John Dub

Hopefully it happens that quick. Hang in there if takes a couple business days

Mike, you do not have the right to your own facts

My (possibly) last word on the opening comments of this thread

Write4U’s comment was about DJTexas participation in the Big Lie. Regardless of my opinion, that topic is valid, people of all stripes are discussing it. Feelings on both sides are strong, each claiming the other is tearing apart the fabric of society, causing death and…[Read more]

“don’t ban people right of the bat”

It happens. I drop words out all the time.

It’s true, we try to let a variety of voices participate, but some voices are disruptive, regardless of their content

And what claims are they @lausten?  Nobody has substantiated any claim about nuclear risk.  — MPC

Googling and cutting and pasting would be the boring thing I’m talking about. That kind of hyperbole is not dialog.

I don’t know what you mean. No one is required to respond to every request for an argument. I try be neutral with the rules, enforcing civility, not taking sides.

instead of  focusing on incidentals

That’s part of the job of moderation, to keep the discussion on track. What you call “incidentals”, I call breaking rules.

It does not matter if the scientists said that or not. — mike

Your posts are barely coherent. I can’t discuss coherency with someone who is not coherent. I would hate to ban someone for that reason, but it’s very distruptive. Try writing shorter posts

Would be a complete waste of time — dj

You mean like the way you keep telling people that they should think like you? Yes, that’s a waste of time

Nice. Slices of time are hard to find. Bring this to top again if you don’t hear from me.

Like I lie when I said all the world’s ice would not be gone by 2012. Went against all the worlds consensual scientists — mike

The lie here would be that scientists said that. I’m sure you believe yourself, but you are repeating the lies of others

yet offer no alternative.

OMG, will you ever stop saying this? This is an obsession.

Well that ends it then.

Technically, you should start a thread in “Issues and Complaints” if you want to discuss moderation.

But you could answer the question I asked if you wanted to. –mike

Or, you could understand what it means when I don’t answer your questions. I gave up on expecting intelligent responses from you a long time ago.

What you keep trying to have here is the day’s news stories goes into a competition of computer lookup skills–mike

You have a different understanding of how facts are established and how to express opinions with respect. I can’t fix that

Publish quotes from the explicit links or get off the pot. — MPC

Mike did this for a couple years, then he went away for a couple years, now he’s back. Doing the same thing. I don’t expect he will ever share a decent source. When he has in the past, they were crappy ones.

whom I didn’t ask any questions, on renewables — MPC

When you ask questions in a group forum, anyone in the group can respond. That’s how internet forums work. You made unsubstantiated claims, then demanded substantiation for my responses. This is boring.

@martin

Great, another person who has an agenda with nothing but questions to back it up. Who said 10 bn should have my lifestyle? How do you know what my lifestyle is? Evidence for nuclear accidents? None, if you diminish the impact of the accidents that happened. Use of nuke fuel for bombs? I guess the Iran nuclear treaty was just a big joke.…[Read more]

So it’s ok to use but only on rare occassions. Gotcha. — DJ

It would be poor form if moderators and forum admins displayed all of the discussions going on. First, it would be boring. Second, people would do exactly what you just did, take those words and comment on them like a kid mumbling in the back of a high school classroom. Internet forum d…[Read more]

Welcome MPC. You have contributed more to the taking action conversation in one post than all the multiple post from multiple people here combined. — DJ

@martin peter clarke,

DJ thinks he is the schoolmarm around here. Congratulations, you are one of the few to get a gold star.