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I've significantly reduced my time on Reddit. Used to pull up the website out of curiosity every day but the atmosphere is incredibly toxic. My front page was r

I've significantly reduced my time on Reddit. Used to pull up the website out of curiosity every day but the atmosphere is incredibly toxic. My front page was riddled with Russiagate stuff too for some reason and every time you'd bring up an argument that isn't the norm you get a mob after you.

kevindong 8y ago
I personally go to Reddit to relax and not fret about the state of the world. So, I unsubscribed to all of the serious or semi-serious subreddits (all news, politics, etc.). Turns out if you unsubscribe from all of those types of subs, Reddit becomes a really funny and interesting time killer where the community actively tries to come up with ways to make you laugh.
colordrops 8y ago
It's hard to bring up without being attacked, even off of Reddit, but for long-time heavy users it's been obvious for a while that Reddit has purposefully undergone several changes to control the narrative at the behest of advertisers and the powers that be.
- revscat 8y ago
  I feel similarly. No matter how politely arguments are framed, or how carefully and respectfully made, downvotes and ridicule follow my every post. It's obvious that Reddit (and the media at large, honestly) is intentionally and structurally designed to promote a narrative that is blatantly pro-vaccination. It's maddening. The bias is everywhere you look. Try and say "vaccines cause autism" almost anywhere on Reddit! Downvotes, ridicule, and anger will be your only responses. It's all part of the pro-vax narrative that everyone has bought into. /s
- opportune 8y ago
  I think it's more that Reddit grew so much that the original community gets drowned out by everyone else. You can't have a community that big without it becoming filled with, for lack of a better word, normies.
- Guvante 8y ago
  What narrative supports The_Donald and the numerous left leaning subreddits both being there? Honestly I hear this a lot and am curious. I believe it is because they are focused on retention numbers which thrive off focused insular communities to be clear.
  - bertil 8y ago
    I’m not sure that is actually what is happening overall, but the narrative that you hear a lot (and that would explain fairly intolerant subreddits like T_D and worldnews) is about filter bubbles and more generally the idea that we now have the ability to ignore other people’s dissent, and become complacent of more one-sided, prejudiced ways of presenting information. To take examples outside of reddit: it’s fairly easy to watch several hours of television every day, entirely about news, think that you know very well what is happening and be completely flabbergasted that anyone (reasonable) supports President Trump or reciprocally, that anyone (reasonable) doesn’t. This feels fairly new, not entirely driven by internet (more by the increase in news sources, i.e. likely the drop in production costs, and ad technology). I suspect that this is happening more than before, but that the opposite (people finding structured, intelligent opposing viewpoints) is also happening more --people spend a lot more time informing themselves overall-- but that the more constructive phenomena is less destructive therefore harder to notice.
  - ianamartin 8y ago
    Extreme polarization is good for page views.
rustlerpride 8y ago
I did the same and no longer login or use the front page. I found that just going to a few subreddits on topics of personal interest that I can browse through for new ideas, user stories, etc. results in a much more positive experience. Smaller communities for specific hobbies/videogames/etc (in most cases) seem to be less polarized on the platform.
- Guvante 8y ago
  I hate the default experience since it is purely low effort posts. The cute gifs are entertaining but I feel I am wasting my time compared to discussions on interesting topics. By logging in you can select your subreddits which lets you filter out subreddits you don't care about and add ones you do care about. Browsing subreddits is the best way to check out a particular topic but I do find their algorithm is okay at pulling up an okay overview of your subreddits if you login. (assuming you remove all the noisy defaults)
rockostrich 8y ago
The default/popular subreddits are toxic. The smaller, niche subreddits are rarely toxic and usually good communities. As for the Russiagate stuff, the front page is riddled with it because it's a very important subject in the US, Reddit's user base is primarily people from the US, and there are bombshells dropping every day.
- notMick 8y ago
  Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise. Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day) The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.
