In a time where the most-discussed topics on a non-restricted conspiracy forum are, naturally, either 2019-nCoV and the clotshots or current or recent politics, with occasional delving into Pizzagate and the Pentagon UFO files, other interesting topics, if of less current urgency, don't get that much exposure. Older UFO incidents, personal alien abduction stories, interesting 4chan conspiracies such as the Dead Internet Theory, the Mandela Effect, Reptilians, Greater Tartaria, you know what I mean. Personally I like to read and comment on such stuff as a means of taking a break from everyday events.
On Reddit we have solved the problem by creating a new forum, /r/HighStrangeness, which restricts posts to the above, more paranormal and less political, conspiracies. Apart from news pertaining to the above topics, people tend to post personal stories of paranormal encounters such as haunted houses. When you want to read about the newest connections between Pfizer and the FDA that anons have found out, you go to /r/Conspiracy. When you want to read about the UFO attack on your hometown last week, or about haunted houses, you go to /r/HighStrangeness.
I suggest that a similar forum is created on Win, named HighStrangeness.win or Paranormal.win. Or that you add a special flair for all "COVID/Election/Vaccines"-type posts and a button that allows you to filter them out.
Note that some topics might be borderline between Conspiracies/Conspiracy and HighStrangeness, such as a theory which connects COVID and reptilians, or the 2020 election fraud and freemasons. It is of course up to the moderator to resolve these ambiguities.
Also note that the forerunner of the separation between political/current and more "escapist" conspiracies is 4chan with its /pol/ and /x/, with clear written and unwritten rules concerning the boundaries on what belongs to the one and what belongs to the other.
For years I've thought that the repeated calls on r/conspiracy to talk about these kinds of topics were deliberate attempts to waste people's time so they have a harder time figuring out what's really going on. To keep them from politically mobilizing with what they know.
Whatever the craziest fake thing you can think of is, there are crazier things that are true.
Ufo. A lot of it is fake.
https://archive.org/details/MessengersOfDeceptionUFOContactsAndCultsJacquesValle1979
Those calls came from people who remember what the conspiracy community was like at one point, before 2015-2016 when it began to change to what it is now which is just rightwingpolitics/antivax
Are you familiar with those individuals? I'm still skeptical.
Check out c/NonDuality, i think you’d enjoy the flavor there.
Also, make those posts here! Many of us want to see more than the same repetitive stream of doomporn, and many of us post the types of things we want to see! I wouldn’t even be opposed to people posting “best of” threads from the highlight archives of r/con, r/holofractal r/highstrangeness r/saturnblackcube etc
I think there is a lot of "clean" ways to link to Reddit, or alternatively screenshots of posts or copies of the text (with the Reddit user's permission) of really high-quality threads can be put here. Especially to prevent them from being lost in case of deletion by Reddit's jannies.
Perhaps a ConspiracyHallofFame.win where only a small collective of curators can post, who choose the best threads and longest essays and copy them, can post, and others can only read and comment? Basically a mixture between wiki and forum.
That’s an interesting idea...I know .win has wiki’s but I think you need to be a mod to edit them. It could be a cool idea to have a nomination thread where people post their “best threads”, and they’re backed up on the wiki here (like you mention, for posterity against the censors).
Also, the idea of an “approved submitter” forum is rather interesting, I wonder how and if that would work here.
u/axolotl_peyotl
u/clemanuvers
Any thoughts or info you guys could share? Are these ideas even possible?
You can actually create your own .win but the catch is you have to agree to admin. That’s a lot of responsibility and it takes effort to grow a community