111

:::my best Captain Kirk impression:::


(you hear him saying it in your head, dont cha?) Damn! I'm good!:evilgrin:

Are DU readers and participants susceptible to Psychological Operations? .. Fri Jun-01-07 11:36 PM ... = 20 replies ... = 2 recs... = 8320 views

Thick as flies in a barnyard. Can it be so? 60 minutes and 8320 views??

We are being entertained by an Admin's editorial on this tally, I'm sure.

yet how jejune.

Welcome to my ignore list.

Not for those who open threads like this. :rofl:

How many useful keywords are in this thread so far? Ooops, sorry, there is one really good one, jejune. Twice even!!

If I was really falling for psyops I would do what you told me to do (aka taking an order from someone I don't know) and go seek out threads you think I should read instead of the ones I want to :)

Fun thread at any rate :)

Reminds me of a book I read when I was a teen on psychology. A lady was trying to sell some jade at her store, nice stuff and a great price. The author of the book, a friend of hers, told her to double or triple the price. And the stuff was then selling like hotcakes.

People didn't want to buy cheap jewelry, especially if it was for their girlfriend (the more a person has to sacrifice for the gift the more meaningful it becomes to the recipient it appears).

Buyer: "These taste like B.S!"

Seller: "See, you are smarter already!"

And this thread was free!!

It's not every day that a boy gets to paint a picket fence..

It's from _Tom Sawyer_. Tom is sent out to paint the picket fence in front of the house, a job he finds incredibly boring.

When Tom's friend comes around, Tom looks like he's really having a good time and ends up convincing his friend and a couple of others to actually *pay* him to reluctantly let them paint the fence.

A classic case of psyops.

If not, does this just prove that many DUers are slightly paranoid, and love clicking on titles with "susceptible to Psychological Operations" in?

The thread had thousands of views in the first few minutes. It was unbelievable. I thought the Admins were replying in their own humorous way. Not so, or at least not substantially so. The image had thousands of hits.

The psychological operation/comparison encompasses all day yesterday. I created 15 threads, 14 with titles related to government oversight. In General Discussion, at least one and usually more, were in the 50 most recently posted list all day long, over 12 hours non-stop. Then, this psy-op thread started at 10:36 to see if it would have a different reception here. I've followed the view count for several weeks now, and noted the interest in Falwell, Cindy, and other topics, shall we say, not on the Congressional Agenda.

Here is the comparison. The 14 threads about oversight of the Criminal Junta of Corrupt Politicos, with #s of replies, recs, views, are:

1. Rep. WAXMAN: Oversight Committee Requests Documents From Doan Investigation = HATCH ACT. 24 20 446
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019468&mesg_id=1019468

2. Administration Oversight Committee Announces Hearing with GSA Administrator Doan. 5 1 97
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019479&mesg_id=1019479

3. Chairman Waxman Responds to WH -Fielding's May 18 Letter = Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence. 8 8 271
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019505&mesg_id=1019505

4. Iraq Intelligence and Nuclear Evidence = Hearing with SoS Rice< Tenet and Hadley added now. 11 2 139
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019542&mesg_id=1019542

5. DEM CONGRESS: House Committee Reiterates Request for Documents Related to Plame-Wilson Disclosure. 7 1 145
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019573&mesg_id=1019573

D6. em CONGRESS: Waxman Questions White House Security Practices. 5 1 124
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019595&mesg_id=1019595

7. Dem CONGRESS: Investigations - White House Use of Private E-mail Accounts. 9 7 265
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019773&mesg_id=1019773

8. Dem CONGRESS: Investigations - Disclosure of CIA Agent Identity. 12 7 224
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1019803&mesg_id=1019803

9. Rs COVER-UP Continues: Secret Service routinely destroyed Dick Cheney's visitor records. 6 1 157
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1020814&mesg_id=1020814

10. Dem CONGRESS: Thorn in the side of GOP says he's just doing his job = WAXMAN. 6 0 130
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1020930&mesg_id=1020930

11. Raging Caging: What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care? 6 8 270
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3295197&mesg_id=3295197

12. Abramoff and Kark Rove Linked to Prosecution of Ex-Alabama Governor and Campaign Finances. 11 7 216
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1023111&mesg_id=1023111

13. Valerie Plame & Publisher: CIA Sued for Being a Dick = Wonkette. 4 1 97
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1023915&mesg_id=1023915

14. Leahy, Specter Press For Answers On Administration’s Domestic Spying Program. 6 3 100
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1024157&mesg_id=1024157

And then this thread:

15. Are DU readers and participants susceptible to Psychological Operations? Click here to hide this thread. 30 2 8604

The "herd over the jump" allusion is to this thread, with a previous op/ed about where attention is focused in DU. Also, it was a shameless exploitation of America's most hated Christian to try to turn the DU herd. Well, now I know how easy it is to lead them off a cliff. But trying to lead them in the direction of goverment oversight seems as futile as resisting the Borg. Is "Resisting the Bush" futile too?

Yesterday was a GREAT DAY for Falwell TO DIE. Or, the Buffalo Jump to Hell. 135 18 2033
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=899312&mesg_id=899312

by someone else - and I wanted to see what might be going on with 'duelling threads'. I can't quite work out if OPERATIONMINDCRIME is saying he was responsible for artificially inflating the view count for this thread or not.

There can be a hell of a lot to the title chosen for a GD thread. Personally, I'll ignore most threads with 'Congress' in the title - but that's because I'm British, and I find much about Congress gets involved in procedural detail, or discussion of politicians I haven't heard of, and realistically am not going to keep up with (which is why I never look at the GD:P forum - occasionally I'll see a thread title on the Latest page, but that's all). I probably would have looked at your 'caging' thread, if I hadn't already seen the relevant article via another thread.

But I think you've showed some significant evidence (if OPERATIONMINDCRIME wasn't solely responsible for the huge view count) that either we love to read about ourselves, or feel a bit paranoid about 'psychological operations. And there could be a 'both' there.

On edit: it was OPERATIONMINDCRIME who was talking about inflating the view count, not LoZoccolo.

LoZoccolo was a victim of the psy-op. :rofl:
The stats took off like a rocket before the mirror; near instantaneously.

GD forum is where the big numbers are; "Will it Float, Will it Float" resolves quickly.
I had no idea there were so many thousands of lurkers out there. Midnight hour in America.

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