Reaffirming the "Breaking Alternative News" Forum, page 1

Over the past few months, we've seen an increase in the number of threads posted to the Breaking Alternative News forum that don't really fit the criteria set forth on the news submission page. And in some cases, we're seeing what appears to be a shot-gun effect of several submissions that have little to do with "alternative topics."

Let me point out some examples.

These threads are appropriate submissions for the "Breaking Alternative News" forum:
Put young children on DNA list, to target future offenders.
Obama's Pastor Blames America for 9-11
Lord Rothschild Backs John McCain
Debt Serfdom comes to America

These threads ARE NOT appropriate submissions for the "Breaking Alternative News" forum:
Wall Street fears for next Great Depression
J.P. Morgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share
Royal college warns abortions can lead to mental illness
Bush: 'The Market is Correcting itself'


The Intent of the "Breaking Alternative News Forum" is to provide a single-source place to post relevant articles from other sources that are less than 48 hours hold. By relevant we mean topics that related to the "conspiracy theory" and "alternative topics" themes of the AboveTopSecret.com forums. Many of the threads we see in the first to pages of the "Breaking Alternative News Forum" should have been started in other forums on ATS or AbovePolitics.


Our Staff Will be Cleaning Up The Forum over the next few days to clear out the previous seven-days of incorrectly submitted threads. All existing threads will be moved to other forums on ATS (none will be deleted). The intent is not to single anyone out or focus/unfocus attention on any particular issue, but to demonstrate how the "Breaking Alternative News Forum" should look without staff intervention.


From This Point Forward, Incorrectly Submitted Threads Will Be Moved to the appropriate forums on AboveTopSecret.com, BelowTopSecret.com, or AbovePolitics.com. In the event the news submission is a duplicate of an existing topic in other forums, we may end up trashing it (unless it adds a new or updated twist to the existing topic).


The Goal Is To Regain Focus On Our Core Reason For Being, the intelligent and productive discussion of a broad range of "alternative topics" that include conspiracies, paranormal, UFO's, political scandal/cover-up, government secrets, and more. By regaining this focus within the "Breaking Alternative News Forum," it will be easier for our thousands of members and millions of readers to know where to look for what's happening RIGHT NOW in the world of "alternative topics."


Thanks, in advance, for your cooperation in helping to regain the appropriate focus in this important forum on ATS.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

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I just reread the description of the submission form. A conspiracy can be extrapolated from pretty much every topic.

The Wall Street article involves a money scare, which is a conspiracy. The JP Morgan article involves a similar topic, where the government and Chase meddle with the economy. The abortion topic could be construed as a conspiracy by the fact we don't know if it does cause cancer or not. And pretty much everything Bush says is a conspiracy in itself.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the 'breaking alternative news' forum could have any number of wide-ranging topics posted.

What do you classify as "alternative"? Maybe I'll have a better idea then.




[edit on 3/16/2008 by biggie smalls]

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

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Crystal clear. Thanks for the explanation.

I try to find related threads when I submit a news article, but I don't always check. Next time I'll make sure there actually is something already posted if the article itself doesn't appear to be a conspiracy.

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord


Our Staff Will be Cleaning Up The Forum over the next few days to clear out the previous seven-days of incorrectly submitted threads. All existing threads will be moved to other forums on ATS (none will be deleted). The intent is not to single anyone out or focus/unfocus attention on any particular issue, but to demonstrate how the "Breaking Alternative News Forum" should look without staff intervention.


From This Point Forward, Incorrectly Submitted Threads Will Be Moved to the appropriate forums on AboveTopSecret.com, BelowTopSecret.com, or AbovePolitics.com. In the event the news submission is a duplicate of an existing topic in other forums, we may end up trashing it (unless it adds a new or updated twist to the existing topic).

What would be the reason for a "Breaking alternative News" thread being deleted completely even if it wasn't a duplicate or an inapropriate subject?

For example...

Thank you in advance for any clarification you may offer.

[edit on 17-3-2008 by Nobubu_Togomu_mu]

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

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and who ever said the ATS admins dont listen



this is great news and it will be nice to see the quality put back into ATSN

According to your criteria then, this thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...
should or should not have been moved from "Breaking Alternative News?"
IMO, I think I tie in the whole pedophile ring/cult conspiracy to the abduction and subsequent rescue of the girl.

Originally posted by TheComte
According to your criteria then, this thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...
should or should not have been moved from "Breaking Alternative News?"

Other than in current events on ATS, I'm not seeing where it would fit into our collection of topics. If you had very good reason to suspect politicians were conspiring to cover-up a pederast ring, that's one thing... otherwise, it's just a (horrible) news item.

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