I like this place, so I want to find a way to set up a "channel within the channel" for the sincere posters. If we could coordinate filters, that'd be a good start (it would wash the retards out). we can graft our own security features onto a format. Essentially, what we need is metadata that will help us filter bot threads and low-effort posts. /pol/ is extremely easy to bait. I believe at least half of the replies to shitty bait threads (virtually the entire catalog most of the time anymore) are legitimately stupid social media addicted NPCs. I mean FFS if those stupid tweets get thousands of likes or whatever on twitter why wouldn't they attract 100 fuckwits here to throw (you)s at them.
It doesn't even take that many bots or shills to churn out the same dozen threads all day every day and random retards and reddit refugees do the rest. To conclude, sure, shills and glowies play a role, but there's a lot of retards and autists "on our side". I can't count how many stupid obvious bait threads I've seen that get thousands of pissed off responses. This website has some cool threads or comfy convos once in a while, but it doesn't exactly attract the best of our movement
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/345311108#p345314184
To be added, some bots images