Hey guys...

Hey guys, I know you've all got better things to do but I'm currently doing an internet study on how the websites we visit shape our political beliefs. Obviously Sup Forums is a great place to get some of this feedback- I've lurked here for ages so do me a solid lads and help us out. It'll only take 2 minutes to complete and you'll be doing your bit to contribute to a semi-scientific study that might show the board in a good light.

I'll bump the thread with a mix of goddesses and Sup Forums stuff for a bit just to keep it semi-relevant!

Link to study: quiz-maker.com/Q2MBZYE

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Just post redpills instead.

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Sure bro, thanks.

DATA MINING

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Maybe.

Nah, it's for a personal project on political inclinations and how this affects website choice. The results are for anyone to see in a month when I've polled tumblr, here and various other sites.

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>literal data mining

Just learn something: reason is dead. People want what reinforces their prejudices. In fact being countered makes them attach emotionally to their prejudices. It is impossible and stressful to convince anyone of anything. It is a process they must do by themselves and only a few select bunch with higher IQs and no personal interests that oppose intellectual growth are willing to do this.

>tl;dr: People will browse Reddit because it is a literal safezone. Nobody goes to explicitly opposite forums to debate because debate is pretty much useless. YouTube and Facebook are the battlegrounds because they stay between the Reddit leftist hive and the Sup Forums right-wing hive. That is where the gold is at.

>Nobody goes to explicitly opposite forums to debate because debate is pretty much useless.
Where are the slideposters and shills coming from then?

There are neither slideposters nor shills.

They are a fiction created by Sup Forums to justify the massive decrease of quality after Donald Trump became a thing. They use them as a scapegoat because it's too hard to blame the higher traffic in the board and the lack of intellectual substance in Trump's campaign.

Yeah I totally understand that. That's why I want to show that those places are hugboxes.

I cant, however, do that if I can't compare them to other websites.

I also don't see how this is data mining because I literally can't do anything with your data as it's thrown into a general set and I don't have any contact details. I also only need 50 responses to say I've got a good idea of the opinions of most users.

Also, trolling is not debating.

A debate consists of sentences and replies. The "shills" only shitpost once and leave the thread by definition.

You could go to Reddit just to do that to.

There is a good deal of Shillary posters around I've noticed though.

I've gone less extreme since I started visiting Sup Forums, went from neo-nazi to moderate liberal.
Being able to write your opinions down without being punished for it is a great outlet in my opinion, the relatively free speech we're given here on Sup Forums is an extremely good thing in my eyes.
Then again, I did start to visit when I was 18, so I had a bit more of that rebellious energy in me at that time. I wouldn't say Sup Forums has shaped me one way or another.

I know a guy who browses reddit purely to look at pictures of volcanos and riots.

>There are neither slideposters nor shills.

Fuck off, we have proof they exist. You're either a shill or a braindead retard if you can't detect them.

Not only that but this place is pretty far from an echo chamber, especially lately. In fact minority viewpoints are often amplified since they get the most replies, and sometimes argued just because people are baiting for (you)'s.

Go get fucked by a tranny and die of Aids in a favela.

I'd agree mate and kinda went through the same thing. I'm even more interested because my brother is a secret Sup Forumslack and he doesn't know I know he is.

I went from extreme right at 17 to more centre-right now as well so how this board and other political places online affect people is deeply interesting to me.

Hillary posters are ironic Sup Forums users rejoicing in tormenting others for caring about some bad news.

I've done it myself when Ted Cruz won a state. You do it for some sadistic pleasure in seeing others get desperate.

You don't even have mixed race on the thing. Fucking shit survey, faggot
I and many more are going to give you fake data
Get AIDS and die

I'm planning on hitting up two notorious leftie reddits and two right wing leaning reddits. I'll probably balance it with one or two in the middle.

Also
>rareflag

This.

You are literally called a shill for having an opinion that contradicts the Sup Forums canon.

This site is a hugbox for the far right. Everyone here should consent to it.

