As ridiculous as FE seems, prima facie, until it's proven false, I keep my mind open to plausible explanations for why:
A) the moon landings were all fake and we've never "been back"
B) there are no actual photos of the entire earth from space (unless you believe the sizes of the continents are changing by 30-60% every decade or so)
C) the only people on earth that we give billions of dollars to, to go to space, are faking any, let alone much (or all) of the footage, using green screens, parabolic "zero gravity" flights, actual hair spray to make their hair stand up, underwater studios (unless you believe in air bubbles in space)
You might say "but these items have better explanations than FE". Well let's hear those theories also. Let's not shoot down those who are proposing an outlandish, yet mostly comprehensive, theory, one that explains these anomalies as well as a plethora of others, like how did they use radio frequencies that don't even purportedly bounce off the ionosphere to communicate hundreds of miles during WWII, how can the horizon be seen above an item whose entirety should be hidden behind it, why is Antarctica, aside from a tiny portion, entirely off limits to most civilians, how was Felix Baumgartner able to slowly float up to nearly 30 miles without drifting a thousand or more miles because of the earth's rotation, etc.
Suggestions that these things are not even worthy of discussion, on a forum dedicated to conspiracy theories, have to be disingenuous.
Original Research
Let's not also forget that FE researchers are literally the only conspiracy theorists doing original research. These people will buy lasers that cost thousands of dollars, cameras, etc., and go to some large body of water (large lakes, bays, etc.) where they can test their hypothesis with an actual experiment. Everything else I see on here is pure speculation, or videos of interviews involving various professionals with dubious backstories (Malone, etc.).
Does it Matter
Pertaining the "would it even matter" argument, you honestly don't need a lukewarm IQ to imagine how much it would matter, if FE was real.
Principles
Most of us are here because we couldn't speak freely elsewhere, because "hate has no place on our platform" type communist bullshit. Now we're going to make the same kind of rules, especially banning arbitrary content that is desired by a clear majority, on a platform with already-existing mechanisms for getting rid of low quality postd (downvoting, hiding)? If FE posts are banned, this place is no better than TGA, and don't even pretend to be pro constitution when you can't even stand up for free speech about a conspiracy theory in a conspiracy theory forum.
I'm out of here, for good, if FE is banned. Aside from spam, illegal, doxxing, banning has no place on our platform.
You’re objective wrong. Earth is not flat.
I have never claimed nor endorsed the idea that the earth is flat.
The idea that the earth is flat, and this fact is being covered up, is a conspiracy theory by the most literal definition. Just because it it a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's true.
Except it’s objectively false. There is no idea. It does not exist. The only “conspiracy” is “why are people paid by the government to spam flat earth on this website in the first place,” and to answer that DOES NOT REQUIRE FLAT EARTH SPAM TO BE ALLOWED HERE.
Literally the fucking definition of the term, so yes, the entire fucking point of having a board to discuss conspiracies is to determine if they are true, and when they are not, to discard them.
Both of us are convinced FE is bullshit, but sadly there are those who are not. Simply refusing to let them speak like a moral busybody convinces no-one, and actually further roots the annoying conspiracy theory.
On the other hand, people claiming to be the unquestionable arbiters of truth is precisely why this forum exists in the first place.
I don’t give a shit. Anyone mentally defective enough to believe the Earth is flat does not belong on this website. I don’t care about “convincing” someone of something they are willfully ignoring because they are paid to do so. We are under no obligation to allow literal paid shilling to be posted here. We already ban Q-LARP. No one complains. At all. They go to their containment board where they suck each other off and get killed by the government.
Flat Earth, also a government hoax, deserves the same treatment.