Alright, I'm sick of hearing about this /u/marvincat33 situation here. I'm sick of having my modmail filled with 40+ reports about it daily. I'm sick of the bickering; I'm sick of the fake alt accounts.
While some of you might be questioning the content of his posts and whether or not they belong here, I feel like it is important to include all avenues of investigation, and Mars is a likely candidate for discovering life beyond Earth. I myself am a huge proponent of the possibility of Martian life (I also run /r/MarsAnomalies, am a member of the Mars Anomaly Reseach Society, among other things, etc.). That being said, I can also understand how some people aren't interested in analyzing rocks and grainy images to try to discern a deeper meaning behind them.
I thought the situation would smooth itself out, but I was wrong. So I'm putting my foot down. Here are the rules going forward:
For readers and subscribers:
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If you don't care for the post, don't click on it. Don't read it. Don't open it. Don't look at it. It is a simple concept. The beauty of reddit is that there are quite a few options for choosing content that you like, and you are in no way forced to even look at anything you don't like.
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Unless the post violates or breaks a rule (including the newer ones detailed below) or is not tagged correctly, don't report it.
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Similarly, if you don't like or care for the content of the post, move on. Do not come to the thread attacking the OP. Do not message me multiple times telling me about it.
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The ALT ACCOUNTS pro and con need to stop. Any suspected alt accounts in the fray will be reported to the admins and banned from this sub. I'm not playing games with all of these one week old accounts stirring up the pot here.
For /u/MarvinCat33:
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I have created a new post flair for your posts, "Marvin's Mars". You MUST use this flair tag when posting your mars pictures. Not any other flair, this one. Posts that you make without this flair will be removed.
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You must include coordinates with your post. If your post is from an source other than Google Mars (such as JPL and mastcam photos), you must indicate how to locate said anomaly.
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You must include a scale of reference with your pictures. Images from Mars vary in scale wildly. Something that looks like a statue or person take from the mastcam might only be a couple of centimeters tall; likewise something that looks like a plant or tree might be taken from satellite and be, in reality, hundreds of meters long. Optical illusions, paredolia, and misinterpretations are easily made without a scale of reference. If you want to be taken seriously, then present your data in a serious manner.
Failure to follow any of these rules will result in your posts being removed.
Its time we move on from this situation.
Submitted August 28, 2018 at 09:09AM by geltoid https://ift.tt/2oelFa6
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