Shit poll desu. You didn't even ask important demographic questions like sex or gender, religious beliefs, or sexuality. This poll could easily be used to generalize Sup Forums as a bunch of fat cis neckbeards.

That is obviously OP's intention.

The sports question was completely unrelated.

It is obvious data mining or "journalism" with a political agenda.

Sup Forums is prob not a good one. As a solid neutral when it comes to politics (I'm right wing about some stuff, left wing about others), this place has so many edgelord trump fans. Sadly, it never used to be this bad..

Sorry. Did you feel #triggered by the fact you couldn't choose a race?

>implying I'm not going to take Sup Forums response with a heavy pinch of salt and mention that in the study.

gee, I wonder what OP is planning to show

it really makes her stink

>study
Get over yourself, retard

You may be called a shill, but you're not going to get blocked or banned for opinions that go against the grain. On Reddit you get downvoted, on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook you get blocked.
On Sup Forums you'll get called a faggot and a shill, but you'll still have people on your side and your posts will be equally visible by all. Even moreso if it gets a ton of replies.

Sorry man and thanks for mentioning some ways I could improve if I do this again. I'm an economics major so am used to my data being already there. Actually gathering it is more of a sociological focus I've never had to focus heavily on. I feel as if the main things I want to know (how websites affect you politically are covered though).

I won't present 4channers as fat neckbears. I'm one myself and have a lot of love for this site.

Fuck off. It's personal interest and an exercise to see if my degree has actually taught me jack shit.

Yeah I know man, I remember this place from years ago.

>what else do you call a thing in which you gather a set of numbers and then study it to see if there are correlations

I just want to see if the websites you visit affect your politics over time, a la becoming more redpilled/sjw--esque.

Just don't do that now. Give it a few weeks or months. We really do have shills and slideposters because of the POTUS election stuff, proof was posted in this thread already.
So, yeah if you really want normal leftypol discussions on this board atm and don't want to appear like a shill, then pick your topic, describe what you wanna talk about in great detail, and keep responding to criticism. You may even learn something.
Do this or just stop posting for a few months until the elections is over.

A actual monkey posting such a good post.

Also, mao de Deus

Did your quiz OP. One criticism, there doesn't seem to be anything in there which defines the actual ways that the media we consume is affecting our political views. Spending time on Sup Forums and other politics forums has heavily influenced my current opinions, but it's because my opinions before were largely uninformed and since discovering a fascination with politics I have taken it upon myself to take messages from both far right and far left spheres to form my own educated opinions which happened to be heavily opposed to those that I held when I was uninformed. From answering your quiz I feel like my answers would be the same as someone who came to Sup Forums and just sucked up a lot of the 'propoganda' without really thinking about things.

>Shillary shills
>Not Trump shills

desu, when you consider how many men commit homicide compared to women, 24% female victims of homicide actually sounds pretty high.

>Not only that but this place is pretty far from an echo chamber

lol

by the way my political views are so centrist that It's hard to even define. What I think is most important right now is stopping this utopian idea of globalism. We can't keep letting people who support sharia law live and work in our country. They want to follow their laws that say I should be killed, both for being atheist and also bisexual.

>ou may be called a shill, but you're not going to get blocked or banned for opinions that go against the grain.

Simply becsue it's not the users who are moderating this board.

It's literally the only reason i stay here. I think the intelectual value here is really low

Ah shit! I knew it wasn't the best set of questions (as said above) but I thought I hadn't left anything major out like that. That's a good point!

Ok, so you think I should include a question or two going more in depth into that area, such as asking whether one were politically aware and held these beliefs before visiting the site?

Thanks for answering the quiz anyway bud.

What's preventing you from arguing your opposing viewpoints?

Will you get banned for it? Will you get downvoted and censored for it?

Or will you get a fuck ton of replies which is the currency of this place?

You're just projecting seeing as how you come from a place literally formed to be an echo chamber because you're all too weak to argue your ideals in Sup Forums

Left pics are fake anyway.

fuck

>I think the intelectual value here is really low

That's a separate issue from being an echo chamber though.

