[This Post is written to serve as a reference for people, and will be linked in the right.]
It was never our idea to have a “commenting policy.” It was forced on us by outsiders.
We do not care what you think; we believe in exchange of ideas, even fiery exchanges. People who passionately believe things often express those things in an aggressive manner, and that can offend other people. We don’t care. This is not a nursery school. No one gets sent to the principal’s office. No one will ever be censored for passion, language, assertiveness, intelligence, or even stupidity or ignorance.
That is your business. We leave you in peace to comment as you see fit. Yes, we think it is important to be polite, but have some fun too! We are not hall monitors.
However there are trolls out there in abundance, and disinfo agents. Their job is to undermine good and honest work in any way possible. One defense we have is to quarantine new commenters – your first comment here will not appear until reviewed. Once you pass that small hurdle you are set free.
In addition, certain theories and ideas are often used as stalking horses to achieve other purposes, what we call “blackwashing.” Mere introduction of these into a comment thread can hijack it and create a debate whose real intent is to associate this site with ideas that are likely to make most people reject anything else we have to say out of hand. Such ideas can be used by agents to discredit us.
Intelligence agents and their employees use these memes to take all of the good and conscientious research done by honest people, and discredit it by association with idiotic or unpalatable ideas. This is not a statement about the validity of these ideas, but simply a statement that we do not wish this blog to be associated with them. Consequently, we ask that you cooperate with us by not broaching the following subjects on this particular forum. (There are plenty of other forums available besides ours where you are free to discuss them.)
These topics are:
- Flat earth.
- Illuminati.
- Reptilians.
- Transgender
- Gematria
- “Fake news.”
- Paul is Dead
- Mandela effect.
- Dallas Goldbug.
We understand that people will stumble on to those topics without having read this policy, and so we will be patient. Once an above topic is introduced that we feel runs counter to the spirit of this request, we will ask that you come here to read about this policy. A second offense will result in your comment being deleted and a warning. A third offense will result in banning.
Bans are not permanent, maybe a week or so to calm down. Forgiveness is a virtue. Alongside patience, it allows all of us to develop our brains as we try to move forward in understanding this goofy planet.