You see the post on r_politicalhumor?

It appears the bots we're down for mantainance.

No, what was it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/8qryqq/one_minor_detail/?ref=share&ref_source=link

Many thanks internet friendo.

Still got upvoted by the uneducated democrats

Digg may be slowly happening. Nothing but advertisements and influence to be had here. People should recognize it I would think, its pretty obvious. Most everything is nothing but shit slinging nowadays. All the subs have been politized and lots of fighting. Almost like TPTB want people pissed at everyone else's little group that they like to label them.

no one responds to each other just parrots them.

Those are the bots.

Digg isn't happening, it's happened. The only difference is that reddit is applying the "boiling frog" principle by simply implementing it in slow motion.

I'm noticing bots on other subs, not noticed it on this one yet, but I notice the censorship that people use by down voting posts, so other people can't see it. For a conspiracy Reddit I thought people were more open to debating, rather then just mass down voting unpopular opinions.

The mass downvotes come from bots, but I havent seen much activity of bots in the comment section.

Did you know people banned from commenting in this sub can still vote?

Just my personal opinion, but over the years have noticed if you say literally anything that doesn't flow with what's currently popular and accepted, the down votes will rain down upon you.

Things that will always get you upvotes

Cats, Hillary is good, Trump is bad, repost of a meme that already made it to the frontpage but is politically correct and has a more thought out title. Many more but these are sure fire karma.

But I totally think the up vote down vote system is being used to censor at this point.

I agree with you completely on this. I find a lot of people are presumptious as well, rather then asking someone what they mean exactly or their reasons behind what they said, they will jsut go trigger happy with down votes to censor them as well.

Do you find yourself slowly NOT wanting to visit these forums? My guess is that is the desired goal.

Could go something like: Dear, reddit We need to go ahead and shut down any real political discussions or theorizing that occur on your website. Shutting it down outright will create outrage, so make it happen in a way that might seem organic.

Yes.

I quit Facebook about 7 years ago after their massive site redesign, and I get closer and closer to quitting Reddit every day. I know the redesign can be switched back in options, which I did, but overall the changes over the past 2 years have been bad after bad after bad after bad.

They've done nothing right in the past few years, and I don't see them suddenly reverting to how it was 5 years ago, so like Facebook, they'll probably push me into canceling my account with their shitty changes.

Honestly, voat is far better. A few retards, but a lot more uncensored.

Chans are shit, don't go there much these days.

Yeah, I mean if I moved to anywhere it would probably be Voat, I don’t know of any better online options. Honestly might just go back to good old fashioned books on my work breaks, though.

That's prolly the best option.

I've been tryna stay off the internet, TBH.

... with varying levels of success, obviously.

https://www.saidit.net/ is always on option too.

I wish they had an app

Reddit used to be good. It sucks now except for a few subs

Try gab.ai or WrongThink.net

Do you find yourself slowly NOT wanting to visit these forums?

Yeah I've just started thinking that. When I first used forums like reddit, there was just constant amazing conversation, discussion and enlightenment. It slowly started to sour in the early teens, and then in 2016 it became that it was literally nearly impossible to have a remotely fruitful conversation. Just pure unadulterated ugliness.

For a long time I assumed it was oriented around just a few controlled subjects, but it's starting to become clear that it's the whole platform of online community that they're destroying. Their henchmen believe it's about tearing down the hubristic Babylonian tower of Globalism. The people who are actually paying to do it however are just trying to prevent the People from organizing and retaking the country.

Do you find yourself slowly NOT wanting to visit these forums?

I avoid r/politics like the plague, its literally David Brock ass cancer which will give your eyes instant AIDS just by going there

Holy shit a real person. I'm a visitor here. This is exactly what is happening over at /pol/. I've picked up on this specifically - they respond to you in an attempt to make you feel like you're wasting your time by using the site. If they're bots, they're damn lifelike and can bypass captcha which is terrifying. If they're human, they've got so much money behind this that it's horrific. I'm not sure which possibility is worse. I believe it's a combination of both - many proxy 'accounts' being posted by a single user who rapidly switches between them.

IT is more likely that a human gets the bot past captcha.

How Reddit was Destroyed

Thats a good thread. Ive been om reddit for nearly a decade and i've considered to stop using it several times in the last years

https://www.saidit.net/

u/magnora7 is a good guy and all, but saidit is too similar to reddit, it suffers the same weaknesses, up/down votes, moderators, which could eventually be abused.

Steemit. Identity controls and actually paying to upvote/downvote make brigading much more difficult. Added benefit that everything is recorded into their blockchain, so comments can't really be edited/deleted/removed/etc.

Starting to see a trend on here of lots of hate downvotes and concern trolling whenever I mention it too.

Starting to see a trend on here of lots of hate, downvotes and concern trolling whenever I mention it too.

Then you are doing it right.

It doesn't have up/down votes, it has funny & insightful votes. There is no downvote. You should spend more time on saidit before you give up on int.

When i goto /r/politcs/new/ the newest post is 19 days old?

Dude, you spelled politics wrong.

I know. It is spelled how OP linked it.

That's the problem, don't go to r/politics.

It’s the entire internet , since the dawn of the internet . This has been happening since yahoo chat was popular

Yes. The bots are now online. We actually have to have a progressive sense about it.

Recognize empty arguments. Dont give them the satisfaction.

Only argue amoungst ourselves.

As others have said, it's not just reddit.

https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ covers known disinformation being pushed by state-actors. They've been more active recently than they were for awhile.

