Of course it has. 100%. Look at the top post from today. Some fag arranged some wooden letters in walmart to say QANON. I said it was retarded and I got downvoted... The fact is, most people over there are too stupid to realize they're being manipulated by shills.
Here's an excerpt of a post I made here a while back where I talked about the popular sliding techniques that contributed to the downfall of r/greatawakening. These techniques are absolutely being used on voat regularly.
There were loads of users either knowingly or unknowingly participating in what is called forum sliding. If you don't know, forum sliding is when users(usually on someones payroll) with nefarious motives attempt to sway the conversation and narrative of a forum. This is an incredibly effective technique because the nature of forums is that they concentrate the most engaged people of a community. Also, when I say unknowingly I'm talking about people who are mostly just too dim to realize that they're being manipulated.
If you made posts with titles similar to these, you're part of the problem:
"I found this Q in my alphabits cereal! This must be a sign!"
or
"I got a good hotel room last night!" [posts picture of room 17 at whogivesafuck hotel]
or
"[insert obscure or ominous bible verse that has never been quoted by Q and you provide no context into how we should relate the message of said verse to things Q has said]"
If you've had success with posts like that it's most likely because a shill farm bombarded it with upvotes and the mods were too scared to delete it because then they would get accused of censorship by both you and the shill farm. If you saw a post like that get traction to the front page and then decided you'd do the same thing..bingbangboom you got GOT! Posts like that aren't fucking cute and they certainly aren't useful. They take up valuable room on the front page and the shills know it. That's their whole goal. They want to slllliiiiiiide the narrative that is being discovered as truth every single day. They don't want real research or discussions happening AT ALL.
Thank you for this description of "sliding". I have recognized this pattern
from users on social media and local online news articles that I frequent as a community activist... obvious that our opposition uses tactics to water down discussions... ( i am involved in a no-wind turbine group in my state... challenged by green energy cult junkies)
Anyhow... thank you all for the research you do re patriots and Q. I wish I was better at this board stuff.
Great explanation of their technique. I have seen it and been confused. It seems to be happening a lot now. I have learned to ignore the posts but it does create a traffic jam, back log of better posts.
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FTSIO ago
Of course it has. 100%. Look at the top post from today. Some fag arranged some wooden letters in walmart to say QANON. I said it was retarded and I got downvoted... The fact is, most people over there are too stupid to realize they're being manipulated by shills.
Here's an excerpt of a post I made here a while back where I talked about the popular sliding techniques that contributed to the downfall of r/greatawakening. These techniques are absolutely being used on voat regularly.
https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/2719071
Patti_McGreen ago
Thank you for this description of "sliding". I have recognized this pattern from users on social media and local online news articles that I frequent as a community activist... obvious that our opposition uses tactics to water down discussions... ( i am involved in a no-wind turbine group in my state... challenged by green energy cult junkies)
Anyhow... thank you all for the research you do re patriots and Q. I wish I was better at this board stuff.
singlebrain1 ago
Great explanation of their technique. I have seen it and been confused. It seems to be happening a lot now. I have learned to ignore the posts but it does create a traffic jam, back log of better posts.