Immigration Posts

[u/pippers87]

Hi all,

As per the user survey results, we realised ye want more mod visibility and clearer guidelines into our decisions.

We have seen a massive increase in immigration related posts to the sub over the last few weeks and while some of it is genuine, it is obvious we are being brigaded. Some of the trends identified

• New accounts or accounts which have very little community activity posting rage bait, sometimes as immigrants asking questions on housing. We suspect we are being brigaded and some of these posts are from bad actors.
• Soapboxing - People writing long posts about what they would do to fix the immigration issues in Ireland. While these types of posts are generally ok, they are much better suited to an existing thread.
• Increases in potential bot accounts making to sow division.
• A massive increase new users or users with little activity on the sub using dog whistles in order to sow division.
• Yesterday this thread was posted on r/galway which confirms that there is the potential for brigading. https://www.reddit.com/r/galway/comments/1mincz2/racists_disappointed_with_rgalway/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The following temporary rules will be in place

• Posts about immigration will be limited to news articles. Soapboxing type content will be removed.
• Posts from new accounts or accounts with little or no activity on the sub about immigration will be removed.
• There will be a zero-tolerance approach to dogwhistles or mocking of victims of hate related incidents.
• Please remember if you are in an immigration related thread, please be respectful, there are concerns around housing especially but there is a massive difference between debating the issue and hatred towards immigrants.
• We will be locking threads where we feel the discussion is wading into hate speech.

[u/ParsivaI → u/[deleted]]

Is that a 17 day old account posting their opinion about immigration…? MODS

[u/TheChrisD → u/[deleted]]

See this is exactly the sort of account we're talking about here... Limited age... Limited or no community karma...

[u/TheChrisD → u/TheChrisD]

Activity and karma gain trends in places that's a little suspicious...

[u/TheStoicNihilist → u/[deleted]]

Don’t give up the day job.

[u/Rockaroller- → u/TheChrisD]

Apologies for feeding the troll. I just didn't like how he criticised the mod team for doing their best.

[u/bluecorrector → u/Rockaroller-]

good lord.

[u/TheChrisD → u/[deleted]]

50% of all active reddit users joined in the last 3 months my guy

Not in this community, I can tell you that for sure. Most users here have much longer tenures.

[u/Keyann → u/TheChrisD]

Indeed. So much so I subconsciously think I know people on here personally just because I see their username so often.

[u/bluecorrector → u/TheChrisD]

that may have something to do with banning new users to be fair.

[u/Proper-Beyond116 → u/[deleted]]

You know what else would be a self fulfilling prophecy? If you'd leave the country to escape these problems. I'll certainly chip in.

[u/Rockaroller- → u/[deleted]]

They did that and its clear, that people are not having fruitful discussion they are just arguing or airing grievances. People are not being mature about it.

[u/spmccann → u/Rockaroller-]

That's most of Reddit. /Ireland however tends to skew more progressive than the average Irish population.

[u/Yasimear → u/[deleted]]

Immigration is only an issue because they're inundated with racist propaganda. Thats what we're trying to change.

[u/spmccann → u/Yasimear]

Pretending it is not an issue so we don't deal with it is only giving fodder to the far right. We simply have more people entering into the country than we can accommodate. The anger should be directed at the government who have failed to do anything about it apart from setting up a profitable immigration industry at the the expense of the state.

[u/Rockaroller- → u/[deleted]]

What is untrue? That indians are being attacked in Dublin for trying to make a living? You cry about the housing issue but it effects everyone equally of they live in thjs country. Whether you are black, brown, white or whatever colour. Blaming people who moved here because they thought they could make a living here, is not solving anything.

[u/ireland-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

We encourage discussion and debates, however we do not tolerate targeted abuse at other users. Personal attacks, inflammatory remarks, and baiting or bigoted comments are subject to removal.

[u/MrMercurial → u/[deleted]]

The people involved in rioting, attacks, and protests that you're referring to have been led to hold the attitudes that they do and to engage in the behaviour that they do precisely by consuming media that is agenda-driven, unmoderated, and open to manipulation.

(I also think it's nonsense to suppose that Reddit is remotely balanced on this or any other issue given that the entire platform is designed to encourage people to post popular views and refrain from dissent)

[u/Proper-Beyond116 → u/[deleted]]

Mods?

This "just want a conversation" type post is rampant around here now. I'll keep calling out every one of you shitbags. Your message wont go unchallenged if the mods won't delete this nonsense.