Posted on 10/01/2002 8:32:43 AM PDT by SteveH
What is this crap? It wasnt too long ago that you guys were complaining about getting banned for a day and how the moderators are unfair and bias. Patrick, you even said farewell to everybody and came back nobody (that I know of) gave you a hard time for this Heck, I am glad you are back.
But now its different? Hmmm.
I understand having a little fun, its all part of this game, it keeps thinks lighthearted and its needed more at times on these threads IMHO. But is unfair still unfair and bias still bias?
I might be off base here and might not have all the facts I only get to pop in and out when time permits but between the placemarkers and pictures you guys post, what is exactly the difference between your spam and anyone elses?
Personal attacks and no debating the issues/subject!
We need a civil rights revolution now---JUSTICE--FREEDOM--LIBERTY for the oppresssed!
Liberation now!
Oy vey - no pleasing some people, is there? Something from Tin Pan Alley next time? I bet you're the guy who doesn't sit out on the porch to enjoy the view, or the weather, or whatever - you just sit out there so you can shake your fist at those durn neighborhood kids when they set a toe on the grass. Admit it ;)
You kids get the hell off my lawn! Durn kids - no respect for private property these days...
If some pictures recur, it's because they're an obvious answer to some mantra being chanted. The pictures the C's squawked about on this thread the Confuciusornis wings, are the answer to protestations about some halfway point in a transition being impossible. It recurs a lot because dumb-dumbisms about not being able to get from function A to function B recur a lot and it's useful to show that, whether or not a creationist can ever understand how, we know it happens.
What are we supposed to do when creationists ignore the answers? Mostly, we have little choice but to answer you time after weary time. Some of you wear out our patience--you'll see a lot of stuff posted in blue being utterly ignored--but if you see the same answers, it's because the same old crew is born new on another thread and asking the same old questions.
JG is a smart girl who I hope will be OK. She lacks the mean streak of the people who have gone after her, but I guess she'll learn.
TLBSHOW, on the other hand, is the precise stupid grotesque attack dog the liberal media loves to imagine as the typical right-winger.
Chanting occurs on both sides and in regards to the theory of common descent it is all opinion regardless if you like it or not. Data is data, what we want to see from data is different from the data though
Gads! I'm being denounced! Did I stop clapping before everyone else?
It's very different. I left voluntarily, because of what I saw as biased activity on the part of the moderators. I returned when I saw that the moderators were willing -- sometimes at least -- to apply the rules to both sides of the debate. Medved, on the other hand was banned -- not by me, and not by the evolution side, but by the management of this website. Indeed, his behavior had been so flagrant that his apparent immunity from the rules of this website was one of my biggest concerns, and his banning was what encouraged me to return.
I might be off base here and might not have all the facts I only get to pop in and out when time permits but between the placemarkers and pictures you guys post, what is exactly the difference between your spam and anyone elses?
Placemarkers aren't spam. Surely you understand that. They're very brief, they don't consume Jim Robinson's resources (except trivially), and they're helpful to the poster to know where to begin reading when he returns to a thread. Medved's spam, as you must surely know, consisted of long essays, constantly repeated in thread after thread. He was warned about this conduct by the moderators, more than once, yet he persisted. His banning, as I understand it, was for re-posting a spam-essay that had just been deleted. He got himself banned, and the cause was his spam and his violation of the rules. Placemarkers are utterly trivial by comparison. No one has ever been told not to use them. I can't imagine that anyone ever would be.
Pictures also require almost no resources for this website -- just the code is posted. Your own computer retrieves the linked pic from wherever it's stored. Linked pics aren't stored on Jim Robinson's computers, and posting them doesn't abuse his resources. Also, unlike medved's spam essays (which do get stored on Jim Robinson's computers), I virtually never repeat a picture. So my conduct is entirely different from mdeved's. Vade's pics are substantive, directly on point, and are in response to questions about evolution. If a question is asked, it is only natural that the answer should be given. Otherwise, the only permitted response is "Trust me, evolution happens."
You and I often disagree, but you're not a disagreeable fellow, and I'm certain you're bright. So I'm sure you see the difference.
I guess it depends on how you define words, yes.
Maybe Medved can be creative and find a solution
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