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Re: I want a way to demerit posts.
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DooMAD
on 09/05/2020, 13:57:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by 2112 (3)
moderators will generally remove anything which is complete garbage, but more from a low quality perspective than actually being factually incorrect. Therefore we aren't going to remove a post for spreading misinformation or being factually incorrect. The downside, and the beauty of freedom of speech is that a lot of people will have incomprehensible opinions about whatever subject that's being discussed. Sometimes this is so far gone, that its quite entertaining to think there's people as delusional as this. For example, someone makes a post talking about how Bitcoin is the same as Bitcoin cash, or even more bullshit that Satoshi is theymos' nan. We aren't necessarily going to remove it if they actually talk about why they think that is, I'll admit the theymos' nan scenario would likely be a little trollish, but if they gave some reasons why they think that it may not be removed for trolling.

Instead, what I would advise is to refute every single point of theirs that is incorrect, so your combating the large amount of misinformation being spread.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.  I had a feeling that was the case, so it's pretty much what I've been doing.  While I sometimes wish certain posts could be swept under the rug, it's probably not the best solution over the long term.  Much better to confront it head on and provide justification for why it's wrong so that other users can learn from it.