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[–]NodeThis is my flair. There are many like it, but this one is mine. 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

It's at least partly because M7 has a love/hate relationship with the kind of people who would want to use a site like this. Unfair bannings cause other users to leave out of sympathy for the victims. The site has gone offline for multiple days at a time twice in the past couple months. M7 thought it would be a good idea to make a teenage boy pretending to be a girl one of the admins, and their erratic behaviors drive users away. Spam on the front page is out of control, and is probably the bulk of site traffic starting on March 21st.

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/saidit.net

🇮🇳 India 48.1%

Scroll down to the usage graph, and while you can't see it anymore, that massive jump on 3/21 was preceded by many months of a steady decline. You can't trust Alexa to be totally accurate, but that is a weird and dramatic surge in site traffic that doesn't appear authentic.

a free speech platform.

It's definitely not. But what's really unfortunate is that saidit is still one of the best commenting/link-aggregator sites around, despite all those flaws.

When PuttItOut suicided voat, M7 talked about how he keeps costs low for saidit, apparently unlike old voat. So I assume he's just absorbing the ongoing costs. (Or someone is paying to study us, but probably not.) Saidit could be great again if it just became an actual free speech site, and found a way to eliminate most of the spam.

Saidit was antiextremes.com when I made my account, and despite the name change, the policy of fence-riding that lingered has kept numbers low enough that driving even a few active users away really hurts the site. I don't have the tech skills or the patience to run a site like this, so I very much appreciate the work M7 has put into saidit, even if some of his efforts have (imo) hurt more than helped.

As for your discussion of niggers, and the people aware of them, it's helpful to have an accurate view of reality. Niggers are simply unable to adjust their behaviors to fit the norms of civilization. This is a problem for those of us who would prefer to live in a functional society.

[–]Pononimus[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

First, wow! That was an amazingly well detailed and well written out post and it definitely tells me a lot about this place and, to some good extent, what it's gone through so thanks much for all that. As for the Indian Spam traffic (most likely Pakistan rather than India) why not create some filters to block out the most common but unique words in their spam or just block their domains the same way Mayanmar and Nigeria are blocking twitter? I mean, it can't be that hard. Also, how about blocking China while we're at it? I'm sure there's quite a few CCP operatives here just like there are on almost all other Social Media sites in the US. (Twitter's loaded with them and Book Of Faces gets more every day. It's nice to see that you appreciate hard work being done for the benefit of this site. I appreciate it too so thank M7 for me. So, there was only one boy pretending to be a girl, here? I'm assuming there's actually much more. Still it was (for lack of a better word) faggots like that which destroyed Voat and, slowly but eventually, 4chan, too. (Faggots really do ruin everything.) Okay, I agree that Saidit is still one of the best free speech sites but Ruqqus is at least just as goods and Me We is way up there on the free speech list, too. I've used the word "nigger" on both those sites and never had a problem. However, I referred to the owner of Book of Faces as "Dick Suckerberg and got a 30 day suspension because apparently he didn't like me unwittingly giving away details of his private life. (LOL) Anyway, as time goes by we see more and more of our freedoms disappear as we drift further and further away from the truth.

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      having spent years in the San Francisco gay community

      This explains a lot.

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      Oh, hey, look, everybody! It's that power tripping little faggot from /AltRight! Let's all take a minute to laugh at him! XD LOL!

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        NAZI LOSER DETECTED.

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

        Do you see the Jewish Lady? Is the Jewish Lady in the room with us, now? ;)