Long ago, back in the days of Millennial_Falcon, Amalek-style spammers would occasionally be activated to attack this place. MF would start simply banning anyone that posted the same drivel, and nobody really seemed to mind save a few times a possibly innocent user was caught in the ban wave.
Since the Jem777 shills are still going strong on their attacks of the users, mods, voat, and their sliding of the forum and misleading of the researchers, the idea of doing the same has been floated past me.
I thought perhaps flairs would work better - the normies still allow CSS and would see the flair, while the goat-tier would see right through the subversives right away.
With some of the more well-liked usernames, I'll be sure to make a post detailing the justification of their flair. With others, they're either nobodies and not worth that kind of time, or you can click on their comments page and see why they have been flaired.
Many of us have lost someone here that we thought were decent users, or even really good users while some haven't. Either way, it's silly to think that everyone you know here that posts isn't now getting paid to veer off course, or hasn't been paid this entire time to infiltrate and try to sabotage from the inside. Many of these "users" were caught here, and many vindicated. You're welcome to crawl down all those rabbit holes that the mods have had to deal with the past few weeks if you like.
Flairs may be used, going forward, for the following:
@Jem777 was a disinfo troll into weird shit and is objectively a liar. Though not all put together, @srayzie made some posts on it. 1 2
@Gothamgirl is objectively a liar and accused @srayzie of criminal acts while showing that she is pathological in her lying.
@RIPJem you only need to click on the comment history to see why this user would have flair.
@Piscina might earn a flair soon for this accusation of mod removals of relevant threads.
Some other users may earn flair soon - some you may have liked or appreciated. Each one will have a post HERE for their attacks on this place so the users can see for themselves, and argue their case for any username they happen to like.
Throwaway names and aged sock puppets will require no explanation unless the users here decide it is necessary.
SOMEthing needs to be done about what's happening here, and the mod team is small and limited in resources and time. The line must be drawn somewhere, and we are all doing what we can to stick to Voat's free-speech principles while limiting the negative effects of paid pedo-protectors on everyone here in PG.
If we get user input, the mods will go with the consensus. If not, the mods will try to work out a system that is agreeable on their own.
From @Vindicator:
It should be noted that there are many creative ways that username flares could be deployed, including some positive ones like a gold star or something for people's favorite researchers. People should think about this and share any ideas they have.
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Piscina ago
I think that William Cooper (Behold a Pale Horse) said it best:
Unfortunately, I think tags will be ascribed to people whose (sometimes and/or often) valid opinions are disliked. It's a form of shaming and social stigmatizing, as well as public humiliation. If you want to shut down any dissenting opinions, that is the perfect way to do it. Forcing users to carry labels is pretty much the way it was done in The Scarlet Letter. I'd like to think we've moved on a little since then.
Yes, I made that comment to Vindicator. But I've not had any run-ins with him/her and have accepted whatever ruling he/she wanted to make. And I've had a hell of a lot more accusations leveled at me. I don't care though. I know who I am; I know my principles. As I've said before, I'm a nobody on the other side of the world. I have no horse in the race. I ask for, and take, no money. I am here simply because I want children to be protected. I am labelled a 'nut' by some for believing in pizzagate, but I've been here since the beginning and know that something is really wrong in Washington DC. Still noone knows what happened to little Caris. Instead of all this infighting, we should be thinking of the innocent children like her and the horrible things they're forced to endure.
Crensch ago
This is why I don't believe a word of what you say. You JIDF/MediaMatters shills always try to shoehorn in some kind of heartstring-tugging anecdote to make yourselves sound human. You're not.
And you are one of the users that, if we go forward with flairs, will be discussed until you can either apologize or support these words:
... which I asked you to support 6 days ago now. You've had 6 days, and you've done nothing but pretend it didn't happen.
If we choose not to go with flairs, I've half a mind to gather this kind of evidence on every single one of you and present it under every submission and comment you make. Until the lot of you stop harassing and lying about my mods, I will go out of my way to ruin you.
The ball is in your court.
@Vindicator @think- @srayzie @shizy @EricKaliberhall
Crensch ago
Mods, this heartstring anecdote thing has happened a LOT here, and I'd like to thank @Piscina for finally solidifying the pattern of it as a likely COINTEL playbook tactic that is used by shills to make them sound human. I don't think the rate at which this tactic is employed specifically by those that are attacking mods is organic, and I have never seen it used against the attackers. Not once.
Piscina ago
Crensch, I don't know you. It's only in the last few days you've pinged me, which is interesting because I've never interacted with you on pizzagate. And you've pinged me to call me a 'cunt' and tell me you're going to destroy me, without knowing me at all.
I've interacted with lots of users on pizzagate and, apart from the odd snipe, we're all pretty much on the same page and polite and helpful towards one another. I can honestly say that I believe users on pizzagate are there for the right reasons and are good people.
You seem to have come out of nowhere determined to, as you say, 'destroy' me.
Crensch ago
How very unfortunate for you and your handler.
How is this relevant to anything?
I don't need to know anything but what you've written in order to destroy you. The rest of anything about you I really don't give a shit about.
Good for you. If you attack my mods, I will show up. If you do not have sufficient supporting evidence to back up your attacks, I will rip you to shreds. IF you have supporting evidence, you will be thanked, and the mods will be dealt with.
Is that clear enough for you?
I can honestly say you live in a bubble, and have not seen what I have seen. Many of the "good people" users here are not.
If you want to stay in your bubble, that's fine, but steer clear of doing things that will get me involved, because I don't care about your feelings or morale. If you seem to be supporting the disinfo shills, you will be collateral damage whether you really are or not, and I will not give one single thought to what a fantastic person you are behind the keyboard.
You want kid gloves? The mods here are fucking saints, and you insignificant cuntbags attack them constantly, and you pile on whenever someone else attacks them, and you have absolutely no support for your positions, which should make you feel the deepest shame given that you're on a fucking research forum. How you don't feel this utter shame, I will never know, but I will wring it out of you like I just did with Gothamgirl.
I don't know you from Spamalek, cunt. I don't care who you are, where you came from, who you know, or what amazing discovery for PG you made; you came here with accusations during one of the biggest upheavals of this subverse's existence to attack my mods, and you have zero support for your attacks. Nothing. Not ONE ounce of it. What, exactly, do you think you look like to me? A human? No, you look like you're getting paid to attack my mods just like many of the others that attacked them around the same time. You think this shit isn't coordinated by $omeone?
@Vindicator @srayzie @think- @shizy @EricKaliberhall