One of the untold stories here especially when you consider some of my dramatic successes like getting a paper published in a peer reviewed math journal—but a group effort by sci.math'ers managed to not only get the paper yanked, but the journal died a little later—is just how you go about suppressing information.
As a sort of booby prize I consider how posters are able to use what should be obvious tactics in important areas to deflect people from obvious truths, and yes, the reality is that anyone out there who peruses these newsgroups can get valuable information on how to win, even when you should lose.
The information is valuable to big players, like corporations and governments who are looking to keep control even when their policies are antagonistic to the best interests of their people.
The value of newsgroups is in a fairly intelligent audience which often includes a lot of college educated adults.
The value of mathematics is being able to absolutely determine what the truth is.
Strategies can then be found that rely on flaws you might say in the way human beings are built, which are from what I've seen—perfect.
How can a flaw be perfect?
Because people who know the flaw can exploit it perfectly, where those with the flaw cannot find a way to escape, even if they are informed and highly intelligent.
So a perfect flaw allows perfect control, without possibility of escape, without regard to intelligence.
It's like a handle that can't be removed by that being handled.
That is, using those strategies there is no doubt that you can control a very large group of people, indefinitely without worries about opposition, no matter how correct that opposition is, as long as you follow the rules.
What I do is see if a single individual or small group can overcome any of the possibly perfect strategies, and it seems like, they can't.
Last test is to throw the reality of the strategy itself out there, and watch the rationalizations, to see how people who have been thrust into what is called a double-bind situation, process the reality of being controlled against their firm belief they are free agents.
That is the purpose of this post.