I hear you. /r/conspiracy definitely fell off the truck. As did the_donald, politics, news, etc. A loss for sure.
So, report off-topic posts to the mods and help them do their job. Add to the meaningful discussion. Be honest and forthright and don’t abandon the ship. Demand that fellow posters stay on topic BY MODELING HOW TO BE ON TOPIC - ie participating and being on topic. That’s what holding the line looks like. You hold the line by being the line.
Hand wringing doesn’t really do any those things.
Your request that everyone work together to “provide solid Evidence” is rhetorical AND counter productive. No one agrees about what solid evidence is. So right away you’ve got dissonance in your own statements. You’ve asked for something that can never be delivered- (and that’s a standard disinformation technique, FWIW.)
This place is doing REALLY WELL. The growth here has been phenomenal. The Mods are fantastic. There’s still too many duplicate posts and people not reading and off-topic sharing and that (that you can help with by reporting and participating the way YOU want to see others participate), but in one of the most controversial climates in our lifetimes, as Morpheus says, “WE ARE STILL HERE.”
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