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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It's funny... the more traffic we get, the more people we get on saidit announcing how dead saidit is.

We get about 550 posts a day and about 4000 comments a day, and those numbers double about every 5 months. So if it's too dead now, just check back in a few months

[–]la_cues 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Quality over quantity.

Some online boards even have discussion thrive more with a "slower" content stream. (Not that I think that saidit shouldn't become bigger)

If you want change, post more content, not complaints!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Nice appeal for propaganda for grooming more protestors!

If saidit was more genuine, it would move away from politics and have more neutral content. Stuff that is actually interesting and not combative. This is how you guys are seen for what you are.

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Reddit was like this when it was founded. It took years and years to build.

Be the change you want to see. I think normie content is a good idea too, and I'll post it whenever I find it. You do the same, and invite your normie friends to Saidit as well.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It doesn't have to take years and years. Whatever is fascinating to the human mind can be posted, but politics and cheap drama is not; so this place is more like a waste of time, bandwidth and intellect.

I'll start with a general post to get something going:

https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/2152/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_game_of_the_year_2019/

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

Maybe 10% of the content I've posted about/interacted with on SaidIt was about politics/politically related. You choose what content you interact with and what gets to the front-page by the quality of the content you submit, not political affiliation lol. I've had plenty of great interactions and discussions with the users on this site. Many of my posts have reached the front page, and were non-political documentaries, videos, music or jokes, and the majority of them lead to great discussions or light-hearted jokes.

"You are what you eat". If all you think about and see is politics (and have a victim-mentality to boot), then that's going to be your reality. SaidIt is nothing like Reddit or Voat when it comes to politics; both sites are very extremist when it comes to politics imo, just swinging on the different side of the spectrum. You can still have actual conversations here or play devil's advocate, no matter your political beliefs. Real, OG/regular users on SaidIt don't resort to name-calling; it's always the new accounts that pop in for a day and leave that attempt to make things toxic.

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

Funny. Some people only see what they project out onto the world. There's a mix of people here

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

Reddit is left.

Voat is right.

Saidit is a middle ground. There's not enough irrational hate here for people to care. If someone pops in hating Trump, nobody cares. If someone says they dislike jews, nobody cares. Everyone is allowed an opinion. Let's discuss why you think that and also acknowledge that there's a grain of truth in everything. Trump isn't a saint. Neither was Obama. Jews aren't anything special. Have you seen the Catholic church?

This middle ground mentality of the site is boring to people looking to screech.

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't think saidit is "middle ground". There are plenty of us taking sides. We just generally respect the other point of view, even if we don't agree with it.

[–]AnarchySpeach 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We just generally respect the other point of view, even if we don't agree with it.

something voat and reddit absolutely despise.

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I see people making the same comment whenever I play an ArenaFPS like QuakeWorld. :3