'Landing Area' another ATS hopeful

[Ninurta]

no thank you i'm fine with being a rogue only. maybe we should call all the new sites. the wannabe sites thou shalt not be  named

No.

Let me give you a not-so-hypothetical. Suppose RN goes down. Folks try to get on, no dice. We're working in the back end to fix it, but it turns out to be a really sticky problem. How are we gonna get the word out about what is going on, and what is being done to fix it?

Having sister sites on friendly terms would really be a help in that situation. Somewhere folks can go to get updates and whatnot, rather than just having to sit in the dark.

Furthermore, not all "conspiracy" sites are going to have the same concentrations. I think it's good to be able to see all different viewpoints on a variety of subjects, some of which not all sites are going to cover due to varying member interests.

And then there is the "strength in numbers" argument. More sites equates to more targets for the opposition to have to ferret out to shoot 'em down... and while they're hunting, more can always be springing up. Decentralization, the absence of any one "snake head" to take out to collapse a network, is a GOOD thing.

For those reasons and more, mention of other sites is not going to be censored here at RN. We are not at war with them. We may currently be the "elder brother", but that doesn't make us "superior", it just makes us different. And older. And, where I came from, it's usually the responsibility of the older brothers to look out for the younger ones. I know that at a gut level because I am the oldest brother in my family. It has paid off over time - when I've fallen so hard that I can't get myself back up, my siblings have always been there to help. And yeah, that has actually happened in the Real World.

It's just a part of my upbringings I reckon. I recognize no superiors, but neither do I think I AM the "superior". Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and a wider network allows the weaknesses in one site to be covered by strengths in another.

I believe that working together is the way to go, rather than wasting time and energy on animosities that are, really, just artificial. I'll let the snooty, nose in the air attitude remain on the "paid" or "advertisement-laden" site, the sites where folks are in it for the money. They have a vested interest in tying down their membership, because wanderers mean less money for them. We are not one of those sites. We are member-supported so we can maintain our independence from the whims of censorial advertisers... so we really have no vested interest in locking our members up in some kind of electronic prison.

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