Bill C-63 is  the online harms act . I would not normally post about a bill , not even a law yet.....but as far i can understand Bill C-63 goes far beyond anything seen yet .

It seems like the new bill includes , police the power to retroactively search the Internet for ‘hate speech’ violations and arrest offenders, even if the offence occurred before the law existed.

So you said something in the past , now it can be weaponized against you .


Canada introduces blood-curdling new ‘thought police’ law that would make even Stalin blush…

Even Orwell’s Thought Police didn’t go as far as Trudeau



[Video: https://youtu.be/gmuj5gDsxJI?feature=shared]

I learned about giant spiders called J'BA Fofi while browsing thru Youtube for interesting facts about the Congo in Africa.  One of these interesting facts is about the Jba Fofi, giant Spiders which inhabit some areas in the forests of the Congo.  These spiders are said to be highly venemous with the first one being seen in 1850 and the last one seen in 2014 or 2015.  These giant spiders( giant Tarantulas) are just one of the many mysteries of the Congo; other mysteries include: a 50 ft long alligator, Dinosaur like creatures, many species, of monkey or ape including Great Apes, Billi Chimps, and other mysterious ape varieties.  For the sake of this thread, however, I'll stick to J'ba Fofi or the Giant Spiders which are said to have legs as long as 6ft and eat Monkeys and other small prey.

I can't find them on Wiki so I've uploaded a short Youtube video which apparently shows somne.
What does ATS think?

https://youtu.be/-aEmykU3R-M?si=LM4SM-UQ2MJI6dOT

J'ba Fofi - Mokele Mbembe

https://ktla.com/news/las-vegas-alien-vi...pert-says/

[Video: https://youtu.be/-s8RiQZGW5o?si=DI1UNjq6kZ101wvX]

So there's something that allegedly can't be explained in this video, and not where you'd expect it.

There's a 30% opaque 7 to 8 foot tall homind that is too tricky to add as an artifact and too perfectly integrated intuitively. You can watch multiple shadows react to its motion...

And also the triangulated "meteor", based on multiple videos, that pinpointed to the area of Angel's property, emitted no infrared signature, and made aerodynamic noise in sync with its luminosity.

There's so much to this one. Are they really pitstopping in Vegas backyards to break into tractors for parts?

Like I said elsewhere, it's like the smoking gun evidence that gets trolled.

This is something we all do, but it seems as time goes on we are living in a world where we assume way too much.

I see this in our discussions on social media all the time. Two people talking, one says something the other doesn't agree with, and so the assumption battle begins. And so many times, just because two people have a different opinion on something they automatically assume the other is crazy, or stupid, or whatever. Are we all doctors? Psychics? Why do we think we are qualified to judge another human being so quickly and harshly, simply because they believe in something you don't? This is not intelligence. There's a 99.9% chance you're wrong in your assumption, and yet I will see people fight to the death that theyre right, when in fact they are dead wrong.

Im sure you've all had someone, if not many many people assume things about you that were way off. I certainly have. And it's always so concerning how wrong people can be, and yet be so convinced they know what they're talking about.

But they're wrong. And these same people will go around telling other people this assumption.....and then they'll believe it. Some times for life!

I cannot even begin to write out the words that can describe how idiotic we all can actually be.


I know I've done it, and am guilty here.


We need to stop. We're just not as smart as we think we are.

If we were.....none of us would be in the mess we are all in.

We really need to stop assuming so much. It does not exude intelligence.

That it is all. Carry on.

I offer this under the heading "Mildly paranoid, but still real."

As it is reported, ever since about 2002 a vulnerability, referred to as "TunnelVision" existed within all VPN traffic which has not yet been directly addressed, and until now, not spoken of...  Why not? I don't know.

From ArsTechnica: Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
Subtitled: TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.

I resent the term "novel" for a number of reasons. First this means that for over 20 years, everyone who thought themselves protecting their privacy was NEVER a reality.  Second, the report "hints" that the vulnerability may be known to malicious actors... which leads me, at least, to presume that they "know" and "have known" - along with the very architects of DHCP protocols who inexplicably created the protocol which allows all VPN traffic to be redirected to whatever address they wish, unencrypted.  Stop right there... we can't be certain that this was an intentionally implemented design feature for the benefit of "someone somewhere"... (there, I have theoretically protected "the man.")
 

