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Mumbleberry ago

NR wants to sell merch. That alone should tell you everything you need to know.

Blacksmith21 ago

I'm not opposed to selling merchandise because it winds up on TV at Trump rallies. I am opposed to exploitation and deception. Is there much difference between "buy my shirt" or "donate to my Patreon, etc."? Many of the research personalities attempt to publish their findings for a living - very difficult to pay the bills.

realnstuff ago

NR did start to beg for donations after a few hours of opening the sub. Trustworthy, right?

stray502 ago

That doesnt mean anything. It takes money to live and if you spend your life doing what some of these guys are doing they have to try and recover. Dont make it sound like people that need donations are bad or on the wrong side. If you have a problem with NR then state what it is but do not use donations.

realnstuff ago

Negative, it's always about behaviour, attitute and action and in case of NR the combination is more than fishy. We are talking about him, like the submission title could tell you. Besides comments usually have the submission in context, even if they answer someone else.  

Yes donations aren't evil in itself but joining a new site and asking more or less from the get go for donations, are at least for me fishy. Especially if you observed, that from the beginning a huge amount of comments and submissions were deleted. Majority of those were about the shadow ban and censoring issue of the sub.

My 2c