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Originally posted by NightVision
The overwhelming and increasing amount of ridiculous, hoaxed, threads like these are the reason I come back to ATS fewer and fewer times a week. If the mods would just start banning people (like the creator of this thread for example), life would be easier.
Originally posted by NightVision
The overwhelming and increasing amount of ridiculous, hoaxed, threads like these are the reason I come back to ATS fewer and fewer times a week. If the mods would just start banning people (like the creator of this thread for example), life would be easier.
Oh...and I just love pop-up ads when I log on. Can we please have more of those?
edit on 9-9-2010 by NightVision because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Aim64C
There was a time when, in order to sign up on ATS, one had to have a commercial e-mail account, or was not simply free-to-register (hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, etc).
Even though I am currently registered using a hotmail account - I would not mind seeing a return to those days. Yes, I was sad when I saw that a long time ago, back when I was 14 and wishing to discuss stuff about aliens... but, looking back - it's probably best that I wasn't able to join without a commercial account (as I was young and far more willing to forsake logic).
That would cut down on a lot of this stuff, honestly. Yeah - it would be nice if we could just open up the flood-gates and let it be a free-for-all... but, honestly - when you do that, you end up with this crap.
I would just re-register with my navy.mil account - that would be amusing when going up for SSBI investigations.
That, or authorizations for starting threads in hot topic areas like this should start being restricted in some manner. It's getting out of hand. There's almost no point in going here - nothing new can be learned - it's all posts with slightly revised re-hashes of the same stuff from every other UFO conspiracy website. Or people trying to claim four pixels of mystery is proof of UFOs being ET.
A little bit of it is alright and to be expected in this field. But, honestly, where could I go to post a picture of a "UFO" I encounter some day and get some decent discussion on it? Where could I take an honest photo and question and get some serious discussion on it?
I'm not confident this is the/a place. I wouldn't feel comfortable going to this place with an honest "I saw something weird and, yeah - I'll post the crappy picture because I know you all will ask to see it anyway." It won't get much serious attention, as it will be competing with today's you-tube hoax or picture of moths on the window - and my honest question will likely be given the same regard as the hoax-of-the-day is given.
Not that I'm sitting on pictures or experiences - but that if I had them - I would be very hesitant to share them, here, as its so polluted by people who fabricate hoaxes or knowingly post hoaxes or pictures of nonsense - and I simply don't want to pipe up and say: "I saw something weird the other day" and associate myself with the day-to-day nonsense.