META: Proposed new theme for this subreddit

0  2016-10-12 by krom_bom

So I've noticed lately that this sub has been sort of... single minded, lately.

this is what i'm talking about

16 out of the top 20 posts are about Hillary Clinton and/or her staff.

I mean, yall are really going hard right now. If I didn't know better, I'd find this a little suspicious.

There is even a post up right now on the front page complaining about how /r/politics is nothing but anti-Trump articles. And yet the front page of /r/conspiracy is crowded with nothing but anti-HRC material almost every single day.

So my proposal is to just have a temporary theme, until the election, and rename the sub /r/ANTIHILLARY or something like.

At least then we can be honest with ourselves.

PS- Just to be clear, this is not meant to a political post (i know that sounds crazy, just listen), this about my love of conspiracy discussion and reading crazy articles about fascninating topics I'd never considered. I used to love coming here to find some new and novel idea about something, some new perspective I hadn't considered.

I'm sick of being inundated with this shit. Maybe we just need some good megathreads or something, I don't know.

I just want to read about bigfoot and aliens and mysterious disappearances, and secret government experiments.

Not all the time, but seriously... I feel as though all other content is being drowned by anti-hillary materials.

Is this what the community wants? Am I alone with these thoughts?

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That's a great point on more megathreads. That would help organize things. Mods?
But the root cause of all this is that /r/politics is totally corrupt and people are leaking to wherever there is freedom. /r/conspiracy is the obvious alternative.

Do not feed the shills and agents.

What do you mean? I made this post just out of frustration. I knew that I'd get nothing but downvotes and scorn, but hey... sometimes you gotta speak up.

How about the posts i made about other political squabbles? What about the posts that point out Trump, the Alt-Right, the Globalists, the Zionists, Vaccines, Syria...etc? This isn't only anti-hillary and anti-ctr, there are much bigger conspiracies to expose, but this one about Hillary and the CTR is just the most glaring and obvious at this state.

You are paying no respect to those other conspiracies which sometimes appear on the front page.

Also, doing so only garners more shill attention and they will be attacking us. Please don't attract them to here.

This. It's not helpful for people to make posts screaming at the community "YA BUNCH OF TRUMP SHILLS!" when many of us hate both candidates and are posting other things besides Hillary emails. This is annoying, inaccurate and offensive to our intelligence.

to make posts screaming at the community "YA BUNCH OF TRUMP SHILLS!"

Good thing that's not what I did.

That's how it came off.

So my proposal is to just have a temporary theme, until the election, and rename the sub /r/ANTIHILLARY or something like.

I vote no x10000. You're just feeding the political shills trying to categorize this sub as anti-Hillary on the same level as r/politics being corrupted, and that's not remotely truthful or helpful.

16 out of the top 20 posts are about Hillary Clinton and/or her staff. I mean, yall are really going hard right now. If I didn't know better, I'd find this a little suspicious.

Then maybe you should pay attention to what's going on right now with WikiLeaks? We're less than a month away from the election, things are heating up, scandals and conspiracies are being expounded upon with the WikiLeaks information just dropped this week, so yes, there are a lot of posts about Hillary and her corruption. This should not be suspicious to anyone paying attention to world events and the media right now. This isn't a random influx of anti-Hillary propaganda like you're implying.

I just want to read about bigfoot and aliens and mysterious disappearances, and secret government experiments.

Have you considered the obvious that there isn't nearly as much new information coming through on those subjects as what's coming up on Hillary? Where is this week's bigfoot evidence reel (not human beings walking around eagle nests in fur suits and miraculously captured on film at the right moment)? Where is there new alien evidence outside of the absurd Podesta emails? (which are related to Hillary moreso than aliens at this point) I'm also not a fan of the SecureTeam10 stuff that constantly claims to identify moon structures and UFOs within incredibly blurry pictures.

Things will die down after the election. Until then I don't see a need to radically change the sub and start pointing fingers at users for being suspicious.

