[RunningWolf]

guilt by association is not a valid argumentative tactic

I have noticed a change from last summer and October. But just when specifically, did the evos change their tactics then?

[Boxen]

I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. What is an "evo"? Do they hold local chapter meetings?

Posters from both sides of the debate have argued from association.

[grey_whiskers]

I have noticed a change from last summer and October.

Things heated up last summer with a number of longtime FReepers--one person had a homepage disappear on them with no immediate explanation forthcoming; there was another thread in which one user posted real-life name and other information of another FReeper with whom he disagreed (both ended up banned or suspended--and I only heard of this secondhand, as I was in Alaska when it happened); and things generally got worse for all concerned, until an infamous thread in which the crud generally hit the fan.

Many of the pro-evo folks--but not all--quit or were banned at that point; a large contingent of them went over to another site called Darwin Central.

Quite a shame that things fell out in the fashion that they did : many of the now departed were PhD level and very intelligent and informed on a wide variety of topics.

(If you know where to look, there are still a goodly number of other folks of equal IQ and/or education left on FR: they just don't tend to congregate in crevo threads anymore.)

But I still wish things had been resolved more amicably.