I've been on .win for a while now, but haven't really posted here before because r/conspiracy was at least somewhat tolerable for a little while after u/axolotl_peyotl was unceremoniously booted for talking about the election conspiracy.
However, it's since started getting intolerable. The mods have basically just stopped getting rid of users who are there to troll (even when they admit it), break rule 2 by just bitching about the subreddit constantly, not to mention the brigadiers who have been brigading even harder since nonewnormal was banned.
There are users there I have personally reported no less than 30 times over a period of weeks or months for breaking rule 2 and/or trolling and they're still fucking there. They won't get rid of the comments 99% of the time let alone actually ban the people who consistently break the rules. The only mod who I can see even tries is Amos and that's it, and I can't expect him to be able to do it all by himself.
What they do remove though are links to this sub (*win), but mostly leave the links to the nonewnormal win alone, which is bullshit. They don't mind NNN users coming to the win sites, but god forbid people want to check out a conspiracy forum that's not their own.
r/conspiracy has just been going downhill ever since you left Axo. Thanks for having the foresight to make this place, even if it's not getting the amount of users it deserves to. I'm still going to keep trying to refer people here who are tired of the bullshit and hope it makes it passed the dickheads who don't want people to have an alternative.
Maybe you should invite Amos here? ;-P
I did back in December. He declined for fairly valid reasons (he suspects this is a honeypot). I respect his decision. He will always be welcome here.
Ok so I understand the paranoia, look what happened on reddit, any place can be taken over. However I am not sure what they mean by honeypot. I mean, for most of us, our activities on reddit could easily identify us, that was all public, it's not like any new info is going to be gained by the peeps who run .win that reddit didn't already have. It's not like it would be hard for them to trace my location from my normal internet activities, so best I can tell, the biggest danger would be we'd all come here to chat and then they took down the system or corrupted it. But that already happened on reddit, we'd just go elsewhere.
Plus for noewnormal.com , even if they had the best of intentions, it does not mean they won't cave if a lot of pressure was put on them by the govt. Also it seems to me that they are not super sophisticated computer people and the govt could easily hack and get all their data from them as well. If it's just data, then I don't think anywhere online in a public forum like this is going to be safe, the intentions of the creators are almost not that super important unless there are some kind of secret brainwashing devices in this sub or something! ;-P So what exactly are people afraid of when they say 'honeypot,' am I missing something?
no, that's pretty much all on point. reddit is THE honeypot.