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Ryuu96 on 30 June 2023
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Shinobi-san said:
Ryuu96 said:

You can think the Earth is flat, it doesn't make it true.

There is 0 evidence for his claim, so yes, if someone keeps making a claim about something as a statement of fact with 0 evidence then we will call it out and if he keeps trying to cause drama about it (especially when it involves actual people) we will clamp down on it.

I can lock this thread because it's nothing but a silly conspiracy theory that the judge is biased because her son works at Microsoft, we don't need this level of low quality threads on this forum that lack basic knowledge about how the world works.

It causes unnecessary drama and could also lead to attacks towards individuals (i.e. in this case, people start attacking the judges credibility), not necessarily from people in this forum but maybe someone sees it, spreads it on Twitter, another spreads it, then people start attacking the judge based on something so utterly stupid.

Not to mention the clickbait..."SCANDAL?!?!" Lol.

So we cant make threads about Flat Earth? I am not sure if you are being serious with this response. Regardless he can be asked to edit his thread to be less clickbaity as well as adjust the title. How can this be the first response from a moderator? You have essentially killed this thread.

Its not a conspiracy theory, its a fact, he has asked opinions about said fact and the potential for bias.

Unnecessary drama is not for you to decide? Have you read the moderation guidelines?

Bold - No? Not usually, Lol. We don't tend to allow conspiracy theory threads, we don't tend to help promote conspiracy theories, in addition, if someone were to make a conspiracy theory thread to that degree (I.E. Flat Earth) they would be brutally mocked by certain users and that will cause a whole other host of problems (flaming, trolling, etc.) which if I'm being honest? Personally? I wouldn't really want to moderate good users calling out utterly stupid conspiracy theories even if they do it in a not so mild mannered way.

You're twisting my words as well, is it a fact that her son works for Microsoft? Yes? I never disputed that. Is it a conspiracy theory that she will be biased towards Microsoft because of that? Yes. Lol. It's based on absolutely nothing substantial. It's not a scandal. It's not frightening. If you read my post you would see that she said from the very start of the trial that her son works for Microsoft. You would see that the FTC themselves agreed it wasn't an issue.

Because it is not an issue, she is not bias. People far smarter than all of us have agreed it wasn't an issue. If the FTC thought she had a potential for bias, they would call for a different judge. You can just as easily say she's bias towards FTC because she is also a Biden appointed person just as Lina Khan (the head of FTC is) but that would be a stupid thing to say as well.

OTOH. This thread has a very strong chance of turning into a thread where the vast majority are mocking the OP for saying something silly, which then becomes problems of the opposite variety, or it can turn into a thread where people actually believe it's an issue and help spread silly attacks about the judges credibility.