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Quote from Eric Walker

Your best hope to have Kirk's posts moved would have been to ask nicely. You instead saw yourself as entitled to such a service.

I do not see myself as entitled. You're engaging in mindreading.

You claim that one of your responsibilities is to keep a thread from getting hijacked. It doesn't say that one has to ask you "nicely".

You seem to like to add a lot of layers to the simple tasks of unbiased moderating, which includes acknowledging that "some farm animals are more equal than others". Is Kirk one of those more equal farm animals? How do we get a list of these entitled farm animals? Keep in mind that it is this context by which I am engaging Kirk until you weigh in on whether or not he's a farm animal entitled to "more equality" than others. Kirk is a very nice person, when he is hijacking a thread.

Quote from Eric Walker

It is more straightforward than Kirk being a favored participant. It is that you are perhaps furthest of all at being a favored participant; your presence here is suffered, because you are combative, you do not seem to know how to carry on a polite discussion, you brush aside points that are made and questions that are put to you with facile remarks and you are ever-ready to personalize things. You do not appear to understand our goal of maintaining decorum conducive to polite and reasonable debate; and, to the extent that you do understand it, you do not appear to care.

Others are able to get away with this because they bring some other value to this forum; you, not so much.

In such a context, do not be surprised if an entitled demand made of the mods falls on deaf ears. We are pretty ambivalent about your presence here.

Ok, I get that you dislike me. I signed up in 2014 when this was a backwater. DIdn't pay much attention to Rossisez until the trial was gonna start because I didn't think the trial would ever move past settlement talks. So I didn't know that his had become the landing place for all the folks who were over at EcatNews. And I didn't know that one side is allowed to insult but the other side isn't.

I was utterly surprised to find that you acknowledged "some farm animals are more equal than others". And now that Kirk is deliberately trying to derail for a 2nd time the discussion on the Peer Reviewed Replications thread even though he has his own thread, I can see that my presence is "suffered".

Perhaps if you folks had stated it somewhere at the outset that you were the reincarnation of EcatNews, that your bias was heavily against Rossi, that you expect pro-Rossi postings to be "nice" while Anti-Rossi postings are allowed all the personal insults they want, and that the anti-Rossi bias extends to ordinary pre-Rossi threads, well then I would have known better, wouldn't I?

If your desire is for polite and reasonable debate, then why aren't you promoting polite and reasonable debate when someone who has his own thread for his own pet theory is derailing another thread? That's neither polite nor reasonable for him to be doing that. It certainly lacks decorum. And there is nothing "personal" about noticing out such behavior openly.

Eventually Rossi is going to fade away, again. The Peer Reviewed Replication thread has almost nothing to do with Rossi.

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Perhaps if you folks had stated it somewhere at the outset that you were the reincarnation of EcatNews, that your bias was heavily against Rossi, that you expect pro-Rossi postings to be "nice" while Anti-Rossi postings are allowed all the personal insults they want, and that the anti-Rossi bias extends to ordinary pre-Rossi threads, well then I would have known better, wouldn't I?

Being against Rossi and considering him a crook requires no bias-- just a cursory examination of the facts, the history of the guy and his claims, his performance over six years and that's before you even get to the trial depositions and exhibits.

Quote from Eric Walker

I've already asked Kirk via PM to avoid going into his whole CCS discussion in your thread. Hopefully he will respect your wish.

Thank you, Eric.

Maybe I'm wrong about you after all.

Quote from maryyugo

Being against Rossi and considering him a crook requires no bias-- just a cursory examination of the facts, the history of the guy and his claims, his performance over six years and that's before you even get to the trial depositions and exhibits.

Being pro-Rossi nor anti-Rossi should have no bearing on a thread the discusses PRE-Rossi replications.

http://www.urbandictionary.com…hp?term=Verbal%20Diarrhea

Moved from the Rossi v. Darden aftermath thread (?). Eric

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Dear fellows: A year ago Jed Rotwell placed a link that pointed to an infected jpg. It showed up on the Apple macintosh using the photobook services and the hacked photosanlysisd tool. This NSA tools was clumsy as it required regular spin.dumps to collect the info gather on your PC.

Sounds like complete garbage. Unless, of course, you want to provide a copy of the jpg with the link. I will be happy to check it for malware. Also, it is unclear from the post why it is being posted and who said what.

Quote from Nigel Appleton

reckon that the picture of the QuackEx was released for the sole purpose of discovering just what features evoked criticism, so that these may be the more thoroughly obfuscated in any future displays

If you really think that you are an idiot. If you don't think that you are simply being a troll/

Moved from the Rossi v. Darden aftermath thread. Eric

Quote from Nigel Appleton

Note to mods - please don't remove AA's mini-rant.

Thanks for quoting me. Despite your request my comment (In answer to your reply) was removed.

Apparently it is OK to accuse Rossi of being fraud. thief, conman, criminal etc., but pointing out a troll is forbidden. I hadn't realized that was a criminal offense.

Moved from the Rossi v. Darden aftermath thread. Eric

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Mary, it is well known that your computer skills are legendary, only surpassed by those of Rudolph Valentino, who sadly died before they were invented.

It is indeed sad that Valentino died.