If this theory is true wouldn't it make life as we know it on Earth extremely rare throughout the universe and galaxies beyond?
If plate tectonics require planetary-sized collisions, wouldn't it require more than orbiting in a Goldilocks zone to establish our kind of life?

Mysterious blobs inside Earth triggered plate tectonics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2...tectonics/

Quote:Some 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into the nascent Earth, spinning off our moon. Now a team of scientists proposes this giant impact did even more: The collision left behind mysterious blobs within Earth’s interior that may have helped kick off plate tectonics — the geologic process that fuels earthquakes, volcanoes and generally allows life to exist on our planet.
The idea, fleshed out with computer modeling in a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is an attempt to answer one of the most fundamental questions about our home world.
We live on the only planet known to have a surface made up of rocky plates that slide around and crash into each other at boundary zones as the superhot interior churns. This subterranean drama usually goes unnoticed on human time scales, except when an earthquake strikes or a volcano erupts. But most experts agree this process is absolutely essential to life as we know it because it helps the planet cycle carbon, which is important to keeping the climate habitable.
What experts don’t agree on is how plate tectonics started.

 
One theory — published in the journal Nature last year — offers an explanation, but also raises a few eyebrows. It suggests that after the moon-forming object slammed into our planet, bits of it ended up intact in Earth’s interior.
The new paper takes this idea a step further: Around 200 million years after the impact, these submerged blobs could have helped create hot plumes inside Earth that disrupted the nascent surface, breaching the crust and allowing circular slabs to sink — a process called subduction.
This process, the authors say, could explain why the oldest minerals on Earth are zircon crystals that appear to have undergone subduction more than 4 billion years ago. What’s more, they suggest it might have contributed to the rise of modern plate tectonics.

Realize the majority of folks on these boards will already be well aware of concepts like 'Hegelian Dialectic' and 'pressure from above and below' but suppose it's always nice to be reminded now and again.

Apparently 'the real action is in the reaction' and although the vid below is quite an old one did think it sounded insanely relevant these days.




[Video: https://youtu.be/tE94KUYcglk]

Quote:Management by crisis:

The first step (thesis) is to create a problem.

The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria).

The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.

Pic

Given all the recent hullabaloo about claims of 'directed energy weapon' was put in mind of this series of anomalies a few years ago in the Sicilian seaside village of Canneto di Caronia.

After a spate of over 300 unexplained fires at the end of 2003 (spontaneous combustion of electrical goods, beds, sofas etc.) the National Government deployed an investigative task force who evacuated the residents and then began constant 24 hour monitoring with specialist equipment.

In the vid below the head of the team Francesco Venerando explains how they discovered that USB drives and computers were malfunctioning; cars were locking and unlocking on their own and that compasses didn't work (wherever you put them).

The team also discovered massive, repeated pulses of electromagnetic energy (which they concluded they were not caused by natural events) and speculated that the intense EM bursts were responsible for generating the fires and perhaps part of some kind of secret military experiment.

Just as the team's data was suggesting the origin of these bursts were coming from off the coast 'in the ocean' their investigation was abruptly shut down by the Italian Government.



• Lead Investigator Francesco Venerando:

Video:

[Video: https://youtu.be/CEctBLzbvCw]

Quote:Locals blamed supernatural causes for the many unexplained fires in their small village, however after further investigation secret military experiments could be the cause of all the strange occurrences.

Quote:UFO sightings


TV, refrigerators, washing machines, mixers etc. that switch on by themselves.


Cell phones charging their batteries spontaneously, even when unplugged.


Boats, Cables, beds, sofas, chairs, cookers, vacuum cleaner, TV, refrigerators, washing machines, cables catching fire spontaneously, even when unplugged.


Air conditioners literally melting spontaneously


Car glasses imploding


Car glasses found with small, perfectly rounded holes, as being hit by some invisible bullets


Aubergines coloured like rainbows


Plants burst into flames selectively, on a squared area


Unexplained magnetic fields peaks detected


Pen drives getting erased spontaneously


Compasses … loosing their orientation


Automatic gates opening and closing randomly


Car alarms ringing with no reason, and randomly


Mysterious death of animals, both from ground and sea.

