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We recently had a flat-earther. I was tolerant of this up until the point he got aggressive in private messages when asked about if he is a STEM student or professional. So the situation mostly resolved itself, he is no longer with us.
With that said how should we handle people who are otherwise respectful but post almost 100% flat-earth content (basically people who are explicitly anti-STEM)?
@snow I dont consider it ethical to sharing private messages, its a right to privacy thing. With that said, even if i wanted to, I cant, since the account no longer exists neither does the content.
@snow Regardless the data is gone
I can't say it well in English, I guess how terrible you feel by arious problems as an administrator, Thank you 
@puzzl A flat-earther is a person who beleives the earth is a flat disc and the sun and moon are really close to the earth, and gravity is a myth...
@freemo It's not just slang, it's just that, so I think that high school level primary education is a good rule of thumb. And I also know that there are "No hate, No censorship. Be kind, be respectful" in the RULE https://qoto.org/about/more . (It doesn’t matter, I'm very looking forward to upgrading to Mastodon3.)
(By the way, "angle trisector" is a slang in the sense that someone makes a wrong claim At least in Japan around me. 
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@puzzl Ahh I think I understand now
@freemo
Leave them be until it gets abusive or the bandwidth/storage bill gets too high.
If you're dealing with Bible literalists, there were medieval Christian thinkers that supported the model of spherical earth though I'm not sure how they'd internally resolve "Biblical" flat earth and later Christian "canon".
But otherwise spend your time on something else. I recognize the attitude from high school kids trying to resolve their beliefs (i.e what their community tells them vs state funded education).
Most people don't really have patience for this, and for some reason flat earthers are often practiced debaters. Especially when articulation and the information "bandwidth" of conversation tends to be low, and debates (or small infographs they share) are more about show than coming to a conclusion.
I think this is similar to the discussion a while back about how to allocate quotas. At some point, the most effective solution is to say, "I am an arbitrary god and QOTO is my creation; if I wish to expel you, I am at liberty to do so." Access to the service isn't guaranteed unless we start paying for it.
Trying to publicly impose on yourself restrictions limiting your options to deal with troublemakers just offers an incentive to game the rules and look for loopholes.
I can't say it well in English, I guess how terrible you feel by arious problems as an administrator, Thank you
@freemo Nice to meet you and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), I know that administrator can always delete my account if I violate the rules of this server. I don't know what the slang "flat-earth" is, but "the earth is roughly round" (, and that it is generally impossible to draw a "angle trisection" with a ruler and a compass) is a primary education fact that has been postulated with a number of experimental justifications (I can't proof it). In any case, It is true that in my eyes #QOTO (Question Others to Teach Ourselves) is one of the best mastodons now. Thank you