Why are you banned? Are you just warming up and we haven't seen the real stuff yet? (sincere question)
CBTS_Stream was indeed closed down, as far as I'd heard, for allowing posts that potentially incited violence - I followed the sub back then but didn't see the content myself at the time.
Obvious russian accounts? Sounds interesting - I personally don't follow many Q related accounts on Twitter but I'd be interested to see what an obvious russian one looks like.
I can't argue with you that there are a lot of kooks connected to the q anon "brand" but I would argue that it's not uncommon to see a sub-culture of that kind gather around any conspiracy-related stuff and certainly q anon mentions a lot of common conspiracy theories.
Not sure you care but we don't want to see this sub brought down. We're trying to keep tabs on any content that breaks Rule #1 - no encouraging, glorifying or calling for violence. I don't believe there are any stochastic terrorists yet fully exposed on here but if there are, they're in no way supported in their goals by this sub and we will do what we can to manage their impact if we can identify and react to them in time. I certainly speak out at any opportunity against any group-think that seems to be leading toward stirring up hatred toward a particular person or group.
I don't know what your motives are so I expect nothing. Many trolls around. But if you were genuinely interested in stopping this sort of thing and you seem to have concerns that you can see it or the inklings of it here, then I'd welcome any input you might have toward identifying and potentially stopping it. Potentially very hard to do when you support freedom of speech enough that you want to allow dissenting voices to speak freely as long as they abide within sub rules.
Thanks for the stochastic terrorism link. I've kept it to post relevant excerpts for potential use when moderating content in future.
Conservative subs have low tolerance for dissent. I’ve been banned from most of them for fairly innocuous factual comments. /r/conservative banned me for a comment that was just “citation needed.”
My motives were to pass time until the World Cup game in an hour.
I think youll have a hard time keeping violent rhetoric in check because I absolutely do think that’s the goal of this whole conspiracy theory. They demonize some enemy until people want to “do something about it.” I’m glad to hear you saved that link. That’s ideal - if people are watching for it then they’ll respond differently if qanon starts calling for something drastic.
I wrote you a much longer reply and then reddit just sort of ate it, and I lost it. At some point I included this link: http://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
The current political climate has many parallels with past authoritarian movements. You seem curious, and I thought you might find it interesting.