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Should we ignore the scientific illiterates, cultists and scam artists who promoted Doomsday?
Dozens of people falsely claimed NASA said the world would end, 3 days of darkness, invented a nonexistent planet, or misrepresented Mayan culture. My former professor posted some of their names here, and instead of apologizing or acknowledging their foolishness (or greed from the scammers) some complained to YA to have the list removed. I say the list is a good guide to people whose childish questions should be ignored in the future, and here I'm listing some of the worst offenders.
Fay; Feasl Younger; Forrest; Finnick
Georgia*
Monica*
Rahul; Reilly
Stonewall
Tennis
Everyone who was listed was warned, and those saying they were younger than 16 years were deleted, as were a couple who convincingly claimed total ignorance or who apologized. The complainers are probably scam artists who were trying to stir up public panic in order to "sell books/kis on how to survive the total destruxtion of Earth".
If this is deleted because of complaints, I will simply pos it again, highlighting the complainers as examples of those trying to conceal their culpability. Those marked with * above are prime examples of this already.
8 Answers
- ScottLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
if it's on a large enough scale, let it work to your advantage and answer their question every time you come across up (the more the better). This will serve two purposes.
A. Reinforce to all who read those questions how dumb the question is.
B. You rack up a ton of points for answering the same question hundreds to thousands of times
- FitzLv 78 years ago
Always have ... join the club with us. Well I suppose I'm not igoring them ... I make fun of them.
They're quite amusing until the day in question comes ... then they flood Yahoo Answers with the same question over and over an get quite annoying.
- John WLv 78 years ago
If you tried to filter out stupidity, you'll be at it forever. There will be more idiots pushing another doomsday soon enough, there always is.
- JimbobLv 58 years ago
Yes, please ignore them. Not just this time around, but for any end of the world nonsense that they will certainly promote in the future.
- Anonymous8 years ago
So uptill now you were listening them?