The first sentence on the Wikipedia page for it calls it “a disputed medical condition.” Even the CIA itself has admitted that cases are not caused by “a sustained global campaign by a hostile power.” The State Department similarly released a report that it was highly unlikely the symptoms were caused by any sort of directed energy weapon. In fact, seven different US intelligence agencies released a consensus statement saying, “available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents.”
But the clowns on .world don’t care about things like truth or evidence, or even direct statements from the people who’s boots they have in their mouths. If it makes an enemy of the US look bad, then it is absolute truth, and anything short of complete faith and loyalty must be purged from conversation.
Rare video clip of a .world mod
Offending post
Chipping in as a former mod. We get a lot of reports. At some point, huge long run on paragraphs like this will get skimmed over. We don’t have the time or capacity to dissect every thesis that gets reported. If it throws up red flags (and this one throws up a lot), we make a judgement based on that. Sorry, but that’s how modding works.
Also chiming in to say, if banning haphazardly is a consequence of not having enough mods, then maybe they should be getting more mods.
Speaking from experiences on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !football@lemmy.world , the vast majority of people aren’t interested in moderating.
I left the call for mods post open on the first one for weeks, only got one volunteer after two months
Ye I know, but typically if you don’t find mods like that, there’s also not a lot of traffic either to justify not taking the time, no?
The of course doesn’t take into account super-mods, i.e. people modding dozens or comms, but that’s on them really.
I used to mod r/Futurology, one of the default reddit subs. Hard to say how many actual users, but over 10M subscribed (inflated because we were a default sub). Even then we had trouble getting reliable mods who wouldn’t drop out after a month.
Are you still a mod there? Could you promote !futurology@futurology.today as an alternative?
Futurology.today is run by the same team, we have tried promoting it and getting people to move, but haven’t had much luck with the inertia.
Are you able to review and unsuspend accounts there? I got suspended 3 times in about 6 weeks, and the 3rd one is just permanent. I still don’t get what I was suspended over. The team won’t tell me, and they claim it’s viewed by a human team, but I know it’s not.
Only on .today if that’s what you meant
This wasn’t a huge run on paragraph, that’s just how things get displayed in the modlog.