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.
It's just like back in 2016 when they quarantined The_Donald from the rest of reddit. It was making too many waves and pissed a lot of people off. They wanted to keep them in an echo chamber away from everyone else, so the ideas don't spread. That's exactly what is happening now. The Mod got called out on fake evidence by a FEer and it ruined his day. Flat Earth is on topic just as simulation theory and hollow earth.
It isn't like that at all because:
The_Donald was quarantined despite being one of the top subs, they quarantined it by hiding it from users to prevent traffic there. The quarantine was because of the influence it exerted and traffic it generated to the sub. No one on The_Donald was mad about posting in their own sub.
No one is trying to hide or quarantine the flat earth sub here, there is no effort to prevent anyone going there if they want to. If people actually wanted to hear about it or discuss it then there would be plenty of traffic there. Maybe you should consider why there is not enough traffic for your liking and why flat earth posters have to spam elsewhere to have any "discussion" (which is generally just people calling them stupid and them denying it rather than any real discussion). Why do flat earth posters NOT want to post in a sub specifically about their interests!?
There are "waves" being made by flat earth posters, they are simply annoying like atheists posting in Christian subs or Christian's proselytizing in atheist subs are annoying. If you want to post about the subject, post about it in your own sub rather than spamming your views on others who don't care about it or don't want to hear about it.
Flat earth posters are exactly like drag queens demanding access to children or trannies demanding access to women's restrooms... they are not satisfied to be left alone to freely debate and research amongst themselves in the appropriate place, they feel entitled to shove their beliefs in everyone else's faces. It is farcical.
Simulation theory is just religious theory for "atheists". It is a religious cosmology that claims to be "scientific" because they replace God with computers/aliens/etc. and creation with a computer program. It is religion without morals, enjoyed by nihilists, and utterly pointless to discuss beyond the basic thought experiment of it that was not novel when it was contemplated by ancient philosophers.
"Hollow Earth" is just like "Flat Earth" except its proponents are not so monomaniacally obsessive and don't take themselves so seriously.
REEEEEEEEEEEE! -thats you
And this is exactly why no one takes your cult seriously. You cannot into adult discussions.
What a total crock of shit.
This is nothing like censoring TD.
No one is trying to prevent FE from spreading. Do you hear how fucking stupid you sound?
It’s not that you’re a huge asshole. You’re just dumb.
You’re a sophist, a fed shill, and too mentally defective to be allowed to post here. Fuck off forever.