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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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[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Chances are extremely low the hypothetical scenario you paint a pretty picture of is true. Obvious troll is obvious. That user did not come here to engage in honest discussion. And it's also obvious that I don't make a habit of downvoting posts. Take your accusations of echo-chambering and shove them far back up your ass where they came from. I stand by my vote.

[–] • 3 pts

I will admit, that specific user had it well engrained into their mind what they thought of us (again completely false)

cc:

[–] • 0 pt

But yet as soon as the echo does not ring true you can only see an 'obvious troll'. I stand by my accusations and your comments only strengthen my argument. Your fe-fes got hurt and you got triggered into down voting.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

You're standing on shaky ground.

You stated:

Also predictably, a few of them followed the trail back here and started posting pro-Democrat/anti-Trump content...

Reddit users came here specifically to troll, not become Poal members and engage in any real conversation. They came here to generate negative reactions from existing members. They came with malicious intent.

Stop being so disingenuous. You KNOW what this was about.

[–] • 1 pt

That's fair. I think that the possibility that they came here for real discussion is very low. But I don't think we KNOW why the user came here, we just ASSUME we know why the user came here. Nothing that user posted was explicitly trolling or inflammatory... It just was counter to the echo chamber here.

So sure, I can assume we know what this was about... but you have to admit that you took the low road when in fact the content they posted was perfectly fine.