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{Irrelevent snipe hidden. RightHandMan has gotten a 2 day suspension. - Adminnemooseus}Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Guess.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Change subtitle.

I think the My HUGE problem with creationist thinking (re: Which version of creationism) thread has gone off topic, I posted a note about it at Message 114.--Percy

Some incompetent promoted the topic, even thought it had a worthless topic title that gave no clue about the core topic theme. I tacked the "(re: Which version of creationism)" onto the topic title. We shall see if that helps.Adminnemooseus

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The time stamp is off by about a day and a half.Edit; Ooops, nevermind.Edited by Dogmafood, : No reason given.

Message 178

Dr Adequate over at the Why are there no human apes alive today? thread in Message 396: --Percy

Message 1Edited by Admin, : Thanks!

I am mystified why I am not able to respond to this message.
Message 330.My posts are not attacks, I should be able to respond to CS to further show why his argument does not stand up to scrutiny. If he has a valid argument other than personal attacks he should be able to present it also.Why am I being punished for the behaviour of another person?

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Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

I have no idea of who, how, or why it happened, but your forum permissions had been set to restrict you out of the "Intelligent Design" forum. Your permissions there have been restored - Now please take the high road in the discussion.There will soon be a warning posted at the topic in question.AdminnemooseusAdded by edit: Catholic Scientist had the same restriction. His permissions have also been restored.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

The stealth admin strikes again! We really do need an administrative log.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Some frustration is beginning to spill over in the Why are there no human apes alive today? thread. Mazzy is ignoring most rebuttals and just repeating his favorite points. The discussion isn't moving forward at all.Here's an example from my own recent experience. Mazzy first stated that Linnaean taxonomy was based upon ancestry in Message 428: This is a simple error, easy to correct, and I did so in Message 445, stating that it was based upon morphology and providing a couple quotes from Wikipedia. But there was no reply, and then in Message 480 Mazzy repeats the exact same error: I can probably come up with 4 or 5 more examples of ignoring rebuttals just from my own responses to Mazzy, and many of the other participants can probably name 4 or 5 of their own examples.Mazzy is responding to only 1 out of 4 messages. By no means can he be expected to reply to all messages, not even most, but a good part of the reason his ratio is so out of whack is because the other participants have to keep repeating the points he ignores, and there are a lot them. Some of the other participants are beginning to post rhetorical responses like, "Are you even reading what anybody writes?" and so on.Mazzy is courteous and sincere for the most part, but as far as actually discussing anything, meh! The responses he gets serve only to provide a reply button for him to use to repeat what he keeps repeating yet again.--Percy

Characterizing every fallacy and misbehavior Mazzy is engaging in would take too much time, so I'll just point to Message 650, a post composed by Nuggin while rightfully very frustrated.I suppose in capsule form Mazzy could be described as posting nonsense and non sequiturs while ignoring the responses and many corrections. He never quotes anything anyone says. It almost seems that to him the only significance of a response is that it provides a reply button to click.Mazzy sincerely and strongly believes those he's debating with are wrong, he seeks out links to support his position (though the links are almost always accompanied only by bare assertions rather any argument or presentatoin of evidence), and he's mostly polite and courteous, but since he is very unfamiliar with the process of connecting data to conclusions I don't know what really can be done beyond following the suggestion of a few people to narrow the focus to one or at most a few things at a time.--Percy

I just have two quick questions. First, im embarrassed to ask but need to, as i've see it referenced a lot here. What does ABE stand for? I've searched for myself and can't find the meaning. I assume it has something to do with editing?Second, How do I place a message in my comment thats from another member? Exactly like the one Percy did right above. (i.e. Message 650)Thanks.***NOTE*** Nevermind the second question. I got it Edited by Chuck77, : No reason given.Edited by Chuck77, : No reason given.

"ABE" is "Added By Edit" and is used to mark additions to the text made since the message was posted. It is polite to do this for any significant additions since someone may already be composing a reply to the original message.Links to messages in other threads uses the mid tag. The message id is the number in grey at the top left. Linking to your post would be:
[mid=622869] Message 298

Thanks PaulK.