User Moderation Policy Explained
As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied
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The primary way to defend our free speech platform is to confront censorship when we see it.
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[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hey man, I don't know. He has a legitimate grievance with trump, thats perfectly allowed. And he actually puts effort into things. Also he hates clinton too, something shareblue would not do, especially if they didn't have to.
Shills probably could learn and do fancier and fancier things to keep themselves hidden but lets be honest, these are democrats, critical thinking is not their forte. I'd give them another 2-3 years to go from obviously upvoted posts on the front page by 1 hour accounts to buying an account and getting the previous owner to keep responding for them.
Theres a common idea in a movement, especially a small one like our which is don't punch rightward
We should realize who the real enemy is, not people who kinda dont like trump, or people who do like trump, but the vapid leftists destroying our country.
[–] Crensch [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
By the way, I do actually want a response from you on this. Despite some differences of opinion I respect you as a fellow goat, and hope that if I need to be reigned in, that a fellow goat will do so.
I'm sure you already know that my writing style is beyond rough around the edges, so please don't take any of it as an attack on you personally.
[–] Crensch [S] ago
I'll bite.
Why would OP attack people for checking user ccp/age then?
Why is it that there's this narrative of being dragged into a war when we've been dropping bombs on that place basically nonstop and are apparently not already at war? http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/
But he and others think Trump doing it is somehow this awful, awful thing, that amazingly will cause a war all of a sudden, and are taking the spotlight off the real criminals?
Yes, it's all of a sudden all these awful things because TRUMP did it.
Really?
I agree that dems are idiots, but that doesn't mean their shekels won't pay to put food on the table of decently-intelligent, but desperate people that can actually get things done for bonus shekels.
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Just read your other comment, don't worry dude, I trust you have your heart in the right place, and I think I do too. The truth I don't 100% know that its alduin. But if I had to bet, or if I had to be on a jury, I would put my bets on the fact that it is. I very carefully worded my comments to say that, instead of something like "real alduin 100% confirmed".
I don't know why he made the post, I'm not him. Judging by his most recent post too I would say hes probably a bit emotionally involved in the ordeal. Which is why he is willing to hedge his bets on saying stupid things :/. The reason he probably attacks the new account thing is because he doesn't want to get called a shill, is my opinion.
I try to put myself in people's shoes. I got a lot of unpopular opinions. Next day could be that voat goes back to calling people that don't like jews "amalek". Glad we moved past that point in history but who knows. When he started saying he doesn't like trump, people attacked him soon enough, and he probably got a bit flustered by it.
The air strike was probably a good call, but we don't know that. We have absolutely no idea whether trump will sell us out to israel like the last 50 guys. Its important to be vigilant and not get attached to something. If I remember, when trump won the pervasive idea was "okay we won, now we have to watch trump." Thats not a bad thing. I think its fair for him to make critical posts as well.
For now its probably a good idea to let him go. Personally thats what I would do. Sanegoat the stupid fuck made shill hunting extremely unpopular and its going to take a few months for that cool off (I think thats why putt was so mad with him, he realized how subversive he was). If you chose unlikely targets its going to extend that cool down period.
Like do you remember that stupid eyeglasses guy? Made a upvoat paid post right on the front page and people were so sick of sanegoat that when others called it out for being a corporate shill everyone was like "meh whatever." Even I felt like that. We have to save our energy for the real shills.
PS: my sister works for a democrat owned company. No, they can't even hire smart people. The company gets a few hours of real work done and then they spend all this company time "researching" social inequality in neighbourhoods or something. And its like an engineering company, or supposed to be. SMH