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.
No, it literally isn’t. Its continued posting in the face of having been disproven 3000 years ago is the only conspiracy, and that one is obvious already.
If you’re a first grader, maybe.
Truth isn’t a matter of opinion.
Uh… no. It’s objectively false, and therefore not a conspiracy theory.
So you want to set a precedent of banning every conspiracy theory that some authority figure here deems "false" ?
The "settled science" approach toward conspiracies?
The earth is a spinning ball moving 50,000 miles through space and you'll only ever see one side of the moon from Earth. We golfed on the moon! A blonde bimbo pulled the trigger and blew up an asteroid in the DART project! It's settled science!
You could just as easily claim Big Foot, Aliens, ancient giants, or anything else is a ridiculous conspiracy theory, get on your high horse and ban it.
The truth isn't always so obvious and flat earth theory is more prevalent throughout human history than you give it credit for. Are you claiming globe theory has consistently prevailed going back 3,000 years? I'll debate you on that point among others.
Flat earthers are like a poorly treated minority class on this forum. I'm not even one of them but still defend their right to argue their side even if it contradicts what is seemingly mostly horse shit fed to me by government schools and their monopolist textbook publishers owned by who knows, probably someone writing HIS-Story into the textbook.
Not what was said. You’re way better than this.
No, because those aren’t conspiracy theories. They’re just false. Whereas Earth is not flat, space is real, and we went to the Moon. These things are independently verifiable and irrefutably accurate.
Thanks for asserting something no one questioned.
Wrong.
I don’t give a shit about “prevailed.” Truth isn’t a matter of debate or opinion. It’s not a matter of consensus or even public knowledge. Earth is not flat. Reality is not what you (collectively, even) wish it to be.
Hence why they need to migrate somewhere else if they don’t want to continue to be beaten in to the fucking dust like the subhuman dregs they are.
They have no side. They’re federal agents spamming a proven hoax.
What do you think is some of the best evidence disproving their conspiracy?
The fact that the angular diameter of an object above a plane can never be negative, but the sun sets.