Oh my I like this place already.

You showed all of the apples as red, but not all apples are red.

Therefore, this is "mostly false".

Deeeeeeeeboooooooonked!

Reddit told me this post is wacist against Wonder Bread and I need CNN's permission to look at it.

Also be wary of vetting new mods.

(I want to push the grape narrative. So I'll say I love apples and get in good with the mods.)

"Apples are awesome! REALLY AWESOME! Look at all my pro-apple posts and karma! Hey can you make me an admin?"

"Thanks! Hey I still freaking love apples but I saw this interesting grape article."

"Look that grape guy got a little overheated in his post, but it's all good. He said he was sorry."

"Apples and grapes are both great."

"Funny how we're seeing more grape posts than we did two years ago."

"That apple post was completely unacceptable. I know he was overheated but rules are rules."

"Times are changing. Grapes are great now."

Nicely done

This is currently the situation at Greatawakening.win

One MOD is active, and he posts the dumbest shit, but strikes and bans anyone who posts articles that could actually be great digging tools. He stickies himself to the front page every single day.

There is actually one last step, all the banned dots leave and create Grapes.win

Excellent

Time to make irradiated apple sauce!!!

I remember this slide on the r/worldnews mod orientation presentation. Works like a charm

The same tactic works in real life as well.

It doesn't just apply to internet communities, that is exactly what happened in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. And it might happen in the US soon.

And if it happens don't expect the bananas or grapes to remain or show themselves.

Reddit, Pictured.

This hit the nail on the head so hard it broke the hammer.

Have you ever heard of a CHINESE orange? no. Comeon man, if you dont eat oranges, you aint...you know....the THING!

welcome to the .win family.

for some strange reason I want to go buy some Wonder Bread now. Anyone else get that urge looking at the chart?

No tomatos? dats wacists!

Absolutely true. This is the value of not necessarily mandated freedom of speech but an expectation of it from a user base and a willingness to change platform if it’s not present.

Welcome home frens

Grapes are clearly the best. They make wine, and every sour grape flavoured candy is arguable the superior flavour of that candy.

Great image!

Yup this is EXACTLY what happened on r/conspiracy. axolotl does this non-stop. He goes through old comments and finds people who he disagrees with and will give out perma bans for weeks old comments just the weed out dissent. axolotl will make you think you're fighting against the machine but really he is the machine. He curates like a mother fucker which is just a fancy way of saying "removes individuals who may pose threatening with their counter arguments". He's been getting heat on r/conspiracy and I know of a situation that the reddit admins are involved in that will likely end with the sub being handed off to someone else due to some of the concerns listed above. It happened to r/WSB too. Now, r/WSB is a better sub and when the reddit admins are done, r/conspiracy will be too. Here, he'll tell you how TPTB took over and this is now the only place for true freedom of speech and transparency, despite the fact that answers to questions of "who owns the site" "who makes money from the site" "who owns the .win 'network'" "how can you confirm transparency" "how can you confirm site security" (spoiler: it's not). And then the radicalization will begin. Beware of him and do not be fooled - here's here to make money off you and he's here to push you out of areas on the internet where you are vulnerable to being told something that goes against the proposed narrative, even if that narrative contains fragments of "not falling for the narrative". This comment wont last long, but I'll be back.

Just check out the hilarious irony in their 'privacy policy' : https://conspiracies.win/privacy

Oh wait, that's a 404!

That is called social engineering. It has been around before the internet and will exist after our comprehension of the internet.

Good explanation.

Another way is a scoring system designed to favor even the slight majority view and exclude the minority.

On reddit, a 1000-vote controversial comment can get 49% supporting it and 51% against. The score is -20 and it is collapsed and hidden from view - at least on .win these aren't collapsed and hidden. Vice versa 51% comments get +20, but after a while suppressed people leave and those comments become +510 and it looks like overwhelming support.

Communities that don't want to be echo chambers could do better. For example, if upvotes count as +1 and downvotes count as -1/4 then the strongly-held views of the minority still get a fair viewing. Back to the 1000-vote controversial, instead of -20 it gets +383 -- not at the top, but still part of the conversation.

The only comments to be truly suppressed are ones that nearly everybody agrees are just terrible. I'm not saying 1/4 is the right weighting because the less a downvote counts the harder it is to hide spam and trolls, but something besides 1:1 will lead to a healthier community.

This is literally what happened to Wikipedia, where everyone who was literally neutral and right leaning editor/administrator was systematically banned.

Well posted, reminded me of Wonder bread.

Well illustrated.

So true. I remember how rpolitics was when Ron Paul was the rage, and libertarians were cool. Now you get thrown out for suggesting "hey maybe we should leave each other alone"