If the mods continue to look the other way, ATS IMO will deteriorate so much that probably after a year at least the UFO forum will be totally resembling godlikeproductions. LOL!
I am here because some people do great posts, not for the mods, the mods don't mind to have podcasts interviewing renowned scientists like M.Kaku and let words like "sex in the ufos" been heard repeatedly over and over from the interviewers, like there should be a point. What do you really expect?
Well, do I dare to speak like that about mods? What do I know. I don't visit much, I'm just one of those thousands of anonymous hits, every now and then. Only once in a while I actually take the time to post something. The taste I've been having from ATS lately feels weird. Visitors on occasion, like me don't have time to actually get to the board politics or the mods psychology, characters or traits, they just think, that someone is selling out his/her visitors.
Since many, even in a position of moderating on the internet, as everybody else, can be partially anonymous or even with a faked persona. Since no harm is going to get you, if no one knows who you really are, and you can get to be paid to act like you are for real, for some amount of time, its damn easy buck.
I am not saying that this is happening right here on ATS, but you know.. $hit happens and, we the people, either we are buyers, voters, forum visitors, we always end up being the last ones to know.
I have seen this before. There is a systematic destruction of internet hang outs where brilliant people gather and interesting views are being shared and that is going on from the dawn of the internet. Still for any forum or page they destroy, usually another pops up after a while. The problem is, when the old trusted sources acting as hangouts, fall from the credibility list, most people who used to peek here and there a few times, and that is a tremendous number of people, the actual majority of the sites hits to be exact, don't know where to turn to, to weigh and analyze any news they might consider strange and weird.
Old trusted hangouts, act like beacons. If you put out those beacons until new ones light up, people are forced to sail in the dark. Between those dark hours, a lot of things can be covered up..
Originally posted by Setharoo
Is there a way to treat the ATS like a democracy? We can already flag threads that we enjoy; why can't we vote to remove threads that we don't. Each and every person could have a voice and ever vote would count. There could be "Flags" for good threads and "Flops" for bad threads. If a thread receives more "flops" than "flags" in a predefined time period then the thread will be moved to a secondary category.
I really wonder if the term censorship can apply to an individual thread. Try to think of a thread like a small group of people you invite into your home to have a discussion with. Anyone can show up and give their opinions, but it is my right to kick their tush out the door if they cause trouble.
Just a thought. I am fairly new to ATS, but love the heck out of this place. Keep up the great work!
Starred and flagged.
[edit on 7-8-2008 by spacebot]





