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Vindicator ago

Thanks for making this thread, Crensch.

It should be noted that there are many creative ways that username flares could be deployed, including some positive ones like a gold star or something for people's favorite researchers. People should think about this and share any ideas they have.

IShallNotFear ago

I don't know if we should highlight the prominent researchers. I have always thought that pizzagate is more about what is said than who said it. I don't want pizzagate to be like regular news media where people think, "CBS said it so it must be true." I don't even want it to be like many conservative circles where people pick their favorite talking head (Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones, Lauren Southern, etc) and defend them against other conservative criticism no matter what. I want users to have about the same level of critical thinking and skepticism on a post made by a new user as on a post made by someone who has been here since the beginning. Look, I know if you flaired popular researchers, I may be included as one of the good guys. However, I have had to retract stories in the past. See here here and here. I don't want people to blindly believe what I say if I am wrong. Also, I don't want my previous mistakes to taint other's opinions when I do get it right.

Edit: Had to change one of my retraction links. I guess that is an example of what I was referring to above.

Vindicator ago

This is an excellent point, ishallnotfear. Thanks for making it.

One reason the flairs are being considered is because of the Jem777 thing. For some reason, no one seemed to remember the comments I made numerous times before, during and after I had to ban her exposing the lies she was telling and suspicious behavior she was exhibiting. A flare for that kind of thing next to her username while it would have been met with anger, would at least have allowed us to have a conversation that critically examined the situation. Instead, everyone forgot about it and she went on and on and on off platform apparently fooling Robyn Gritz and a lot of other people. We still don't know what is really going on with Jem. The flares would trigger more critical discussion of suspicious contributions and help prevent sleeper shills from taking people for a ride.

On the other hand, depending on how it's used, this could increase the controversy and drama here and have a chilling effect on research. That's why we need to discuss it.

think- ago

fooling Robyn Gritz and a lot of other people

How do you know she fooled Gritz? Maybe Gritz has been connected to her, and contributed to fooling everybody?

Blacksmith21 ago

Or maybe Gritz was playing Jem777? Gritz > Flynn > Targets of McCabe, et al.

GRITZ is who Flynn was protecting from the FBI. "First we fuck Flynn, then we fuck Trump".

think- ago

GRITZ is who Flynn was protecting from the FBI.

Yes, I know. You mean this gives her credibility?

Or maybe Gritz was playing Jem777?

Could very well have been the case.