It is NOT our job to disprove conspiracy theories any more than it is our job to disprove a god or gods. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary, and convincing, evidence.

Not for the people claiming them, it seems!

This is a neat idea, but I see what Goosebump is saying. It's rather problematic, in that moving stuff there is basically calling the author a nut; and nuts don't generally consider themselves nuts so wouldn't post it there. So it might only get used in a humorous way.

(April 10, 2016 at 8:44 am)robvalue Wrote: Not for the people claiming them, it seems!

This is a neat idea, but I see what Goosebump is saying. It's rather problematic, in that moving stuff there is basically calling the author a nut; and nuts don't generally consider themselves nuts so wouldn't post it there. So it might only get used in a humorous way.

I ran into my first conspiracy theory when I was fourteen. A long-time neighbor heard I was reading on WWII and asked me to do him a favor. He had bought the entire 40 volume set of the Congressional Investigation Into The Attack On Pearl Harbor and he was certain "the smoking gun is in there somewhere." The material was a navalist's wet dream so I agreed to read them. Took four years and at the end I told him there was no smoking gun to be found. He took the news well, "I'm sure it's out there somewhere, just gotta find it." 

Later I found out he claimed to be a veteran, having served with George Washington at Valley Forge. 

Frankly we need a sinkhole into which scoobysnack's conspiracy theory bumfuckery can be dumped. His constant screaming of the most idiotic nonsense is getting mightily annoying, especially when he tries to hijack threads in which serious discussions are taking place, derailing the threads and looking to turn them into a circus because of his pathetic need to have his nonsense confirmed.

To my mind an amalgamated thread should be created, which is the only place he's allowed to post this nonsense, and anyone who wants to fuck with him will know where he hangs out. It was done elsewhere with a YEC poster who wouldn't shut up about his YEC nonsense, even in threads which were about discussions of whether Jaffa Cakes were buscuits or not.

(April 16, 2016 at 11:53 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Frankly we need a sinkhole into which scoobysnack's conspiracy theory bumfuckery can be dumped.  

So, you think scoobysnack knows the Lone Gunman who fired the Magic Bullet from the Grassy Knoll and want to keep him quiet?

Pretty sure Scoobs knows it was the government and not a lone gunman.
George Bush senior was definitely instrumental in the killing. That goes without saying.

(May 2, 2016 at 7:36 am)Gawdzilla Wrote:

(April 16, 2016 at 11:53 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Frankly we need a sinkhole into which scoobysnack's conspiracy theory bumfuckery can be dumped.  

So, you think scoobysnack knows the Lone Gunman who fired the Magic Bullet from the Grassy Knoll and want to keep him quiet?

Do you honestly think if scoobs knew, that I'd be stupid enough to let him live. If he knew I'd have arranged for him to be on the same plane as Ron Browne.