Anyone who has been here longer than a few months has surely noticed the change in content lately. Provably false posts are being upvoted. There are tons of comments which show ignorance of basic Q theory. Muh racism is being injected into discussions, and accounts I've never seen before are screaming about muh evil Jews.
I'm sure other longtime members can point out more concerning trends. This is just what I've noticed this morning.
Some might attribute all of this to an influx of new accounts who still have much to learn. This is possibly the cause, but several things make me doubt that. For one, I'm not seeing many handshakes. The questionable posts and comments are coming from 'established' accounts. And with the state of things right now (Trump seemingly off the stage & few signs of hope) it makes little sense that new people are joining our community in a sincere effort to learn about Q.
Shills attempting to undermine discussion is nothing new, but I'm seeing a change in strategy. For months we've dealt with doomers popping up left and right, and now they have suddenly gone silent. In their place I see a more sophisticated type of shill, whose goal is to flood this forum with nonsense theories and unsavory content which can be used to discredit the movement.
Other than being more vigilant and vetting things before upvoting, I'm not sure much can be done about this. As always, DEPORT any questionable content and let the mods try and sort it out. I'm sure they are aware of the state of things...
We are ALL content moderators using up and down voting, we need to take that responsibility seriously.
Downvote button should be available on the default settings.
Youtube just disabled all downvoting for the same reasons it should be enabled here.
Many still don't even know how to enable it.
Yea, I don't know how and I have been around for awhile.
Yeah its kinda bullshit - though when i see the graphics now i think i like it better wo them. Though you dont get any chat memes or embedded q posts either
it would be amazing if the default styling would allow for downvoting of posts... i find myself occassionally switching off community styling so i can downvote with the amount of nonsense goes overboard
It would also be amazing if it didn't make my CPU sit at 10% utilization for no reason whatsoever. This is the only sub it happens in.
Something with the community styling. (This had happened to TD at some point in the past also, might have actually been the reddit days... there was a scrolling background that just spun the cpu...)
Yep, I've disabled the styling and it's fine now. Still strange how a simple background could cause it.
Agreed!!
Having a bunch of bots upvote whatever they need upvoted would be trivial
We also need to learn there user names and not just casually read posts and comments. I am guilty of doing that the first six months or so when I started here. Also, it seems to me these new shills come out in strength overnight (US) and beat up anything they can gang up on. Seems it's definitely an attempt to dilute content and divide and conquer.