Thats probably due to coincidence
links has a high percentage of obnoxious cunts, so there is bound to be some crossover there with right-wing views. You might also find that people who don't want to see that shit have them all on ignore, and are therefore less vocal in response.
The high number of cunts on here is interesting though, there is something about /links that seems to encourage judgemental and contrarian behaviour. Possibly its down to the fundamental mechanic of posting stuff you have judged to be interesting, which creates an implicit suggestion that "this is good and you should like it". The audience is powerless in this exchange and resents it, and often tells you exactly how much they hate that shit you posted. Can't say i've never done that myself either.
By contrast on the image board posts are seeking approval, and it is the audience that has the power in that case. Maybe there is a political slant to all this as well, with the communal nature of the image board and the consumerist nature of /links.
Anyway, stop being cunts everyone. *solves all the worlds problems*
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mutated monty, Thu 1 Jun 2017, 1:34,
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Nice try!
Your fingers were crossed.
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 1 Jun 2017, 8:53,
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Monty, you are like a lover to us (albeit a hideously ugly and wildly sexually perverse one)
and the red carpet is always out here for you but you're being a bit pompous. There is a great deal of independent thought on Links as you rightly point out, but if you scan the board and note who's being obnoxious/offensive (getting ad hom, aggressive, calling people cunts/Nazis - which you are not innocent of) it's generally the outraged left.
Often we get people popping up on links like a retired sergeant major complaining about how it isn't like it was in the old days. Well, for better or worse, it isn't. B3tans used to be students; now we're all middle-aged. We used to be skint; now most of us are probably alright Jack. People give up their student politics as they get older thank God: it's why Billy Bragg can never work out why his audience has stayed the same age. Rob does not have that problem.
Links definitely has a right wing flavour: as the years pass this will grow and mutate like one of your Plutonian creations, spreading to other boards. This is as it should be: the only thing more tragic than a young rightwinger is an aging leftwinger. And soon it will be time for all of us to join PC Mechanic on the great crudely drawn spunklobber in the sky and B3ta will die with us.
Until then, don't confuse the right with evil. We all want the best for everyone. And think kindlier of us, because it won't be long until we welcome you with a big, arse-grabbing hug as one of our own.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 1 Jun 2017, 7:05,
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"...if you scan the board and note who's being obnoxious/offensive (getting ad hom, aggressive, calling people cunts/Nazis - which you are not innocent of) it's generally the outraged left."
"This is as it should be: the only thing more tragic than a young rightwinger is an aging leftwinger."
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 1 Jun 2017, 8:38,
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Career not panning out like you thought?
So much talent but unable to play the game? Filled with embittered rage? Vote Corbyn Monty.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Thu 1 Jun 2017, 20:40,
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There is also a problem with ignore 2.0 here
When I log out, I see a much larger board than when I'm logged in, purely because one very active, and vocally right-wing poster has me on ignore.
If there's a perceived right-wing bias to /links, it's not necessarily because there are fewer left-wing voices on here, it's also because the right-wing voices are hidden from those who would dissent. They have built, let's hope unintentionally, a wall around such ideas.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 1 Jun 2017, 9:00,
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My ignore button deleted your Mum's account
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 1 Jun 2017, 18:19,
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