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"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."
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John could grow up.
I like your attitude!
Perhaps some sort of follow feature.
That way John could just follow Sal around, because John is fixated on fighting young earth creationism. Anything else and he’s out of his comfort zone and just can’t handle it.
Another option might be to only show the link to the most recent comment in a thread on the main page. That way you would display a link to no more than one comment per thread. You would be able to see active threads without all the cruft.
This would I think solve John’s problem without making the site even more favorable to simply ignoring people you disagree with.
Or learn how to use the Dashboard…which Alan suggested already…It’s easy…
I guess not for everyone though… lol
But perhaps easier than growing up.
That’s a relief…as my list of The Mysteries has grown extensively… 🙂
Two new mysteries with every new discovery. 🙂
As far as I can tell, there is nothing substantive about uncaused causes.
Alan,
Can you move keiths nonsense to guano that is just the continuation of his own OP nobody wants to discuss anymore? If not, can I do it? I wouldn’t want to abuse the privileges if you disagree…
Thanks
No kidding! How do you explain the universe without a beginning then?
BTW: Does anybody get an impression I get that Neil is “in love” with Dawkins or perhaps with himself…? 😉
J-Mac,
No. IIRC Neil is not a fan of Dawkins, so your sneer is way off.
For Harshman? Everything seems to be difficult these days…even remembering his own claims… 😉
J-Mac,
Absolutely not. Did I not make it clear to you already that whilst authors with post-edit permissions are technically able to edit and delete comments in their threads, they must not, and a condition of having that permission is a guarantee not to use it?
I’d like to request that my post-edit permissions be restored. I violated the rule once a long time ago and took ownership for what I did. It won’t happen again.
phoodoo, I can’t believe you’re calling the blast of garbage from J-Mac “substantive.” It’s just nonsense–which is unsurprising, since he himself admits he won’t read a book or article on this stuff.
FWIW, I don’t say the same about your or mung’s or Sal’s or Vince’s or FMM’s posts (although FMM’s repetitiousness can definitely be off-putting). The only virtue I see in J-mac is that he’s industrious. But in this case, that’s another way of saying that he’s incredibly long-winded.
Anyhow, I think it’s very unfortunate for this site how excited he is about continuing to shit the place up for the foreseeable future with his ignorant nonsense.
Neil and I differ just a little on this issue, Neil taking the relaxed view that his posts are harmless and need only an indulgent smile and an agile scroll finger. I’ve been adding “read more” breaks to limit their spread on the front page.
Fine! Just asked… I will deal with it differently then… 😉
Thanks
Yes, exactly right.
There’s no evidence of a beginning, as far as I can tell.
As far as I know, the view of most cosmologists is the evidence of the big bang is really the evidence of the coming into existence of time and space. So there was never a time before the big bang and there was never a time before the existence of the universe. So there was no beginning.
Alan Fox,
Snappier post titles would be welcome too!
Allan,
The OPs could use some proofreading and copy editing too. Or complete rewrites, frankly.
But not by the moderators.
Please remind keiths to address the post and not his perceived failings of the poster.
Thank you.
Why is keiths not in the moderation queue? That is a serious question. He constantly violates the rules and refuses to adjust his behavior in spite of repeated warnings.
He shows no interest in abiding by Elizabeth’s wishes for the site.
Please remind keiths to address the post and not his perceived failings of the poster.
Thank you.
see here as well
Please remind keiths …
I’m offering free babysitting services. Please let Elizabeth know.
Always amusing to see Mung, who doesn’t give a rat”s ass about the rules when he’s commenting, hypocritically whining to the moderators when someone else says something he doesn’t like.
The truth hurts, eh, Mung?
The rules, as they stand, tend to reward this sort of Mungish behavior. It’s another strike against them.
“The sting in any rebuke is the truth”
– Benjamin Franklin
How would you know?
Evidence please.
When is the last time I called you a liar anywhere but Moderation Issues or Noyau?
ETA: keiths probably took my failures to call him a liar as evidence that he wasn’t a liar.
