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.
I mean we can ban the stupid “Amazon Deals” bot posts but we haven’t. I feel this (claiming something is “spam”) is just an excuse to censor some topics people don’t like.
Check the logs dude. Check c/meta...
The “savior” posts and the Amazon deals posts are removed as soon as a mod sees them. Many users have pointed out the Amazon spammer(s) to the site admins. Those are, unquestionably, slide posts.
Many of us think that just posting “100 proofs the world is flat” videos and doing zero work to actually explain your thoughts or their relevance is, similarly, a slide tactic. Unfortunately it’s such an effective slide tactic that otherwise “well-meaning” individuals can get tricked into being useful idiots and supporting it. Much like how homosexuals are treated by the mainstream with “well it’s not obvious to me that they’re hurting anyone, so WHO CARES!”
Removed but I still see them and others do too. So “banning” FE posts won’t do anything unless I’m missing something. We will still see them, even if briefly. And people will still rage.
And I don’t have a big stake in the FE game, but what happens if, by some miracle, it’s PROVEN that FE is real and we’ve been censoring it. That would make this community as gay as MSM. It’s a slippery slope.
No, the major difference is that they won’t continue and people won’t rage. Knowing that they’re banned forever, the “ragers” will simply report the posts and move on, happy in the knowledge that they won’t be up anymore.
It’s really quite beautiful, not letting filth enter your home. Try it sometime.
There is zero chance of FE being proven. It's gone, a dead and disproven notion for literally thousands of years. The resurgence in recent years on the internet is inorganic and displays all the hallmarks of a psyop to destroy conspiracy theorizing
Should we ban Birds are Robots posts then? Once you ban one topic, many others can be justified until eventually all conspiracy talk is banned. Then we are Reddit 2.oh.
The bot is a genuine lunatic, interestingly enough. It’s a real person who manually makes a new account every day to spam the links. I got C to ban Amazon.com links, so he switched to a URL shortener. For some reason, C hasn’t banned that shortener yet. That’s all. Once the shorteners are gone, the spam stops.