  - vuln 8y ago
    There was also Correct the Record - CTR. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
  - streb-lo 8y ago
    I'm sure it's being brigaded by both sides for political points/fire control. But you'd have to be willfully blind to describe the events up to now as a "nothing burger."
    - notMick 8y ago
      There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.
      - streb-lo 8y ago
        I think you need to consult some neutral coverage and apply Occam's razor.
pjscott 8y ago
Unsubscribe from /r/politics. Unsubscribe from /r/worldnews. Find the handful of subreddits that are bothering you and unsubcribe from them. The discussions I read on Reddit are overall nicer than those on HN, not because the userbase as a whole is better, but because it has sewers where the crap is concentrated -- and you can easily avoid them. That's one of their most important features.
- jandrese 8y ago
  I would go a step further and say the first thing a new Reddit account should do is unsubscribe from everything, then selectively subscribe to your interests. Every default subreddit is horrible.
  - TJSomething 8y ago
    In my experience, the academic subreddits found in the defaults are pretty civil (i.e. science, philosophy, space, history). But they all have well-defined mission statements and heavy-handed moderation (e.g. no memes or any other kind of offtopic discussion). That said, starting from zero is still a good idea.
- evilduck 8y ago
  I would extend that further to _unsubscribe from all default subreddits_. Start from a blank slate and search for subreddits that actually interest you and seem reasonable. Yeah, you're also creating an "echo chamber" if you participate in polarizing topics, but hopefully you're aware that you're doing that to yourself.
  - curioussavage 8y ago
    If you try to create a new account there is a signup flow where you pick subs from categories. Defaults are not a thing anymore.
chaostheory 8y ago
This is a valid complaint for non-technical users, but I don't understand why HN users don't customize reddit to suit their tastes instead of complaining. Signing up doesn't even require an email. Is there a better alternative? It's arguably the best feature that reddit brings. Don't like a sub-reddit? Remove it and add something else. You can even create your own and moderate to your taste. You can even grab someone else's reddit customization under multi-reddits. Here are some examples: https://www.reddit.com/user/A_UPRIGHT_BASS/m/uplifting/ https://www.reddit.com/user/A_UPRIGHT_BASS/m/uplifting/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DrPropulsion/m/science/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DrPropulsion/m/science/ https://www.reddit.com/user/bodaciousbecca/m/motivation/ https://www.reddit.com/user/bodaciousbecca/m/motivation/
drzaiusapelord 8y ago
>Russiagate stuff too for some reason Because its one of, if not, the biggest story in the world right now? I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics and /r/worldnews. The president and the highest levels of the GOP are directly targeted in an investigation that has brought 20+ indictments with several guilty pleas with apparently more to come. This is a bit like saying the news in 1974 was too focused on Watergate.
- xienze 8y ago
  > I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics Have you actually ventured over there? Saying Russiagate/Trump stories are "occasionally" at the top of /r/politics is a bit of an understatement. They're obsessed over there.
  - chillwaves 8y ago
    Yes, a lot of negative stories about the Republican party are posted on /r/politics but that is because negative things keep happening. Last week the deputy finance chair of the RNC was exposed as paying $1.6M to buy silence for an aborted lovechild with a playboy model and that wasn't even the biggest story of the day. Honestly, no major scandal in the last few days is the exception now, not the norm.
paulcole 8y ago
Every time you see a post on the front page you don't like, filter that sub from your front page. So easy. Unfortunate that Reddit limits you to filtering 100 subs from your front page.
- MrMember 8y ago
  When I tried this I hit the 100 sub filter limit in a few days.
  - paulcole 8y ago
    Ha yeah, I meant to mention that. Every few months I'll go through and try to let a few back in to clear up some space. I ended up blocking like every state subreddit when the front page was nothing but net neutrality posts.
- bhandziuk 8y ago
  So you're subscribed to them but filter them out of your front page? Why not unsubscribe entirely?
  - paulcole 8y ago
    I think I worded it poorly. Reddit.com/r/all will show you what's tops throughout the site. You can filter subs out of that view.
    - bhandziuk 8y ago
      I see. That makes sense but also why not use your home page instead of /r/all? or are you not logged in?
