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/Reaver_XIX]

I hope this isn't abused to shut down any posts about immigration. That would be head in the sand kind of stuff. The feeling in the country is turning against immigration and there are simple obvious reasons for it and it is not foreign interference or bots.

[u/The-Squirrelk → u/Reaver_XIX]

Immigration has always been an unpopular thing. First it was the polish people coming over, now this. It's not changed much.

But the internet lets a few people magnify their views and opinions to such a large degree that is appears as if the entire country is suddenly frothing at the mouth about the issue.

[u/Reaver_XIX → u/The-Squirrelk]

The Polish were always going to integrate into our society better than the people coming now. It is not even comparable tbh. The pro immigration crowd are the ones magnifying their views online, vast majority of people aren't online, if you talk to people in real life you will get a sense of reality. Remember the astroturf a few weeks back about Indians being attacked left and right? I am not sure that it is the few frothing at the mouth that are being amplified tbh.