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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 10:37:41 GMT
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Post by Jonjel on Nov 3, 2011 10:39:48 GMT
Let him witter on. We have not had a good laugh there for a long time , and it is nice to vent the spleen once in a while.
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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 11:00:37 GMT
In such cases I always think it would be better and more honest if you and nay and the marchesa gave yourselves a level playing field instead of removing almost anyone who might disagree with you. It's that much easier to have a laugh at someone's expense who doesn't express themselves very well when you've ensured there's no-one around who'll disagree with you.
Poor Adamadamant presumably doesn't realise what he's let himself in for, because he doesn't know how that board operates.
And I see no evidence of bad faith at all. Do you?
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Post by pippa on Nov 3, 2011 11:06:21 GMT
In such cases I always think it would be better and more honest if you and nay and the marchesa gave yourselves a level playing field instead of removing almost anyone who might disagree with you. It's that much easier to have a laugh at someone's expense who doesn't express themselves very well when you've ensured there's no-one around who'll disagree with you. Poor Adamadamant presumably doesn't realise what he's let himself in for, because he doesn't know how that board operates. And I see no evidence of bad faith at all. Do you? and having 'operated' the bbc wh board for so many years along with your 'friends' until it's demise of course no one knows better than you, eh jean.
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Post by pippop on Nov 3, 2011 11:28:41 GMT
Here we go.
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Post by Jonjel on Nov 3, 2011 11:34:29 GMT
Come on you lot. Lets agree a no sniping agenda.
Adamant is quite capable of holding his own. And he can always decide not to go on line. Or get a job....
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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 11:37:20 GMT
I suppose there's no use repeating it yet again, pippa, but I never had anything whatsoever to do with anyone being banned from the Beeb boards.
But...here's the Science board doing exactly what you've accused me of.
As it happens I have no idea at all who the poster Adamadamant is, who everyone over there is so enjoying piling in on (as jonjel's just admitted).
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Post by Jonjel on Nov 3, 2011 11:52:55 GMT
Jean.
I don't know who he is either, but at least it takes us away from the usual subject, and the dry discussions. He seems half bright - bright enough to know dammed well he is winding everyone up.
There were a couple on the BBC boards that provoked a lot of people, and I really can't remember their names now. I backed off one becasue I actually thought he had a mental problem. I don't think our friend Adam has any problem, other than behaving like a bit of a prat. It will be a great shame if anyone is banned, him included.
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 3, 2011 13:14:54 GMT
"there isn't anyone to help him out."
There are several people "helping him out", jean, by pointing out the gross contradictions in the argumentation he favours - sometimes opposite arguments on the same thread simply to contradict whoever is his interlocutor at that point!
I don't think the Science Board is a suitable creche for this person. We expect people to demonstrate a much higher ratio of knowledge to opinion than adam. Contradiction is fine so long as it can be rationally evidenced.
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Post by pippop on Nov 3, 2011 13:19:37 GMT
"there isn't anyone to help him out." There are several people "helping him out", jean, by pointing out the gross contradictions in the argumentation he favours - sometimes opposite arguments on the same thread simply to contradict whoever is his interlocutor at that point! I don't think the Science Board is a suitable creche for this person. We expect people to demonstrate a much higher ratio of knowledge to opinion than adam. Contradiction is fine so long as it can be rationally evidenced. Are you going to ban him?
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Post by pippop on Nov 3, 2011 13:20:48 GMT
Jean - are you banned from that board too?
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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 14:02:10 GMT
We expect people to demonstrate a much higher ratio of knowledge to opinion than adam. Contradiction is fine so long as it can be rationally evidenced. I agree with you marchesa - he isn't doing very well. That's why he needs me, or someone like me, to help him. But, of course, we've all been banned.And his typos and misspellings, so eagerly siezed upon by the other posters, aren't really relevant to what he's trying to say, are they? But the real point of this thread was to try to understand why on earth you think Adamadamant is posting in bad faith. What does bad faith mean to you?
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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 14:04:36 GMT
It will be a great shame if anyone is banned, him included. Too late; they already have been.
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Post by Jonjel on Nov 3, 2011 14:17:00 GMT
Are you saying he has been banned?
So anyone who stirs the pot, or dares to question the GW agenda spouted ad infinitum on that board is banned are they.
Bloody outrageous.
Better have been banned, which was even more bloody outrageous, especially one who was very ill at the time.
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Post by jean on Nov 3, 2011 14:33:49 GMT
Are you saying he has been banned? No I'm not - he's obviously good for a laugh, as you've discovered. But it does seem odd to me to keep a pet poster on board so you can make fun of him, and at the same time accuse him of bad faith. It doesn't make sense. Many other posters have been banned, as you know - sometimes it seems to be something to do with climate change, sometimes it's hard to tell. (The reason I was given was that I wasn't discussing Science. Curiously, another poster refused to post there any more unless I was reinstated, but all to no avail. )
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