What you mention reminds me of something I've experienced several times. I've seen it happen here, too. If a controversial topic comes up as a discussion you'll see people appear in the forum for the first time, where they ridicule the poster they don't agree with, agitate, and misdirect. Then, as soon as the thread cools...POOOF!...they're gone. There are obviously operatives, probably government backed, out there who scour the internet for discussions with key words. Then, in some odd hope of bending public opinion, they create a log in and get to work. It has been noticeable here because this forum is, relatively speaking, a pretty tight group of people. New names pop right out. Years ago when I was on Facebook it was obvious. The user's profile what basically that of a storefront manikin - no family, a couple foreign friends, hahaha...

To add to what Commander said...This is a pretty tight group and you certainly should introduce yourself. This is a great group here. Rarely do we have real (as opposed to what I'm mentioning above) agitators. When/if we do they simply don't fit in here. There are plenty of other places on the internet for meaningless fights...I call them "sandboxes", like FB.

The site changed after Andrew died. I covered an occupy event back in the day and did a live interview with one of the participants, I sent a link to one of the people there and they called me to coordinate putting it up on the site, an hour later one of the producers/editors called back and said he had a problem with the name of my business (Starznbarz Photography) and said I had to explain why the name wasnt racist... my reply was that I knew and worked with Andrew at a few events and I was not in the habit of explaining myself to someone that didnt bother to look at my site content ( 12,000 + images and video) before asking a stupid question. Needless to say, the piece never ran on the site.

I have an acquaintance from England on FB where we belong to a Slavic Mythology and Spirituality Group who is a practicing Buddhist; he posts regularly on Buddhist practices and philosophy. FB stopped him from posting for 48hrs due to supposed complaints against Buddhist philosophy. I was on Messenger posting to a high school friend about HCl which was removed with a notice that it didn't meet their guidelines. I couldn't believe that FB monitors Messenger also.

Are these Trolls or Personas (Govt created influencers, using AI techniques via the Millie Video with the 2 whistleblowers).

The problem is that for the same logic of us being in a simulation (once a society becomes sophisticated enough, they will create MORE simulations than actual societies)...

Once AIs can be unleashed as Personas in Social media to motivated and manipulate, then there is no point in playing the game.

it completely explains the decimation of MySpace, et al. And why FB, et al will ultimately fail.

I have not had that issue on Breibart, but I have had issues on Fox News in the past, with my posts disappearing. I copped. Apparently, some liberal made the IT dept or something. I called them out on my posts each time. I have even found some sites, just drop content mid-post if it is conservative. Obama did give the Internet to the UN, who put China in control of it. That should never have taken place.

Welcome to The Gulch, AuldGuy.

In addition to my other post I would add; I've not seen you in the new introductions in The Gulch.
This may cause a bit of suspicion until you've participated in a few exchanges. Just an observation.
Welcome to the fray.

I have been on Galt's Gulch for over 8 months, posted many times, but I did not know about the Introductions category. Just learned of this.

Not with Breitbart but with Facebook something very similar. Essentially all social media is controlled by the Left. So I abandoned all social media.

There is systemic bias in a lot of forums and platforms. This has happened in The Gulch.
On occasion there have been systemic, anonymous downvoting sprees here as well.