Encyclosphere - a decentralized network of the world's encyclopedias

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[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Apparently, it is big enough. It's not hard at all to pay 3-4 people $12/hr to destroy a forum if you're a government, or a giant corporation. They don't like competition and don't like people saying things they shouldn't say. This kind of forum destruction is becoming very widespread across all forums. If a forum gets more than 1,000 pageviews a day, it will probably be attacked until it dies. This is what the internet is like now, apparently.

[–]PanzerFauts 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Haven't they been making demands though?

Seems a bit untypical for a government/corporate campaign just trying to take us down. Why aren't they just focusing on spamming and are instead writing such long-ass effort posts w/ screenshots like every other day?

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

Because drama that seems legit is more effective at destroying the userbase than simple spam ads that everyone knows are just spam. They need people to believe this community is falling apart, and that the admins are unstable. So that's what they talk about every day, and it's successful in driving people away because they begin to believe it because there is an appearance of a group consensus about it, when in actuality it's just one person using many puppet accounts

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Little they know we love the drama.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That's the reason they do it, they know it gets peoples' attention while simultaneously destroying the quality of the website. Concern trolling is a powerful tactic to create attention-grabbing drama, which is why it's seen so frequently