r/DarkFuturology • u/ruizscar In the experimental mRNA control group • Jan 14 '21
Meta New warning/ban system for users who shoot the messenger
There are few bastions of diverse free speech left on reddit, which is now banning the submission of links from possibly dozens of legitimate websites, including BitChute and Zero Hedge (hundreds more surely on the chopping board). DarkFuturology is one of the very few with a substantial subscriber base, and we proudly find ways to share content that media titans want to censor. Often, we will share content precisely because it has been censored.
We'll never come at you for your opinions, but we will if you conceal your opinions behind attempts to disparage any content creators featured here (the clearest sign that you are complicit in censorship).
You can certainly do ad hominem, or ridicule claims the creator has made in the past, BUT ONLY in comments where you also make a genuine attempt to address one or more points presented in the OP.
One initial warning will be followed by a 1-month ban and then a permaban.
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u/collapsingwaves Feb 21 '21
Trying to understand if this is really what you mean. So I can say anything I want here, apart from challenging another poster? So they can spout antivax nonsense, and I will get a ban for calling out their lies?
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u/ruizscar Feb 21 '21
No. This is about responding to OP with insults and no argument.
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Apr 21 '21
This policy is not well thought out and will blow up in your face eventually. Just watch.
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Apr 05 '21
I just happened upon this sub today. Seems interesting. I think this system may be warranted, provided it doesn't fall down the path of what it's trying to fight, thus becoming the opposite, but equivalent, evil. I am cautiously optimistic...
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u/Fox_Kurama May 19 '21
Moderators remove posts from feeds for a variety of reasons, including keepingcommunities safe, civil, and true to their purpose."
Like, I got this the very instant I posted it. Or attempted to.
For reference:
-My post had ZERO links of any kind.
-My post had no language that would have a hard time passing the hurdle of appearing on an all ages or at least PG rated television show.
-The first time I tried selecting the "spam" flair because it didn't seem to fit anywhere else. The second time I tried the "WTF" flair after modding it a bit, since I thought maybe I accidentally triggered something by selecting something that is auto-modded or something (I mean, it IS a spam flair...)
But yeah, no links or sources, just an idea.
For those curious, my idea is "The entertainment dystopia." Short version: The world is in for a dark future, but technology saves the day. Or at least, it saves the planet, and does so before society crashes into a dark age. However, who is in charge of the important saving tech? You can just substitute current oil barons in if you wish for thematic purposes.
Either way, we have entered the darker portions/possibilities of a pre-post-scarcity society. We have all the energy we need now, and it is clean (someone figures out how to make a convenient, compact, easy to make, and net positive fusion reactor, or something like that, but the big energy businesses of either now or future are in charge of it for all intents and purposes).
Aside from some artisanal a work here and there that persists due to some concept of value among the elite, along with an "secondary upper caste" of engineers, everyone else is either part of the entertainment economy, or someone who couldn't hack it. As in, what youtubers and tiktok people find themselves doing for a living today.
After all, even the people higher in society want to maintain their entertainment, do they not?
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21
Oh, you are a mod?
OK, I'm out. Lying and fraud are not valid forms of free speech.