The last few weeks have seen an influx of low effort propaganda style image posts and I suspect it's only going to ramp up as we get closer to the election. It's an easy way to dilute the discourse and clog up the forum with noise and there's going to be a non-zero number of malicious actors using it in exactly that fashion over the coming months.
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Given that we only have the one who's out to lunch and a borderline enemy actor, no not really.
Dom won't do shit about pedopajeet spam, but he will absolutely ban you for calling people names, especially protected classes.
Mods are not doing anything, good luck with that.
IMHO we should just police it on our own, downvote such posts, upvote the good ones. Generally if you post an image post sauce+archive or get downvoted.
This should be a soft-rule enforced by us. I hate screenshots. Sauce should be provided. I'm tired of having to track this shit down and either finding it deleted or it not being there.
I thought you already made a fork why don't you advertise that.
lol at going to any board that he has power in. I'll take inactive Dom over someone who wants his dick sucked constantly.
We have one mod, singular, and that is an ongoing problem that needs to be addressed. Not sure how we go about fixing such a single point of failure but yeah that's kind of a pre-requisite for everything at this point.
Well, he doesn't want to address it, so nothing is going to happen unless we all agree to migrate to another sub.
The initial problem was users posting tweets without any archives. I could forgive simple laziness and the occasional meme posts.
It's progressed to metapost nudgefests complete with vote brigades.
When I saw this post yesterday, hours after you had made it, the ratio was like 95% positive ({+19,-1} or so), now it’s like 60% ({+29,-10}). I don’t understand people who see things like that as organic. It’s like those graphs of the biden votes lol. Clearly you struck a nerve of the operation but it took a little while to mobilize and SHUT IT DOWN
The only reasonable explanation is most people don’t pay attention to these kinds of details, and bad actors use that to their advantage
Or people who felt motivated to downvote only logged on after dinner. I'm abrasive enough about this topic that some people just don't like what I have to say and are expressing their contempt. Sometimes people just disagree and it's not a conspiracy or some bot net delivering downvotes.
Appreciate the data point though, I never would've thought to track it at all.
After dinner mint? No thanks I only after dinner dv!
The memes must flow.
If you don't like them, block the users, duh.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about screenshots of tweets that should be archived instead.
Memes are fine. Screenshots of tweets or headlines or random paragraphs from unidentified sources are the problem.
So I shouldn't post this?
okay pajeet
we have a lot of refugees from low IQ /pol/ forums, we're only going to see more.
jpg posters get the rope