In fact this place was somewhat better when it was more lopsided in terms of views (I've never agreed with mainstream Sup Forums) just because the people were generally sharing more important information.

I learned about Operations Northwoods and Mockingbird from being here. Two incredibly important details in our nations history to help shape my understanding of US gov't.

>I think the intelectual value here is really low
Have you ever had a conversation with anyone in a pub? People in general aren't very intelligent, especially if they're not forced to present themselves as smart.

>What's preventing you from arguing your opposing viewpoints?


My threads are constantly being derailed and shitosted. I've had multiple posters dumping anime girls, the dub get images and shit like that.

>Will you get banned for it?

Yes. I already was banned multiple times. From posting hot women, too simply being reported

>Or will you get a fuck ton of replies which is the currency of this place?

I won't lie, i get yummy (You)

>as how you come from a place

And you are completely wrong with this. My previous site was 9gag

Fucking this, good job user

>I learned about Operations Northwoods and Mockingbird from being here. Two incredibly important details in our nations history to help shape my understanding of US gov't.
If you didnt know about those events before coming here then you should probably watch ShadowRing.

>most of Sup Forums is full blown Fascist/National Socialist
>mfw I'm just a Nationalist and a Anti-Communist

I don't even hate gay people or trannies (I do think trannies are crazy though)
I just love my country and hate the leftists who want to turn it into Eurozuela

Ok guys that'll be 50 responses just now.

Thanks for all the help, I did expect (and get) a lot of cynicism (it *is* Sup Forums afterall) but I knew you guys would help me out in the end.

I'll post my analysis of things in a few weeks when I'm done polling other sites. It'll probably be fairly unsurprising results but there could be some interesting stuff in there somewhere.

Thanks again!

>That's a separate issue from being an echo chamber though.


true

I don't talk about politics irl. I'm not a retard

>People in general aren't very intelligent

True, but i would expect a place a little less mainstream to not be filled with retards. Especially american posters. I think americans have to take an IQ test and must score lower then 90 to be able to post

You can try to argue that this is an echo chamber but it really isn't. You can't block people on Sup Forums or downvote unpopular opinions. You can sage threads but people don't even bother to do that. Controversial opinions can still be heard, people will call you a cuck or a shill but Sup Forums doesn't operate like reddit where the mods actively silence other people for their opinions by labeling it as hate speech.

>My threads are constantly being derailed and shitosted. I've had multiple posters dumping anime girls, the dub get images and shit like that.

Welcome to Sup Forums.

>And you are completely wrong with this. My previous site was 9gag

I was referring to /leftypol/

Surprising you've been banned though. Though it's not as if a ban from Sup Forums means anything when you just change your IP. More meaningful when you need an account.

>I don't talk about politics irl. I'm not a retard
How does talking about politics make you a retard?

>How does talking about politics make you a retard?
It doesn't. I'd imagine he got ridiculed by his peers and now he's too scared to express political opinions. Same thing happens to me, except I don't let myself be intimidated and I'm successfully redpilling them, they come to me with questions and problems now.
>tfw no toothbrush.webm

>You can try to argue that this is an echo chamber but it really isn't. You can't block people on Sup Forums or downvote unpopular opinions.

Again, this things don't happen because it's not the community that is in charge of moderating. That is the sole reason i am still here. Otherwise, i'm pretty sure there are other places with much better user bases.

All i am saying is that this place does not have censorship not because of the users, but because of the way the site was created

> /leftypol/

never been there mate

>Surprising you've been banned though.

i was banned for posting pic related

>inb4 banned

see ya in a couple of days bro

>hen you just change your IP

I don't thin it's that simple

Becasue talking about politics with friends is the best way to create a bad mood. Fuck politics.

>Same thing happens to me, except I don't let myself be intimidated and I'm successfully redpilling them, they come to me with questions and problems now.

autism, the sentence