Quote:Mysterious Spontaneous Combustions Return to Sicilian City

In 2007, an Italian newspaper published a leaked government report which blamed the fires on “aliens” because they were “caused by high power electromagnetic emissions which were not man-made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts.”

And now the spontaneous combustions are back again and increasing in frequency. Starting in late summer 2014, residents reported unexplained fires in furniture, stacks of folded clothes and a car. As a result, the poor citizens of Canneto di Caronia have been evacuated again while firefighters put out blazes and look again for causes.

This time, suggestions include UFOs, a Tesla-type Magnifying Transmitter, ghosts or evil spirits or even a troubled young person who is pyrokinetic. Sicily’s council member for health and safety Vittorio Alfieri thinks the cause is “an entity” that transfers “from one house to another.”

Or something else?

Link

I almost hesitated to bring this thread, and I'll tell you why:

1) It's easy to "propose" anything,
2) It's easy to 'accept' anything that your adversaries won't or can't,
3) Media producers will say literally "anything" to get your attention,
4) There is little consistent reporting on this matter,
5) No one is saying anything "informational" about the "proposal" other than it exists.

It started with an errant (and since then removed) headline that a 'ceasefire' had been achieved... poor editing.  Then, a flurry of almost identical verbiage appeared across several news outlets... ("approved" news) which only said that third parties had secured a "sound workable" response from someone in HAMAS... (no names.)  

Since then it has simmered down a bit but here is a stereotypical piece from a US News source...

From Fox News: Hamas says they approve framework for cease-fire agreement with Israel
 

This came up this week at ATS and no one knew what to do.   A new poster came on and posted about 35 times.  Each of his posts was obviously not written by a human and KENZO did a check and discovered it was all AI material.

If someone is posting content that is not their own authorship, should they have to disclose it?  Or can they post AI generated walls of text and claim it as their own and not reveal that they aren't the real authors?

Plenty of very strange UFO statements from police officers over the years and thought this was a pretty fascinating interview with Montana Sheriffs Keith Wolverton and Pete Howard discussing UFOs and mutes.


Video:

Are UFOs Real? Listen to These Montana Sheriffs.

[Video: https://youtu.be/nR_hKWv45OY]



Quote:
 

Quote:• "We hope the information conveyed in this video will inspire others to realize that the UFOs being seen in our skies are real, and they merit our curiosity and our attention."

Interviewers:

Dr. Richard O'Connor, M.D.

Dr. Joan Bird, PhD.

Quote:• "The Colonel looked me right in the eye and said 'we don't have a clue, we don't have anything that can fly like that'.. and then it wasn't long after that that a couple of cars of security guys came in and took the radar scrolls."

Montana Sheriff Peter Howard.

https://newatlas.com/biology/life-merger...organelle/

Quote:Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one organism that boasts abilities its peers would envy. Last time this happened, Earth got plants.

A species of algae called Braarudosphaera bigelowii was found to have engulfed a cyanobacterium that lets them do something that algae, and plants in general, can’t normally do – "fixing" nitrogen straight from the air, and combining it with other elements to create more useful compounds.

A Paradoxical Fork in the Road


When existence is reduced to a most fundamental extreme there remains two choices unless of course there is a third that for some reason I am not currently privy:

1.  Something from nothing. (absurdity one)

2. Ever-flowing time. (absurdity two)

The first proposition attempts to resolve the problem of infinite regression in the form of a spatiotemporal negation, but is this absolutely necessary? And is it possible that it may just be a periodic/sporadic spatial negation in the presence of never-ending time?

The second proposition hypothesizes that time may not require a beginning from which to progress forward, but that there may exist some unknown eternal anomaly that somehow governs time in a way that transcends conventional logic and reason?

A God anomaly could most certainly be the case in either proposition, but in proposition one there would be an emergence factor constituting a primordial anomaly whereas in proposition two time would be indistinguishable from eternity thus rendering this "eternal anomaly".

Any preferences here or other possibilities unintentionally overlooked?

https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/lon...57664.html

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Pee pants.

I about died laughing when I saw this.

A clear indicator of how far we have fallen and the decay of the human psyche in our society.

These things sell anywhere from $600 to $4000 for a pair that looked like someone had crapped and peed all over themselves.

