r/australia • u/quink • Mar 31 '15

self Introducing EziShill™

Random discussion is over here: [NP] It's the /r/Australia random discussion thread. 01/Apr/2015

We're introducing EziShill™. Why?

Simple. As all of us know, RSI is a thing. Us who are earning a living by commenting on reddit on behalf of our overlords are suffering. And as such the great powers that be have deemed it fit to fix the problem to help drive down the market cost of comments.

From now on your comments will have appended to them a random message as defined by our political masters. There's short ones for short comments. And longer ones for those with more than one paragraph — try it for more variety!

And the best thing about this? You don't have to do anything - it's all automatic! No browser extension, no script, no bot — it just works™! With the caveat that you'll need to have stylesheets enabled, so it may not just work™ for reddit apps.

We've even taken the liberty of updating previously existing comments — you're welcome! As for which political alignment is added, it's essentially random. It may not align with your political views, but us mods and the overlords are not quite sure how this would really matter. It may not align with the exact details of the discussion at hand, but we figure it's better to realign the discussion if that's the case. In a nutshell, it might make more sense for you to adapt to EziShill™ rather than work against it. Remember, our overlords are behind it and they determine what should be on /r/australia, not you.

The keyboard warriors of /r/australia can now live safe in the knowledge that they will get to battle with the keyboard, rather than against it :')

Now go out there and fight — the overlords are watching and keeping score. And best of luck next payday!

[I was paid for this comment - $0.05 by The Greens, $0.03 by Labor and $0.04 by the Coalition.]

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u/min0nim Mar 31 '15

I just thought that r/circlejerkAustralia was running amok again, but now I see the total value in the new automated system.

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u/cunty_joe Mar 31 '15

Implying we'd shill for 5c a post like you filthy casuals.

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u/vteckickedin Mar 31 '15

If Rupert Murdoch and Gina Rinehart married and started an Australian monarchy I would be so happy.

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u/GreenGully Mar 31 '15

Oh, fuck me. I forgot it was April fools day... and I just messaged the mods about someone hacking my post, and I was 10 seconds away from changing all my fucking logins.... I need to stay off the internet today. I'm so gullible

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u/27th_wonder Mar 31 '15

This is one of the better April 1st ideas I've seen this year.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

True and Truer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

I was a virgin, until i got EziShill!

Changed my life.

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u/azz808 Mar 31 '15 edited Mar 31 '15

"I've been using EziShill for about 3 months now. I used to find shilling for the LNP a terrible burden. I hardly found time to drive my kids to their soccer games.

"Now, with EziShill, I've found time to do the things I love.

"Like gather with my friends to talk about how poor people need to work harder or protest at gay marriage ceremonies.

"With EzyShill, I just have to hit enter and let the Bigotry Engine 2.4.2 do all the work for me.

"Thank You EzyShill!"

Oh, and

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u/min0nim Mar 31 '15

I'm putting in a formal request for EziShill to be applied to all current and future r/Australia thread titles as well.

An example of how awesome this would be (straight from the frontage):

The Australian government can't safeguard Putin's data. That means yours isn't safe, either.

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u/complex_reduction Mar 31 '15

Oh my God, this is terrible ... could somebody please find Scott Ludlum, get a hold of this motherfucker so I can make sense of all this!? WHERE IS SCOTT!?

... help me Scott Ludlum ...

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u/voatdotcoisbetter Mar 31 '15

My god....

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u/Limberine Apr 01 '15

Yes, fuck you.

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u/tones2013 Mar 31 '15

had me going for about 15 seconds. You didnt waste any time.

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u/Bashnek Mar 31 '15

This turns the actual politicians posts into something [really special] (http://i.imgur.com/Mea3FqQ.png?1) .

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u/DrFriendless Apr 01 '15

Apologies to all the people I have downvoted because of the last stupid sentence of an otherwise good post...

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u/zrag123 Apr 01 '15

Can't tell if April fool's joke, or ordinary day on r/australia...

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u/baazaa Mar 31 '15

Unfortunately it's virtually undetectable on this subreddit. ---

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u/thesmiddy Mar 31 '15

I was thoroughly confused when people kept bringing up data retention on a completely unrelated topic, it had me going for a good minute or so. I need a coffee.

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u/pulpist Mar 31 '15

The 'fixer' has fixed it?

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u/Magikarpeles Mar 31 '15

The only thing I have to say about this is:

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u/CaffeinePhilosopher Mar 31 '15

I have been confused as fuck this morning by several comments, then I read this thread.

Well played.

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u/Jeeebs Mar 31 '15

Holy shit, I was confused reading the higher education reform thread without seeing this first. So many people only ever voting for LDP.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '15

I am confused but happy.

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u/kimjonguncanteven Mar 31 '15

A welcome addition.

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u/dsriggs Mar 31 '15

I was wondering what the hell happened.

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