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Yesterday a few of you decided to go over to Reddit and kick the beehive...The predictable things happened. Every comment and post on Reddit was down voted to oblivion and the users were generally hostile calling Poal a den a right wing neo-nazis.

Also predictably, a few of them followed the trail back here and started posting pro-Democrat/anti-Trump content... and a few of you got triggered like a PETA member on a hunting trip.

If the first time you see content that does not reverberate with the echo chamber properly you instinctively reach for the down vote button then you are making this place no better than Reddit. That is the top of the slippery slope to vote brigades, shadow bans and censorship. Or did the users that down voted WANT Poal to be an echo chamber? DId some shills just out them selves?

Do better. BE better.

- I'm looking at you. Grow a fucking backbone
Yesterday a few of you decided to go over to Reddit and kick the beehive...The predictable things happened. Every comment and post on Reddit was down voted to oblivion and the users were generally hostile calling Poal a den a right wing neo-nazis. Also predictably, a few of them followed the trail back here and started posting pro-Democrat/anti-Trump content... and a few of you got triggered like a PETA member on a hunting trip. If the first time you see content that does not reverberate with the echo chamber properly you instinctively reach for the down vote button then you are making this place no better than Reddit. That is the top of the slippery slope to vote brigades, shadow bans and censorship. Or did the users that down voted WANT Poal to be an echo chamber? DId some shills just out them selves? Do better. BE better. @auto_turret @Titus_of_Voat @Professor_de_la_Paz @Xenxaytax - I'm looking at you. Grow a fucking backbone

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[–] • 4 pts

We'd rather engage in a counter argument with the post/comment we disagree with, and use down votes for spam (you can report to admins) and off topic trolls.

Trolls are fair game and you know it.

[–] • 3 pts

So the post on Reddit was explicitly framed as "Poal is better, why not come check it out." Do you think it is impossible that someone actually just wanted to give Poal.co a spin and was not a Troll? I have zero doubt that the poster who came here really did think Trump will loose and really does miss Obama.

[–] • 3 pts

OK, I see your point. Perhaps the poster was indeed genuine. Perhaps I overreacted.
As I said earlier, I was unaware of any reddit posts that could have caused the individual to come here and post his/her/zer thoughts.

[–] • 4 pts

THIS is the type of discourse that make this place better than Reddit. Thanks for actually thinking about it.

To be fair chances are extremely low that the user had the intention of real discourse... but we need to always look to better ourselves and retain the moral high ground.

[–] • 2 pts

For the record, I made that post as a serious post so that more people would come to Poal and get off of Reddit