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Originally Posted by jayswin
His point is that if a poster can consistently derail discussion with clear cut misinformation than what is the cost/benefit analysis as a message board. every discussion platform is dealing with it and everyone is taking steps to deal with QAnon/yoho/bot posts.
CP has not and is unwilling to do so and it's destroying everything we built up over a couple decades.
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I think that might be a little over dramatic. The bigger problem in my view is people who can’t simply just post something disproving his claims without it becoming a dogpile. There’s always gonna be people posting stuff other people don’t like or agree with(in many instances rightfully so) but at the end of the day it’s easier to just prove them wrong than to throw hissy fits about their posting, it also requires far less effort. Discredit his stuff properly and move on.
As much as many don’t want to believe it, there are a lot of people who believe the stuff he posts. So IMO there is a benefit to politely disproving it because even if you won’t reach Yoho you may reach one of them, whereas just calling yoho names provides nothing. I’m saying this as someone who at one point was called every name under the sun by some on this board(you were there so I’m sure you remember) and my attitude is the same now as it was then, if what someone is saying is so wrong it would take far less effort to disprove what they’re saying than it would to piss moan and groan about it endlessly while begging the mods to have them banned.