State of this Awakening. Here's my perspective if anyone gives a shit. Let me preface this by saying that I was offline here and there the last couple weeks so if you can fill gaps in my timeline please help me understand better.  I've seen tons of questions popping up about what is actually going on with these Awakening communities and not much for coherent thoughts in these threads.  Here's the situation from what I gather. I'm going to bullet point the timeline of events as I've seen.  Everything else is just my opinion based on what I've witnessed. On reddit, the main destination for anything Q related was r/GreatAwakening.  It was the #1 spot that was found while searching for Q or Qanon and because Q had linked to that sub several times, and many became reddit users after finding it.  There was a general consensus that r/greatawakening was the definitive location for normies. Tons of new users to that subreddit meant that mod duties were probably growing exponentially.  There were several times when the mod team had stickied posts asking its user base for help with moderation.   Unwise.  Personally, that approach has always made me suspicious of mod teams.  There have been plenty of examples over the years on reddit where that's gone poorly and communities end up getting destroyed by infiltrators. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough or didn't notice if legitimate posts were being deleted but the posts I personally saw disappearing from /new were worthy of it.  Here's why...  There were loads of users either knowingly or unknowingly participating in what is called forum sliding.  If you don't know, forum sliding is when users(usually on someones payroll) with nefarious motives attempt to sway the conversation and narrative of a forum.  This is an incredibly effective technique because the nature of forums is that they concentrate the most engaged people of a community.  Also, when I say unknowingly I'm talking about people who are mostly just too dim to realize that they're being manipulated. If you made posts with titles similar to these, you're part of the problem: "I found this Q in my alphabits cereal!  This must be a sign!" or "I got a good hotel room last night!" [posts picture of room 17 at whogivesafuck hotel] or "[insert obscure or ominous bible verse that has never been quoted by Q and you provide no context into how we should relate the message of said verse to things Q has said]"  If you've had success with posts like that it's most likely because a shill farm bombarded it with upvotes and the mods were too scared to delete it because then they would get accused of censorship by both you and the shill farm.  If you saw a post like that get traction to the front page and then decided you'd do the same thing..bingbangboom you got GOT!  Posts like that aren't fucking cute and they certainly aren't useful. They take up valuable room on the front page and the shills know it.  That's their whole goal.  They want to slllliiiiiiide the narrative that is being discovered as truth every single day.  They don't want real research or discussions happening AT ALL. If someone has archived proof of legitimate discussions or research being removed please post it here.  Lets get that shit on record. k back to the timeline as I've witnessed. tbh I thought a lot of the ruckus by censorship accusations was just noise about the kinds of posts I talked about before so I never even checked it out for more than half a second.  But like I said, if someone wants to convince me otherwise I'm absolutely open to changing my mind. Fuck reddit. Following reddit's retard freakout of 2018, the collective of mods from r/greatawakening migrated here to Voat and set up shop over at v/theawakening.   Prior to the existence of the new sub v/greatawakening had existed with less than 2,000 subscribers. So far I've seen 1 post from one of the mods here reaching out to reddit mods for help moderating with the influx of new users since the banning.  I replied "Me" before it was deleted but I was hoping just to convince you it's a bad time for that so I'm glad that was taken down.   As far as v/theawakening goes, I don't think I've been banned over there yet but... really guys?  Couldn't you have kept the sub private for a minute so you could get settled and get a format figured out?  If you're looking to provide a "curated" environment just be honest about it and be professional about it.  You guys poked the proverbial sleeping bear by fucking around and banning people for words you knew they were going to say... except the bear wasn't even sleeping!!  It was starring you right in the face, salivating.  Waiting for you guys to fuck up.  And look what ya did.. you fucked up bad!  And what the absolute FUCK is with not having a contingency plan set up over here?  You guys want to claim the title of worlds bestest official Q spot but you didn't even have an umbrella when the rain started.  Can you blame anyone for questioning your legitimacy?  I sincerely hope the entire mod squad over there isn't blessed with excessive chromosomes. IN CONCLUSION: From my perspective, v/greatawakening wants to exist organically but fully remain on target.  v/theawakening appears to want a currated, "niggerfaggot"-less environment so that they can have a landing zone for curious normies who might otherwise be put off by the everlasting free speech test. In my opinion, for the sake of the sitcom.. we need to parlay this shit some how.  We need to squash some beef and shame who deserves to be shamed for fucking up.  Lets get on target here.  Every minute wasted arguing about who is less of a faggot is a minute the enemy is gaining ground. The one and only requisite we have from Q is that we remain united.  Can we please figure some shit out?