How many conspiracy theory sites have you been banned from

[Bananaman]

I'd forgotten I was even registered at the Loose Change forum when I had a look at it this morning. So I wrote 2 or 3 posts today and immediately got banned.

I mean, it's quite amusing really. The first time I was banned from a bonkers site I was quite annoyed and re-registered with a new name. In the end I was banned from David Icke's site on 5 separate occasions, barely managing 2 posts at a time before getting the heave-ho.

I was just wondering if many people here have experienced the same thing and if so, have you any thoughts as to why the conspiracy freaks are so intolerant of dissenting views.


(Apologies if this topic has been covered before or if it's at a bit of a tangent to the main thrust of this part of the forum.)

Bananaman.

[mrbaracuda]

One forum, twice. Made them make it private and private registration as well. Ha, they're so insecure, paranoid and dumb it's a joy!

And that was in Germany!

[nicepants]

I've been banned from 3 forums (despite never breaking the rules at any of them):
Loose Change - (All three iterations)
Prison Planet
Pilots for 9/11 truth


I will say, Prisonplanet is the worst. Their philosophy is, your opinion is wrong if it's not the opinion of the moderators. They will change your post to reflect their opinion, or they will ban you, or both.

Some actual interesting discussion at loose change, but moderators like JFK suspend & ban skeptics while allowing people like Aldo & company to break the rules repeatedly.

Pilots for truth is pretty much a petri dish of young CTers who don't seem to understand that 90% of the claims they make have been thoroughly debunked. (Or just plain ridiculous: i.e. "fire cannot weaken structural steel") Then of course you've got Rob Balsamo, whose answer to tough questions is to resort to name-calling or claim "I didn't read your post because X".
Of the three sites I mention, this is the only forum which prohibits non-members from having read-only access.

I was just wondering if many people here have experienced the same thing and if so, have you any thoughts as to why the conspiracy freaks are so intolerant of dissenting views.

You know by now that Truthers aren't interested in learning the truth, they're ONLY interested in supporting their crazy theories, and as such, they must reject anything that would cast doubt on said theories. This includes banning anyone who may present such information.

*I remember being banned from a CT radio show chat room once, but I don't recall the site.

[tanabear]

I'd forgotten I was even registered at the Loose Change forum when I had a look at it this morning. So I wrote 2 or 3 posts today and immediately got banned.

I mean, it's quite amusing really. The first time I was banned from a bonkers site I was quite annoyed and re-registered with a new name. In the end I was banned from David Icke's site on 5 separate occasions, barely managing 2 posts at a time before getting the heave-ho.

I was just wondering if many people here have experienced the same thing and if so, have you any thoughts as to why the conspiracy freaks are so intolerant of deissenting views.


(Apologies if this topic has been covered before or if it's at a bit of a tangent to the main thrust of this part of the forum.)

Bananaman.

I haven't been banned from any conspiracy theory sites, but then again I don't post on them that frequently. The only site that I have been banned from is townhall (http://www.townhall.com/). It is a popular conservative website that I had visited since the late 1990's. I had posted quite frequently for well over a year before I was banned. I was somewhat surprised as everyone knew that I was a truther. I suppose it was my one unpardonable sin as a conservative. The debates were strange as they ranged from vitriolic to harmonious. Anyway, this past 9/11 Mary Katharine Ham, the managing editor of townhall, wrote a column (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryKatharineHam/2007/09/11/top_5_911_truther_myths_you_should_be_prepared_to_ debunk) entitled, "The Top 5 9/11 Truther Myths You Should be Prepared to Debunk." I showed up and starting arguing with her claims. Later, I noticed that my account had been purged and every posting I had ever made there going back over a year had been deleted. I didn't violate any of the terms of agreement, so it appears that some Bush Cultist's can't handle the truth.

Maybe I'll try to sign up and start posting there again. Alas, I miss the good ole days when I was a member of the "vast right wing conspiracy."

p.s. Mary Katharine Ham appears on the O'Reilly Factor quite frequently now.

[Almo]

I was banned from one of the LCF incarnations MERELY for also being a member here.

I'm back there, and have had no trouble.

[1337m4n]

Got banned from Loose Change forums for making an April Fools joke. Got banned another half dozen or so times as I hacked my way back in only to make polite requests to be let back in. Ended up getting a good part of Germany IP banned in the process, caused Loose Change Forums to disallow the use of temporary email sites when registering, caused Loose Change Forums to disallow any screename with "1337" in the name. Still have an account registered and active.

Got banned from Pilots for Truth forum, in one post, for pointing out that there was an investigation into the fireproofing inside WTC due to suspicions that it may have been inadequate.

[nicepants]

Got banned from Pilots for Truth forum, in one post, for pointing out that there was an investigation into the fireproofing inside WTC due to suspicions that it may have been inadequate.

