Baden

We modelled the format from the way it was done on the previous site, but, yes, we'll likely introduce word limits on questions and maybe reduce the n...

That's the spirit!

Always open to feedback.

Time to be stoical? :grin:

Well put. For which reasons we're not going to make dramatic changes in moderation, but we do miss stuff or don't get to it quickly enough, so if you,...

Nothing to do with anything you said. The modding standard here is pretty much as it was at the old place and we had plenty of guest speakers there. I...

That's the bad news. The good news is we've opened up the discussions now, so anyone can post there. Yay! Eh, anyway, we put a lot of effort into this...

"They buy a lot from us". Of course, Trump's most notable export to Saudi Arabia was a licence to murder American journalists. Although I think they o...

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That just means whoever wants to start a discussion on that can do so somewhere else in the forum.

Because the site permissions are defined by category, they don't allow us to separate the intro discussion from the OP question discussions (which we ...

Just to add that the way we've organized this with Prof. Pigliucci is that he'll answer the five OPs gradually and then he may, if he has time, follow...

Anyway, the requisite period has passed, so I'm going to close this again.

The refusing moderation bit was refusing to accept us editing out personal information from the questions, first about his mother then about this fath...

Massimo has now joined the site. :smile: (By the way, I ask that members please observe decorum and not send Prof. Pigliucci any unsolicited PMs. I ex...

Incidentally, the sockpuppet accounts were @"Vespasian Stark" and @"Spirit12". I won't go into more detail, but if you see anything odd, please report...

@"Spirit12" is a fake account set up by Mark Dennis, which is why we banned him. I don't have any evidence that he was also @"Jake".

Yes, this was very unexpected.

@"Mark Dennis" had his membership privileges removed for refusing moderation and threatening legal action against the site because we edited some pers...

We're hoping he'll have time during this first week of December. If I get any firmer information, I'll let you know.

Rocky Balboa, is it? I remember that movie where he pretended to have bone spurs so he could dodge fighting in Vietnam and concentrate on being a raci...

Ah, Tiff that sounds heavy. I think you're absolutely right to avoid the opiates. I know there are alternative forms of pain relief out there. I'm not...

We had quite a few posts from @"Mark Dennis" and I'd rather not clog up the discussion with them. As a very bare summary, he found the OP guidelines t...

@"Mark Dennis" I thought we already edited out the personal stuff by PM? Please just abide by the rules anyhow.

Cheers. By the way all, in order to make sure no-one else accidentally (or otherwise!) posts in the Guest Speaker discussions apart from Prof Pigliucc...

Right up my street. On mah kindle now. :strong:

PMs have been sent inviting contributors to begin discussions. All of those who contributed a developed question/set of questions in the form of an OP...

I'm doing my best to keep the ball rolling. Just bear with us another few days, please and by then everyone will know what's happening. Thanks.

We'll be asking posters to have their discussions made by then. (We'll ask them by PM.)

Sorry, everything has to be done by the first of December anyhow. So, nearly there.

He's not from the U.S. But wherever he's from, he's doing a great job of discrediting White House spin by presenting it here in a form so easily refut...

Among all the terrible stuff Trump has done, the only part that is potentially comprehensible to Trump supporters is that he took a booming economy an...

Looks good. On the list.

Jason Stanley - How Propaganda Works https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173429/how-propaganda-works

We've now updated Prof. Pigliucci on this discussion and as we've got enough material to choose from, we'll close it for now. Many thanks for all your...

When experiencing undiplomatic impulses, walk slowly away from computer. Lock door to computer room. Throw key out nearest window. Spend hours searchi...

Sure thing. :up:

No, I didn't see anything mod-worthy at the time and looking at it again I still don't.

And excuse the festive sarcasm. The post in question was simply a non-sequitur. The implication you suggested didn't follow from anything I said.

It's understandable that it came off to you in a certain way. But there's not much I can do about that except point to his comment history. You are no...

Or read the guidelines.

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He was banned for low quality, more specifically for a stream of poorly written, badly punctuated, largely vacuous posts, not his opinions, which I di...

Read what I said then reread what you said. If you can't work out where you've gone wrong, turn on a few more bulbs on the Christmas tree.

They're generally allowed in the lounge, Leo. I just wouldn't recommend anyone opening themselves up to a bunch of internet strangers, philosophical o...

No, the accounts just stay there. Anyone can go look at their comments and that often helps to explain why (although the very worst of banned posters ...

The general lack of punctuation didn't help his case, but he wasn't banned for that or his love of Charles Manson, but overall low quality.

I looked through his history. He didn't make the grade. I don't really know much about his opinions.

Let's keep this clean and on-topic folks. :)

Banned @"OmniscientNihilist" for low quality.