A question. What would everyone like to see libertarian community online & what are your thoughts on the successes/failures of other libertarian communities online specifically on Reddit?

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[–]cmdrrockawesome 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've always said I am a lowercase L libertarian and not an uppercase L libertarian. I like libertarian ideals, but the Libertarian party is, by and large, nuts. There are too many fringe groups that seemingly speak for the entire group. You wind up with people arguing for pedophilia and that everything should be made legal and other nonsense that won't work in the real world.

I think that's why so few people take libertarian communities seriously. You wind up with the kooks and lunatics crafting the message (at least the most audible message) and that turns a lot of people off. You can't build a coalition when you're alienating the vast majority of people out there.

[–]TimothyMcFuck 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey I'm sorry. Off topic, and I'm new here. But does saidit have an app client? And how do I post pictures in my post?

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

In terms of a libertarian community, I was honestly appealed to by the community on GoldandBlack, but the community was so fragmented over on Reddit that larger discussions simply didn't happen. The fragmentation was partly due to the chapo's and admins tearing up subs on one side, and partly due to nationalists and their "I like freedom, but" on the other side.

I would say that condensing the budding Saidit libertarian communities into one or two, and rounding up everyone already on the site would be a good first step. Maintaining a stringently consistent moderation system would reduce some of the issues that eventually ruined r/Libertarian.

So first, condense the groups, let's have all of us here on Saidit in one or two subs. Second, develop a moderation platform, decide what does or does not fly. Third, let's get some content rolling out, whether it's discussions on topics, a compilation of essays/books, a wiki, or memes/news articles with conversation below. Once all of that is done, appealing to the more desirable subs on reddit would draw its better posters to here. The goal the whole time is to reduce the risk of chapo's or natties from showing up early on.