RPR Report #1
My intention for Red Pill Roundtable was to be a place for people to actually discuss valid questions about controversial topics ultimately crucial to all our lives and escape the ratwheel arguing with those just messenger attacking and nutjob calling.
It's obvious however, that RPR is stalled in the March 24 starting gate with no hope for momentum for being excluded from the digest, which I now realize is isolation and censorship by one of the nutjob callers who is deciding for 12,000 what they should and shouldn't see from the diversity of the community as they are used to.
As Shandi questioned in an RPR post today: "Although this is in the RPT, it seems like it should also be in the regular section, so more eyes can see it. Can we post in both places?"
I think she's stating what everyone who would otherwise be interested in participating in the category is feeling.
Barry has urged me to make a bunch of threads to stimulate activity, but I think it would be a turn off to appear to be one person's soapbox, and don't think it will alleviate the feeling of pointlessness of posting there with no one looking. I also think it was a significant deterrent that everyone had immediately been informed that the new category was likely going to just attract the 'loonies and nutjobs'.
"...There's always been a tension on WaccoBB and in the larger progressive community as to whether the conspiracy theorists are the true progressives, seeing the unseen web that connects what is truly going on, or just left-wing Wacko loonies and nutjobs..."
The quick, first dump confirmed the writing on the wall for me. Barry removed - a (ambiguously titled, but valid content) post on the March 17 Sonoma County Board Of Supervisors action OK'ing possible future forced 'energy saving' property upgrades against Unincorporated Sonoma County homes and 16% interest rate PACE loans/property liens for them - from General Community into no-digest RPR effectively killing the thread. I don't blame anyone for being unmotivated to post in the one wacco category withheld from distribution.
My intention for RPR was the absolute opposite of heavy handed censorship. I don't get how a motto of 'Connecting Conscious Community' means those trying to openmindedly question and respectfully discuss controversial subjects with facts and intelligence are shoved to a wasteland in favor of creating a supportive atmosphere for those dismissive, closedminded to, and disrespectful to these messengers.
I have now multiple times asked Barry to include RPR in the digest, and to see it as separated enough for the nutjobs to be 'over there' in their own category and he doesn't have to worry we'll ever think it means he's one of us.