₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Your whole epistle is laced with tribalism and finger pointing. You forgot to check the direction at which the remaining fingers are facing

truthera:
Hmmm helinues but your name was not included any where in the post. You I am still a new member on Nairaland so i think there is alot you can contribute here. @helinues please tell us, what other way do you think we identify some of these malicilous actors? I will be glad to learn something new from you today

helinues:
Your epistle already indicated how you mastered tribalism as you made the whole epistle to look like if you are supporting or defending this government, you must either be paid to do so or you are tribal.

But anyone attacking this government policies even the ones that are working, those are the patriotic Nigerians.

Hahahaha, isn't that your insinuation

truthera:
Well, you are wrong as I gave specific scenarios of government's actions so your attempt to tribalize this thread won't work. @helinues, tell us what other way we can identify the tribal political agents?

Tinubu is the best president in Nigeria's history"

simpleseyi:
The OP is jobless

helinues:
Is that a fallacy or the reality about past and present Nigeria presidents?

truthera:
I sighted that as example as from experience threada with such headline ends up being tribalistic contest. @helinues I asked you a question earlier.

LagosOrigin:
You coulda just waka pass instead of spewing your usual trashy opinion

yarimo:
First to call the police doesn't mean you must win the case oo 🤣 you guys must get sense in this nairaland by fire by force 😆😆

truthera:
In this era of information warfare, it is not surprising to see how tribalism has been weaponized online, used as a tool to divide Nigerians. Every election cycle, corrupt politicians occupying public offices are usually threatened by the power of social media in uniting Nigerians against them so in a bid to advance their selfish plans, they often recruit jobless youths as social media political influencers/agents to infiltrate socials platforms such as Nairaland, Youtube, Twitter or Facebook. Once these agents agree a monthly or content driven remuneration package, they are given a mandate to push certain tribal hit points. Some of these agents maintain multple accounts up to 20 or 30 accounts in a single platform to drive up "likes", "shares" and other engagement metrics for their hate induced tribal posts, making it look as if other users were interacting positively to their posts. 

- Nairaland Weaponized

It is not news to users who have been active on this platform for the past few years that political hacks/agents have hijacked the politics section of the platform. There is no political thread that you won't find them as they are everywhere. Opening multiple tribal baiting threads and making tribal supremacist inciting comments in other people's thread. Simply put, they live on Nairaland, these paid actors will never stop since some of them are paid based on content interaction. Many Nigerians visit the home page and politics section of this platform daily to consume news and shape their opinion on national issues. It is glaring that many of these users are unfortunately consuming the tribal junk been posted here as truth and this is why the toxic tribalism of these paid agents is a dangerous precedence that may eventually lead to real life negative consequences if left unchecked. I've created this thread so that users with knowledge about it can enlighten other users on how to spot these political hacks.

- My Personal Experience

For those who may not know how some of these political agents operate on Nairaland, here are a few pointers I observed since I became a Nairaland member that I think you need to know.

- If you are discussing on a thread or opened a thread that has nothing to do with Peter Obi but you find random users making comments trying to link Peter Obi to such thread or you see this "...Peter Obi will never President...." in any comment, know that these are tribal political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- If you are discussing serious political issues on a thread or open a thread to connect with normal human beings but you find random users making comments that starts with or contains any of the following  "....we the yoruba people ...."   "....you igbo people...." "....go back to your region...." "....you will wail until 2031...." ".....cry more happy to drink your premium tears...." "....you ipobites..." personal attacks like "...you are too emotional...." "...you are childish...."
There are so many other dangerous pointers but if a comment in your thread or a thread you are reading contains such words, know that these are tribal political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- If you open Nairaland political section and see a headlines like "Why Yoruba will always be better than Igbos"  "No Igbo man will never be rule Nigeria" "Yoruba people are the most backward tribe..." "Tinubu is the best president in Nigeria's history" There are so many other dangerous tribal headlines but if a thread title contains such words, know that these are tribal malicious political agents, you will never learn anything useful participating in such thread as it will be so toxic that they will end up inductrinating you as a tribal bigot. For sanity sake, as guest user with no Nairaland account avoid such threads and if you do have account then proceed to report the OP.

- If you come across a news posted by a Nairaland user exposing how Tinubu or members of his government misappropriated billions of naira or stating how peaceful protesters protesting against Tibubu's government action were beaten, arrested and charged with treason. When reacting to this news thread, you find some users (You already know some familiar names but I won't mention them) praising Tinubu, his government's evil oppressive actions in a sychophantic unreasonable manner while attacking every other users viciously, continuously, know that these are APC political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them, there objective is to silence you from criticizing their APC government so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- Final Words
These are some of the pointers you need to be mindful of when reading news or reacting to issues raised by other Nairaland users. If any one has some other pointers to add that you think that I missed, feel free to post here. Let's expose, silence and shame these tribal trolls!

helinues:
Your whole epistle is laced with tribalism and finger pointing. You forgot to check the direction at which the remaining fingers are facing

The person below didn't know he's supposed to be on permanent blocking

ElSudani:
Don't mind the hypocrite. People like him are the main problem of this politics section of Nairaland.