Apparently this is a turn on for a lot of people.


Check please. It's time to bounce.

Spiral? Looks like a star shape to me. Heres one story:

https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sightings-c...pe-1897031




Heres another picture [enhanced]. 

https://i.imgur.com/DIpHgLg.png

So I caught ths thread from the old place and dug into it. Heres the text of an email that I sent to my FED "handler" and other familiy members.  I cant figure out the upload thing so sorry as I only posted one pic obviously oversized. 

https://i.imgur.com/tsSIgaz.png

Date: Sun, May 5, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Subject: Spiral UFO's over the Earth / Enhance Image + Video Link
To: 

Here's a Twitter ~ X link with a video. I took a screenshot and downloaded the image into FastStone Image Viewer. Zoomed in 900% and put the image into negative and reduced noise by 200%. 

Apparently these objects are being seen all over the world this past week. I have never seen an object like this before in my life as I have been looking at UFO's since 2018 and uploaded 300+ images and enhanced them. This one clearly delineates a Star Shape. It does have the wispy "ionized" atmosphere surrounding the object as all UFO's have. 

I DON'T believe this is some sort of classified USA space project.  

As you know on and off I have tossed religion into the mix. I am not a zealot but a sign from God? 

Check it out as I am sure many more videos of these things are out there. This one was over California. That is one state that needs its evil Governor to be removed. 

Thoughts? 

Reference:[img]C:\Users\jajac\OneDrive\Pictures\Pictures\Screenshots[/img]
https://twitter.com/NRAyoungboy/status/1786248822534164922/video/2
Pics:

[631] Screen Shot
[632] Enhanced in Negative
[633] Enhanced

I'd like to switch gears from my first posts and write about the other end of the spectrum. In my travels throught this life I have learned as much about angels as I have demons. What I have found is, angels walk among us.

Most of us reading this believe in the spiritual forces of this world. Most of us have come to the realization that demons and evil spirits walk among us; and are a monumental influence on our lives. We know there are evil and malevolent forces at play here, and it is all around us. 

But, did you know that there are also angels walking among us as well? These are angels who have made a choice to come to earth, be born as humans, live human lives, and do the Lord's work. You could even say these are the Lord's covert op spies, working in the same shadows as the evil is. People you work or go to school with. People who are easily forgotten, and yet can make such a profound difference in a strangers lives. These earth angels will not be highly successful people. They will be hidden right in front of your eyes. They will be servants. Salt of the earth types. Humble people. Here to do a mission. To help mankind progress to the next level. To teach and show love. To balance the darkness with light. 

Often times these are the "black sheep" of a family. People that even seem like "screw ups" to the rest of the world. They are often peculiar and awkward, not quite fitting in, but at the same time able to socialize and rub elbows with anyone. They are able to hide in plain sight, because the world will be looking for someone who is successful and popular and worldly. This is how the Lord is able to hide these angels right before our eyes. Demons are the ones who are "successful and loved by the world." 

This is a sad and hard truth. The world glorifies that which is evil. The dark forces are what rule this particular world, and are a part of everything we see. They rule over everything. But, there are angels working here as well. We just don't recognize them.


There are scriptures to back this claim. This is all a matter of faith. If someone doesn't believe in demons, then they are not going to believe in angels. Even most "Christians" don't consider how much demons and evil spirits are all around us. Much less consider that there are angels, in human form, having a human experience to help mankind along the way. 


The Hindus have a word for it: Bodhisattva.
Pretty much the same thing the Bible quotes. That when giving to the poor, we very well may be entertaining angels.

You very well may have one of these "earth angels" in your family...

Then again, you very well might be an earth angel yourself. They will have no memory of their former selves while in this realm. Only a chosen few figure this out. Either way they are here to help. To love. To help guide the lost (back) to paradise. They are here to serve, and do the Lord's will. 



I never ask or expect people to believe me. I simply plant the seeds. Something for you to ponder.

Thanks, DI.

The Mandela Effect : fact or fiction?


The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where various groups of individuals seemingly recall past events, symbols, words, and titles et cetera as documented or transpiring differently than how they are actually recorded in the present day. The title comes from the 'supposed' false memory of many believing that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s where in fact this is actually contrary to how this information is actually documented in the present day. Nelson Mandela never died in prison, or so 'they' say.

