Mike

Nov 7, 2019

My experience with the obvious…

My experience with the obvious anti-conservative spot.IM liberal moderators is similar as "FED"s despicable experience with them in his complaint here. I have been blocked from being able to post for several months from Fox News comment site and at some point months later when I checked the site I was able to post comments but no one could see them or reply to them. In other words I am shadowbanned to this day. I found this Trustpilot site after months of seeing if there was a simple information link for spot.IM users to see if I could see why I was blocked and then shadowbanned but nothing obvious for help seemed to be available or that I could find. After reading FED and others posts here who had similar experiences with the Fox News comment site I now realize contacting spot.IM would have been a complete waste of my time from the sounds of their weeks and months of waiting for some kind of informative response and results from spot.IM. Fox used to use Discuss which I still happily use on other conservative comment sites with no problems and understand they now have a mechanism to temporarily shadow ban you for various periods of a day 4 days or more for rule violations and permanently if an obvious spammer is infiltrating. It's a good system keeping their users in the loop with warnings and cooling off periods as they describe it. It's fair and inclusive. Fox should take some time and occasionally monitor their hired moderators just like they would their own direct employees since we are their ad buying customers and also pay decent money for satellite or cable and for separate subscriptions to their programs to watch them and their advertisers. I've been posting on the online comment sites for about 12 years and really enjoy the back and forth with other posters and have even gotten a little heated at politically heated times with a few of the liberal trolls infecting the sites with their puerile nonsense and tactics and that's another matter I 'll comment more about later. Spot.IM evidently also uses your IP address to permanently block or shadowban you as I tried an alternate email address and avatar name with the same results. If we have become a free nation where tech companies and others operating with unchecked biased moderators can shut down free speech and information access due to their biased use of algorithms which many of us have blatantly seen with GOOGLE's search engine. They really changed over the years where you can still find the same information you used to be able to find pretty easily but now you find yourself digging way back into the search pages. And that's even after having to type the full text request in with no auto suggestion help. You will eventually find what you are looking for especially if it is a positive piece on a conservative which is generally one upped with a slew of negative pieces about that person or info first. We are in uncertain times where it seems a good portion of our society is condoning a reversal of where right is wrong an visa versa. Where free speech is now becoming less tolerated and regulated by those who don't like your point of view especially if the content isn't supportive of their ideology. We need to voice these iniquities more often and in more aberrant avenues since more are now being denied the normal access more often. If spot.IM was operating in the best interest of the companies that pay them for their services by using simple communication techniques to the users that other companies use then they are no better than the anti-free speech radicals oppressing others free speech by not having check and balances for their employees in place...or worse yet if they ARE aware of what they are doing and are looking the other way. I won't even get very deep into the new ploy of liberal trolls tag teaming people on conservative comment sites who's comments they don't like where several trolls will hit the inappropriate content button and have your comments removed which is an abuse of its intended use and which is probably happening to some of the people here who aren't even aware of it happening to them unless they look at their own comment history. Soros and radical groups fund these trolls which is becoming more commonplace by the day in this new tech world filled with those who regulate and control with nihilism and hate of those who won't follow a specific groups ideology and tenets...and it sadly goes well beyond the comment sites being discussed here. I know this was a long rant but hopefully with info that at minimum let some disconcerted by the system aren't alone in their negative unnecessary unfair endeavors put out there today.