And Neil proves my point by moving an honest comment to Guano and rewarding the quote miner.
It’s exactly counter to TSZ’s interests.
Honesty has nothing to do with it you idiot. Do you just not understand the rules at this site? You do. You just don’t care.
You can be as honest as you like when outing someone here, but it will still get you banned, and “I was just being honest” won’t save your rule-breaking ass.
Go ahead, try it.
Mung
That’s my point, dipshit.
The rules as they stand reward the dishonest and punish the honest. You are able to quote mine with impunity, while comments that call you out on it are guanoed.
ETA: I should also note that moderators are not required to guano comments, so Neil’s action, which is against TSZ’s interests, demonstrates his own poor judgment as well as a deficiency in the rules.
Agreement then! Why can’t you find a way to agree withing the rules? And why can’t you find a way to disagree within the rules? I think it’s because you simply don’t want to.
This is false. And you’re repeating yourself. Boring. This is ground that has already been covered. And Elizabeth has never taken your side. Now it’s time for you to bury your head in the sand and refuse to face the facts. Perhaps some nice comfortable VR goggles would help.
This too is false, and at this point, it’s safe to say that you are flat out lying. You need to face the fact that you are a demonstrable liar.
Carry on, snake boy!
Joe F. accuses me of quote-mining, but his post was not sent to Guano.
Except when they are not.
Demonstrably false.
Mung:
You’re once again making my point for me. Neil’s moderation is selective and biased. He was happy to guano my comment but reluctant to guano Joe’s. A system that grants moderation privileges to guys like Alan and Neil, who can’t keep their personal grudges separate from their moderation decisions, is doomed to fail.
keiths accuses me of quote-mining. But his comment was not sent to Guano. keiths simply ignores any evidence that is contrary to his preferred narrative.
Poor keiths. His opinions are quashed by the cruel and indifferent moderators, who are simply looking for any excuse they can find to send his posts to Guano.
#FinalFantasy
You are deluded and need to seek professional help. Your martyr complex is a figment of your imagination. You accused me of quote-mining and your post was not sent to Guano either.
Poor you.
And of course Mung just happened to omit the link that I had included:
And it was Mung's second quote-mine creation of the day.
It was a blatant quote mine. Mung is a true bottom feeder.
keiths again accuses me of quote-mining. His post wasn’t sent to Guano.
Poor keiths. The admins are targeting his posts and preventing him from accusing me of quote-mining. Utter bullshit, of course.
Mung,
You quote mined John and Joe yesterday and got caught both times. What are you whining about?
If you don’t want to be seen as a bottom feeder, then stop acting like one.
You forgot to bitch about how the admins sent your posts to Guano and prevented you from being honest.
It’s pretty clear that your charges against the admins are baseless. There have been multiple posts accusing me of quote-mining that were not sent to Guano. At least two of them were posts you made.
You are simply not credible. You are, demonstrably, a liar.
How pathetic of a liar you are, well, that remains to be seen. Will you retract any of your false claims? Probably not.
I’m whining about your whining. 🙂
You lied about the admins. Admit it. You won’t though, because not only are you a liar, you are also a coward.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 🙂
It would appear that accusing someone of quote-mining is not against the rules, while accusing someone of being dishonest is against the rules.
Being keiths is not against the rules. Being lying keiths is not against the rules. Being keiths accusing someone of quote-mining is not against the rules. Being keiths accusing someone of dishonesty is against the rules.
keiths regularly tests those boundaries and whines when he gets caught crossing them, and accuses the moderators of bias.
Pretty pathetic.
keiths:
Mung:
I can see you wincing and rubbing your ass.
Mung, quoting Ben Franklin:
Which is why you ran to the moderators when I said:
The truth hurts, and you wanted Neil to kiss your boo-boo and make it better.
Mung,
That’s a pitiful attempt at a goalpost shift, even by Mungian standards. We were talking about rule violations in general, remember?
It’s so frustrating that I continually fail in my attempts to annoy keiths.
😀