I don't usually rise to provocation but I'll make an exception for you. Friendly? You've GOT to be kidding me!
What an astonishing reaction to a well-intentioned suggestion. I don't quite know what to say. I never expected this, or any, level of viciousness from you. I would have thought it out-of-character.
"You should consider the possibility that there are many, many lurkers out there who read these posts much more carefully than you do, and how comments such as you made could be interpreted as lack of attention to detail. I'm just saying... as a friendly suggestion..."
Let's start with the "comments" that were made: (Look! A new tag-team.) (...good, let them talk to each other...). To be honest, I didn't really take your comment to be anything more than a throw-away line, or part of an attempt at humor, or a chance to be one of the "in-crowd". The joke would be, of course, that I was part of a troll tag-team. Another possibility is that you meant it, and not as a joke. Either way, there is a risk to all of us when you make comments like that. The risk to you is that, since you try to do a lot of sleuthing and analysis, if you make obvious errors (in this case a blunder) not only does it hurt your reputation, but it hurts the credibility of others who are pursuing the eligibility issue, including me, and in addition embarrasses people like me who have been consistently arguing on your side!
"These posts" are the evidence of your mistake. I am the only one who knows whether or not I am a troll. I am the only one who knows with certainty that I am not a troll. Everyone else is guessing. Any conclusion regarding my status as a troll can go no further or deeper than my posted comments, which are a matter of record. Even if you factor in other people's opinions or your own woman's intuition, the trail stops at the posted word. There is nothing in my posting history that proves I am a troll. And unless you have a peculiar personal or emotional predisposition, it is not reasonable to conclude that I am a troll. Not a chance. If you have concluded that I am a troll, then you did so by ignoring the pertinent evidence. comments such as you made could be interpreted as lack of attention to detail. You would be shooting yourself in the foot, credibility-wise.
"You should consider the possibility...". I don't know how you missed this. Lack of attention to detail, I guess. It serves two purposes. The first is an invitation to stop, consider, reflect, review the evidence. Apparently that isn't your style. You missed an opportunity to do some damage control. The second purpose is that it makes the remainder of the remark a thought experiment, not a statement of fact. Emphasis on thought. Thought.
"a friendly suggestion". This was completely sincere. Of course, I wrote it before your hysterical PMS breakdown, and before you proved to the whole world that you actually HAD categorized me as an enemy. No matter. My position on Zero's eligibility hasn't changed, and I don't intend to do anything different in the future just because you turned out to be something of a disappointment. That isn't an emotional or personal conclusion, it is just an assessment of rank, so don't read anything sinister into it. I really enjoy the sleuthing and dot-connecting, and I'm going to continue to enjoy it as best as I can as time permits, but don't expect me to engage you in small-talk anytime soon.
Isn't it ironic that this thread has been about infighting. I argued that infighting occurs more among the LEFT, and then you and LucyT swoop in from the RIGHT and give a childish counterexample.
A special note to Iowan: Your post contained not a single pertinent remark, so I don't see any value in going over it point by point.
A special note to Polarik: I see that you are hiding behind the skirts of others. You, Polarik, are the only one of the eligibility people that I have ever criticized. I have never criticized anyone for citing you work, and I have never criticized anyone for believing your work. I used to think that the flaws in your work were due to wishfulful thinking. Lately I have come to believe that your work is chock-full of deliberate deception. But I have not crammed my opinions down anyone's throat. I presented a few things (much more honestly than you have) in such a way that people can draw their own conclusions. What I object to most about you is the way you act like a petty little tyrant. I detest tyranny. Keep calling me a troll all you want, it won't help you. The truth will out. Your vetting will take place, when freepers realize you are just as obscured as Zero. I doubt many of your present friendships will survive once people realize what you really are all about. And I've noticed something very disturbing:
FR is to Polarik as MSNBC is to Obama.
Cue waves of nausea.