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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Are_we_sure ago
Do you really think people are paid to come here. Why?
Crensch ago
Are_we__sure ago
Are you using that as a way of avoiding thinking? Of avoiding engaging in discussion?
I just read your post on Gothamgirl. DRA-MA. I still lead towards mental health issues.
As a critic and skeptic on here, I'm seeing this with a bit of distance. From where I am sitting, this seems like the fights of true believers. Ever notice how religions and cults end up in schisms? Like minded people all of a sudden have an irredeemable split? It happens all through human history.
There's a certain baseline of paranoia on these boards to begin with. It's not unusual on here to believe multiple ancient global conspiracies connect every scandal in the modern world. And in fact you can trace these scandals back to the ancient conspiracies in an unbroken line of succession. That attracts a certain kind of thinker. Paranoids lash out when challenged. Even close friends can become ONE of them. If this is a place that feels like home to them, crticism from someone close to them would sting much more than criticism from an outsider or a normie.
SoberSecondThought ago
Every word of this is true, and none of it changes the fact that you are paid to come here. Life is full of ironies like that.
Are_we__sure ago
That's a nonfact.
SoberSecondThought ago
First, a couple of paragraphs is not "insanely long," and second, what is it with you people and pretending not to remember things? Does that work in the courtroom? "Your Honor, I don't recall anything about murder charges against my client. Weren't we discussing a parking ticket?" So lame!
You're a lawyer working for the Clintons, maybe paid by the Clinton Foundation, or maybe out of some other pot of money. It's not rocket science, just fairly elementary listening skills. When you confine yourself to short, witty retorts you could be mistaken for a public-spirited skeptic trying to calm down a paranoid conspiracy-fest (which of course Voat is, much of the time). But when you argue anything more complicated, then both because of the subject matter you get most engaged by, and because of how you approach it, you sound uncannily like a lawyer assigned to refute allegations against your client.
I've said this before: It's not the crime itself, but the cover-up that generally causes the most problems. If you came and went erratically, if you got pissed off and emotionally engaged in what you were writing, or if you had ever offered a credible alternative motivation for the hours you put in, I might believe you were just one more guy arguing with strangers on the Internet. But you're (a) relentlessly professional and (b) always here. That kind of dispassionate attention to detail bills out at a substantial hourly rate.
Are_we__sure ago
Your theory was wrong, struck me as bizarre and I forgot about it. I don't focus on people's screen names too much unless you're one of the handful whose personalities I got to know.....usually if they got personal with me Frankly, I confuse you with another user. Your theory is still bizarre and wrong the second time around. Have you heard? I'm some guy named Kamil on Medium.