This is a little rant about flat earthers. You are seeing me on this board today because I just punched out of two boards where flat earthism in rampant and the favored view.
A little about me. I am an Admin on a little website that I am currently helping to rebuild and we do have problems with Flat Earthers from time to time flooding the site. I tend to look the other way unless the posts are outright averts for another forum.
It takes a unique mindset to be a flat earther or other proponents of science models that do not work off of the evidence before us. There is no evidence of a flat earth. Anyone who has flown in a plane and see things popping up over the horizon indicating we live on a sphere. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Over the last few months in my dealings with them I have found people in this movement to be capricious and difficult. When they run websites, their administration style is capricious. I have found that they may ban someone because they themselves were banned from another site over something such as spamming - revenge banning. This has happened to me twice.
What a tangled web flat earthism is. Once a person gets trapped it, it is almost impossible to get out again. Flat Earthism holds a lot in common with cults. The participants behave in many ways like cult members. They tend to think outsiders are 'satan' and are part of a grand conspiracy. So they tend to treat people outside their circle very poorly. Recently I was on the receiving end of poor treatment over things that someone else had done. As as outsider I became a scapegoat when one of them ran into trouble.
My advice: If you are a moderator on a site where a flat earther is a member and he invites to you to a board where he's a admin, decline the request. You may find yourself becoming a scapegoat when he runs afoul of the rules on your site.
A little about me. I am an Admin on a little website that I am currently helping to rebuild and we do have problems with Flat Earthers from time to time flooding the site. I tend to look the other way unless the posts are outright averts for another forum.
It takes a unique mindset to be a flat earther or other proponents of science models that do not work off of the evidence before us. There is no evidence of a flat earth. Anyone who has flown in a plane and see things popping up over the horizon indicating we live on a sphere. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Over the last few months in my dealings with them I have found people in this movement to be capricious and difficult. When they run websites, their administration style is capricious. I have found that they may ban someone because they themselves were banned from another site over something such as spamming - revenge banning. This has happened to me twice.
What a tangled web flat earthism is. Once a person gets trapped it, it is almost impossible to get out again. Flat Earthism holds a lot in common with cults. The participants behave in many ways like cult members. They tend to think outsiders are 'satan' and are part of a grand conspiracy. So they tend to treat people outside their circle very poorly. Recently I was on the receiving end of poor treatment over things that someone else had done. As as outsider I became a scapegoat when one of them ran into trouble.
My advice: If you are a moderator on a site where a flat earther is a member and he invites to you to a board where he's a admin, decline the request. You may find yourself becoming a scapegoat when he runs afoul of the rules on your site.
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