When You Don't Realise You are a Shill

A writing site was launched. The Owner hired five people who were were paid to bring in new users and defend the site against attacks.

These paid shills ran all over the 'Net, touting the site, bringing in users and getting paid each time one of their dupes posted. They launched vicious attacks on anyone who dared demean the site.

In a short time, the Owner noticed that many new users were not joining with the referral codes of the Shills but on their own. This puzzled him, so he went to various sites and to his surprise found mere users of his site were rabidly Shilling.

No need to pay for what he could get for free he discharged his paid Shills relying on these fools to fill his pocket.

No one needs to be paid to Shill for a site any more. Fools will do it for free.

To create a Shill, pay that first time. One payment for all the work they posted. Just one payment and they will brag in every corner of the 'Net and invite everyone to join.

Further, these ignorant members would defend the site viciously.

Anyone who indicated any questionable practice, whether complaining about not being published, or not being paid, would be attacked by these Unpaid Shills.

Previously, the paid shills would create 'duals' so that although there were only five of them, it seemed twenty five differ users were attacking.

Now that average users, persons who had been paid once, who had no idea what was going on, would attack the complainer.

The Owner of any site, be it located in Estonia or Canada can start with a handful of paid shills, but will soon gain an army for free.

Simply pay a portion of them, even just a mere percentage of what they earned. They will then fight against the 80% of users who weren't paid.

For some reason users do not identify with other users. They don't see themselves as user 1425 they think they are special. They don't notice that others might not be treated as well as they, and don't care.

So, on Virily, for example, the Owner used to prevent the majority of users from posting. He used to claim that all posts were 'moderated'.

This was always a lie.

You will see posts full of misspellings, poor grammar, blobs of sentences. There never was a moderator, it was just delay. The delay was to prevent users from reaching the threshold.

That is when it paid.

Now, it no longer pays. The owner reaps what already posted items earn, (preventing users from editing or removing their posts).

In the old days if a user asked why semi-literates are published and s/he was not, it was slapped away.

The Owner knew that users do not stick together so he could do what he pleased.

The Owner knew those semi-literates he published didn't realise they were Shills.

Now, no longer needing Shills, no longer paying, Virily is a trash heap of hate posts/

A particular site was created to be a Scam. It operated on what Economic Majors called an 'unsustainable business model'.

To simplify, there was no way that site could pay their users at the rate it stated. It was clear from inception it would be a Scam.

Instructed by someone who understood the backstory of Bubblews I was advised to make 1 post every other day and like and comment on three other items each day.

I was instructed that as soon as I reached the threshold, to put in for my pay. I was not ti post another item until the threshold was raised, but log in three times a week to view other items, and leave comments..

I did as directed.

I was paid that first time, as was everyone. I sat back waited, viewing complaints from other users that they had been paid the first time, but not the second, or third or fourth... When the unpaid users attacked the site the paid users Defended it.

As was predicted, the threshold was raised, and my articles had earned, over the period, almost the new threshold. I returned to publishing one article every other day, doing likes and comments. When I reached the new threshold, put in and received my second payout.

I then sat back and watched more users complain, less users attack them, until the site disappeared without a trace.

A number of those vocal attackers admitted how many of their payments were pending.

Some actually realised they had been used by the site to attack others. But most invented excuses for the reason why the site didn't pay them.

The Owner of the Site knew exactly what he was doing.

THE BACK STORY

The owner of the site had borrowed money to be able to pay everyone that first time. He used his personal Adsense account to gather the pennies and was able to repay the loan because the site was earning.

His policy was to pay 100% of the users on their first redemption, 50% of the users for their second, 25% for their third, and then, only 10% who put in for their fourth redemption..

As he had a lot of users, he made a lot of money.