What if someone goes down one of these BS rabbitholes and gets hoodwinked by the nonsense and actually needs help straightening themselves out?

Maybe there's some process here. I honestly don't know.

I do know that in the interwar period, these noise machines were referred to as plagues and epidemics, contagious sicknesses people needed to be pulled out of .

I feel like we're just isolating and quarantining the people that have gone down this route. It's not a good strategy.

I feel like we're discussing one of the most successful message boards on the English-speaking Internet as if they're proposing something new, and could somehow benefit from our sage advice, rather than documenting a policy they've had for many years.

Sure. I'm ignorant about this. Do you know the policy?

I'd love to know more about it.

I have a number of friends that have basically become full blown nazis from bullshit online and I'd like to know if there's anything I can do. (maybe you have too)

It's really very difficult to miss; it's plastered over almost every page, and linked at the top of every thread. A good starting point to understanding AskHistorians is to visit it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/rules this?

I don't see it.

Let me try again. Pretend an uneducated person reads some fabricated anti-semitic screed with conspiracy theories and nonsense and believes it to be true.

How does one pull them out? It's not this forum's job, ok, fine. But the question stands.

And what more the grifting propagandists writing those lies say "this is secret hidden history! you get banned for talking about it because it's all controlled by the secret order!" or whatever bogeyman they have to blame

There's a significant number of people that are falling for this crap and next time there's a January 6th we may not be so lucky. There's usually a failed clown show coup a few years before the real one because society fails to address the causes.

How do you think atrocities like the armenian genocide and other mass slaughterings gain support? These wacko-doodle conspiracy things like bitchute, parler, and gab are what produce it. It was pamphlets and parties back then and now it's posts and sites.

You don't see it? It's the entire second half of the first paragraph of the first rule of the subreddit. If it was Fight Club, the rule we're talking about would be in the words "about Fight Club".

I think you should actually visit the site before generating for yourself strong opinions about how it can be effectively moderated.