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golly ago

Good work! Follow the money, it is exactly the thing that worries Podesta: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31874

n0etics ago

to further back up the claim, look at this post that got downvoted. The shills may change their tactic soon but for now they downvote things they don't want to see us talking about

golly ago

I hear you! I have personal down voters who down vote every single comment I make. Check my post history. Most have a minimum of -1.

They are trying to take away our ability to post (and freedom of speech) by taking away all comment contribution points. Once you go below 0 you can't post anymore. People have nothing better to do I guess.

Edit: the problem is that if you would have 55 points and 60 active comments, one single troll with a few hundred points can down vote all your comments and you won't be able to post anymore. We need to start up voting each other a lot more so shills and trolls down voting has no impact at all.

n0etics ago

Ya, I'm in the same boat right now with not being able to down vote shills.

The problem is that it's dangerous to just hand out upvotes for the sake of allowing folks to downvote. If anyone plans to do that, make sure to look into the account a bit and make sure you aren't inadvertently helping a shill

golly ago

It is because many are new and only have 10 upvotes per day. But if we don't do it then trolls/shills could shut people up like they did before when lots of people were voted in big numbers below 0. We should be able to take care of shills/trolls ourselves here. The only way to do that is start being more generous so everybody can gain points which in turn makes it much harder to attack us by taking away points so we can't post and are forced to beg for upvotes or create new accounts.