ATTENTION..

Meme'ing is a bit like dancing: everyone thinks they can do it pretty well, but some are absolutely horrible at it and nobody ever bothers to tell them out of kindness. . .

Quantity matters, but I think quality matters more. Meaning, I think it's important we make optimal usage of everyones posting and info-spreading efforts by assuring we're using the most effective memes possible.

Is there any chance we could use the strawpoll.me site or some similar solution to vote on the memes from each thread, or something similar? Any means of determining as a collective which are good and which aren't so good?

I'm seeing some that are outright counterproductive, is why I say this.. and it pains me thinking people may be spreading these instead of using their time and effort on the brilliantly effective ones that'll likely go viral'ish.

Also, a few rules to keep in mind:

1. I'm very far to the right, personally, but I never allow my memes to be partisan, its the surest way to kill the message (it ends up looking purely political, devoid of larger substance). Keep in mind we R's have McCain, Flake, Graham, etc. . lets try to keep this framed as people v swamp?

1. It's ok to be just abstract or mysterious enough to cause them to dig, as long as you give them some term/concept to dig into… but try to avoid content like just pulling Q's words verbatim: this is only preaching to the choir, to others (those we're trying to reach) it'll just be greek, confusing, impotent.

1. Your goal should be not to convince them of X or Y, but to send them down a path to convince themselves. . launch them down a research path, and you'll be 100x more effective than if you're just handing them a fact. It's why Q speaks in questions that we have to answer, and its a brilliant tactic. . embrace it.

1. Don't be hostile or hateful. We all feel it from time to time, and it may be 100% justified. . but its counter productive to our goal here. These memes are ignored just as quickly as the overtly political.

1. Try to pull back to the forest, as opposed to the trees, and tackle the broader perspective. Operation mockingbird, for example, as opposed to a single biased news piece… the web of corruption connected to the CF, as opposed to attacking Hillary herself… aim high, focus on the root, not the branches.

1. Don't fully trust your meme until someone else has given it their vote of approval

1. Be a witty bastard!

There's certainly more, and perhaps I'll try to get together a best-practices guide and post it if theres any interest. . but I wanted to get this out there: I'm seeing some brilliant work, but also a flood of sub-par stuff, and its so very important we stay on top of our game right now.

Reaching hearts and minds right this very moment has the potential to avoid civil war, literally, within the coming weeks and months. Focus.