Before responding, take a moment to learn the history of the PG subverse here.
Once you've done that, understand that giving mods the ability to moderate based on their knowledge of the narrative invites mods that will steer the narrative using their mod tools.
You'll get mods that allow this:
The Rule 1 problem is the biggest problem in the subverse in my opinion. Tons of quality material like children being given hormone blockers at age 3, Planned Parenthood misleading children to believe that a person is not male/female at birth using the word "gender", organ harvesting, etc...
... and delete real PG leads.
The original idea of this subverse was to have a running ARCHIVE of everything, because no other place seemed to be safe to do so. Posts being constant links and re-links to known solid direct connections to PG with a new connection highlighted for others to look at and follow. After a while, parts of that should have gone into this sticky, and would be considered more or less canon for future leads.
The original idea of the RULES of this subverse was to keep everything in a very structured and easily-parsed format, allowing the mods to simply clean up the stuff that wasn't formatted properly, and didn't pass the direct-link muster. This would prevent the mods from pushing their own narrative, and allow them to keep the place clean enough so that both the new and the veteran could pick up the torch with relative ease.
Now to the discussion of the rule, and the possible changing of this entire subverse.
If you want a modification of any part of rule 1, state clearly the exact part(s) and justify your position.
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Factfinder2 ago
If a mod suspects a shill post but it's not obviously a shill post, I think they should not delete it. Instead, they should have the option to tag it with a "suspected shill" flag. This would alert Voat users, who then would make up their own minds about the quality of the post and whether to pursue any research angles it might suggest.
Vindicator ago
Yes. This is what our "Possible Disinformation" flare is for. The only problem is, many of the shill posts are spammed in multiple different iterations by different alts. You can flare one to raise awareness, but we really need to remove the majority to prevent them from sliding legit content into oblivion.
Factfinder2 ago
Yes, but, to be clear, I was only referring to posts that are not obviously shill but suspected to be. If it's not blatantly obvious, Voaters should decide, not mods.
I understand the multiple alts problem, but my question is who needs multiple alts? As far as I can tell, only people with ulterior motives, including but not limited to shills. Is it possible to allow just one account per IP address?