24 HOUR TEMPORARY STICKY - I'm phasing out, introducing your mod team, on shills & our mod-discussion sub (summary sticky linked from within) (pizzagate)

submitted ago by kingkongwaswrong

Link to summary sticky here (https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1467064)) - will be reinstated shortly.

Hi Guys.

Just want to say I'm really proud of how far we've come as a group of people. So many quality posts, and great critical thinking, calling out shills and using your downvotes and upvotes.

I'm stepping down as 'main' mod of this sub

So I got a bit burnt out in the transition of this sub. It was a bit of a shitstorm but with the help of /v/protectvoat, @crensch, @kevdude and my new mods we are currently in a relatively stable state.

I am unable to keep modding this sub with the level of effort that it requires from a 'leader' level mod, and this coupled with personal changes means I need to step away.

To this end I have searched for a trustworthy and intelligent mod team. I sourced my choices from within the community - I did not accept anyone who requested a moderator position. So far they have all acted excellently.

Feel free to check out the list of mods below, or our sub that we discuss how to moderate pizzagate on.

As outlined in the below link., I will be staying on as an owner along with 2 other owners as a 3-way redundancy effort.

The current mod team

A listing of all the current mods or advisors with their role and accountabilities

/v/pizzagatemods

A separate sub for moderators and advisors to discuss meta concerns re moderation of this sub

All pings (@username) to get attention going forward should go to one of the other moderators. Ping at least 2 moderators

On Shills

  1. There are shills trying to slide and dilute our content here
  2. They are either buying votes or farming votes so they can downvote/upvote against our interests
  3. It is very difficult for you guys to combat this other than being very critical of everything, and downvoting any low quality, clickbaity posts to oblivion
  4. The only things we can do at the moment is hold posts accountable to the rules
  5. We are trying to figure out how to combat shills in other ways, stand by for some more plans
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LookingGlass ago

Thank you for your work. Great to have this place now that reddit has turned full pedo protector.

Also want to say that I am not really that worried about the obvious CTR shills. People can smell these vermin from a mile away by now, after being spammed and pestered by them through the whole election process. The dumb shills will fail once again - just like they failed massively at getting the "inevitable" pant suit elected, lmao.

Bentastixc ago

Join the discussion: Could voat be designed to silence? https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1469226

SaneGoatiSwear ago

it absolutely is.

@kingkongwaswrong

officially from sanegoat:

you are giving v/pizzagate to the sjw cabal taking over voat.

you fucking moron.

VictorSteinerDavion ago

I'm a SJW?

Why did nobody tell me!

But seriously, if you a legitimately concerned about a SJW take over (as opposed to having fun) let me know what you would need to have confidence in the moderation team.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

i don't know you. you don't know me. safe to say i'm probably not talking about you. where sbbh and pv go, so goes the sjw cabal of downvoat brigaders and disinformation using fallacy-filled voat-takeover plants, and you have a couple of them as mods on this sub already!!!! they weasled their way through reddit like worms and now voat. they wasted no time worming into v/pizzagate.

see those downvoats? lol.

VictorSteinerDavion ago

you have a couple of them as mods

Point them out (pm if you feel the need to) so I can monitor them and evaluate that for myself.

SJW's are something I cannot tolerate (ha!) and I don't want to see that cancer getting a foothold here.

I am not an active moderator on /v/pizzagate in the sense of watching the queue and banning/deleting etc, but as a community member I aim to be as active as time permits.
Feel free to harass me as much as you need in order to address any concerns. I can't promise much but I'll do what I can.

reasonedandinformed ago

The concern is not for the informed but the uninformed who are forming an opinion. They can be easily misled, with the biggest problem the propagation of false information that the shills plant into the investigation, all in the interest of discrediting our work as "fake news." I would venture that the average person on this site is not so aware of CTR and shill tactics, and the percentage who cannot decipher it will grow as the audience expands. We need a concerted strategy to help. I think we should have a well argued "sticky" at the top to help people understand this issue.

LawofTruth ago

This is a really great idea

Chance903 ago

I think you are right about being able to decern what is posted froma shill or not. Maybe a sticky can be made and list behavior or they type of propaganda that these Soros fueled shills would write. I myself have turned inward and post less here and investigate more on my own due to trolls and shills.

GoGowdy ago

This isn't partisan

Congratulating someone who tried to sabotage

Upvoated so community can see a textbook shill post

Bentastixc ago

Exactly! I will repost my comment here so people actually see it.

About shills - I'm being called one here https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1468285 it may be true I don't know, but I found the post misleading.

I am Sentastixc there. I logged in with this account because I was blocked(?) from posting here, saying "Please try that again in 30 seconds" over and over and over again.

If I'm not a shill, here is an idea how to battle shills:

Apart from downvoting disinfo, you veterans should also consider upvoting commenters who seem legitimate. There are loads and loads of them around without the rights to even downvote (100 comment points).

RECRUIT YOUR LEGION

EDIT: You see Trump and part of the alternative media move away from Pizzagate. These are tactics. It is too dangerous to run with this right now, while the whole system of law enforcement is still run by the people accused in the material. They(the accused) want us to continue flood the internet with Memes and posters and superficial rage-discussion. Those are the things pushed to Hot and Top. So they can really give their spin on this before the inauguration.

LuminaryAziraphale ago

Just by being active i got 100 goats in like a day and a half.

GoGowdy ago

Shill