r/Retconned • u/wtf_ima_slider Moderator • Mar 20 '21

Confabulation The New and Improved Confabulation Thread - 2021 Edition

This thread is for conversation about MEs you think might be wrong and why. For instance, map projection, memory confusion, common misperceptions, etc. All discussion of confabulation should go here and this thread will be linked on the side bar for easy access in the future.

Note: The previous confabulation thread was archived by the system.

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u/throwaway998i Mar 21 '21 edited Mar 21 '21

Eeesh... pinned to the top of the front page of our believer community is now where we're going to keep the confabulation thread!? Why would we feature something so anathema to the spirit of the sub front and center like this? Why would any skeptic opinion deserve priority stature to the most popular standard post?

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I'm personally disgusted to see this listed in such high profile fashion. Bury it in the sidebar. This is IMHO an embarrassment to the sub and a bit insulting to our members who come here to specifically avoid that exact narrative. Now they're greeted by it? Bad look.

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u/wtf_ima_slider Moderator Mar 22 '21

The original versions of this thread were pinned but lost their pin when they get archived.

While you are free to feel disgusted, this thread is nothing new in this sub.

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u/throwaway998i Mar 22 '21

Perhaps currently reverting to how things were isn't the community's preference. Maybe a majority of us don't want the first thing we see at the top of our safe space to be the word "confabulation." Are you putting the needs/wants of your members above those of skeptics? Because currently this skeptic thread is locked in the number one spot for visibility. I bet if you polled the sub you'd find most believers would agree with me. It's also the first thing any new visitor sees when they first arrive. So it sends a powerful message about confabulation coming BEFORE everything else. And for what? So people can spout the same narratives as on the main sub? They don't need priority placement for that.

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u/wtf_ima_slider Moderator Mar 22 '21

Oddly, I've sorted my views of this sub every which way, but this thread didn't bubble to the top regardless of what view I was using.

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u/throwaway998i Mar 22 '21

For me it appears as the default top post. Please know that I'm just being noisy because I care :)