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.
FE is not a conspiracy
How is it not? If believers are correct, then the scale and scope necessary to hide this reality makes even JFK's assassination pale by comparison.
If it's a psy-op, then it's an operation implemented to discredit free thought and on a significant scale.
Either way, I think it qualifies a full blown conspiracy worth examination.
Believers are objectively not correct. You’re too stupid to have a seat at the table on this topic.
That’s shill logic.
You’re glowing, dipshit.
The believers are not correct in any way. There is nothing to it but ignorance and malicious intent. But if you want to investigate it and share your "research" (lmao), there is a dedicated community for that. There are many in fact.
I respectfully disagree. Perhaps there was one or two members here with bad intentions.
Also, flat earthers, despite failing to prove to me that earth is flat, have successfully convinced me NASA is a fucking scam and half what NASA does is fake as fuck, like that DART mission blowing up an asteroid.
Also, stuff like this is related to flat earth and i thought this was a great compilation of space being fake. https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/16a9qQAMme/bloopers-in-space/c
Some flat earther pissed you off. Don't punish all of them.
And I’ve always thought you were a suspect account, vlad.
FE are very vocal about NASA fakery because it's their most successful grooming technique. There exists perfectly rational, plausible and likely, non-FE explanations for every NASA fake there is. But it's not all the same 1 FE reason. In reality if there is one over-arching true reason for all their fakes it's to keep the massive amounts of funding pouring in. NASA has been like that from the start, when they were given a ridiculous amount of money to perform a mission they already knew was impossible - well, impossible in the way they had been planning.
No. Punish them all.
The useful idiots get to go down with the ship, but they shouldn’t bring the rest of the crew with them.
But that’s your opinion and not theirs.
You have reached a conclusion based upon your own research and personal biases/beliefs. Others have reached different conclusions.
Personally I feel both sides present good and bad arguments
The point of this forum is to discuss and review topics in the conspiracy realm and not ban topics you personally don’t agree with.
What I’m seeing now is one of the few forum mods using ”reasearch” (lmao)” to dismiss something they don’t like.
That’s a little concerning, and a little “Reddit” don’t you think?
Imagine if this board became an extension of the Q psyop - flat earth is similar in the sense that it isn’t “just another conspiracy” where people debate facts back and forth, it’s instead more like a religion (just like Q worship). You can spend hours explaining the semi-complex information required to explain whatever phenomena is mystifying them in that post - but like jelly they slip through the fingers of your rational argument, and just shift the goalposts to some other phenomena they’re baffled by, which again requires multiple hours of in depth explanation. Usually, only to revert to their original stances the next morning, as if they didn’t have the first memory about the previous days conversation.
In 95% of cases it’s not argued in good faith, even if the person arguing it isn’t literally a bot or shill
c/FlatEarthResearch
How does that not meet your needs?
Here’s another fake account trying to present some nuanced FE take.
Such a fucking joke.
Go away forever. You have no business here. You are mentally defective and brainwashed by communists.
Guess what, that's what liberals say about us NoNewNormal people. As such we aren't given a chance to present our case on mainstream sites. Since FE is so ignorant (it is) then just debunk it, or ignore it.
They can't debunk it. That's why they are talking about censorship. They can't protect their feelings from the truth in any other way except removing the truth.
You should follow your gut instinct here, and not the whim of these intellectually stunted inbreds.
The shills will ensure that FE perspective gets astroturfed here, in defense of “free speech”.
Can’t yell fire in a theatre. Posting flat earth here isn’t much different. It’s about the action, not the words.
Post your iq. You sound about 60
right, its fact ;)
how so?
do your research and you will see how so
Says who? You? Because liberals say covid is extremely dangerous and that the vaccines are safe and effective. Therefore they ban any talk that goes against that. We shouldn't become like liberals, we should welcome all conspiracies, even the retarded ones.
i was loving your post until the last 4 words
You don't think we should welcome retarded conspiracy theories? Because if that's your feeling then 90+% of the posts here should be removed.