Nah its a form of democracy....you do like democracy dont you? We can shove it down your throat some more. :p /s

I've lived in Salem, MA. I've seen where the witches were hung. I know the story well. I think that there's a big difference between targeting innocent people and creating a system designed to identify professional trolls.

The idea provides an intermediate place to discuss the shill-like behavior. (Keeping it out of the main forum). It also opens the discussion to the entire community and helps mods focus on real problems.

Who cares if 3,000 people with 1 vote each get nominated to /v/shillreport ? If they have 1 vote each we ignore it. I'm interested in the nominee who has 1400 votes. Chances are he's a troll/shill. This method leverages the wisdom of the crowd. It could occasionally be abused but, I think that it would prevent more abuse than it creates.

That's why I suggested a board. Just because a name gets posted doesn't mean the person gets banned. If 2,000 people all think that same person is a shill, then chances are the crowd is right. This way the mods would only have to pay attention to the top-voted people and wouldn't have to deal with 5,000 individual emails in their inbox.

Hmm quite honestly, I would think of a way to make people offer proof of work before obtaining moderation position so it is easier to ban those who abuse it and lose their proof of work (if it is not easy to obtain.)

Here's how you stop it:

1. Set up a new board named /v/shillreport
2. People post names of users they suspect to be shills
3. Everyone has the chance to investigate, discuss and upvote their favorites
4. Mods ban the most upvoted shills

I agree with you...I prefer discourse.

There is also a lot more experience from users besides myself with dealing with these issues who will have ideas on what to do.

I'd just like to see that the community doesn't go 'nutty' because of a group of folks who stumble here and want to trash the place - so to speak - which will be easier to do while the community is just starting off.

Okay...But here's the thing: Who's the mod in this sub? It looks like it's fenixrisin. They're the sole mod. Okay. Fine. They need to be notified of this kind of shill behavior and this new conspiracy sub needs to NOT at all be afraid to in the least ban the absolute living fuck out of every shill or troll around. Simple as that. Keep this damn place clean, folks. Don't let it get infested with roaches again.

(no disrespect meant to roaches by the comparison)

EDIT: Messaged fenix.

/v/ConspiracyFacts : "To dispel any lies told by conspiracy theorists."

Assuming they all tell lies? /u/WeRTheIlluminati is the definition of pathetic.

Is there any good reason to allow a user to 'mod' more than one /v forum?

Let them come in droves; popcorn is good for driving traffic and this places needs users at the moment.