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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twistedmac11 ago
I apologize if this has been mentioned already, but I wanted to get it in before you close this up. I recently had a post deleted by M_F citing Rule 1: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2128750
I messaged M_F two or three times asking for an explanation, considering my post touched on the Catholic Church covering up yet another serial molester, but got no response. Finally I messaged @vindicator, who told me they wouldn't have deleted my post had it been up to them.
While I understand that the Catholic church covering up pedophiles doesn't necessarily involve elites, considering how powerful the Vatican is (and how similar it is, legally speaking, to Washington DC & London), I think posts involving the Catholic church covering for pedophiles should fall under Rule 1. I've been working on another angle involving pedophilia coverups by the church for the last couple of weeks, but I'm hesitant to post anything here for fear it will get deleted.
I think it would help if the mods could agree on how to apply Rule 1 in general.