posted on Mar, 2 2008 @ 05:15 AM
This is all too familiar for me. Every website that is dedicated to give people a chance to spread their opinions of this world is, like it or not,
going to go through opposites, bashing, flamewars, insulting, cencorship, banning, ignorance and all the worst that a human being will do when his
ideas of a world are challanged.
Lets face it. Most of it comes because we all have different experiences, differing intellectual capacity, different information about things and so
on. some may have read a hundred books on UFO's, some may just have had a glimplse on some article. That creates opposition, because there is nothing
we can do for human nature.
In my opinion, the politics ATS staff are using is one of the best when compared to rest of the forums on internet. There are difficult decisions to
be made and keeping a site from going nuts requires control. You may not like it, but perhaps you would want to check how other sites are doing.
They (ATS staff) have done a great work to prevent birth of certain well informed elitism atmosphere. All forums are usually doomed to go into that
direction, while this one somehow, magically, appears to avoid that atmosphere from being born. You do not want it, I do not want it and most
extremely intelligent people do not want it to happen anywhere. It destroys capacity to create new aspects, information and theory that is outside of
accepted norm.
When a forum discusses alternative realities, theories and observations, birth of elitism atmosphere in where only well informed and very intelligent
people dominate, will destroy purpose of this forum.
You do NOT want it, therefore: accept some cencorcism, accept some control, accept that there are things to be done to prevent that.
Personally, I hope that this certain feeling on this site never goes away.