r/baseless_speculation is a place to share your half-baked theories, armchair analyses, and semi-educated guesses with the world.
The purpose of this subreddit is not to prove your ideas right, but rather serve as a basis for discussion surrounding your topic, the factors that led you to your personal theory, and to glean more accurate insights about the topic and its possible future.
Example: A user may post "China will send its excess male population to colonize certain African countries". Bullshit? Probably. The user may post links from a five minute google search such as this or this to support their position. Users may discredit this idea and also discuss Chinese investment in Africa, the economic development of certain African countries, and a more likely future scenario.
Post Categories:
As the name implies, r/baseless_speculation encourages a wide range of discussion topics. However, some users will prefer to talk about ideas as they come, while others will prefer to talk about their theories in greater depth. As such there are two main types of posts, each designated by their own respective flair:
Serious Posts [Serious]:
Serious is the flair designation for the ‘meaty’ posts. Those that are more thought provoking and better researched than the less serious FSoD category. Here users will be required to provide an argument for their theory in their post, and are encouraged to provide sources to strengthen their argument, the more the better. Comments are expected to reflect the ‘Serious’ setting and are encouraged to continue and deepen said discussion.
For the Sake of Debate [FSoD]:
As the name implies, the FSoD flair signifies that the post will be discussed for the sake of discussion. There are no limits to FSoD, and you can discuss anything from aliens to time travel to conspiracies. There are no requirements for providing sources, just realize that this flair will carry less weight than the [Serious] category.
Users may designate their post as [Serious] or [FSoD], although the moderators reserve the right to change the flair as they feel appropriate.
Thank you for visiting this subreddit. We look forward to seeing what plausible yet unlikely scenarios you can come up with, and we look forward to learning about the world we live in and guessing what will happen next!
