So what's up with this forum

[Oakman]

Computafreak wrote:

Now we just get the trolls; the morons can't find it any more

Which should ultimately convince any real trolls to move on. Without morons responding to their bait, they may decide they need to fish in new waters. :thumbsup: For what its worth, I have enjoyed the interactions in the Back Room as much and more than I did in the old SB. Eliminating voting simply removed an irritant that we used because it had been used against us. Chris has essentially created a members-only message board. We can make occasional forays out into SB, jr, and if we see a likely looking candidate invite him to join our band of merry outlaws.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[0x3c0]

I'm probably being a little too cynical here, but the real trolls are unlikely to move on. It takes everybody to ignore someone, but only one person to respond. It's one of the reasons why I preferred being able to nuke posts - before the system got [played|hacked|abused]. I agree that it looks a lot more sensible now; if I ever feel qualified to respond to a post intelligently, I think that I would respond a lot more frequently. But ultimately, without backing up the actions taken recently, it isn't going to change significantly in the long term

[kmg365]

Oakman wrote:

occasional forays out into SB, jr, and if we see a likely looking candidate invite him to join our band of merry outlaws

quasi-trolls, or irritable irascible argumentative curmudgeons who don't call names...well like every one here?

[kmg365]

I suspect that Obama bashing more than CSS drivel threw things over the top.

[Ilion]

kmg365 wrote:

I suspect that Obama bashing more than CSS drivel threw things over the top.

No one is "bashing" of Obama, though some of us are criticising nearly everything about him and his agenda for remaking America into what it is not. It appears that what put things over the top is that somehow, for a few hours, "the community" were experiencing having all their posts vanished, just as they have been doing to me for the past few months (and as they did to me a couple of years ago). Mr Maunder didn't/doesn't appear to mind that "the community's" method of "argument" amounts to nothing more than "Yer stoopid." Mr Maunder didn't/doesn't appear to mind that "the community's" response when "Yer stoopid" doesn't do the trick is to vanish posts. Mr Maunder *does* appear to mind when "the community" gets back its own medicine.

[soap brain]

Ilíon wrote:

Mr Maunder *does* appear to mind when "the community" gets back its own medicine.

Do you really believe that that's the reason? :confused:

[Ilion]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Do you really believe that that's the reason? :confused:

Your :confused: is your own fault (as usual). I stated a plain observation, I made no attempt to explain it.

[soap brain]

Don't care. What I AM interested in is you proving you're smarter than the peer-review process and thousands of biologists.

[Ilion]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

What I AM interested in is you proving you're smarter than the peer-review process and thousands of biologists.

Which is to say, you're not interested in *reasoning* (and doing so honestly and validly) but rather in "authority" and the assertion thereof. Which is, of course, why you kiddies want to silence me.

[soap brain]

I'm still waiting.

[73Zeppelin]

Questioning authority is fine. Questioning Gods actions is taboo. Oh, wait. That doesn't seem to make sense.

[soap brain]

We call that the Zeppelin Paradox. It demonstrates the contradictions that arise with our choice of axioms. Since God is real, we can thus conclude that reality isn't.

[73Zeppelin]

And free will doesn't exist, since if it did, God wouldn't be omnipotent/omniscient. Well that and that whole Deus ex machina thingy...

[soap brain]

And aliens exist, since if they didn't, my great-uncle Ted would be a liar. And evolution is wrong, since if it was right, I wouldn't like it. And the Holocaust never happened, since if it did, my great-uncle Ted would be a liar.