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.
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.