      - paulcole 8y ago
        Sometimes I want to see what’s popular on Reddit as a whole without the politics, video games, atheism, anime, etc. circlejerks. There’s some surprisingly entertaining stuff that floats to the top. I don’t always want to see the posts on /r/gardening but when somebody grows a zucchini the size of a baseball bat, yeah I’ll look at it.
MrMember 8y ago
I had a pretty well-curated list of subscribed subreddits but reddit decided some of my interests are problematic and I deleted my account. Posting links to licensed firearm dealers legally selling firearms is too taboo for a site that has subreddits organized around linking videos of people dying.
allemagne 8y ago
Why is it toxic to share stories about an investigation of the US President?
- pathseeker 8y ago
  It's the commentary that's toxic. Nobody is allowed to criticize anything about the investigations or tenuous connections to Russia without being labeled a russian propagandist and downvoted out of visibility. Look at this commentary from just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_well_put_sanctions_on_russia_as_soon_as/dxlriby/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel... Do you think this is constructive? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_well_put_sanctions_on_russia_as_soon_as/dxlwb0f/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel... What about this? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8dga0r/trump_told_russia_sanctions_were_off_before/dxn28cy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8dga0r/trump_tol... There is no intelligent discourse occurring in those comments. It's just a big echo chamber.
  - chillwaves 8y ago
    Don't see any problems with what you posted. It's commentary on a commentary site within the community guidelines of that site. There are good posts there, I am sure, just as I am sure there will always be noise.
commandlinefan 8y ago
> the atmosphere is incredibly toxic People say that a lot, but, although there are a lot of people I don't agree with on there, I don't know about the applicability of the analogy "toxic". Most times, when people say reddit is "toxic", they're referring to a specific subreddit that I won't name here, but it's mostly just full of innocuous posts like "we have the greatest president, don't we?" - clearly designed to ruffle some feathers, which I suppose is in itself counterproductive, but "toxic" as in, leaches out into the surrounding area and makes it unusable? Seems a bit of an overstatement to me.
Benjamin12 8y ago
I need your help now – this is Russia-Gate; Murder-Gate – this is the unequivocal truth: Is this starting to make sense to you?!? https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/john-brennan-samantha-power-exposed/ https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/john-brennan-saman... https://beta.townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2018/03/29/the-distortions-of-our-unelected-officials-n2465496 https://beta.townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2018/... http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/lets-investigate-john-brennan-time-to-find-out-if-cia-interfered-in-the-2016-election.html http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/lets-investigate-john-bre... https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/hanson-is-there-a-dangerous-deep-state-of-unelected-u-s-officials-who-are-untouchable/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/hanson-is-there-a-dan... http://ussanews.com/News1/featured-op-eds/benjamin-allen-sullivan-the-government-is-trying-to-kill-me/ http://ussanews.com/News1/featured-op-eds/benjamin-allen-sul... https://iamamalaysian.com/2018/03/12/cry-for-help-by-benjamin-allen-sullivan/#comment-211476 https://iamamalaysian.com/2018/03/12/cry-for-help-by-benjami... Etc. Etc. Etc... This is the Truth! I need your immediate help now!!! My Quantum Technological Revolution (and the theft of it) – John Brennan is a Murdering Torturing Thief as is this entire CIA / FBI / CSIS / CAF. This is Russia-Gate; Murder-Gate Russiagate is a botched CIA murder operation to have been conducted in Russia planned in conjunction with CSIS (little league CIA of canada) the root of which is the theft of my intellectual property to line their pockets - originally my millions (my Secure Administrative Management System) then my Trillions (the Quantum Technological Revolution that I own – Quantum Radio et al.). The purported leaders of our United States and this Earth have stolen my intellectual property and body and life with the full expectation of my murder (after multiple previous attempts). This is the Truth. These people are all guilty of High-Treason. I need your help now or I will be killed. “Power is a Nation of Free People - Debt Free” - Benjamin Allen Sullivan http://www.basrc.biz/help http://www.basrc.biz/help

