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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
yeah, but when they let through citing an anecdotal story from an obviously new-age pseudoscience pop book?
seriously bad. i know people make mistakes, but jesus.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
I agree it's poor. Unfortunately, peer reviewers are often unpaid volunteers who have other demands on their time. It's hard to avoid that, if you want the best people serving as referees. i'm just saying. quite poor indeed -- i was just under the impression that "peer-reviewed" carried a bit of a higher degree of scrutiny.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
I think Nuggin made a mistake in saying he'd address anything Randman wanted, Randman has rehearsed his Haeckel schtick ad nauseam. while i feel bad for nuggin, i am very greatful that i can now direct all of randman's offtopic hæckling in other threads to the great debate.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
Actually the more I've watched randman the more I've come to think of him as a kind of shell game flim-flam artist. He entices people in to play the game with a glimmer of proper debate before the real game starts and he falls back into sleight of hand to avoid ever adressing real points while repeatedly throwing out his usual crap about pakicetus is not a whale, Haeckel drawings still being used and so on. *sigh* i can't really say much else. oh, and i won the pakicetus thread. last post wins, especially when it's got evidence. [edit:] ok, maybe not. i see he's still bringing it up, as support for evolutionist deception. This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 12-06-2005 03:50 AM
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
speaking of great debates...
it's been more than a month since his last post to our great debate, or actually on the board at all. i'm not really concerned if needs the time or wants to take a bit off (god knows how stressful this week is for me...) but i'm starting to worry. anyone heard from him at all?
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
bad html!
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
when someone wins the cup.
(go oilers)
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
*sigh* that was less exciting than i thought it would be.
are they not allowed to talk to each other on leno? i really wanted to see those two go at it.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
If you hold your mouse over the small red dot (suspension indicator) on one of Brian's messages, the "mouseover" text that pops up includes the reason. yeah... what the heck does this mean?
quote: is there a way to make say which rule was broken? and can we please keep the suspension posts, at least in the thread where the offending post was made, and in reply to it? it's good to actually have those, both as a public record, and so we know better what not to do. Edited by arachnophilia, : typo
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
While one can easily pick up the occasion hostile tones throughout the debates that go on here, there are some that are especially noticable. It is an unspoken rule that debating in good faith requires the show of at least some kind of good will or understanding toward the opponents. Lately, Brian's tones seem to grow harsher and harsher toward his opponents. If looked at carefully, one could understand that the almost hostile intentions are carried over from previous debates. yeah, but i've seen suspensions here before, publically announced, for reasons similar to "you're being an ass, have a break." i did notice the overly harsh tone, yes, but i don't see why they wouldn't talk about it if it's just that. maybe something wrong? i hope everything's ok with brian, and all.
An obvious recent example of Brian's not-so-good intentions toward creationists can be found in message 4 of this thread. In my humble opinion, his reaction to Faith's post was uncalled for and could have been a lot less harsh. i'm not sure that post really broke any rules, per se. it was a little, um, picky i guess would be the word. but i've seen lots of posts like that -- i tend to take an opponents argument apart into pieces too, though not to that degree, nor am i that demanding of evidence. however, brian did debate an admin in the thread itself, which is a big no-no.
From what I understand, it is best that an admin needs to be as impartial as can be humanly possible. While this is a hard goal to achieve (just like that one more goal that the USA national team failed to make against Italy earlier today), it is always better to see an admin, though partial, who demonstrates restraints toward "the others". My understanding is that Brian's recent outbursts, if you want to call it that, have made it hard to convince "the others" that he is trying his best to be impartial. maybe. but is that cause to ban someone as a member entirely? they did something similar a while back with randman. he was creating too many problems, and acting up in the private admin forum, so they canned him altogether. if that's the case, i make the same argument for brian as i do for randman. impartial or obnoxious admins should just be demoted, not banned altogether. [added by second edit:] i should read back a little further before posting. it looks like adminbrian got suspended first -- and brian probably got suspended for his insulting tone above. maybe that's not the WHOLE reason, but it's good enough. why not just say that, other admins? Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given. Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
I don't know what post of Brian's caused the problem. i'm gonna guess that it's fairly recent in this exact thread.
Not having access to his knowledge of Bibical and near Eastern archeology will make this site a lot less interesting to me, so I'm hoping a solution can be worked out, and worked out soon. I don't see a need for Brian to be an admin but I do wish he could contribute his knowledge to threads that are often dominated by fundamentalists who at best use limited and poor sources such as the Bible in translation and a few websites to make dubious historical claims. Brian does a well annotated job of arguing the current archeological evidence. yes, agreed.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
well, he also wasn't doing it in admin mode.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
all kinds of bad. they're telling us to drop it, and we probably should. not much more needs to be said anyways.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
http://EvC Forum: the underlying assumptions rig the debate -->EvC Forum: the underlying assumptions rig the debate
i'd bump it, but it's currently quite high up on the first page of "all topics"
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1366 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
an official statement would be nice, sure. but look back a page or two in this very thread, and tell me you can't guess why he was suspended?
Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.
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