Lol, what did you expect when you shacked up with a community of conspitards?
Well, I didn't "shack up with a community of conspitards" exactly. We migrated over here (because there were signs the subreddit was imminently going to be banned) and sadly the conspitards gained critical mass early, meaning that's all there is now because when sane, mainstream conservatives come here, they just see walls of Qanonsense and PPCtardation and then they leave (understandably).
So this place started as a reasonable forum and was then taken over by conspitards who've been chasing away all the sane people ever since. Now it's nothing but wall to wall, ceiling to floor crazy 24/7. Like it's 99% people who unironically believe in Qanon and think Benrier is going to be PM. Very little sanity left in these parts. And when sanity does rear its head on rare occasion, it's downvoted and harassed into oblivion.
I guess the Qtard/PPCtard phenomenon isn't altogether dissimilar from how the 1488ers take over spaces. If you tolerate them, they'll tell their fiends and their numbers will rapidly grow in your forum. Then they'll quickly reach critical mass, after which all the sane people will flee because sane people don't hang out in crazy people spaces, and the few who do stay will get stomped with relentless harassment until they leave, which is what the PPCtard/Qtards do to sane people here.
Worst part is, they've permanently ruined the brand (a brand they didn't build, but rather infected and destroyed) by making PPCtardation and Qtardation the bulk of the content here. So it's highly unlikely anything can be salvaged from this.
Edit: I guess that's the online free-speech paradox. If you're the only show in town that permits it, you WILL get taken over by malignant and toxic groups who aren't welcome anywhere else, and your brand will be ruined. These people are kind of making a case for why platforms should apply strong moderation to keep them from turning to shit, rather than taking a laissez-faire approach, letting the forum turn into a dumpster fire, which kills traffic and makes the forum a failure.
Despite the q people there’s still good content and discussion that makes this worth visiting. Actual discussion and evidence of things pertaining to inflation, immigration, unemployment, covid mortality, police overreach, that wouldn’t otherwise be able to continue. This community is still mild relative to something like poal
It will be interesting to see what happens with gab. Now that mainstream moderation has gotten a lot less moderate, an influx of right leaning people might pull the culture in a more reasonable direction
Lol, what did you expect when you shacked up with a community of conspitards?
Should have stayed on Reddit.
Well, I didn't "shack up with a community of conspitards" exactly. We migrated over here (because there were signs the subreddit was imminently going to be banned) and sadly the conspitards gained critical mass early, meaning that's all there is now because when sane, mainstream conservatives come here, they just see walls of Qanonsense and PPCtardation and then they leave (understandably).
So this place started as a reasonable forum and was then taken over by conspitards who've been chasing away all the sane people ever since. Now it's nothing but wall to wall, ceiling to floor crazy 24/7. Like it's 99% people who unironically believe in Qanon and think Benrier is going to be PM. Very little sanity left in these parts. And when sanity does rear its head on rare occasion, it's downvoted and harassed into oblivion.
I guess the Qtard/PPCtard phenomenon isn't altogether dissimilar from how the 1488ers take over spaces. If you tolerate them, they'll tell their fiends and their numbers will rapidly grow in your forum. Then they'll quickly reach critical mass, after which all the sane people will flee because sane people don't hang out in crazy people spaces, and the few who do stay will get stomped with relentless harassment until they leave, which is what the PPCtard/Qtards do to sane people here.
Worst part is, they've permanently ruined the brand (a brand they didn't build, but rather infected and destroyed) by making PPCtardation and Qtardation the bulk of the content here. So it's highly unlikely anything can be salvaged from this.
Edit: I guess that's the online free-speech paradox. If you're the only show in town that permits it, you WILL get taken over by malignant and toxic groups who aren't welcome anywhere else, and your brand will be ruined. These people are kind of making a case for why platforms should apply strong moderation to keep them from turning to shit, rather than taking a laissez-faire approach, letting the forum turn into a dumpster fire, which kills traffic and makes the forum a failure.
Despite the q people there’s still good content and discussion that makes this worth visiting. Actual discussion and evidence of things pertaining to inflation, immigration, unemployment, covid mortality, police overreach, that wouldn’t otherwise be able to continue. This community is still mild relative to something like poal
It will be interesting to see what happens with gab. Now that mainstream moderation has gotten a lot less moderate, an influx of right leaning people might pull the culture in a more reasonable direction