The first sentence on the Wikipedia page for it calls it “a disputed medical condition.” Even the CIA itself has admitted that cases are not caused by “a sustained global campaign by a hostile power.” The State Department similarly released a report that it was highly unlikely the symptoms were caused by any sort of directed energy weapon. In fact, seven different US intelligence agencies released a consensus statement saying, “available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents.”
But the clowns on .world don’t care about things like truth or evidence, or even direct statements from the people who’s boots they have in their mouths. If it makes an enemy of the US look bad, then it is absolute truth, and anything short of complete faith and loyalty must be purged from conversation.
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Offending post
It wasn’t removed for being shouty or aggressive, it was removed for “misinformation.” If the mods don’t like the tone, they should say so, and at least give me a chance to edit it. What they’re saying instead is, “This is indisputably proven true, there is no conversation to be had about this, and anyone claiming otherwise is a bad actor,” because that’s what a removal for misinformation means. Of course, they don’t have any evidence to back it up, because as I said, they don’t believe in sourcing claims or basing beliefs on evidence.
I just read the comments there. The majority of the comments are agreeing with your viewpoint. Almost everyone thinks this news story is wrong, and they were all saying so. They just weren’t cocks about it.
You were moderated for being shouty and unpleasant. Now, you’re being shouty and unpleasant here, and constructing a fiction where everyone is crazy liberal bootlickers trying to silence your truth, when everyone is way ahead of you on that particular truth, waiting for you to realize that they also agree with you.
No, they were moderated for “misinformation”, as it says right there
Chipping in as a former mod. We get a lot of reports. At some point, huge long run on paragraphs like this will get skimmed over. We don’t have the time or capacity to dissect every thesis that gets reported. If it throws up red flags (and this one throws up a lot), we make a judgement based on that. Sorry, but that’s how modding works.
Also chiming in to say, if banning haphazardly is a consequence of not having enough mods, then maybe they should be getting more mods.
Speaking from experiences on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !football@lemmy.world , the vast majority of people aren’t interested in moderating.
I left the call for mods post open on the first one for weeks, only got one volunteer after two months
Ye I know, but typically if you don’t find mods like that, there’s also not a lot of traffic either to justify not taking the time, no?
The of course doesn’t take into account super-mods, i.e. people modding dozens or comms, but that’s on them really.
I used to mod r/Futurology, one of the default reddit subs. Hard to say how many actual users, but over 10M subscribed (inflated because we were a default sub). Even then we had trouble getting reliable mods who wouldn’t drop out after a month.
Are you still a mod there? Could you promote !futurology@futurology.today as an alternative?
Futurology.today is run by the same team, we have tried promoting it and getting people to move, but haven’t had much luck with the inertia.
Are you able to review and unsuspend accounts there? I got suspended 3 times in about 6 weeks, and the 3rd one is just permanent. I still don’t get what I was suspended over. The team won’t tell me, and they claim it’s viewed by a human team, but I know it’s not.
This wasn’t a huge run on paragraph, that’s just how things get displayed in the modlog.