kevindong 8y ago

I personally go to Reddit to relax and not fret about the state of the world. So, I unsubscribed to all of the serious or semi-serious subreddits (all news, politics, etc.). Turns out if you unsubscribe from all of those types of subs, Reddit becomes a really funny and interesting time killer where the community actively tries to come up with ways to make you laugh.

colordrops 8y ago

It's hard to bring up without being attacked, even off of Reddit, but for long-time heavy users it's been obvious for a while that Reddit has purposefully undergone several changes to control the narrative at the behest of advertisers and the powers that be.

revscat 8y ago
I feel similarly. No matter how politely arguments are framed, or how carefully and respectfully made, downvotes and ridicule follow my every post. It's obvious that Reddit (and the media at large, honestly) is intentionally and structurally designed to promote a narrative that is blatantly pro-vaccination. It's maddening. The bias is everywhere you look. Try and say "vaccines cause autism" almost anywhere on Reddit! Downvotes, ridicule, and anger will be your only responses. It's all part of the pro-vax narrative that everyone has bought into. /s
opportune 8y ago
I think it's more that Reddit grew so much that the original community gets drowned out by everyone else. You can't have a community that big without it becoming filled with, for lack of a better word, normies.
Guvante 8y ago
What narrative supports The_Donald and the numerous left leaning subreddits both being there? Honestly I hear this a lot and am curious. I believe it is because they are focused on retention numbers which thrive off focused insular communities to be clear.
- bertil 8y ago
  I’m not sure that is actually what is happening overall, but the narrative that you hear a lot (and that would explain fairly intolerant subreddits like T_D and worldnews) is about filter bubbles and more generally the idea that we now have the ability to ignore other people’s dissent, and become complacent of more one-sided, prejudiced ways of presenting information. To take examples outside of reddit: it’s fairly easy to watch several hours of television every day, entirely about news, think that you know very well what is happening and be completely flabbergasted that anyone (reasonable) supports President Trump or reciprocally, that anyone (reasonable) doesn’t. This feels fairly new, not entirely driven by internet (more by the increase in news sources, i.e. likely the drop in production costs, and ad technology). I suspect that this is happening more than before, but that the opposite (people finding structured, intelligent opposing viewpoints) is also happening more --people spend a lot more time informing themselves overall-- but that the more constructive phenomena is less destructive therefore harder to notice.
- ianamartin 8y ago
  Extreme polarization is good for page views.

rustlerpride 8y ago

I did the same and no longer login or use the front page. I found that just going to a few subreddits on topics of personal interest that I can browse through for new ideas, user stories, etc. results in a much more positive experience. Smaller communities for specific hobbies/videogames/etc (in most cases) seem to be less polarized on the platform.

Guvante 8y ago
I hate the default experience since it is purely low effort posts. The cute gifs are entertaining but I feel I am wasting my time compared to discussions on interesting topics. By logging in you can select your subreddits which lets you filter out subreddits you don't care about and add ones you do care about. Browsing subreddits is the best way to check out a particular topic but I do find their algorithm is okay at pulling up an okay overview of your subreddits if you login. (assuming you remove all the noisy defaults)

rockostrich 8y ago

The default/popular subreddits are toxic. The smaller, niche subreddits are rarely toxic and usually good communities. As for the Russiagate stuff, the front page is riddled with it because it's a very important subject in the US, Reddit's user base is primarily people from the US, and there are bombshells dropping every day.

notMick 8y ago
Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise. Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day) The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.
- vuln 8y ago
  There was also Correct the Record - CTR. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
- streb-lo 8y ago
  I'm sure it's being brigaded by both sides for political points/fire control. But you'd have to be willfully blind to describe the events up to now as a "nothing burger."
  - notMick 8y ago
    There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.
    - streb-lo 8y ago
      I think you need to consult some neutral coverage and apply Occam's razor.