This isn't a random influx of anti-Hillary propaganda like you're implying.

I never intended to imply that.

Oh, and I'm sorry for being unclear, by my "petition" was a facetious request.

What's the new info on Hillary? All these thousands of new emails, and there is no smoking gun, nothing new.

Oh no! Her staff emailed with some journalists! No shit, already knew that. Same story every time.

Of all the pots about Hillary on the front page right now, I don't see a single one with any NEW or exciting information about her.

Yeah, she's corrupt as fuck. We get it. What's new?

I'm not even giving this a serious response because you clearly aren't interested enough in the political aspects of these conspiracies to have an opinion. I totally understand that you're not interested and don't personally care (politics are confusing and the corruption absolutely gets tiring to hear about), but it's not all the same like you're saying. You very clearly only browsed through those posts and decided not to look very deep because you're not interested, and THAT'S FINE, but don't complain to everyone else and try to change the fundamental nature of the sub because you aren't interested.

Do you always make sweeping assumptions about people with little to no evidence? I bet you do. But I'm not sure. (because I don't make sweeping assumptions about people with little to no evidence)

I'm not interested because after investigating the last 400 posts about hillary's corruption, I think I got the picture.

She colludes with the media, she has private positions, her staff works with the DNC, she works with big money, etc etc etc

It's all old news, all of it.

Show me one post on the front page, today, about Hillary, that is some new revelation about her corruption, please.

You are so arrogant and sanctimonious, it adds nothing to the conversation.

Your post and comments are the evidence. You don't get to claim my comments are sweeping when you've laid out your position for all to see. You don't care about the corruption because it seems similar to you as all previous corruption instances. This is a great example of people becoming desensitized to the corruption and giving up altogether. Now you're going so far as to scorn others and the community for caring about the subject.

I mean, I don't know how you claim I'm arrogant when you feel entitled to judge the entire community and ask for renaming.

He's one of this people. It turns out they dont wake up very easily.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599

And just to be clear, you see all this anti-Hillary posts here because the mods dont allow them on other categories, for them any anti-Hillary post is a conspiracy.

Check out r/politics1 a new sub created in response to the "one-sidedness" of certain subs

https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/

Thats for your bigfoot/aliens

I agree that it seems weird that everything seems to be about her. There are so many important things going on that are being overshadowed by her clogging up the page.

Thanks for speaking up. Apparently our opinion is in the minority, around here. Oh well...

Ive been saying this for a bit now. R/conspiracy is overrun with trump shills. Im not saying shillary is better, but it distracts from what should be discussed, the prez is a puppet, and the bankers and buisness men are against all reg americans.

If there wasnt for this onesidedness, maybe we could expose somthing bigger than deleted emails, which every administration has done by the way.. im not defending hill, just making a point that there are bigger fish to fry.

R/conspiracy is overrun with trump shills

I didn't want to say that, but... I agree.

Even the voting pattern on this post shows that to me. All my comments downvoted to -1 or -2 within 2 minutes of posting. This post itself being hammered with like 10 downvotes before it was even 5 minutes old.

Yup and anything critcal of the current situation of this sub never get past 0.

Because they're usually intentional lies attempting to categorize the sub as a whole without considering the current state of the media and world events.

Oh well... I'm still here.

This community has been very frustrating to me at times, and I've almost been banned several times.

I keep coming back though, because generally, I enjoy the content. sigh

I'd rather vote for my dead parents than Trump, but I post most often about Hillary corruption because she's more involved in the establishment and international (foreign) affairs. Does that make me a shill? Am I shill for contributing to the email discussions? If there are bigger fish to fry then post about them instead of alluding.

Currently im looking into the bank that pays out ctr. The only union bank in America. Im only one guy, but if we are having a wikileaks circle jerk here, then alot of good researching gets lost in the shuffle.

Post about it then

Four downvotes in the first 2 minutes this was posted.

So people are autodownvoting this post without having read it. I wonder why?

