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 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.
No one doesn't want you to know that the earth is flat because it is not a conspiracy and not a fact. It's a non issue. No one is trying to hide anything about it. And It's off topic for this forum. if some dude kept posting sports results here, and I removed those off-topic posts - would you get all butt hurt about censorship then? Even worse, what if he was posting fake sports results that weren't even accurate in any way? Should his freedom of speech defended at all costs?
Depends, is there a conspiracy to hide the true sports results?
So like the vast majority of the posts on this board? But if you can prove he's doing it maliciously with intent to deceive then that would be valid to remove. However FE isn't so cut and dry as looking up sports results.
Then again, how do you know the sports results you see on the tv aren't lying? Maybe that guy saying their fake might be on to something. It's like the studies claiming the covid vaccines are safe and effective, those are actually lies with manipulated data. Yet if you said that to a normy they would think you're a liar and should be removed. That's what you are doing.
Let me know when you're going to ban the next thing. Make a nice list so we can all see how fucked this board has gotten.
it absolutely is cut and dry. it's neither a conspiracy nor a fact, and fully refuted by very many true and demonstrable things. Of all the bullshit topics that get posted here it is by far the worst. If you think some FE has made a compelling argument you either don't even bother to scrutinize their "arguments", have low standards, or just don't take conspiracy theorizing very seriously. Maybe it is just a laugh for you. That's completely fine, but you can easily find the low standard entertaining bullshit topics you desire in communities dedicated to such things.
You just don't get it. You can't name one topic as bullshit but not any of the others. For example is bigfoot conspiracies banned? Loch Ness Monster conspiracies? Lizard people? Aliens? 5G causes cancer? Those subjects are even more bullshit and more easily debunked than FE. Yet you pick on FE.
No matter how much you despise a subject, no matter how stupid or indefensible it is, as long as it remains in the fashion of a conspiracy, it is valid on a conspiracy board. That includes bigfoot, aliens and all the other shit that gets posted here. Just limit FE to 1 post a day and remove any others.