Before responding, take a moment to learn the history of the PG subverse here.
Once you've done that, understand that giving mods the ability to moderate based on their knowledge of the narrative invites mods that will steer the narrative using their mod tools.
You'll get mods that allow this:
The Rule 1 problem is the biggest problem in the subverse in my opinion. Tons of quality material like children being given hormone blockers at age 3, Planned Parenthood misleading children to believe that a person is not male/female at birth using the word "gender", organ harvesting, etc...
... and delete real PG leads.
The original idea of this subverse was to have a running ARCHIVE of everything, because no other place seemed to be safe to do so. Posts being constant links and re-links to known solid direct connections to PG with a new connection highlighted for others to look at and follow. After a while, parts of that should have gone into this sticky, and would be considered more or less canon for future leads.
The original idea of the RULES of this subverse was to keep everything in a very structured and easily-parsed format, allowing the mods to simply clean up the stuff that wasn't formatted properly, and didn't pass the direct-link muster. This would prevent the mods from pushing their own narrative, and allow them to keep the place clean enough so that both the new and the veteran could pick up the torch with relative ease.
Now to the discussion of the rule, and the possible changing of this entire subverse.
If you want a modification of any part of rule 1, state clearly the exact part(s) and justify your position.
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Lobotomy ago
We need more protection from /x/-tier conspiratards. Every once in a while we get a fucking crazy who manages to get upvoted to the top, but his OP is flat-earther-tier, unintelligent, garbage that is totally unrelated to pizzagate. We get cultists, hyper-religious catladies, and UFOlogists all the fucking time now, and let's be real, here, there are only three reasons why:
The level of new evidence we get these days are a dripfeed that span weeks and months. People will make anything up for a good story to break the monotony, or as a 'spice' to make PG seem more 'interesting'.
Attention-whoring. Everyone wants their 15 minutes, and some of these fuckers are morally bankrupt enough to exploit trafficked children to get their lunatic soapbox.
Pizzagate is close enough to a "conspiracy theory", to attract a certain breed of mentally ill individual, and these people have found /v/pizzagate and are running amok.
I really think the mods have gone out for cigarettes, I can't even get a hold of Millenial Falcon anymore, and I see more and more of these threads every day.
Quality is dropping through the floor, and it seems like anything is acceptable here, these days. If I saw the ulrasonic nanite infection/Targeted Individual thread last year, it would have been downvoated to oblivion.
Crensch ago
How would you change things for that?
MF has indeed been radio-silent for a few days. Guy keeps getting attacked by "users". What do you think of MF and Vindicator? A lot of usernames seem to hate MF.
Lobotomy ago
I don't hate MF at all, I just wish senpai would notice me. Vindicator seems to do his job well enough.
I don't really know what can be done about kicking the /x/ shit out of here, other than adding more, more dilligent, mods. I chalk it up to a combination of inadequate flood control, as well as people being sneaky about the context of what is, or is not, "Pizzagate-related". Seems like these days, they'll just shoehorn in an indirect, not-proveable, passing reference to PG, and it's barely over the line of acceptablility, so it makes it to the top of the page, even though it makes no sense, or doesn't make sense within the context of why we're all here.
Perhaps redefining "Pizzagate-related", to emphasize a more direct relation to PG, or banning/limiting "conspiracy crossovers", a term I just now coined. A lot of people are interjecting other conspiracy beliefs they have into Pizzagate, and making threads about that.
Now I'm not one to discount the possibility of another theory having a direct or supplementary relation to PG, but it needs absolute, empirical, and convincing, proof. I'd rather treat Pizzagate like a criminal investigation, than a Sasquatch hunt, you know?
Crensch ago
@kevdude I think this guy gets it. I like his style, at the very least.