We read it. I found it just a ridiculous idea. Temporarily renaming a subreddit isn't logical or beneficial.

If you want to change what's being discussed in here then submit content you would like to talk about. There's plenty of other individuals in this sub who also like the subjects you suggested.

The truth is that this subs current front page is a combination of factors.

  • It's towards the end of a major election

  • Trump supporters have been pushed here from the Trump subreddits

  • Clinton has always been a subject of interest during the election

  • Third parties are pushing political content to the front page in order to slide anything relevant to global politics

  • Third parties want to push the Clinton propaganda that all Trump supporters are conspiracy theorists and all damaging claims made are in fantasy land

  • Content creators are not submitting as much content during this time due to the actions of third parties bombarding the new queue with political propaganda

  • Individuals from the politics subreddit have come here due to the politics sub being so one sided. Although, as you stated, this sub is now also one sided due to any anti-Trump content being buried or slided

  • Reddit has no mitigation in place to deal with groups pushing propaganda and controlling subreddits

What's the answer?

  • Continue to browse the new tab. You will still find the content you are interested in. You will just have to search for it a bit longer.

  • Become a contributor and share the content you wish others to find

  • Make sure you promote content that's not politics related

The proposal to rename the sub was facetious. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

This post was more about venting frustration than anything else.

'I just want to read about bigfoot and aliens and mysterious disappearances, and secret government experiments.'

Can I recommend you visit /r/HighStrangeness until the elections are over, they have a wealth of posts about the weirder side of conspiracies. There's been a huge amount of actual conspiracies surrounding this election and people are going to post about it.

Already subscribed. It's a good sub, but it's not very active unfortunately.

The users make a sub active not reddit. Maybe you should post the things you think should be here?

Then you are just adding to the content dilution. Congratulations. Job well done.

Because you're one of many arrogantly trying to categorize the sub as anti-Hillary when in fact we're just being overloaded with information from WikiLeaks on crap she's done.

You have no problem with 80-90% of the posts being random shit about Hillary that does nothing but induce scandal fatigue while failing to deliver any "bombshells" or "smoking guns"?

I mean, if that's the kind of content you want, so be it. I'm just voicing my opinion.

The posts aren't random shit. I'm sorry you're offended that the sub isn't discussing bigfoot or aliens nearly as much this month as you'd like.

If I applied that same logic to your ideal sub primarily consisting of bigfoot and alien stories every week, you wouldn't be allowed to post. I guarantee there are not "bombshells" or "smoking guns" being posted every week about aliens or bigfoot. They're both incredibly old subjects. Not less important, just old and beaten to death, waiting for new, reliable information.

No I get it, you just want to read about Hillary doing exactly the same shit over and over again.

That's fine, dude. If that's the content you want, that's your right. I don't know why you're getting so cranky about it.

Just go read your cookie-cutter "NEW EMAIL SHOWS STAFFER IN CONTACT WITH CNN" post or whatever.

I'm sure you'll learn a lot =)

That wasn't a rebuttal and now you're repeating yourself. Hopefully you understand the other side of this story now at least instead of only your side.

You're right, it wasn't a rebuttal. I was saying that I understand your position. Why do you keep trying to argue? Like I said, I get it dude. I understand that you just want to read about the same scandal over and over again.

Again, if you're not interested in politics, don't click on the political articles. End of discussion. You're not clever by insulting me and then asking why I'm arguing. Jesus.

I didn't insult you? Damn dude, you need to chill. No need to take the lord's name in vain over a silly reddit comment.

I apologize for getting you all worked up and upset, it wasn't my intention.

As if you could tell that I'm physically worked up over such a ridiculous post and request? Pffft. Again you're not the only one to try and condescendingly label the sub and declare it Pro-Trump and full of Trump shills. I'll be here every time someone baselessly accuses me of that.

Well lucky for us that we have such a defender of truth on hand. ; )

At least you recognize it as truth and your bullshit as fantasy land.