LOL Apparently you were going through a proxy...thus Robbie Balsamo suspended you because he suspected you to be a sock.

Guess there are no AOL members at PFT! :)

[Garb]

I've been a good boy. Haven't been banned yet.

[Arus808]

haven't been banned at all; but my membership at LCF was "deleted" because of the constant change in versions.

[X]

Frankly, I don't see the point.

I can understand being banned if you go there to try to debate things, but repeating the process? Why?

I don't see how acting like our oft-present slightly-idiotic compensationally-confrontational friend P.Doh is a thing to brag about.

Maybe I'm a humorless *******, but that's my opinion.

[1337m4n]

;3769210']Frankly, I don't see the point.

I can understand being banned if you go there to try to debate things, but repeating the process? Why?

I don't see how acting like our oft-present slightly-idiotic compensationally-confrontational friend P.Doh is a thing to brag about.

Maybe I'm a humorless *******, but that's my opinion.

That's why every time I register a new sock at LCF, I make sure everyone knows its me and I'm always very polite for the one post that I make.

[The Silver Shadow]

banned from LCF II, came here, made a comment about how LC:FC will be a flop which pushed Dylan over the edge and left me with signature material!

[scissorhands]

Banned about 15 times on LCF, I think, although I have lost track.

I can understand being banned if you go there to try to debate things, but repeating the process? Why?


Erm, because you havent finished debating things when you were banned for no reason?
Do you think that preaching to the choir on a skeptics site, with a generous dose of mutual back patting, is the best way to address such pernicious lies, or do you think that confronting them at source and in front of an audience of newbies visiting those forums having watched loose change or any other crappy youtube video , might help?

The NWO checks obviously help too.

[jhunter1163]

Got banned from Loose Change forums for making an April Fools joke. Got banned another half dozen or so times as I hacked my way back in only to make polite requests to be let back in. Ended up getting a good part of Germany IP banned in the process, caused Loose Change Forums to disallow the use of temporary email sites when registering, caused Loose Change Forums to disallow any screename with "1337" in the name. Still have an account registered and active.

Got banned from Pilots for Truth forum, in one post, for pointing out that there was an investigation into the fireproofing inside WTC due to suspicions that it may have been inadequate.

Excellent work. There'll be a little something extra in your NWO bonus check this year.

[leftysergeant]

It took a little over a week for the Losers to decide I was not going to swallow Dylan's crap or kowtow to uneducated morons like Jason. Actual fire fighters scare the bejabbers out of the punks.

(I still scare myself when I think of some of the things I did back then to convince myself I was not in such great danger walking into fire as I was just living.)

[Pato2747]

I will say, Prisonplanet is the worst. Their philosophy is, your opinion is wrong if it's not the opinion of the moderators. They will change your post to reflect their opinion, or they will ban you, or both.

I have also noticed that. And I find it quite funny as they all go "The media is censoring everything coz' it's teh SPIN!!1"; and they don't seem to find out they are making their own spin by censoring the other point of view.

Back on the topic at hand, I have never been banned from any CT forum. Mainly because my participation on them is actually quite null.

[X]

Erm, because you havent finished debating things when you were banned for no reason?
Do you think that preaching to the choir on a skeptics site, with a generous dose of mutual back patting, is the best way to address such pernicious lies, or do you think that confronting them at source and in front of an audience of newbies visiting those forums having watched loose change or any other crappy youtube video , might help?

The NWO checks obviously help too.


Perhaps.
I don't think they are worth that much effort, but then that's me.
I could be wrong.

[gc051360]

I'd forgotten I was even registered at the Loose Change forum when I had a look at it this morning. So I wrote 2 or 3 posts today and immediately got banned.

I mean, it's quite amusing really. The first time I was banned from a bonkers site I was quite annoyed and re-registered with a new name. In the end I was banned from David Icke's site on 5 separate occasions, barely managing 2 posts at a time before getting the heave-ho.

I was just wondering if many people here have experienced the same thing and if so, have you any thoughts as to why the conspiracy freaks are so intolerant of dissenting views.


(Apologies if this topic has been covered before or if it's at a bit of a tangent to the main thrust of this part of the forum.)

Bananaman.

I was banned from the Loose Change Forums.

Well, first I was banned from the forum except for the "Skeptics" section, due to my asking "Now that you have this evidence. Who do you plan on notifying? What do you plan to do with this information?" type of thing.

That annoyed me. And I was fully banned, when I accused a mod, named JFK, of running a "circle jerk" of a forum, where any kind of dissent is punished, and that the "Skeptics" forum...was merely a place for truthers to mock people who didn't believe them. But also, keep them at a safe distance so that they couldn't criticize the "work" in the other sections.

The term "circle jerk" is probably what got me banned. But I checked back in, and saw some truther using it...so I guess there is some kind of a double standard.

