Then linked a thread I had posted a few months before that, which I said anti intellectualism will be the final death knell of this site, that thread was deleted with no explanation.

I'd be lying if I said that it didn't hurt my feelings a bit. Not so much that thread got deleted. But that #thatsite has gone from a place of celebrated black minds (to a degree) to a place that openly questions flat earth, gravity, aliens and whatever conspiracy theory de jour.

That part bothers me. When I made the death knell thread I was greeted with "well this is the same place that folks were licking spit off the sidewalk" and while true, we laughed at that. We've laughed as a community at all of the ridiculous things. But as of late, the craziest ideas have taken root and it's become more and more embarrassing to be associated with it.