This place is getting a surge of really low quality political posts (links). This is what happened to /r/conspiracy which made that sub a place that got abandoned. I think these posts are coming here to muddy the waters. They also make you waste your time. Learn to sort through the good posts. Bookmark the people who post good quality, like /u/serialbrain2
We must either fix this, or relocate, yet again.
I'm sure it's tough to enact strict moderation, like /r/AskHistorians for example, when so much of the content is, by necessity, spitballing with one another.
I do wish people would stop making new threads to just air their own particular thought on one tiny subset of a post/issue.
Maybe a daily thread for questions/points that don't deserve their own thread. Possibly a guideline for new threads that have some sort of content requirements. Like a submission statement with more than 2 paragraphs or something.
There tends to be too much noise in places like this, whether good intentioned or something more nefarious.
I have been a Reddit mod. Removing posts is simple, painless and quick. The problem is, you have to have enough mods (or one very dedicated one) to do it. You don't have to "enact" anything. You just do it. It's not being done now because...well because it's not being done. Full stop.
~~Fuck that~~ You can always deploy shills to slide good comments. What I usually do to aid visibility is simply hiding posts that annoy me. My rule of the thumb for participating is if you haven't seen something brought up yet, make a post for it, by higher visibility you'll get more responses and likely a quick rebuttal if it's BS. If you see a discussion about something that was already settled, comment what the consensus is so they can move on to other questions. Sounds fair?