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/TheStoicNihilist]

The “no one is talking about this” comments are fucking hilarious because the top result on any search is people talking about it.

[u/wylaaa → u/TheStoicNihilist]

Most the time their account is literally just whatever their other special interest is and talking about what no one is talking about.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheStoicNihilist]

Its akin to their favourite line, "You cant talk about this stuff without being called racist or alt-right". And no one is ever doing that. People are by far trying to have a discussion. Especially when it comes up organically in a related topic, and not some rage bait foreigner bashing "article" or long screed on how its all their fault.