I thought it was a bit ridiculous when I saw a suggestion of me becoming a mod but with the brigading spammers because for the most part I'm very hands off. With summer holidays right around the corner and no lifers coming out of woodwork along with us being one user away from having child porn spammed I think someone needs to step in. Otherwise potentially the whole site is going to get nuked because I've seen this behaviour before back on reddit. Whoever these brigaders really are seem to be deliberately posting gradually worse content and 'views' up to try and fuck with everyone and it's much more obvious now who it is.
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I don't hate dom for the record at all, the guy clearly has stuff on his plate RL and even if it's not me there should be at least a couple reasonably active people who should take over dealing with the spam. The people sperging out on this thread are a great example of who needs to go because there are users who I barely recognise acting like they know me which is hilarious.
You are one of the most active users on here, and your hot button of calling people "ConPro spammers" is well-known. Have you considered that just because you don't recognize a username doesn't mean they don't recognize you? Because of how forums work, any active, consistent commenter will be read and recognized by more people than they regularly read and recognize in turn.
I think they're raising reasonable concerns, given the things you sometimes spin out over. Your inability to understand this criticism as anything other than a brigade of people who have no investment in the forum hating you personally, rather than taking issue with things you've said and what you think should happen to a space they participate in, only underscores their point.
The reason I bring it up often is If you don't believe me, check out the majority of every one of their post histories' the only thing they're here for is spamming about Jews. They're as bad as leftists, if you're not automatically hating on Jews and god forbid try talking about video games and anime for once, they'll immediately follow you around and hit you with spam downvotes and are clearly all coming from the same place. I'm not even convinced there's that many of them given how they always post with the same formatting among other things that are dead giveaways.
Other people? Not fussed by them, if they've got opinions about me that's fine and that's just life. However the MRA subreddit for example had a major problem with brigading feminists who would pull this sort of shit and you'd also get the MensLib types concern trolling. How did people find this out? Well the absolute arseholes would admit to trawling through /r/All looking for heavily upvoted threads to complain about.
On top of that the vote botting was hilarious, I did some experiments with mod permission and for some reason there was keyword bots running around doing 7 - 8 upvotes on each thread depending on what keywords I was using because I asked other users not to tinker with it so we could see. When it was something completely generic and random like "I am a potato" there would be 0 upvotes.
I have checked this out before programming wise and it's mindblowing, it's not even just me the conpro lot are targeting. Ironic they go on about Jew noticing because they hate it when people start noticing their own tactics and what they're up to tech wise. If it were feminists and leftists pulling this shit about white men constantly I'd ban them too some of the stuff I saw them posting about men in general on the MRA subreddit itself was pretty disgusting because they were shitting up threads about male domestic abuse victims.
Bruh. You think I'm one of the people that's only here to spam Jews, when I'm just here for political/entertainment discussion and it so happens that Jews are neck deep in both.
You get upvoted quite often, and quite often for talking about video games. There is no conspiracy to downvote you.
No, you get downvoted when you post stupid shit. You also get upvoted when you post good shit, but no one is accusing you of running a self-promotion botnet for those. This is that same issue of you being unable to conceptualize that maybe, just maybe, real people have real reasons for not liking all your opinions.
When you have downvotes following you thread to thread and they're always the exact same amount of downvotes on posts that have nothing to do with anything even the most cynical among you have to admit something is suspicious about that.
I'm not against you on being put forward here. I'm just saying that new mods inevitably cause additional friction and any way to reduce that pressure is welcomed, particularly if it's automated and doesn't have ego involved.
Yeah I get where you're coming from with that, my argument is simply that something automated is way too open to abuse, it will get exploited, I've often proposed the internet as a whole should really do away with voting and ratings systems entirely. It's been an objective failure as an experiment.
I agree that upvotes and rating for general conversation is not the way forward and can only be exploited.
Before them a good conversation would bring people in to talk and that was o the grounds it stood for veracity.