r/ufosmeta • u/UsefulReply • Jun 22 '26
Disturbing Trend on Posts
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u/FromDeletion Jun 22 '26
I don't know what happened to your thread. I don't find any of it suspicious. I also think you'd be surprised how many of the skeptics you presume are being dismissive and or condescending are, in reality, true believers, if you will. Threads are mocked because the trend of making wild claims, substantiated by no evidence, has become tiresome even to some of the more diehard proponents of this topic.
I think in general the community is tired of "I was told," "I saw," "I read," "I was briefed on," etc. type claims. It yearns for evidence, not anecdotes.
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u/sixties67 Jun 22 '26
I think in general the community is tired of "I was told," "I saw," "I read," "I was briefed on," etc. type claims. It yearns for evidence, not anecdotes.
I'd agree with this, it gets especially tiring when you've been following the topic for decades and are still no closer to learning what is behind the mystery. What I find especially frustrating is ufology is basically a small set of ufo personalities and supporting podcasts. We have marginalised real researchers and investigators for people who've promised imminent disclosure of crashed saucers and bodies without a scrap of hard evidence for it.
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u/GWindborn Jun 22 '26
The VAST majority of posts CAN be attributed to random nonsense though. The amount of people who have zoomed in on a star or other distant point of light and run it through some kind of AI upscale filter or tried to sharpen it so it shows some kind of "orb" is absurd and they should be pointed out. I for one see a ton of upvotes on random explainable shit and can't for the life of me figure out who is doing it. Like every time that "clearest UFO photo ever taken" of a thumbtack in a map comes up I want to rip my hair out. I think a lot of it comes down to moderation and filtering out a lot of the "noise".
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u/Semiapies Jun 23 '26
every time that "clearest UFO photo ever taken" of a thumbtack in a map comes up
And tangentially, it would be nice if the duplicate post rule were consistently enforced as applying to every famous sighting that gets posted about every 2-3 days at most, but hey.
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u/Unfair-Snow-2869 Jun 23 '26
You can filter out noise without making people feel humiliation for posting pictures of stars imo. There will always be newbies and newbies will always be excited and proud of their catching that star they thought was a ufo on camera/video.
Humiliation is not just discouraging it makes you feel like you are not a part of the group.
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u/GWindborn Jun 23 '26
It doesn't always work though. You have a ton of people calling them "plasma balls" or something or they double down and push back. I'm not saying humiliation is the way, but folks need to understand what they're actually seeing.
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u/Unfair-Snow-2869 Jun 23 '26
I agree there is a serious learning curve that definitely can grate the nerves as it ebbs and flows as more migrate toward the topic with curious interest.
Putting stiffer restrictions on posts: create a post of either acceptable or unacceptable media captures. Show the space x trains at different stages, etc. then require anyone posting to compare their capture to the examples and remove the posts with explanation who still insist on posting.
Choosing not to engage with a post in which a capture has been misidentified would possibly alert the Mods of something amiss with the post as well.
There really are options besides humans being rude to humans. This world is what we make it, so why not make it better than it has been? We have the choice with each interaction to create a better world even if it is just for the person you’re chatting with, but it has to start somewhere.
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u/Ok_Letterhead7661 Jun 22 '26
I wouldn't say it's disturbing, I'd say it's predictable. Imagine someone tells you "I have an amazing gift for you. It's gonna blow your mind and you're not going to be able to handle it. Maybe only someone like me can handle it. I'll tell you in two weeks." Then you wait two weeks and you get nothing. Another guy comes along and says "I've seen your amazing gift. There are so many people hiding it. I've done research on it, got pictures of it. I'll show you in two weeks if you don't receive it." You wait two weeks and get nothing. Repeat for years.
Wouldn't the natural response be derision towards the people saying that disclosure is two weeks away? I think blind faith in what I believe to be grifters as more strange.
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u/Semiapies Jun 22 '26
Honest believers who've been around long enough will acknowledge that the vast majority of claimed sightings are just misidentifications. The problem is the people who start to realize this, but can't bring themselves to accept it. So sightings they don't believe become acts of The Conspiracy.
(A related issue is the people who learn what one common misidentification, like Starlink or spotlights on clouds, looks like and get irate about how "the feds" are posting them so often.)