Brenbentondiaz:
I hope the cl. own that opened this thread had these same views when igbos were bashing Hausas and Fulanis during Buhari's time? Or that didn't count as tribalistic (since I was done by igbos)?

Kindered:
Report to which mod? the mods are the people constituting nuisance to this forum. For example, Mynd44 is a full stark apc agent.

truthera:
In this era of information warfare, it is not surprising to see how tribalism has been weaponized online, used as a tool to divide Nigerians. Every election cycle, corrupt politicians occupying public offices are usually threatened by the power of social media in uniting Nigerians against them so in a bid to advance their selfish plans, they often recruit jobless youths as social media political influencers/agents to infiltrate socials platforms such as Nairaland, Youtube, Twitter or Facebook. Once these agents agree a monthly or content driven remuneration package, they are given a mandate to push certain tribal hit points. Some of these agents maintain multple accounts up to 20 or 30 accounts in a single platform to drive up "likes", "shares" and other engagement metrics for their hate induced tribal posts, making it look as if other users were interacting positively to their posts. 

- Nairaland Weaponized

It is not news to users who have been active on this platform for the past few years that political hacks/agents have hijacked the politics section of the platform. There is no political thread that you won't find them as they are everywhere. Opening multiple tribal baiting threads and making tribal supremacist inciting comments in other people's thread. Simply put, they live on Nairaland, these paid actors will never stop since some of them are paid based on content interaction. Many Nigerians visit the home page and politics section of this platform daily to consume news and shape their opinion on national issues. It is glaring that many of these users are unfortunately consuming the tribal junk been posted here as truth and this is why the toxic tribalism of these paid agents is a dangerous precedence that may eventually lead to real life negative consequences if left unchecked. I've created this thread so that users with knowledge about it can enlighten other users on how to spot these political hacks.

- My Personal Experience

For those who may not know how some of these political agents operate on Nairaland, here are a few pointers I observed since I became a Nairaland member that I think you need to know.

- If you are discussing on a thread or opened a thread that has nothing to do with Peter Obi but you find random users making comments trying to link Peter Obi to such thread or you see this "...Peter Obi will never President...." in any comment, know that these are tribal political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- If you are discussing serious political issues on a thread or open a thread to connect with normal human beings but you find random users making comments that starts with or contains any of the following  "....we the yoruba people ...."   "....you igbo people...." "....go back to your region...." "....you will wail until 2031...." ".....cry more happy to drink your premium tears...." "....you ipobites..." personal attacks like "...you are too emotional...." "...you are childish...."
There are so many other dangerous pointers but if a comment in your thread or a thread you are reading contains such words, know that these are tribal political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- If you open Nairaland political section and see a headlines like "Why Yoruba will always be better than Igbos"  "No Igbo man will never be rule Nigeria" "Yoruba people are the most backward tribe..." "Tinubu is the best president in Nigeria's history" There are so many other dangerous tribal headlines but if a thread title contains such words, know that these are tribal malicious political agents, you will never learn anything useful participating in such thread as it will be so toxic that they will end up inductrinating you as a tribal bigot. For sanity sake, as guest user with no Nairaland account avoid such threads and if you do have account then proceed to report the OP.

- If you come across a news posted by a Nairaland user exposing how Tinubu or members of his government misappropriated billions of naira or stating how peaceful protesters protesting against Tibubu's government action were beaten, arrested and charged with treason. When reacting to this news thread, you find some users (You already know some familiar names but I won't mention them) praising Tinubu, his government's evil oppressive actions in a sychophantic unreasonable manner while attacking every other users viciously, continuously, know that these are APC political agents, you will never be able to convince them about anything or try to have a decent conversation with them, there objective is to silence you from criticizing their APC government so once you spot them ignore them. If you are the OP, report them, if you are not the OP, block them.

- Final Words
These are some of the pointers you need to be mindful of when reading news or reacting to issues raised by other Nairaland users. If any one has some other pointers to add that you think that I missed, feel free to post here. Let's expose, silence and shame these tribal trolls!

helinues:
Are those saying president Tinubu is the best Nigeria president ever from the same tribe? How is such statement make one to be tribal if those who have been saying it are from different tribes?

We need to dig deep into your reasoning faculty to have reached such conclusion

Fiscus105:
What did you want to say about Igbo people that eternally wailing and conderming not only Tinubu but all Yorubas?( You are totally bias in your submission)

You want the Yoruba to start hailing Igbo, wen Igbos are attacking Abi?

Igbo people are major problems not only on nairaland but also, all social media in Nigeria, they are not the only tribe that have not yet produced president, they stop bringing Nigeria nation down, because they haven't produced a president.