Saidit is worse than reddit with censorship.

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[–]worm 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

In all honesty, Saidit is becoming an echo chamber not unlike Voat. The front page and the comments sections are constantly filled with bland propaganda posts about Iran, Imperialism, and critiques of capitalism mostly from people who have no idea what they're talking about. Despite the initial assurances that Saidit was a place which welcomes discussion, I find that trite one-liners and poor debaters who cannot even reach the middle of the pyramid regularly get voted as the most "informative" answers.

I'd had rather high hopes for this place when they first set up, but it's pretty clear that there's a reason why Reddit, Voat, and even this place will never become a place for intelligent discussion; the very way the voting system is set up is designed to encourage the reinforcement of worldviews.

[–]Troll[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That, and don't forget the rise of smart phones bringing idiots onto the internet.

It's like mass immigration: we need our own gated communities for decent discussion.

[–]sawboss 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

we need our own gated communities

The PoD is SaidIt's gate.

[–]Troll[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The pyramid of debate is nothing more than an abstraction that doesn't cover the nuances of speech.

[–]sawboss 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know what kind of "gate" you want. Apparently you want an exclusive club where everyone already agrees on ... something? Any mechanism of exclusion will instantly create a power hierarchy or else devolve into mob rule. Even if your community begins ideologically pure (It won't), you'll fall into purity spirals and power struggles.

Good luck fighting human nature.

[–]send_nasty_stuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

All saidit had to do was copy reddit and apply rules fairly to the left and right side of the political spectrum and it would have stolen half of reddits users in a year the same way people left digg. Unfortunately admin here is trying to micro manage discussion and run the site like a single subreddit. It's unsustainable. /u/magnora7 will either burn himself out or slow growth so significantly the site stagnates stalls and dies.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Or, the rules get slightly looser as the site grows larger, just like on every other site.

If all we did was copy-paste reddit, we'd be where tildes.net is... no one would care about us. We'd just be a shitty voat. The rules increase the quality of the site, and that's important to its success