How can we get more people to join this site and more importantly make sure that it has good diversity of opinion?

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[–]bobbobbybob 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

effectively drown out more moderate and left leaning people

Why not stay on reddit, which is a left-leaning cess pool?

I'm here personally because I'm a huge 1st emendment advocate

Ah, so you want the appearance of free speech, without actually having to deal with dissenting voices.

even distribution of right and left leaning views

Who defines the 'centre' about which you can conveniently place your 'left and right' in equal harmony? The very idea of a linear spectrum is assinine. I'm a hard left conservative socialist, if you want to play with words, but do any of them mean anything?

The label reduction stifles the cncepts being discussed, as people retreat to their paltry concepts, built from a bombardment of mainstream 'talking points'.

Break free, my friend, and be prepared to discuss ideas and thoughts without having to take a partisan position. The truth doesn't care how we label it, indeed, they just get in the way of us seeing it clearly.

There is a great rule in place - the discussion pyramid. Try and stick to it and you'll help build the forum you want to use.

[–]Themagicalmidget[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I want real free speech, but also with diversity of opinion, rather than just internet self balkanization like is present on every internet forum as of late. I 100% never want to censure you no matter what you say on here. That is why I love that there are no down votes here and transparent moderater logs. I believe discussion of any topic can help people better understand each other and maybe find common ground. I would bet I agree with 50% of your views while deeply apposing others that you hold and that's okay. I will look at the discussion paramid you are referencing. I'm new here and not well versed with saidit yet.

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i think if any site has the system of having different sub forums, like this, reddit and voat and chans etc all do, people will go to where they want. And what if there was just one website with a message board system, what will happen is people will go to whatever thread that agrees with the, besides the internet this is how people naturally flow to political parties. Like how certain party leaders censor ideas, owners of websites, admins, mods etc censor ideas. I'm leftwing on economy and rw on sociali issues, no one really agrees with me, no party to vote for, no website to go to, and this is by design since it is the best possible philosophy (yes I am biased) and the rich don't want it. They don't want leftwing economic redistribution of resources the ystole and they don't want rw nationalistic social policies that keep people from being divided and conquered.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome to saidit!

internet self balkanization

That is a great phrase, I may steal that.