Converting raw energy into biological energy

Thread moved here from the Proposed New Topics forum.

I'm closing this thread for the rest of the night. Take it to the chat room.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

With only 12 messages left, it's time for summations.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

...summations are not normally an opportunity for further rebuttal and discussion. Those who have already posted their summations should stop posting.We're past the 300 message limit (Remember my cautions about chat-style exchanges using up all the message bandwidth? Happened fast, didn't it!), but I'll leave this open another day or so for those who haven't yet posted a summation.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Rob,This is a rhetorical question, more something to ponder than to answer. In response to a request for those who have already posted a summation to stop posting, what would you conclude about someone who has already posted a summation but who posts a response with additional summation anyway?

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Hi Mike,I appreciate that you're just trying to help out a buddy.Rob,This is the order of events:

1. After a second outbreak of numerous chat-style exchanges I closed the thread for a day.
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2. When the thread reopened, since there were only 8 messages left I requested summations.
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3. You and I both posted summations.
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4. You responded to my summation, and a dialog with others began, quickly taking the message count beyond 300.
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5. I said that participants should only be posting summations at this point, not engaging in discussion. I said I would leave the thread open a while for people to post their summations, and that people who had already posted summations should stop posting.
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6. You responded with more rebuttal and another summation.
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7. You were suspended shortly after for misconduct in the POTM thread.
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8. You asked Mike the Wiz to post yet more rebuttal for you, which he did.

For your persistent misconduct in posting extra summations and rebuttals when specifically requested not to, and just for generally doing whatever you damn well please, I'm extending your suspension to a week.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

I'm going to close this thread now, but I have one last comment.Ken, I'm sure you're just trying to help out a friend, but Rob was suspended for a week after posting messages to this thread when requested not to, since the thread was only collecting summations and Rob had already posted his summation. After being suspended for misconduct in another thread, not this one, he asked Mike the Wiz to post an additional message of rebuttal to this thread for him, and for this I extended his suspension from 1 day to 1 week. Now he has asked you to post for him in this thread which is only collecting summations right now, and so now I am extending Rob's suspension from 1 week to 1 month.Rob, please stop encouraging others to perform misconduct for you while you're suspended. Each time you do so I will extend your suspension by 1 month. If you'd like to encourage others to debate for you by proxy that will be fine (as long as they're not just typing your messages for you, or even worse, that you're just using their account), but if they break the Forum Guidelines while debating for you I will extend your suspension by an additional month for each misconduct.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director