Examples of this phenomenon resonate differently with different individuals, and oddly enough the titled phenomenon is actually an example of one that does not resonate with me as much as some of the others.

And here are a few examples of this phenomenon that actually do resonate with me:

1. Interview With - THE - Vampire. I saw this movie more than once, and I recall the title as being Interview With - A - Vampire.

2. Moonraker. Dolly NEVER had braces in any of the scenes, but I seem to recall a scene with her smiling at Jaws with her 'braces' twinkling in the light.

3. The word dilemma. Many, including myself seem to recall this as being spelled dilemna, and I have no idea why many would have recollection of such an oddly spelled word.

4. Mr. Rogers' theme: it's a wonderful day in THIS neighborhood. I grew up with this and I recall it as it's a wonderful day in THE neighborhood.

These are just a few and the examples are many, and it's kind of reminiscent of other phenomena such as ghosts, UFO sightings, or any other widely documented paranormal phenomena where there may in fact exist truth but often times mixed together with a plethora of lies, mistaken identity, or any other inadvertent or intentional false reports or claims, but it's like they say, it only takes one truth to prove any phenomenon.

It can also be worthy to note that with this Mandela Effect that many of the changes seem to not make nearly as much sense as the recollected original and in some instances maybe even to the point of borderline laughable.

Just looking around and trying to get the feel of this place. I recognize a few ATS peeps as well.
Hello everyone.

I had planned on posting on something else for my second OP, but something interesting kept occurring today and so I thought I would let you all play with it.

I have lived in this house for over 15 years now. Since day one we have had supernatural experiences here in the house. Everything from ghosts walking around to doors flying open, and some slamming shut, to whispers cold spots lights flickering things going missing then reappearing. A bunch of people, including myself have been awoken by something that was very angry and wanted to hurt us bad holding us down. This has not happened to any of us anywhere else but here, and this was way beyond sleep paralysis (for one we could all move. just couldnt get up) and each account was exactly the same. We have all experienced something that cant be explained in this house.

I did a cleansing a while back, and got rid of everything that was here ( i think) and we havent had any occurences in quite some time, nor have we felt any presences here at all.

However, there has been this knock going on lately.

And it's a new thing. Never had this hear, until recently.

And it knocks.

All over the house.

You'll hear it, and go to investigate. The sound will draw you to an area of the house. You'll almost track it down, and 'knock'......all the way at the other end of the house.

It knocks on the roof. It knocks on the walls. It knocks on the outside walls. It knocks from underneath the house. I dont hear it inside. I hear it all over the house. Different places each time. No consistancy. I have tried and tried to track down the source of this knocking, but every single time it turns into this game of, every time I get close it goes to a different section of the house. 


I think, whatever I kicked out, wants back in....


I just grin and chuckle. It drove me crazy for a minute. Then I realized it was just some ghosts little game. Knocking all over the damn house! 


Anyone else have any experience with something like this?  It's a trip.

Here is a superb documentary covering so many of the conspiracies regarding the (apparent) Moon Landings.

Many questions are asked and scrutinised with evidence from many different sources covering so many of the traditional conspiracies and then some. It's a long one at 3 hours 34 minutes but very well worth the time for those serious about understanding truth and taking in the evidence to find it.

I'm sure some folks here have a theory or two and perhaps they will be focused on in the documentary subject matter and perhaps you will also, like me, have a whole bunch more theories afterwards to put to those who still believe Man actually did walk on the Moon. I think modern technology and evolved critical thinking are finally catching up to the old technology and spoonfed information that never got scrutinised too much at the time in favour of the amazing news of the event.

A very thorough and professional documentary to watch. Enjoy.

Evidence Man Never Landed On The Moon.

"Russia’s economy grew by 3.6 per cent in 2023 and is projected to expand by over 3 per cent in 2024."

Much of this success relies on the expansion of the military-industrial complex. Russia has bolstered fiscal revenues and used them to stimulate the domestic economy. Export controls have not yet resulted in decisive choke points or disruptions in supply chains.

https://twitter.com/ElbridgeColby/status...5043038349

[Quotes from the source article appear in that Twitter thread.]

