Atleast, that was the approach used at ConPro
It actually seems like here they are also using “idiot lightning rods”, people who are just saying outrageously dumb shit to provoke arguments and a generally more hostile environment. The gopower fake superjew for example or this new muppet retard.
I thought gopower was a legitimate GOPe figure until he started saying stuff like supporting hate speech laws and saying that 'white people interfered'.
But the more fundamental question is, do we want to make trolling illegal? It wasn't even illegal on the subreddit. Even my determination to give trolls a mandatory flair pointing out what they are was controversial among some.
Why not? Our enemies don't want free speech, so why should we give it to them?
Yeah I support make trolling illegal for trolls.
To my enemies: the law. To my friends: everything else.
It's not even really that, it's more like free speech should be opt-in. If you want your speech to be protected, then you need to be comfortable allowing others that same freedom (and vice versa).
The people who come here and brigade with pedophilic and genocidal comments are, ultimately, trying to get places like this shut down. They're trying to bring negative attention to this place such that it appears to be a liability for any host who would platform it. That means eventually the cord will get yanked and we've lost yet another place to communicate freely. It's constructive censorship. People who want to engage in censorship don't, by definition, want free speech. So we don't have to give it to them. Fuck 'em.
One of the KiA users had as her flair: don't ask for what you are not prepared to give.
Those who do not support free speech have no right to demand it, I agree.
Well said.
Eh I don't want this sub to be an echo chamber That's how cults start
Bad actors and people who disagree are two different things. I think it's plainly obvious that a bunch of pro-pedophile accounts are not people who are trying to engage or persuade in good faith.
The attitude of some longer term members suggests that quite a few are fine with it becoming that way. It's not really cultism, it's just tit-for-tat behavior against the insanity of the Left.
That is assuming that this would always be used as you intend it .The risk is a moderator deciding that you or I are trolls and banning us.
Gopower is either a larping conpro wehraboo or a fed.
Either way he's beyond trolling, he's a forum slider.
pike regardless
Yeah gotta give you credit on that one, after you called him out I started paying more attention instead of just instinctively reacting (which is the goal of these shills, degrade the environment through the path of least resistance, basically salting the earth of the board).
Yeah, he was iffy at first. But it became clear it was a work. Still I do enjoy calling it out.
I like the idea. I think ConPro does that actually. Dom already puts "secret" notes on accounts. Might as well be transparent and let everyone see the mark. People can dispute it if they disagree.
There is nothing conspiratorial about the secret notes, they're just notes with information on previous bans, or positive stuff about a user. It's difficult to keep in mind information for hundreds of users - and thousands on Reddit.