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.
Yes, because the topic is beyond retarded and a complete waste of absolutely everyone's time, including those who promote it. The link in the sidebar would be more than fair and more than it deserves.
My time to waste. Why with your censorship? This place is fine without rules, your personal rules. Get it?
I remove spam, bots, trolls, the fucking Saviour etc. Now I'm proposing removing somethin equally unpleasant, annoying and contrary to the flourishing of this forum.
I liked the savior dude. The most original beggar. Piss on us and tell us it's raining.
You’ve never won an argument and everything you say is inauthentic.
no I am butt hurt that I wasted time communicating with you. I want to save the precious few genuine users we have here (and myself) from the temptation to engage with that genuinely demoralizing and pointless experience. There is an entire community they can go to engage with such destructive behavior.
Tbh you are wasting time engaging with a group of shills.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking their arguments are genuine, or that they care about reason or debates.
If anything, use this post to ban users in favor of FE content. Easiest thing you can do to maintain the integrity of the site.
What’s the worst case scenario? A few useful idiots get washed to sea? Let them go out with the tide, I say.
Good riddance, if anything.
low iq people usually have the biggest and most frail egos. You find this to be true of the biggest anti flat Earth proponents.
Well thanks for admitting it's censorship
Literally isn’t.
Let me ask you, should someone who says transwomen are women be taken seriously? Should their right to assert such be defended by free speech absolutists? If you said they were flat out wrong, are you biased? If you don't accept their assertion, is that your own idea? Or is some evil three letter agency denying transwomens' right to existence?
FE is like the tranny agenda. It demands you accept the blatant assertion of a falsehood as an irrefutable truth or fact. The earth's approximate shape is like the two sexes of mammals - obvious facts of the physical world. There is still some mystery to both, but it's not in their existence; the mystery is in where they come from, why they are.
Lmao, flat earth is about the only thing dumb enough to make "trans women are women" seem reasonable by comparison!
how are you this stupid?
You think the earth is flat bro.
You’ve renounced your right to have a seat at the table with this discussion and will now be ignored forever on every topic. You’re worthless.
retarded to you, but not to the millions who believe the earth is flat
Who are retarded, not human beings, and have no right to post here. And no, millions don’t.
oh, so you are the master of here? you can say who has right to post and not? what ever, i sure as heck do not give one crap what you think ... and yes, MILLIONS DO
Nope. Millions don’t believe a proven government hoax. It’s not real. We have no obligation to allow it to be spammed here.
MILLIONS?!?!? (Of retards?) - are you boosted?
Lots of people got boosted.
BILLIONS OF EM!!!
Should we let them take over the forum?
if you are this low iq, how are you even interested in conspiracies?