Banned
I was banned from Breitbart about a year ago. Had been reading it from the beginning, so I was a loyal reader. That counts for nothing. I repeatedly tried to contact them through their "let us know if you're having problems..." link. Nada. Zero response. I believe it was because, every time I saw a provacative commentor (troll), I would check their upvotes and discover they had less than 200... as if they were not real people. I have about 34,000 up votes. I would then call them out as trolls. The people who run the comments section didn't like that, apparently. Anybody else have a similar experience?
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.
On one site a poster has a very English first and last name, before the name is 'Dr', after the name is 'Ph.D'. An eyebrow goes up at this. The post says without providing any support or ref 'HCQ is not a zinc ionophore'. I have seen papers reporting that it is. I reckon this is not just an ignoramus loud mouth but a troll, maybe paid.
On another site, a poster with a first name says the Henry Ford Clinic study is full of errors. I ask, 'Which are?'. There is an answer, it is a ref to that poster's other contributions on that site. There is no list, not even one error is stated.
I conclude this sort of thing is not opinion but organized in some way.
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.
This may cause a bit of suspicion until you've participated in a few exchanges. Just an observation.
Welcome to the fray.
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I have been watching the r/h column of "comments" and of those "online" closely over the past month. There is an unusual volume of interest/newcomers of late. gotta go...I see a couple new names that may need welcome....LOL
AuldGuy! Welcome to The Gulch. Where even here nothing runs perfect!
I hope you can appreciate my "challenge" as i would like to keep this site populated with healthy insight and exchange.
On occasion there have been systemic, anonymous downvoting sprees here as well.
It was a LOT of fun. Everyone brought a sense of humor to an often senseless world view.
Ah...I miss the days of LS and the others.
Does this affect anyone's ability to post?
The only thing I have found disconcerting is a down without a posted disagreement.