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IncapableNinja
> 2 year old account, 0 posts, 8 comments
DrShirleyItzaKhan
> 2 year old HANDSHAKE, 0 posts
OperationGlownigger
>proven shill with thousands of accounts
User4598
> 6 month old handshake with 0 posts and less than a dozen comments
Franky-F4F
> 2 year old account, zero posts
DrRonnie
>one year old account reactivated yesterday - last COMMENT was 6months ago, last post over a year ago
Any other sketchy “Nay” votes I missed?
Are any of the “Yay” votes from any user even approaching the sketchiness of these accounts?
Pffft, I didn't even bother, who gives a shit. I prefer not to ban anything.
Frankly, I could go either way on wholesale banning of topics. It seems like the vast majority of the “Nay” votes were coming at it from the perspective of free-speech absolutism. Which is great and all. But that doesn’t mean much of anything if they aren’t willing to reckon with valid counter arguments (such as: spam is already removed, FE is spam - or any of the other good arguments)
I think the key point is that many of us just want to raise the quality level of this place, and removing flat earth spam is almost the “lowest-hanging fruit” of that intent.
Yes, that is subjective, but it benefits no one to be paralyzed by indecision
Yep, well as long as the shit that I agree with isn't banned everything is gonna be fine.
:)
It would be nice to improve the quality, but that is really non trivial given that so much of the world is full of either complete idiots or outright criminals.
I am honestly kind of amazed at the level of attention this forum gets from that side.
Another thing is that without them it may become too much of an echo chamber.
Already the community is kind of high on itself and does not really promote discourse and voting, more of a pissing contest for many.
Agreed, unfortunately.
One of my goals is to get the admins to add the functionality for communities to sort by /active instead of just /hot.
It would turn the forum into an older style “bump” based board. It would hopefully alleviate a lot of the upvote and personality thirsting.
I think it’d be an experiment worth trying
Heh, you have some type of follower who does not agree with you here, judging by the votes you got in this comment line.
fun stuff.
Yea another section kind of like a sticky may work.
The issue is, with anything, it will face the constant barrage of fake pieces to break it down and turn it to shit.