Except its fake news

It only monitors "accounts related to russian interests"

They call donald trump "russian interests"

Meaning if ur a trump supporter on twitter who tweets pro brexit pro trump or anti hillary stuff theyll lump u in

Its not really russia. Its americans twerting things

Trump Derangement Syndrom in combination with the elites losing their grips of control over us. What you're witnessing is a last stand to control the narrative.

We are winning.

No. U WERE winning.

Now the elites are winning. U can't be winning when u refuse to fight.

Theyre successfully censoring facebook. Then twitter. Amd reddit

Youre not even TRYING to stop them

So how exactly are u winning besides "td calls all bad news 12d underwater chess!"

What are you talking about? They wouldn't have to do the things you just described if we weren't winning. What are you talking about I'm not doing anything?

You're coming off a bit strange.

If you will not play the game by their rules, you will not win. You will be given the illusion that you might be winning, but if you are not willing to play the game as it is played, you get played.

Not playing the game at all. We are throwing the dice in the trash.

Learn how to think outside the box instead of living in it.

I metaphorically told you there are no rules to their game, and you seem to want to adhere to these rules-for-us. Why?

Also, you don't have a choice as to weather you play it or not. Relaxing your participation just means you don't care about you piece on the board.

I metaphorically told you there are no rules to their game, and you seem to want to adhere to these rules-for-us. Why?

Are you drunk? I just got done telling you no one's playing their game. If you aren't playing the game the rules are meaningless.

Also, you don't have a choice as to weather you play it or not

You sound like a slave. Your first problem is that you allow yourself to believe a lie. You're your own problem.

Relaxing your participation just means you don't care about you piece on the board.

You sound like you wish you understood more than you actually do.

Wise up guy.

You wrote "think outside the box", in my response of literally 'thinking outside the box'. And you did so in a way that seems to be lead by hateful intentions based on you context of written content.

Are you classist? As unless you are rich or wealthy in the US, you too are a slave. I don't deny being a slave. I understand it. I work against it.

Are you working toward it?

Because unless you play the game they way they play it, you will never win. Never.

You need to take a break. It shows. You're about 6 feet too deep down the rabbit hole.

What a dumb metaphor. And besides, I'm old enough and wise enough to not get emotionally attached to all this BS because I don't let it have a negative effect on my life.

I bungyjump rabbitwholes constantly because I have confidence, and I have control of me!

Thank you for you concern.

I'm not concerned. I'm right.

TDS = Made up term by people that hate hearing trump be criticized while at the same time obsessing over Hilary and Obama still

I literally never see anyone obsess over Hillary or Obama except butthurt dems who don't have an argument.

Are you kidding me?? Trump himself still brings up Hilary to distract from his shit. I see trump fans use "What about Hilary??" As a defense constantly

Ben Garrison, favorite among Trump fans, still includes Hilary in even his most recent comics

You sound obsessed with Trump. Need a cryogenic sleep or something?

Nah, it's just unfortunate that he's the face of our country rn, luckily it'll pass and he won't get reelected

Vote for The Rock 2020

Nah, it's just unfortunate that he's the face of our country rn, luckily it'll pass and he won't get reelected

Vote for The Rock 2020

You know, you're really setting yourself up to get emotionally fucked in the ass again just like 2016.

Nah I'll be okay, thanks for the concern though

I'm not concerned, I'm right.

Bots and people on the payroll

Reddit has become popular and is becoming like Facebook as a result.

The moment a thing becomes popular, it gets downgraded.

/r/politics should not be a default subreddit. It's biased and is essentially an /r/democrat now lol. Anything that's not an anti trump circle jerk gets downvoted. I remember the rules on reddit used to be that the downvote is not a dislike botton. Don't downvote because you don't like the post...downvote if It's not factual. That doesn't happen anymore.

has it ever not been r/democrat?

I thought I remember it being a little different but I just did some research and as far back as 2012 it's been an obama/democrat circle jerk lol

Yeah, I heard it was shilled hard during Obama's runs too. But I think the shills just come and go as "necessary", because astroturf didn't seem to be a real problem when I was hanging out there. Not until CTR fucked everything up in April 2016 anyway.

I was a regular there in early 2016. Almost everyone was supporting Bernie Sanders. Those who weren't liked Trump. This was before Correct the Record took over. By the end of the primaries, the shills had the whole sub on lockdown.

Those who weren't liked Trump.

Source for this claim? It was very pro-Sanders, but /r/politics never really had a pro-trump contingent that wasn't just the "sort by controversial" crowd.

it's mostly bots

Have you been offline since 2015? 2016 election both the left and the right have been unleashing bots and shills online, not just on reddit, to push divisive stories and fake news.

For every default sub that got ruined by bots, there is usually an alternative with apparently real humans in it. Just append a "2" to the end of the default name.

r/politicalhumor2

r/politics2

r/worldnews2

etc.

Great. Some subs with 15 active users

I might as well just go to the news sites directly and read the comments section

You're welcome!

Find it a little funny that r/politcs was linked, not r/politics haha

I have a friend who is formerly part of NPR. He is a real person but if you followed only his political commentary you would assume he is a bit. Sadly we have political parties largely so people don't need free thought or debate, they like ideology.

Just now browsing all (ya I know) I realised the beautiful simplicity of it.

They are making Reddit more dumb. Intelligent people won't want to visit. Anyone who stays is filling their mind with divisive, idiotic trash.

Think about it. Reddit 10 years ago was like the pre-revolutionary American pubs and alehouses. Smart minds coming together eventually forming the basis of major change.

Can't have those forums existing, now can we?

Been like this for years. I wonder to myself why I even come here anymore. Old habits are hard to break.