How to prevent this from becoming a racist cesspool like voat

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[–]Extract 25 insightful - 2 fun25 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Hmm, another account with no comment history going "we need to hide those no-no opinions away".
I wonder what this could be..

I'll just leave this here:

What if I told you, that the last refugee wave was large enough for some propaganda organizations to put this site on their radar?

What if I told you the concern trolls posting those threads/comments are the first wave of shills, whose goal is to slowly corrupt this site the same way most platforms (like many subreddits, in their time) get corrupted? Notice how most of those concern trolls highlight problems that could actually be solved by their own participation - but, that would actually help the site, while their goal is clearly to (slowly) undermine it.

They will also cite the new influx of users as a good thing, and threaten it ends if $demandList isn't met, while in reality much of this activity is artificially created by those shills (not most votes, just the early spike that makes it visible enough for other people to upvote it for the sake of discussion).

This isn't going to stop, by the way - this is only going to get worse the more popular this site gets bigger.

[–]Raavan 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Fellow saiditers, we must disallow far right opinions being spoken of on this website, or our website will not survive.

Jokes apart, I'm growing more and more pessimistic by the day. The internet is so heavily censored, commercialized and monetized that every website is getting paid shills posting on it. I don't even have a strong political lean but it's so tiring and saddening to see all waters dirtied by those shills who want to control the narrative.

[–]Extract 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Guess by being here you can finally learn what they meant by "freedom isn't free".

If you want your uncensored space, it's up to you to protect it from shills, not anyone else.

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

You're right. Anything we can do on an individual level for that?

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

Yes, we in fact can.

l'll post in more detail once I finish /s/ShillWall today or tomorrow.

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

Creating quality content that will drown them out would be a good start.