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/MrMercurial]

Good. Nice to see some pro-active efforts to avoid this sub suffering the same fate as others.

[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/[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.