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Originally posted by Defiant Human
Wouldn't it make sense for mods to just move the threads in question to more appropriate forums like "Skunk Works" or "The Gray Area" when they show up? Then everyone can have their free speech (which is important) and the more evidence based forums like "Aliens & UFO's" can run a little leaner and more productive.
I don't think we need any kind of limits on what kinds of ideas can be expressed on ATS, we just need those ideas to be in the appropriate forums.
Originally posted by David9176
... I seriously believe this will drive away newbies to this site who may be curious as i was...only to think this site is half full of crazies.
Originally posted by euclid
I agree..... I also take a slightly different stance though. Maybe there should be a section on the forum that is called "Comic Relief" that is "freed" from the normal ATS-totalitarianism of decorum..... it could be a place where the Mods put posts like this latest Galactic Federation of Light crap, and those silly people who do numerology and make crazy predictions of terrorist attacks and things like that.... I mean posts like those aren't even worthy of being put into the Gray area or skunk works... right?
And it would also be the ultimate put down for a post, the place where "laughing stock" posts end up ... really... if it ends up in comic relief and everyone treated the posts that get put there as the flotsam they are it could really increase the integrity, meaningfulness, and wieght of the threads that don't get moved into that "comic relief" section.
And then maybe people would think twice about posting BS.
-Euclid
Originally posted by euclid
I agree..... I also take a slightly different stance though. Maybe there should be a section on the forum that is called "Comic Relief" that is "freed" from the normal ATS-totalitarianism of decorum..... it could be a place where the Mods put posts like this latest Galactic Federation of Light crap, and those silly people who do numerology and make crazy predictions of terrorist attacks and things like that.... I mean posts like those aren't even worthy of being put into the Gray area or skunk works... right?
And it would also be the ultimate put down for a post, the place where "laughing stock" posts end up ... really... if it ends up in comic relief and everyone treated the posts that get put there as the flotsam they are it could really increase the integrity, meaningfulness, and wieght of the threads that don't get moved into that "comic relief" section.
And then maybe people would think twice about posting BS.
-Euclid