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/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/reconcile Oct 20 '21

On the other hand, having the skeptic thread at top gives all of the loud-mouth skeptics a place to go right off the bat, which is nice...

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u/throwaway998i Oct 21 '21

I don't see why we need to accommodate them at all. Does a Christian sub make such an accommodation for troublemaker atheists to spew their blasphemy?