I was looking back at older posts and just read your post.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-moderation-is-must.html
“People have no idea what kinds of opinion-molding operations are being run with the literally hundreds of millions of dollars spent by left-wing billionaires each year on controlling the online right. And compared to the Cabal of special interests, and big profit companies, and the Political establishment, they are small fries...Snip.”
“Snip... The reason all that are there are their avatars is not just becasue they kept adding avatars. It is because they also successfully drove off the honest, uncontrolled posters. They are very sharp psychologically, and know how to make other people feel miserable, and feel under siege....
That made me realize, most people on those sites will not comment – they are lurkers taking in information. Those who honestly want to comment are relative rarities. And of the normal legit posters, most get distracted on slide threads composed by the operators to generate an emotional response and draw off their posting energy on a pointless topic.”
Read the entire article (Short) at link
Something to think about....
Count me in as present and vocal.
Freedom is Not a mute button. Nor is how long you have been here by a start date not a disqualifyer.