An argument existed for placing international sanctions against Russian energy exports. However, that project was feasible over a ten-year timeline and was not a direct measure to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine will be decided on battlefields, with logistics and ending the patterns of static land warfare and limited counterattacks. Returning to battlefield mobility and breaking the back of enemy forces is yet to occur. Granted, a Lend-Lease arrangement would have been confined to supplying equipment and not restoring manoeuvre. 

The international policymakers whose religious type belief in sanctions replaced material aid to Ukraine are outright fools. The U.S. never leveraged their commitment to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines against that country supplying more than token assistance to Ukraine.

Another issue is the U.S.-led sanctions regime and limited aid to Ukraine are in a policy vacuum. I don't think there is a "good outcome" from the war in Ukraine. The defeat of Russian forces in Ukraine might trigger unintended consequences. A second Russian Civil War or extreme Russian political instability would be disastrous.

Alternately, Russia returns to launch another onslaught against Ukraine after 6 - 10 years.

However, a peace deal involving Ukraine ceding territory to Russia invites further trouble. Russia would be emboldened to resume its war against NATO or make a move against the Baltic States, which are NATO members.

Moreover, none of those matters appear to influence the International community's approach to Ukraine. Threading the needle to argue for the destruction of Russian forces in Ukraine while reducing the risk of future wars would have been extremely tough but a step forward for policymakers.

It's a good car and fun to drive at 354lbs of torque, and I drive it a lot. Been exploring the backroads of Maine a lot for the past few years, and kind of took up backyard mechanic along with the driving as a hobby.

Been having a lot of mishaps lately though. Ignored the scheduled spark plug change and had one fail and fried an ignition coil and it took two separate tows from AAA to get the car home. Replaced one ignition coil and all six plugs side gapped to .037 and all was good again - maybe even better.

Went out this afternoon for a ride and on my way back the TPMS lit up and I got out and saw that the front left tire was losing air. I carry a bicycle pump with a gauge with me just for this reason. I was able to get 20lbs in it which lasted for a few miles and I'm about 20 miles from the house.

Stopped at a quick stop and they happened to have a can of Fix-A-Flat and then I was able to get 36lbs in it which lasted for a few more miles. I noticed at this point that there was a puncture on the inner wall. Tried to get some more air in it and went for a couple more miles but the tire was getting chewed up pretty close to the rim so I had to stop and call AAA with about six more miles to go.

This is my third flat tire in the past year. The protocol lately is to take the wheel to Town Fair Tire for a remount and balance it myself with a bubble balancer I bought at Harbor Freight. Most places don't do a good job balancing so I started doing it myself.

The source for this thread is an opinion piece.  That means that it will pretty much be ignored by most people who aren't interested in opinions.

But the information relayed seems very real and quite worthy of consideration.  Especially since California advocate journalists and activist whine about the climate most, and loudest.

Source The Epoch Times: California’s Perpetual Drought Is Manmade and Intentional
 

Just a little something I knocked up for fun to share with other members. The first one is brand new and the second is an adaptation from ATS done many years ago.

To get the full size version in 1920 x 1080 px, open the image in a new tab/window and save. Your desktop wallpaper settings can alter the size to suit but if you have problems feel free to message me.

More to follow. Ideas welcome. Enjoy.







ps to TSK, I have a 300dpi A2 version of the first one suitable for a poster but I'd like to work on it a bit first if you want the file for merch.

Just a quickie, but does anyone else think that adding a negative option to the "RATE" system might create the opportunity to misuse it for anyone who becomes disgruntled or maybe have a beef with another member?

It would be possible for someone to give negative ratings to all posts made by a single member or en-masse to lots of members and falsely destroy the positive aspect in profiles that everyone sees. That can't be good, surely.

Even ATS only had a positive application in the star system used there. There was no negative rating possible.

How about the chance to give a positive rating as normal and instead of the opposite, why not the chance to give a raspberry or something not directly related but equally apparent that shows something negative in it's own right.

For me, it makes the whole system seem open to possible misuse or is there an aspect I'm missing? Do "negative" ratings appear alongside the "positive" ones, thus showing the balance between the two or is it as simple as +1 or -1?

Also, these ratings aren't apparent to individual posts yet are they? Just the member's overall reputation details.

I think this maybe needs early consideration or clarification before it gets set in stone long time.

Thoughts?