WASHINGTON (TND) — Dr.Jill Stein, who is a Green Party presidential candidate, has selected Professor Butch Ware as her vice-presidential running mate.

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    26 days ago

    Careful, accusing someone of being a bot is against community rules and this user has and will report any perceived rules infringement.

    The response in question is a copy-pasted spiel they have employed before to several users - me included. Often repeated verbatim, and sometimes multiple times to the same person such as to me here and here (within minutes of each other).

    I’m not sure of any rules being broken, but it doesn’t feel like good-faith organic discussion. Might just be able to skirt around the rules though.

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      26 days ago

      Fair enough, thanks for the background. And I didn’t know that was a rule, so thanks.

      I did also respond to the user organically in the second part of my post, so hopefully my post stays within the rules.

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        Oh I have no reason to report anything in this thread. It’s just that some users can be very uncivil, which is against the rules.

        You thought I was a bot and gave your reasons. And I replied to you telling why that assumption would be incorrect. That’s fine.

        But I have had some very nasty, very personal, very uncivil responses. And I did have to report them.

        And the mods removed them for the toxicity. And those users got REALLY mad about it. One even sent me DM’s that he would “follow me around, just to keep an eye on” me. So yeah, creepy stuff.

        All because I posted political news story about the Green Party to this political news sub. lol

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      26 days ago

      Careful, accusing someone of being a bot is against community rules

      This is true!

      I’m not sure of any rules being broken, but it doesn’t feel like good-faith organic discussion.

      Except I get asked and accused of the EXACT same things over and over. So of course my responses will match for the sake of brevity.

      Especially the whole, “Jill Stein is a russian asset” one. I always have to post a link to the newsweek article rebutting that.