pjscott 8y ago

Unsubscribe from /r/politics. Unsubscribe from /r/worldnews. Find the handful of subreddits that are bothering you and unsubcribe from them. The discussions I read on Reddit are overall nicer than those on HN, not because the userbase as a whole is better, but because it has sewers where the crap is concentrated -- and you can easily avoid them. That's one of their most important features.

jandrese 8y ago
I would go a step further and say the first thing a new Reddit account should do is unsubscribe from everything, then selectively subscribe to your interests. Every default subreddit is horrible.
- TJSomething 8y ago
  In my experience, the academic subreddits found in the defaults are pretty civil (i.e. science, philosophy, space, history). But they all have well-defined mission statements and heavy-handed moderation (e.g. no memes or any other kind of offtopic discussion). That said, starting from zero is still a good idea.
evilduck 8y ago
I would extend that further to _unsubscribe from all default subreddits_. Start from a blank slate and search for subreddits that actually interest you and seem reasonable. Yeah, you're also creating an "echo chamber" if you participate in polarizing topics, but hopefully you're aware that you're doing that to yourself.
- curioussavage 8y ago
  If you try to create a new account there is a signup flow where you pick subs from categories. Defaults are not a thing anymore.

chaostheory 8y ago

This is a valid complaint for non-technical users, but I don't understand why HN users don't customize reddit to suit their tastes instead of complaining. Signing up doesn't even require an email. Is there a better alternative? It's arguably the best feature that reddit brings. Don't like a sub-reddit? Remove it and add something else. You can even create your own and moderate to your taste. You can even grab someone else's reddit customization under multi-reddits. Here are some examples: https://www.reddit.com/user/A_UPRIGHT_BASS/m/uplifting/ https://www.reddit.com/user/A_UPRIGHT_BASS/m/uplifting/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DrPropulsion/m/science/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DrPropulsion/m/science/ https://www.reddit.com/user/bodaciousbecca/m/motivation/ https://www.reddit.com/user/bodaciousbecca/m/motivation/

drzaiusapelord 8y ago

>Russiagate stuff too for some reason Because its one of, if not, the biggest story in the world right now? I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics and /r/worldnews. The president and the highest levels of the GOP are directly targeted in an investigation that has brought 20+ indictments with several guilty pleas with apparently more to come. This is a bit like saying the news in 1974 was too focused on Watergate.

xienze 8y ago
> I mean, of course its going to occasionally top /r/politics Have you actually ventured over there? Saying Russiagate/Trump stories are "occasionally" at the top of /r/politics is a bit of an understatement. They're obsessed over there.
- chillwaves 8y ago
  Yes, a lot of negative stories about the Republican party are posted on /r/politics but that is because negative things keep happening. Last week the deputy finance chair of the RNC was exposed as paying $1.6M to buy silence for an aborted lovechild with a playboy model and that wasn't even the biggest story of the day. Honestly, no major scandal in the last few days is the exception now, not the norm.

paulcole 8y ago

Every time you see a post on the front page you don't like, filter that sub from your front page. So easy. Unfortunate that Reddit limits you to filtering 100 subs from your front page.

MrMember 8y ago
When I tried this I hit the 100 sub filter limit in a few days.
- paulcole 8y ago
  Ha yeah, I meant to mention that. Every few months I'll go through and try to let a few back in to clear up some space. I ended up blocking like every state subreddit when the front page was nothing but net neutrality posts.
bhandziuk 8y ago
So you're subscribed to them but filter them out of your front page? Why not unsubscribe entirely?
- paulcole 8y ago
  I think I worded it poorly. Reddit.com/r/all will show you what's tops throughout the site. You can filter subs out of that view.
  - bhandziuk 8y ago
    I see. That makes sense but also why not use your home page instead of /r/all? or are you not logged in?
    - paulcole 8y ago
      Sometimes I want to see what’s popular on Reddit as a whole without the politics, video games, atheism, anime, etc. circlejerks. There’s some surprisingly entertaining stuff that floats to the top. I don’t always want to see the posts on /r/gardening but when somebody grows a zucchini the size of a baseball bat, yeah I’ll look at it.

