On conservatives@hilariouschaos, they shared a Babylon bee meme saying marines were invading a 3rd world country meaning California I pointed out that Californias existence allows their racist red states to exist. Despite me being “upvoted” with citations that were asked for, and them being negative, my posts were deleted. I wasn’t aware that hilariouschaos was as bad as .ml or worse.
To get attention…
Commenting on their posts to tell them they’re wrong, upvoting people who already have, or even downvoting the post is all “engagement” which shoves the problematic community down every one else’s feed. Even making those “community spotlights” fairly regularly.
I mean, you’re flat out saying you don’t understand, I’m putting effort in to help you explain why not to feed the trolls…
This isn’t new, this is basic internet literacy. They might not even be MAGA, they just know if they say there are, a steady stream of people will go to their communities, get banned, and then complain.
Which just draws more people into the cycle
Do you honestly not understand that?
i dont understand why you label these people as trolls. to me they seem entirely sincere. and it seems to me like you just assume they are trolls because they are a right-wing minority, but thats the point: while they are a loud minority, they are seen as harmless trolls (even though i dont see a reason to assume that), once they get a critical mass going, everyone all of sudden realizes that they are actual nazis, and we got a nazi-bar situation on our hand. this happens again and again; ignoring never worked. if your assumption was right, they would leave this place if (for whatever reason) the leftists went away. do you actually believe that?
I don’t see it as mutually exclusive. They gain a voice by trolling and rage baiting.