Thane Heins Perepiteia.

[OUmon]

-I do believe in freedom of speech for all, and have stated that here on more than one occasion in relation to this thread and in relation to the outrageous censorship that I believe killed the Stiffler thread.

JM, JM,  here's the thing. Who most deserves to be censored - (a) one who politely states legitimate opposing views, providing detailed reasoning, or (b) one who proposes no technical value of their own, yet flings around insults such as "lying scumbag", "bottom feeder", etc?

[JustMe]

Uh-oh, have you been keeping count of how many nics CRANKYpants has used?

Point taken bottom feeder. Amending bottom feed behaviour to  'posting under multiple nics non-transparently'.

[JustMe]

JM, JM,  here's the thing. Who most deserves to be censored - (a) one who politely states legitimate opposing views, providing detailed reasoning, or (b) one who proposes no technical value of their own, yet flings around insults such as "lying scumbag", "bottom feeder", etc?

Nobdy deserves to be censored BF. But people who salt their passive agressive disruptions with feigned and tactical 'politeness' in the course of stating legitimate(ish) opposing views deserve to be called on it.  It's true that the sum of my technical knowlege in this area could fit in the same thimble in which you store your personal honesty, but that's not my contribution and interest here.  I've decided I deplore the bully pulpit of psuedoskepticism, and it makes me want to push back. So that's what I do.

[aether22]

Uh-oh, have you been keeping count of how many nics CRANKYpants has used?

See this if a fine case in point of something that bugs me. (about many arguments in general, not just this thread of PBman)
By saying this you know you are full of it, we all know you are full of it and you know we know (and so on).

But people will still happily win arguments 'technically' despite being apparent to all sides that it isn't a genuine 'victory'.

By claiming you are a woman in your old nick, and then coming on here with a nick ending in 'man' it is clear no one thought you were Polarbreeze at least not right away. (And if anyone was sure right away it was only due to great perceptiveness)

Garage still only half done...

[OUmon]

...  I've decided I deplore the bully pulpit of psuedoskepticism, and it makes me want to push back. So that's what I do.

Whatever turns you on, I guess. Not my cuppa tea though.