MrMember 8y ago

I had a pretty well-curated list of subscribed subreddits but reddit decided some of my interests are problematic and I deleted my account. Posting links to licensed firearm dealers legally selling firearms is too taboo for a site that has subreddits organized around linking videos of people dying.

allemagne 8y ago

Why is it toxic to share stories about an investigation of the US President?

pathseeker 8y ago
It's the commentary that's toxic. Nobody is allowed to criticize anything about the investigations or tenuous connections to Russia without being labeled a russian propagandist and downvoted out of visibility. Look at this commentary from just today: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_well_put_sanctions_on_russia_as_soon_as/dxlriby/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel... Do you think this is constructive? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_well_put_sanctions_on_russia_as_soon_as/dxlwb0f/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8da2uu/trump_wel... What about this? https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8dga0r/trump_told_russia_sanctions_were_off_before/dxn28cy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8dga0r/trump_tol... There is no intelligent discourse occurring in those comments. It's just a big echo chamber.
- chillwaves 8y ago
  Don't see any problems with what you posted. It's commentary on a commentary site within the community guidelines of that site. There are good posts there, I am sure, just as I am sure there will always be noise.

commandlinefan 8y ago

> the atmosphere is incredibly toxic People say that a lot, but, although there are a lot of people I don't agree with on there, I don't know about the applicability of the analogy "toxic". Most times, when people say reddit is "toxic", they're referring to a specific subreddit that I won't name here, but it's mostly just full of innocuous posts like "we have the greatest president, don't we?" - clearly designed to ruffle some feathers, which I suppose is in itself counterproductive, but "toxic" as in, leaches out into the surrounding area and makes it unusable? Seems a bit of an overstatement to me.

Benjamin12 8y ago

I need your help now – this is Russia-Gate; Murder-Gate – this is the unequivocal truth: Is this starting to make sense to you?!? https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/john-brennan-samantha-power-exposed/ https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/john-brennan-saman... https://beta.townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2018/03/29/the-distortions-of-our-unelected-officials-n2465496 https://beta.townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2018/... http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/lets-investigate-john-brennan-time-to-find-out-if-cia-interfered-in-the-2016-election.html http://washingtonsblog.com/2018/03/lets-investigate-john-bre... https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/hanson-is-there-a-dangerous-deep-state-of-unelected-u-s-officials-who-are-untouchable/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/hanson-is-there-a-dan... http://ussanews.com/News1/featured-op-eds/benjamin-allen-sullivan-the-government-is-trying-to-kill-me/ http://ussanews.com/News1/featured-op-eds/benjamin-allen-sul... https://iamamalaysian.com/2018/03/12/cry-for-help-by-benjamin-allen-sullivan/#comment-211476 https://iamamalaysian.com/2018/03/12/cry-for-help-by-benjami... Etc. Etc. Etc... This is the Truth! I need your immediate help now!!! My Quantum Technological Revolution (and the theft of it) – John Brennan is a Murdering Torturing Thief as is this entire CIA / FBI / CSIS / CAF. This is Russia-Gate; Murder-Gate Russiagate is a botched CIA murder operation to have been conducted in Russia planned in conjunction with CSIS (little league CIA of canada) the root of which is the theft of my intellectual property to line their pockets - originally my millions (my Secure Administrative Management System) then my Trillions (the Quantum Technological Revolution that I own – Quantum Radio et al.). The purported leaders of our United States and this Earth have stolen my intellectual property and body and life with the full expectation of my murder (after multiple previous attempts). This is the Truth. These people are all guilty of High-Treason. I need your help now or I will be killed. “Power is a Nation of Free People - Debt Free” - Benjamin Allen Sullivan http://www.basrc.biz/help http://www.basrc.biz/help