Recently we had a bunch of new accounts show up. They immediately made a bunch of posts in "atheism" that were only made to insult and agitate atheist users on poal. Saying things like how we are jews, how we are moral relativists, and how we are leftists, none of which are true of myself. their whole argument style is just repeating the same damaging accusations over and over and making posts between each other talking about these accusations as if they were true. they also keep telling us what we believe in and what we are like, trying to force positions on us that we do not hold to, in general not people you can argue with. How can you make a case when your opponent keeps trying to tell you that you are a strawman they set up and attacks that the whole time? I suspect these are shills trying to use a known fracture point in dissident communities to sow chaos on this platform, i responded, but dont know if that was the right thing to do. I dont know what should be done here, i dont want bans, but i also dont want atheists like myself to be evicted from the dissident community on poal, as a cultural takeover orchestrated by shills might lead this site to bad places. can someone investigate and tell me if im just being paranoid for no reason? also, i dont like how they just come and insult me over and over, while ive shown no interest in striking at them. i really dont now how to feel about this, maybe i just need to calm down and nothing needs to be done, ive seen so many dissident sites get shut down, and right now i know that across the world white nationalists are getting extra attention, we are being talked about as a group that needs to be cracked down on. this might be some early acts of cyberops intended to fuck with our communities using what is known to be a sensitive issue in our parts of the internet.