I've been convinced one particular regular voat user is FBI or affiliated w/ some govt. group. You can find plenty of stories where the FBI infiltrates groups and creates "terrorists" to prosecute. In some cases they've targeted the mentally ill and in other they've offered exorbitant funding to encourage a manufactured threat. Just search it. There's no shortage of cases. I'm thinking of a particular and constant voat user that regularly encourages violence and regularly escalates conversations to death threats. I can't be the only person that has noticed this cunts pattern. Do you know who I'm talking about? When voat went down I honestly thought this cunt had created a case.
I'll agree with you on the style of posts thing. I generally keep things civil with perhaps a few contextual exceptions. I even tried to give a reasonable assessment of the JQ from an entirely rational point of view to both naysayers and zealots. Besides a few upvotes no one replied with any retort or concessions and went straight back to the same shit the next day. Felt like they were bots or some shit. Had that honeypot feel to it like cuckchan does.
A lot of the time it's just not worth the energy to engage.
I'll agree with you on the style of posts thing. I generally keep things civil with perhaps a few contextual exceptions. I even tried to give a reasonable assessment of the JQ from an entirely rational point of view to both naysayers and zealots. Besides a few upvotes no one replied with any retort or concessions and went straight back to the same shit the next day. Felt like they were bots or some shit. Had that honeypot feel to it like cuckchan does.
A lot of the time it's just not worth the energy to engage.
A lot of the time it's just not worth the energy to engage.
That is the taste I was left with. That is also why I am here, on Phuks, spreading broccoli memes. Even with just shitposting I find myself getting a better conversation out of people here than anywhere else on the internet insofar as right now.
And that is a huge disappointment to me, when I would spend hours cultivating my thoughts in my head for a post for the night. I would spend all day thinking how I could word things correctly, what topics were best suited to the discussion, and how I could try and "reach" the masses.
I would then post my content and sit there just watching the condensation build up on my beer. Nothing ever happened. People didn't have genuine feelings almost. Its like we were all just living in a time warp, simply larping ourselves away to the horizon. I sincerely wanted to reach people, I wanted to inform people of the banking cartels, the hidden groups, etc.
But nobody has time for that, I guess. People just want to talk mad shit on the internet, get a few laughs out of the ordeal, then wake up and forget it ever happened. Fucking SOYLENT GREEN type shit! I hate it!.
And again, that is why I am here, on Phuks, posting broccoli memes.
> A lot of the time it's just not worth the energy to engage.
That is the taste I was left with. That is also why I am here, on Phuks, spreading broccoli memes. Even with just shitposting I find myself getting a better conversation out of people here than anywhere else on the internet insofar as right now.
And that is a *huge* disappointment to me, when I would spend hours cultivating my thoughts in my head for a post for the night. I would spend all day thinking how I could word things correctly, what topics were best suited to the discussion, and how I could try and "reach" the masses.
I would then post my content and sit there just watching the condensation build up on my beer. Nothing ever happened. People didn't have genuine feelings almost. Its like we were all just living in a time warp, simply larping ourselves away to the horizon. I sincerely wanted to reach people, I wanted to inform people of the banking cartels, the hidden groups, etc.
But nobody has time for that, I guess. People just want to talk mad shit on the internet, get a few laughs out of the ordeal, then wake up and forget it ever happened. Fucking SOYLENT GREEN type shit! I hate it!.
And again, that is why I am here, on Phuks, posting broccoli memes.
I felt literally the same. I tried getting everyone there riled up about the TPP back in 2015, and a few of us were on an encrypted chatroom planning on organizing social media brigades and PSAs against it. The sub exploded one night and we got 200 people who were at least interested.
Then r/coontown got banned and all anyone cared about were the darkies. It was disappointing.
I felt literally the same. I tried getting everyone there riled up about the TPP back in 2015, and a few of us were on an encrypted chatroom planning on organizing social media brigades and PSAs against it. The sub exploded one night and we got 200 people who were at least interested.
Then r/coontown got banned and all anyone cared about were the darkies. It was disappointing.
Yeah, I mean the internet is pretty low tier for convo. It's why it's best to find the smaller communities online, find people you respect and have a discussion.
