I want this place to survive. I'm active here every day, trying to do my part to lift up good content.
We need a mod team, not one person. I'm seeing pornographic images on the new feed late at night. Also obvious trolling posts. Right now, there's a pin up photo of the First Lady on the top of the hot page. One person can't manage it 24/7.
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We need agreed upon rules. Can you use hateful language and tear down other members on a personal level? Can you post porn? Are memes allowed? What about tweet screenshots? Are SS required?
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We need shared focus. What's the ethos of this place? I'd like to see it develop into a place of shared learning and information. Collaborative in nature. A lot of people (mostly shills) are just here to tear others down and kill friendly, open discussion.
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We need to combat shills. I'll define this as people who don't want to participate in the community in good faith. They never make posts or comments, except to lash out at other users or the community in general. They only make posts or comments that aren't conspiracies and are intended to incense the community.
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CSS upgrades is a lower tier need, but it would be cool to give this place some personality and life to help draw in new users. Flair would be great. Categories to sort by (if possible) would be great.
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This probably came off a bit like shitting on the mods. I apologize if so. I am thankful for the community provided by doggos and to axolotl_peyotl for bringing us here.
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TLDR: I think there needs to be a community discussion about forward steps.
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Agreed 100%, either this or a similar discussion should be stickied, ideas posted as comments and the ones that the community can (mostly) agree on should either become the rule, or atleast tried temporarily to gauge the effect on discussion (for example, get rid of votes and rank posts by comments, has pros and cons that could be debated) but for real something needs to be done about the shills trying to bury discussion.
I’m seeing pure garbage being posted by obvious shills to flood the queue, and I’m seeing downvote brigades with no comments to bury real posts.
For example my post has been up for two hours, 43 votes (22 up 21 down) with a single comment. Show me another post on this site getting downvotes like that without any comments shitting on it.
Yeah, that's an unusual one. From the title, I have no idea what it's about, so probably not drive by downvotes. Who watches a 17 minute video, downvotes, and doesn't leave a comment?
Exactly! Multiplied by 21 different times in 2 hours...fuckin whack.
But back on subject, yeah some kind of ground rules need to be set. And I agree we can’t depend on a single person to squat on the queue doing clean up. If ground rules are well established there wouldn’t be much to fear from a handful of new mods (I.e. only super egregious things get removed, even obvious shilling gets left up, to be ridiculed)
Also, how does an ad for vitamins stay up for 16 hours and get upvotes? https://conspiracies.win/p/11R4q2bwDj/why-they-fear-us/