This is about GamerGate but the same methods are used here, there, and everywhere. RPF has $#@!posters with reps beyond repute, FFS! (See the Ego section for that.) Not only do we have to contend with govt-paid POS provocateurs, we have to deal with these SJW control-freak clowns. Sadly, they have been effective as hell.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/09/...titutions.html
This is a vital description of the way SJWs attack social media institutions outside their control, from a blog to an entire social media organization:
Containment, however, is not a winning strategy on its own. Even if you contain a conversation, even if you contain a user base, it can still grow in theory. As degenerate as people are today, quality is easily detected by others, whether it is great art, entertaining jokes or damning evidence. This is why, once a "space" (I'll drop the quotes now, but please note that I don't intend to justify the existing use of this terminology, I intend to dismantle it) is contained, the next move is to ensure its destruction. There are two ways to do this, we will now discuss the first of them:
Strategy 2: Dilution and poisoning
Just because a space is contained by no means implies that they intend to leave it alone. Containment keeps people inside the space from going out, like a gated city under siege by a numerically and tactically superior enemy. Dilution and pollution are the artillery and siege weapons deployed to make ensure everyone in the city starves or gets poisoned. Their aim is to destroys the target containment space and ensure those inside surrender and assimilate into the outer safe space.
What keeps a space alive? Two key ingredients: new users and new content (also known as OC). A new participants/lurkers, after becoming familiar with a space, create new content. The OC doesn't make itself after all, and every individual has a finite amount of time and finite will to continue. If they feel they are alone, lacking the will to continue, they will give up. New content, attracts new people and if it directs them to the space that created it, they can participate and grow it. Thus the two parameters are tightly coupled. Lose one and you lose the other.
By diluting the content that exists in a space with bad quality content, it will repel new users. Subtle sliding and $#@!posts are the main weapon of choice. Burying OC, burying quality posts and ensuring only the rubbish rises to the top. This has an additional benefit, the $#@!posting will force some users to demand a higher level of moderation. This will go back to the phase of containment, where infiltrating parties will be able to contain the containment through various rules as we saw on gghq and as we are seeing on KiA. The reaction is expected as is part of the strategy.
The other, much more dangerous weapon is poisoning, inserting bad ideas, rotten OC into the target. Making their OC less special/less distinct than that which can be obtained outside in the "safe space". Forcing those inside to play by the rules of the outside, changing their language. Calling them "edgelords" for being different, to shame them from creating certain content. We saw this on KiA where moderators will ban anyone who will call Brian Flynt a man. We also saw this on GGHQ where "dangerous ideas" were censored and the users banned for posting it. The justification is always perception by the outside.
Furthermore, promotion of mixing the enemy narrative and compromising also disinterests new users. An extreme position attracts a lot more people than a dilute position. At this point in time, you can see on twitter how closely the so-called #GamerGate activists resemble the SJWs themselves, from their language, smarm, mannerism and even their beliefs. This is because they are acting as the poison, while simultaneously diluting the discussion with their own low quality content.Does this sound as familiar to you as it does to me?Just because a space is contained by no means implies that they intend to leave it alone. Containment keeps people inside the space from going out, like a gated city under siege by a numerically and tactically superior enemy. Dilution and pollution are the artillery and siege weapons deployed to make ensure everyone in the city starves or gets poisoned. Their aim is to destroys the target containment space and ensure those inside surrender and assimilate into the outer safe space.
Some may wonder how exactly the enemy obtained control of so much space? It sounds like some sort of conspiracy, but in effect, it is the established parties using their existing position (a lot of funding, existing media and astroturfing companies) and combining it with the final winning strategy.
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Enemy Strategy Summary:
The same three strategies have been applied to almost all political movements in the past, with a success rate of 100%.
Contain the dissent, poison the well, dilute the voices of the dissenters with your own infiltrating voices and finally play on people ego to corrupt them from within by aligning their interests with your own.
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They don’t want this enjoyment interrupted, which is why they will pollute digging threads endlessly with knee jerk, programmed claims of “tin foil” and “conspiracy theorising”, even when no speculation is involved.
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Over on this board is the real creme of the crop, the elite of the revolt, those who value freedom over convenience. Those who refuse to stop fighting despite the odds being against them. Our numbers have dwindled, from the tens of thousands last year, down to a brave 600 or so users on this board.
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Counter-strategy 2. Sterilization
You might be wondering why I did not address dilution: In reality, I already have. Consider that in 2005-2009, halfchan had a posting volume far greater than it has today and several orders of magnitude greater than that we have today on this board. This was before the catalog feature was available. The psychology of seeing a $#@! post is the immediate fear that it will detract from the existence of a good post, perhaps one that you wrote. This demotivates you to write more good posts as you will sense perhaps the rest of the people are abandoning the board due to the $#@!posts. You have nevertheless persisted extremely heavy $#@!posting on this board and did not shout for censorship, the move they anticipated you would. You know that you live in luxury, with 30 pages of posts and the ability to have them laid out for you in a catalogue.
Ask any old *** here, how it was like back in our day, with the front page on /b/ moving so fast that posts immediately ended up on page 5 the moment you hit reply and reload (while leaving noko in the email field). We toughed it out, we kept a thousand tabs open while being behind 7 proxies, bitch. It’s your time to shine new****, you have new technologies, with them comes new conveniences, but don’t ever give up freedom for convenience. Every time you see a new $#@!post, learn to report the obvious ones in case it is part of spamming campaign, and then add original content or at the very least, breaking your lurking to leave a comment/reply to good material.
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