• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

Who decides what is a conspiracy theory and what is truth?




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Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle
 
Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle
I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.
 
I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.

For starters, no one is censoring what you say here, which is why we all abandoned ship from the other site.

But you are right, social media is a drug of sorts. Posting something- anything- and getting dopamine hits when random people click “like” is a real addiction for lots of people.
 
I think twitter and Facebook screw with people’s minds like no other. These are targeted, data driven apps that are designed to 1. Get you addicted and then 2. Push the narrative that they want you to see as effectively as possible while limiting dissenting opinions that are likely to influence a person. It is crazy to me that people go for it, but here I am posting on a spin off message board from a college football recruiting message board so who am I to talk.
Great point. People will seemingly always choose friends and fitting in over truth

Gets to the importance of narrative

Somebody posts some vapid, ridiculous, infantile message and it gets dozens of likes

Others post a thoughtful or scrutinizing message and gets nothing

Would love to know the breakdown between the true believers vs the bandwagoners
 
Just in terms of volume/ratings which mainstream publication/ website gets the most hits?

I'd be curious to see all MM viewership plus Wapo and NYT circulation vs hits on vice, vox, buzzfeed. It's all apart of the same animal but interested in which limb carries the most muscle
But a lot of those other places get their storyline from NYT and wapo editorial pages.... not the news sections.
 

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