There is a dedicated community on this website for Flat Earth [FE] stuff:
https://scored.co/c/flatearthresearch/new
There is no need for FE here on conspiracies IMO. If people want to explore FE they can easily seek it there or elsewhere on the internet.
My position: FE doesn't belong here. I believe the proponents of FE are ruining any chance this forum has to gain a larger following. They are time wasters and trolls who reject logical and reasonable rebuttable of their assertions. If someone disproves their idea they say it's lies and fakery without justification or evidence. If it's tiresome for me it must be annoying for others too, and perhaps it is dissuading lurkers from taking the leap and interacting here. No one should have to spend time wading through FE madness if they didn't seek it out.
My position wont change through argument. That's not what this post is about. I want to know:
Do individual, regular users on Conspiracies support banning FE posts and "discussion" from this forum?
If this motion of mine passes, the FE users would be allowed to stay, but submissions they make claiming the Earth is flat would be removed and result in a 3 day ban.
Comments arguing for FE would be removed too, if they are reported or I see them.
A note on the side bar would be added, making it clear that FE is banned here, and a link to the scored/communities FE community provided.
I think that's fair.
Since voting is easily manipulated, the way we'll decide is this:
Reply below, a top level comment, with either a YAY or NAY
YAY= I want FE banned
NAY= I want FE allowed
1 vote per user
Caveats:
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Any top level comment without a clear YAY or NAY at the beginning of the comment will be removed.
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YAYS or NAYS as a reply to a top level comment will not count and will be removed.
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Provide justification, opinions or suggestions about all this along with your vote, if you like, but place it on a separate line below your YAY or NAY.
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Replying to users is fine too, as long as you yourself have also made a top level comment with a yay or nay.
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If a top level comment is edited, the edit history will be checked and the comment may not count or may be removed.
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We have about 100 regular users/contributors, my estimate, so I hope everyone replies with a YAY or NAY. We'll give it plenty of time to ensure everyone sees this post.
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Upvotes or Downvotes on comments or on this post will be completely ignored
We're counting YAYs or NAYs from individual users only.
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Top level comments without a clear YAY or NAY will be removed.
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Duplicate YAYs or NAYS will be removed.
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Handshake account YAYs or NAYs are welcome, but they will be scrutinized and possibly ignored if they seem like sock-puppets, regardless of how they are voting. This is to ensure the minimum of vote manipulation.
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Older accounts with little to no history - or where their last comment was several months or years ago - will also be scrutinized and may not count.
I reserve the right to edit this post based on interactions and suggestions below. I may not have thought of everything. Edits will be labelled and placed at the end of this text.
EDIT
Vote over
Minus sock-puppet accounts it's 61 Nay, 44 Yay.
Most of the nays are casual, non-contributing users banging on about censorship and free speech who don't give a damn about quality content nor FE. I encourage those users to engage with FE instead of ignoring it. If you did that you would probably come to regret voting to allow it in this forum.
Nay
. Most people don't know about the FE community and /or don't use it.
Bigfoot is just as ridiculous to newbies as FE.
Censorship sucks, especially since the posts might be by newbies or people who forgot the ban rules.
If you want, you can update the rules to suggests FE got to FE community. And comment in any posts that they might want to post in FE for a deeper discussion.
You can steer the posts to FE comm without being ban happy. There aren't even many FE posts and comments anymore compared to when that one guy used to post daily in the beginning.
Slippery slope. Once this topics is banned, others will follow.
Normies and newbies would be just as disgusted by Sandy hook posts.
You can make it clear in the rule list that FE is not supported by the community but not censored, so that newbies know the community is not FE.
Read the text carefully. A link to the FE community will be provided in the sidebar menu.
Slippery slope. Next it will be Sandy hook, alex jones, Las Vegas banned. Why not ban users that post about Big Foot and skin walkers? Those are also absurd according to our current understanding of the world.
I'm not saying that you would start banning other topics, but maybe other mods/future mods will.
Does Hollow earth fall under FE? Or Electronic universe?
You are a great mod, very active and helpful... but in this instance, you have been very clear that you want to ban users who post (or comment!! ) about it because you personally don't believe in the topic. So that is a bit .... Over reaching.
No. You want spam removed? Pornography? Evil trolls who think nothing is a conspiracy, and only come here just to berate everyone? FE is in that same category. It's demoralizing spam. It's not a conspiracy. It's off-topic. No users would be permanently banned unless they kept flouting the rule. FE posts would be removed though.
Im starting to believe in flat earth more and more because of the censorship
I was banned from Patriots dot win because those mods thought that criticism of jew bankers was "demoralizing spam."
I say ban members on individual basis but don't broadly ban the entire topic.
I rather flat earthers share there evidence here than in a separate subforum. Thanks for hearing me out and putting it up for vote.
Exactly. Most of the stuff posted on this board is bullshit. It's not right to ban only one subject; we shouldn't ban any! Spam and pornography are not conspiracy subjects, so that's an idiotic rebuttal.
The lack of self awareness you demonstrate would be laughable if it weren’t for the horrific state of society it indicates
Die, you subhuman piece of shit.