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I find it odd that you ask so many ambiguous, broad and open ended questions never showing your cards (any hunches, opinions or investigation of your own) and when people leave answers your only interaction with them is just asking more question in the same way.
They're an info-broker. Not your stereotypical movie one; one can be simply an "info-broker" by asking open-ended questions to ascertain certain "standards" either they realize it or not. A collector if you will. This isn't necessarily a bad thing depending on the framing of the information given to whomever the source is or if they're actually just collecting some of their own. Seen this a few times.
They're purposefully feeling and testing out the community. They ask questions related to our personal circles, how we interact with others and indirectly questioning our organizational capacities. Is it no coincidence they ask constantly about open-ended questions about our personal lives and organizational capacities? Does this mean they're a "Fed" or I'm accusing them of anything nefarious? Not at all, actually, quite the opposite. Perhaps, they are curious.
Good call. I think those who have been giving them glib and joking responses are doing it right. If they are looking for actual information, they should ask for further reading, not expecting the community to do their theory work for them.
Ngl I've been getting the same weird vibe from them for a while. Particularly when the questions are framed as "is this thing that we generally support actually bad, or maybe not?"
The thing you should find strange is the indirect questioning of our social capabilities. That's the only thing I'm concerned about. I posted a picture above. They seem quite interested in that.
I have a working theory involving the ganja.