I've talked with other mods and I am proposing the current changes I've implemented. I have changed the side bar from:
Warning: Some describe this as a "fringe" conspiracy forum. If you're afraid of the info you may encounter here, please confine yourself to Win's safe-space conspiracy forum, here.
Which oddly links to; c/GreatAwakening. Not sure why Clems did that, but, I don't like it, seems suspect. Further, not sure why they are trying to make out conspiracy theories as fringe or scary?
I replaced it with:
Conspiracies.win: This is a forum for free thinking and for discussing issues which have captured your imagination. Please respect other views and opinions, and keep an open mind. Our goal is to create a fairer and more transparent world for a better future.
and further outlined:
The Golden Rule: Be respectful. Attack the argument, not the person.
Thus, establishing the Ethos of this forum (set in stone). This was the Ethos I agreed upon when Axo made me a mod here first when we both were purged from Reddit. Me first, then him. Thank god for us creating Voat accounts back in the day. Still pissed some top mind took my original Putin_loves_cats original username here. Anwyays...
Clems had this as a general disclaimer:
Submissions of exceptionally low quality, trolling, spam, and those submissions determined to be intentionally misleading, may all be removed.
I built off this and replaced it with:
Disclaimer: Submissions/comments of exceptionally low quality, trolling, stalking, spam, and those submissions/comments determined to be intentionally misleading, calls to violence and/or abuse of other users here, may all be removed at moderator's discretion.
This is what I propose to the community and other mods here (ie. Axo, me, and Clems). The sidebar can always be reverted back if the response calls for it (from the community and my other co-mods) and I will concede.
Weigh in with your thoughts and opinions. Furthermore, you have a more artistic tongue in legalese, propose any alteration to the disclaimer to make it less ambiguous and more succinct. I suck at legalese.
Oh I agree about Amos as well. He still goes off the deep end just in comments alone with that account sometimes. Like almost zero restraint.
I don't expect you to do anything, just making you aware.
Just strange...Axo is head mod, you're obviously a regular from Reddit (and we did have a few brief exchanges on there), and then this weird dude does all the actual moderating. I also believe that his name is even taken from the one guide with the 15 ways to detect disinformation agents (I think it even used to be in the Reddit conspiracy sub sidebar). There's a sentence about people that "cleverly manuever" themselves into moderating positions. Cute.
Aren't we supposed that dude in the sidebar with the raised eyebrow? ;:-/
He knows he's protected. Ask him about Sheesie, lmfao it's his cryptonight. He is doing the same shit under the moniker of icky (and others). I've called that dude out so many times, it ain't even funny. Not sure if you were around during the game of trolls on Reddit, but, he came from that era,
Well, thanks for letting me know. I'll keep my eye out. I told Clems I wasn't happy with what I saw was going on when I came back. Still waiting to here back from axo about a few things.
As for the rest of what you said, yea... I don't know. I don't know how he became a mod here or why Axo made him one. He claims to be someone from /r/conspiracy but I don't ever remember that username, and I have a damn good memory. So, not sure how it all happened. I verified myself to Axo via Voat before it shut down, on accounts we both made back in the day.
We are supposed to be, which is why I'm trying to turn the ship into the original direction (ie. Why I even approached Axo to help make this place into something after being burned by Reddit).
Look at Clem's responses to me already. Just a midge antagonistic.
I got to calling him TallestSkil after his repeated protection of TallestSkil. He banned or temporarily banned users for talking about it.
He tried to make it like TallestSkil repeated suicide threats were kitschy and funny, but failed pretty miserably.
I asked Axo to ban TallestSkil, but nada. Clem must have removed hundreds of TallestSkil's comments, but not until after the recipients got them. I KNOW multiple people who left here because of TallestSkil alone, one of them even made posts about it with new screennames, and Clem removed them.
Clem enforces "rules" that aren't listed anywhere, completely arbitrarily.
Simply put - nothing you claim here is true. Not one word of it.
Also, I wasn't talking to you. That was a response to PutinLovesCats. I'd prefer to hear what he has to say.
Sure thing. Why don't you just type FAKE NEWS?
My impression is Axo made me a mod because he didn't want to look after the place, but since all other mods were not active, it would be unmoderated. He randomly messaged me to ask did I want to mod and I said yes, and that was that. In a couple of sporadic messages he expressed approval of my moderation, in particular the setting up the sidebar links.
Sure, I'm not as long time a user of Conspiracy as you were, but obviously your memory is not good enough memory to remember over 1.5 million usernames, which is about how many subscribers Conspiracy had when I started contributing posts from about 2016/2017.
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/search?q=author%3Aclemaneuverers&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
The search wont call up my earlier posts unfortunately. It seems to be limited in time span to about 3 years. I was banned in 2020 and have since lost access to the account, so I'm not sure how to access my earlier stuff.
Thanks for giving the me history of how you did. I didn't mean anything by what I said, just had no idea how it happened. Axo never messaged me anything about it.
You were never considered a "regular" there when I was active or else I would know your username. I can list off a bunch of users that the community (myself included) considered regulars. Then again, I was banned and suspended so many times maybe your later posts fell through my cracks during them.
Anyways, like I said... Didn't mean anything by it, and I'm not accusing you of anything.
I did all the actual moderating because no other mod was here to do it. For long stretches other mods did not show, and when they did it's only very briefly. I put that raised eyebrow dude in the sidebar. And this conversation is raising my eyebrow right now.
Lmao, my user name is even more clever than that, I'm afraid. Try again.
Like how you couldn't give a decent explanation for why you stickied KoanicSoul's posts?
If it's the post I'm thinking of, I believe I answered at the time that it seemed like a high effort post so I stickied it. Someone in the comments then said it was a copy paste from reddit. Is that the one?
Anyway, the answer remains the same. I didn't put any more thought into it than that. Most posts here are low effort linking. If you hold a grudge against me over that my advice is to let it go, it's simply misplaced. Anytime a user asks for a post to be stckied I have generally obliged. Yes, even if you were to suggest one.
Why? You shouldn't be against transparency.
I am not against transparency. Why do you say that? Seems like a strawman argument to me. My eyebrow is raised because the The xaviermgk dude is lying out his ass about me, flinging unsubstantiated accusations.
Why are you getting so defensive, dude? I just asked you a question. As for what that user is saying, I'm just hearing their side and having a convo. It's being taken with a grain of salt. However, what they said about you protecting/allowing Tallest (what the fuck ever) is true. You did, or at least turned a blind out (you admitted that). That is questionable, IMO, because they weren't just exercising free speech, they were actively and openly harassing other users here whilst constantly making calls to violence. That's fucked up.
You said it was cheeky "good fun/meme", but, like that user said, how many people left because that user? Why would you allow that? It's rhetorical, you already "told" me.
Anyways, this is transparency. Mods and users being able to talk freely amongst each other, as equals. So, chill the fuck out and stop being so defensive.
Do enlighten me then.