This post by Spindle says it better than I could.
TL;DR: Raising awareness is vital. Memes are good at going viral. Weaponized memes can serve a vital role in gaining mindshare.
According to google, we are post peak.
Sometimes memes bring about discussion, and the current "policy" results in the deletion of discussion. Moreover, it results in memes being segregated to a "thread" that isn't obvious to find, and doesn't allow the full feature set of voat curation to take place.
Frankly, at some point a decision was made to treat memes as second class citizens, even though they have the most potential to go viral. I think this is an error.
I think at the very least, there should be clear rules posted about memes so that discussion is not lost. Memes should not be difficult to find. Perhaps we can have a link in the sidebar to magicmemes or a place dedicated to memes if they must be segregated.
If there was a discussion about the segregation of memes, I missed it. Can someone link me to it? It is a little jarring when discussion is happening and entire conversations were deleted.
Archive of post with discussion.
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Foralltoosee ago
Internet memes don't spread ideas, they're just easy to share. If anything they hurt your cause. Post what you'd like friend, but seeing an image with some text place on it doesn't convince anyone of anything. And even if the Mem got them to look it up, as soon as they do they trust the articles written against it over the memes in support of it. It's why they've all moved on.
belphegorsprime ago
This is incorrect. This is the definition of memes.
No one suggested censoring articles. Memes and articles do not need to be mutually exclusive.
Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean that memes have moved on? Because people are still making memes. They are just being segregated. Please read my original post.
Foralltoosee ago
Memetics is the idea that we pass down ideas and habits over generations and that process has had a non-genetic effect on our evolution. Internet memes don't spread ideas.
You're right, no one suggested censoring articles. I am saying that if you think memes spread the ideas, that even if they did manage to expose someone to this pizzagate, when they went looking for more information they would read the articles posted by major publications, all of which have written you off as a niche conspiracy group, and denounce you as well. Again, memes don't spread ideas.
By "they've all moved on" I was referring to the people who don't believe you who you would be making the memes to spread the ideas to. If you think it's spreading the idea, it needs to go to people who aren't already on your boat, and they've all moved on.
belphegorsprime ago
Memetics is the idea that information is the core component of evolution. Information's ability to reproduce and be mutated creates a diversity through which selection pressures can act. Genetic variation and biological evolution is a subset of memetic evolution.
The internet allows for information to evolve on a much faster timescale than human generations.
I noticed that in your response, when you peddle a defeatist attitude regarding pizzagate awareness among the masses, you use the pronoun "you" instead of "we". If you are not interested in pizzagate awareness, why are you here?