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[quote=Anonymous]The heated debate about troll posts raises some questions.

I read an article about the co-founders/moderators of DCUM which wrote that one of them has left their outside, professional work to manage the DCUM site full time.  The site therefore appears to raise some sufficient amount of ad revenue.  If ad revenue is based on the amount of traffic to a website, then the creators or owners of any website will have an incentive to create or generate the kind of interesting content that generates hit.  So the first question is whether the moderators of DCUM are not sometimes tempted to create a thread, or insert posts into an existing thread, to generate or stimulate conversation on a topic.

DCUM is an anonymous forum.  I recall a recent posting in the private schools thread about drug use in someone's basement, in which the moderator shut down the discussion as a troll post because they could tell that the original post originated from the server of one particular private school, which they then publicly identified.  My second question, then, is whether anonymous posters on DCUM are actually personally identifiable to the site, and if so, whether the site can collect and use our opinions in a monetarily quantifiable way.
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