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.
Animal posts would be fine here if it was a conspiracy in some way. There are conspiracies about car engines that get insane mpg but are covered up to sell more oil. You could make a post about how the courts purposefully favor women. There's all kinds of technology conspiracies like certain technology waves being harmful to the body.
And having the conspiracy theory that the governments and space programs are covering up a flat Earth for some reason is still a legit conspiracy theory, no matter how retarded it is.
Leave it to the furry to actively recognize the operative point while still missing it entirely. It’s like getting a hole in one by hitting the ball onto a different hole’s, er, hole.
Nice counter argument, you sure showed me!
It literally wasn’t a counterargument. But you know all about putting things in the wrong hole, so I’m not surprised you don’t know what you’re even saying.
Still got nothing? No surprise.
It is literally not legitimate anyway. It is a complete fabrication.
Your example of the car could be a legitimate conspiracy if it could be proven, or evidence found that indicates it's true. Stated without evidence it's weak and should be challenged.
FE is already fully disproven for a very very long time. All evidence for it is completely fabricated and assumptive, and often it is outright lies and misrepresentations of the facts - this is clearly done in bad faith. Maybe the people presenting it do not realize this, maybe they didn't come up with it - but they (attempt to) defend it like they came up with it.
This board is for conspiracies of any kind, whether true or outright lies. At least that's what I assume since 90% of the posts here are garbage. Therefore FE fits in quite nicely with everything else here.
But like trying to argue with a FEer or a theist, I see you won't change your mind or listen to logic.
it's no 90% but lets pretend like it is for sake of argument. This board is for conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts. FE is neither. When it's banned, then only 80% will be garbage, and maybe that raising of standards will have a knock on effect and reduce that percentage even more, naturally as people will post better things. This is an attempt to improve things. Or perhaps you actually come here to wallow in shit? If so you could simply find somewhere else to do that.
Hey, thanks for the effort to improve this board. I have lurked and occasionally posted for a while and have hoped to see it eventually be something of value like r/conspiracy was until about 6 years ago and since. If they think this place is garbage, it is only because they must have stopped even lurking r/conspiracy anymore.
Hey, a side note: please NEVER allow this site to randomly suggest usernames. That is a conspiracy in itself on reddit. It was the easiest low-effort way to hide the thousands of bots.
I used to come here for conspiracies the mainstream doesn't want you to know about, things to make you think because. You are showing this board can't be trusted because of censorship. Because next you will be ban something else. Then something else after that. If I wanted that I would go to the Reddit conspiracy sub. Soon this board will become Reddit.
I would second a motion to ban MGTOW posts here also. They have nothing to do with conspiracies.