I see a lot of people getting back into old hobbies which require face to face socialisation. D'n'D, board games, book clubs.There's even meet up groups you can go to for discussion, or you can start your own. I'm involved in a few. I'd recommend it, get to know people, get involved in conversations. Be sure to invite along opposing views with a commitment to civil discussion though otherwise it just gets boring if everyone agrees. Even if you are trying to "reach the masses" you can do a lot just by interacting with the smaller groups. 7 degrees of separation and all that.
Yeah, I mean the internet is pretty low tier for convo. It's why it's best to find the smaller communities online, find people you respect and have a discussion.
I see a lot of people getting back into old hobbies which require face to face socialisation. D'n'D, board games, book clubs.There's even meet up groups you can go to for discussion, or you can start your own. I'm involved in a few. I'd recommend it, get to know people, get involved in conversations. Be sure to invite along opposing views with a commitment to civil discussion though otherwise it just gets boring if everyone agrees. Even if you are trying to "reach the masses" you can do a lot just by interacting with the smaller groups. 7 degrees of separation and all that.
I think its a radicalization technique. The more radical you get, the more dopamine hits they give you in the form of upvotes. Seems like some Pavlovian shit to create blind hate, probably to trick people into discrediting themselves. A psyop like that would be super easy to automate with keyword scripts.
I also happen to think that on reddit they use the reverse tactic, and downvote anyone who discusses the wrong things. Repeat offenders are shadow banned.
I think its a radicalization technique. The more radical you get, the more dopamine hits they give you in the form of upvotes. Seems like some Pavlovian shit to create blind hate, probably to trick people into discrediting themselves. A psyop like that would be super easy to automate with keyword scripts.
I also happen to think that on reddit they use the reverse tactic, and downvote anyone who discusses the wrong things. Repeat offenders are shadow banned.
Yeah I don't get it, the upvote thing doesn't mean shit outside of enabling you to post more / host subs etc. When it gets too high I nearly feel embarrassed and get more and more tempted to delete and start over. You may be right though, it's definitely a recognisable tactic - I see it mostly coming out of the U.S. the fake consensus and echo chamber thing. From facebook likes, to twitter retweets, to upvotes on a news aggregate. Nearly seems less about the content and more about the consensus.
Maybe that's why there's a bit of immunity here though, at least for my generation and older. It's respected to go against the grain here (assuming you aren't being an asshole) and be the underdog. Events and people are generally judged on the content of their character. But I see the slow change as more American media is consumed. But then I see the rebellion against it too, less people plugging in their TV's. Kids growing up in the backyard again. I'm hopeful.
Yeah I don't get it, the upvote thing doesn't mean shit outside of enabling you to post more / host subs etc. When it gets too high I nearly feel embarrassed and get more and more tempted to delete and start over. You may be right though, it's definitely a recognisable tactic - I see it mostly coming out of the U.S. the fake consensus and echo chamber thing. From facebook likes, to twitter retweets, to upvotes on a news aggregate. Nearly seems less about the content and more about the consensus.
Maybe that's why there's a bit of immunity here though, at least for my generation and older. It's respected to go against the grain here (assuming you aren't being an asshole) and be the underdog. Events and people are generally judged on the content of their character. But I see the slow change as more American media is consumed. But then I see the rebellion against it too, less people plugging in their TV's. Kids growing up in the backyard again. I'm hopeful.
There's a lot of them over there that openly call for violence. That is one thing I never understood about Voat. Yes, I understand the JQ, I see the money being moved around between corporations and into lobbyists and shills pockets. I see the owl and the societies. I see the feds. I also see that the only way we can really do anything about it, is to fucking talk about it.
The more people that are aware of this alternate side to reality, the greater our chances of toppling the system are. But constantly going around talking about "nigger this, nigger that, burn the kikes lets be done with that!" is doing nothing to help. Another thing I've always thought was super wrong with Voat was the incessant in-grouping. How can you develop and grow a group when you hardcore silence anybody that doesn't want to fall in line with "niggerkikefaggot" ?
The very witchunts and brigades that drove them away from reddit are the same ones they employ on Voat. I tested some waters on an alternate account. I would pretty much say the same message in my posts, but on one account it was filled with the "niggerjewmudslime" speech, and on the other account I didn't use a single slur and instead tried to rationalize things with fucking English.
Can you guess which message was ignored?