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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flyingcuttlefish ago

Thanks for your hard work. Readers can help make life easier for mods.

1] Before posting something "new" see if there's already a discussion about your topic. If there is - add your item as a comment to an existing post instead of creating a new one.

2] If your pizzagate item isn't news or new information but is of side interest - like a pizzagatish story from the past - or is your reaction and thoughts on the situation so far - please place it in \v\pizzagate2.

This story will only expand as weeks and months go by. It will help future readers and researchers if we strive to be tidy.