[PhantomWolf]

The only one I ever posted on was GPL and haven't even posted there for a long time now, never got banned there, but I know a lot of others that did.

[eromitlab]

I've never bothered posting on troofer forums. Let them have their isolated circle jerk (accurate term for what goes on there, btw) on forums that no one cares about, except them. I mean, I could go on scat fetish forums and tell them that they're crazy and wrong, and it would have the same net effect; they get to bang on about how people don't understand them and won't let them be, and I've just wasted my time and am left feeling dirty about who was virtually surrounding me in that environment.

Now, if I were to post on a troofer forum, it would probably be following someone being banned for not agreeing with them. I would point out how they're acting like the fascists and censors they're always banging on about... and get banned right away, but maybe that would turn a light on in one of their minds about how they act exactly like who and what they vilify.

Now, on a social news site I use a good bit, I was banned from posting to a new subcategory created by a serial Alex Jones shill so he'd have a place to post one infowars link after another. Now, I have gotten into a few tangles over there with that poster, and his three sockpuppets. This person even posted my profile at another website, I guess to "shame" me... didn't work. Which might explain why I was banned from this subcategory that was created and is moderated by that poster, without having posted to it, commented on a submission in it or even visited the page for it.

[Sparky]

I won't even bother registering on troofer sites for the same reason I don't want to go to Canada.

No freedom of speech.

[ref]

Banned from LCF twice. I registered on their new forum, and have not been banned eventhough I have once asked them to remove my account. They didn't, so I still occasionally post there.

Banned from 911blogger.com

Banned from prisonplanet.com article commentary

Pre-Banned from nineeleven.co.uk forum

Have not and will not try any of those again.

[Cl1mh4224rd]

I was banned from the previous incarnation of Loose Change Forums. It took one post and less than 3 minutes.

To be fair, though, it was kind of inflammatory; something about "his own sheep deserving to know what's up with LC:FC".

I posted on GLP* for quite a while, but you had to try really hard to get banned from that site.

--
* The site of, I believe, my first ever thread destroyer (http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message101829/pg3#2316080). Hehe.

[Brainster]

I know you will find this hard to believe, but I have not been banned at any 9-11 Truth Sites. I was banned from the Truth Action chatroom on IRC even though I only used my account there to ask questions about Truthers who were already out of favor with that group, like Barrett, Tarpley and Fetzer.

I would of course have been banned at the Looser Forums but a funny thing happened. I was among the first thrown out, and back then, they just suspended you for 90 days, so I got back in and pretty much lurked although I did have a little set-to with Dylan for which he did not ban me. I've never tried registering for the 2nd or 3rd generation LC forums.

I registered at 9-11 Blogger, and I actually got one post accepted out of four I submitted. I used to get my comments accepted, but that's pretty much gone and I seldom even try. Still, if I login I am a recognized user of the site.

I don't look at the task as trying to disabuse Truthers of their notions. I want to prevent others from joining them. For the most part, that means that there's no sense in hanging out on conspiracy theory websites.

[Shrinker]

I was banned twice from LCF, each time after one post. The first was a fairly robust correction of the truthers' guesses at copyright law following the Naudet Affair, and the second was a sweet and innocent inquiry into who among truthers had been offered the biggest incentive to keep quiet. I was also banned from a YouTube video comments section - the one about "Net Force Equals ZERO!!!!" That's actually every single time I've attempted to communicate with truthers on their own turf.

[Wildy]

The first was a fairly robust correction of the truthers' guesses at copyright law following the Naudet Affair, and the second was a sweet and innocent inquiry into who among truthers had been offered the biggest incentive to keep quiet.

Naudet Affair?

Must be before my time.

[Brainster]

Naudet Affair?

Must be before my time.

Right around Memorial Day 2006. Dylan and the gang get a "cease and desist" letter from the Naudet brothers, warning them not to use any of their copyrighted footage. Dylan posts the letter at his forum and "Truthers" go berzerk phoning the attorney who sent the letter. Hilarity ensues.

[dbalsdon]

Just the one for me. The current version of LCF.

[Worm]

I've apparently been banned from the LC forums

"Your access to this board has been blocked by the administration."

I had no idea that I even had an account there....maybe I do...I forget

[Grizzly Bear]

Nearly joined the LCF, but I'm pretty sure I'd get myself banned pretty quick...
I've posted pretty vigorously on youtube with conspiracy theorists, but the character limit counts kill it if you're diving into a long debate... but I haven't joined any conspiracy sites.... I see plenty of blogs where both sides can reasonably freely debate the topic, I don't like trying avoid being banned from something not even intended to offend...

[matty.the.damned]

I have an account at the LC Forum (under this name), but I'm yet to post there. I'm not sure what to say to them. It all seems a bit pointless.

MtD