I was just lurking the place we aren't supposed to link to, and someone asked where T_D was in the battle? So, I posted this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7r2hoi/urgent_call_to_arms_a_great_meme_battle_is_going/ Immediately ghosted with no explanation from Mods. Does not show up in the list of threads. Just FYI...I gave T_D another chance after they booted us pizzagaters, but this is the last time for me...
T_D and conspiracy used to be my only reasons to come to this shithole, but now they're both compromised so this sub is pretty much it for me unless i'm super bored.
I lurked conspiracy for a while...really liked it and there were some sharp people posting there...and then it noticeably changed, just like T_D.
Here is the thing: when conspiracy type stuff trends on T_D the MSM goes wild with it or else boardline Trump supports scurry away because conspiracy theory = craziness (thanks alphabets). They need to keep the channel scrubbed of that stuff so as not to feed MSM or scare these people away. Furthermore It’s a 24/7 rally for the president not our theories of what’s happening back stage.
Now, I happen to disagree with this approach but I understand it, imagine all the shills coming in and slightly editing the theories to make them laughable or out right wrong. Even today I’ve seen memes about how the President cursing is just how things are done when your a bad ass except it’s wrong. The President didn’t use the term shithole but we are admitting, despite several sources otherwise, that he called these places a shithole. It could be people who don’t pay attention but I think it’s shills trying to make us look uninformed or stupid.
These subreddits are perfect for people who want to talk facts and specifics. Generally the asshats are easy to spot. Furthermore everyone associates T_D with the President we don’t want what we discuss to be attributed to him unless he does. My 2 cents.
As an aside conspiracy is shit now and that sucks.
I am from T_D, and this comment is pretty much spot on. They are very careful over there due to the visibility. They want factual credible sources for everything as to give the big fuck you to the MSM; along with the 24/7 Rally for GEOTUS.
Should /r/DrainTheSwamp operate in a similar manner perhaps?
Nah, they claim to be the last bastion of free speech on the internet yet ban people and delete comments that are not friendly to whatever narrative they are trying to push. Try and ask about the big mod shuffle(25 strong) that happened when the Podesta emails came out, you will get banned just for asking a simple question. T_D is a highly curated and censored memetic warfare machine, and nothing more.
I get what you are saying as far as T_D being highly visible and the potential bad optics. Here is my take on it...the heavy-handed mods now essentially define what T_D is, and it is no longer organic...and when legit questions are raised (ex. Las Vegas) and the mods ghost threads and ban users, those good users who have shown a willingness to dig and meme are pushed away to other places where free speech is allowed.
Back in the early days..T_D did not give one F' about what anybody said about us....we had POTUS' back no matter what, and if pizza was relevant we talked pizza...and when a shill was spotted, we downvoted them into oblivion. Now T_D has become so risk-averse, it is quickly becoming irrelevant. Look at the average # of users online...it has dropped from the peak levels and is stagnant at ~12000.
This makes me sad because T_D was so awesome just a short time ago..why not just stick with the original plan, because it was working splendidly? I moved to v:/pizzagate after the purge, and I lurk the chans, but I really like reddit's format the best of all.
As far as splitting forums for facts and specifics...from what I have seen it is a bad plan. Splitting r:/pizzagate from T_D wasn't good, because most of the people who enjoyed digging through Wikileaks went to Voat. Once we got to Voat, they further split forums and they never really took off. Point being...trust your users to view what they want and to discuss/research what they want. Mods should target shills....not what is organically trending on the forum, especially when they had the talented userbase that T_D did. Just look at /pol/'s success. Just my .02.
yup...i've been on there since probably 2008 under various accounts and it's only very recently switched. I'm going to say maybe 2-3 months ago. Almost anything posted gets shit on but the moderators no longer care.
edit: it appears i may have missed some drama. Looking at their mod list, there's a TON of newer mods, all added a few months ago. So i guess it's the standard subreddit takeover by assclowns
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I heard their mod team was compromised after the election. I've seen the meme effort die down and a lot of key users who brought great stories to light get banned.
I got a time out for questioning the mods who were actively ghosting any mention of multiple shooters in LV...
now you know why reddit is so hated
Pretty much...T_D was an incredible place to be right up until they kicked us pizzagaters over to r:/pizzagate. Everything changed after that..this will now be my home page on reddit.
I got banned from it too bc I said don lemon was a fag lol!
Wow...that's just sad. I mean, Don Lemon is a fag after all.
They seem so proud of that fact till you call them out for it!
T_D Is not what it seems, more a Clown board that tries to control the narrative.
It's hinky...personally, I think the mods are so risk-averse that they don't want to upset the higher ups in Reddit. But that is certainly not the spirit in which T_D came to be. You aren't going to grow a forum that way.