It's kind of a dangerous terrain, and a rather new development around here. I'm hoping there's nothing nefarious going on and we're just being paranoid...I heard it's something that can happen to conspiracy heads.

Why would anyone be against something that wards off brigades and astroturfers?

The mods never care when the_donald brigades a cross post to the front page here. Wonder why.

This does seem to be true.

How do you know they don't care? Also, if they are going to try to ward it off, they need to test to see what works. If we go by your logic, both sides will continue to brigade. Do you want that?

Both sides brigade regardless. The mods only care when liberals are brigading.

Both sides brigade regardless.

We all die regardless, so why come up with medicine? That is your logic.

The mods only care when liberals are brigading.

Got evidence for that?

Yeah every time the comment sections don't agree with the post recently, the mods turn it to contest mode.

Once again, got evidence for that?

Sure just go to the top post on this sub and sort by "top" then sort by "best" and see for yourself. All the comments that disagree fall to the bottom.

Which post on the front page is in contest mode? I went through most of them and I couldn't find the one you are talking about. Also, on Reddit "Top" and "Best" !== what the actual community thinks is top and best. Are you new to Reddit or something?

Literally the top post on this sub right now.

This: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6r4t4h/dont_let_this_story_die_twitter_bots_keep_posting/? That's not in contest mode.

I'm not sure I agree that anti-Trump comments are never on top. I've definitely seen some on top, am I wrong in remembering that? And not every one praises "dear leader" as you well know.

There are a lot of anti trump comments at the top. That's the whole point of this post. They put them in contest mode so those comments drop to the bottom.

Oh, didn't know it worked that way. Still, I have seen anti-Trump comments on top. Or is that before?

Not when the put it in contest mode. They just recently started doing it.

Ok, we'll see how one-sided things get.

You guys are just mad because buying upvotes and brigading threads do not build the narrative you wish to portray anymore when they get all shuffled

Deal with it

Don't you guys constantly whine about censorship? This is censorship.

No, it's merely hiding all the e-peen next to the content.

Literally all of the comments are still there.

The only thing that is being censored is the karma score, which is already essentially censored due to reddit's vote fuzzing (hiding actual votes).

You're right, the mods should ban all bi-partisan users, including yourself.

Never said they should ban people. Just don't put it in contest mode so the community isn't represented in the comments.

The bipartisan circlejerk is NOT the community.

It's actually quite the gauge in seeing who is and isn't a part of the "community"... lol, smh OP.

He's just pissed that he can't produce any results. Just like IRL I bet

LMAO bruhhhhh, this is the funniest thread I've seen all day! Literally have me dying over here 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Poor guy is mad that no matter how many upvotes he brings over, shit ain't going his way...

How many times do I have to tell you we don't give A FUCK about sides.

This thread has now given me the energy to come EVERYDAY to throw down here. This is MY SUB.

Your frustration is showing and it's giving me the biggest hard on. 😘😘

BRUH, u/putin_loves_cats grew up in this sub. You ain't gunna win

op is not genuine, but this post got some attention. i just realized something; the innerwebz are overwhelmingly visual stimulation, as opposed to textual and reading centric. The big deal over at the_d is everything that gets votes is photoshopped video or hilarious. If you dont get the topical inside jokes, you are indeed a flatliner and complaining about the sub and its subscibers makes it blatently obvious youre just lame

I personally love to see the scores and shilling. To me it's so painfully obvious that I will go out my way to try to upvote posts that I feel are genuine yet getting shit on. I don't mind contest mode, but it does seem odd to force comment sorting on someone. Why not make it default but not the only option? Or do what r/sports or r/politics does during an event and sort by new?

Every pro Donald sub is the same. Same stupid phrases, use of CAPS, always overselling in titles, and always aggressively boxing out dissenting opinions. Agree with everything, challenge nothing. Didn't care about an issue before? What's that, trump rage tweeted about it? Now I care and have a firm opinion. What's that? You disagree? Then must call you a shareblue bot. Better unsubscribe to all subs that's aren't pro trump - wouldn't want to get corrupted by fake news. I only want and get all my news directly from Trumps outlets. You disagree? Let me check your post history and then say because you post in /pol every single thought you have should be dismissed.

Contesting contest mode = CCM...imma give this post a nickname seeing as how I expect this trend to continue..

Not when the put it in contest mode. They just recently started doing it.

Ok, we'll see how one-sided things get.