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Everything posted by swansont

  1. Thomasmariel has been banned as a sockpuppet of marieltrokan
  2. Thomasmariel has been added
  3. Vmedvil has declared that s/he "will not be back EVER!" so we have decided to close and lock the door, just to be sure.
  4. SuperPolymath again suspended, for not kicking the hijacking habit, with a dash of soapboxing thrown in.
  5. Dalo has been banned for refusing to get off of his soapbox and engage with people in a meaningful way.
  6. Vmedvil has been suspended a week for thread hijacking and wholly inappropriate responses to feedback
  7. generalrelativity has been banned as a sockpuppet of reerer and ivylove
  8. Not really. Was already in use at that time (1986) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content="anecdotal+evidence"&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C" anecdotal evidence "%3B%2Cc0
  9. SuperPolymath has been suspended a week for repeated hijacking.
  10. waitforufo has been suspended a week for his pattern of posting innuendo and soapboxing to incite emotional response, rather than engaging in fact-based discussion.
  11. Upon further review, it has been determined that reerer is a sockpuppet of ivylove (or vice-versa) and the suspension has been extended to a permanent ban, at no additional charge.
  12. If you were in orbit around the sun (and away from the earth), and strapped a scale to your feet it would read zero. It has no direct effect on the weight here on earth. (There's a differential effect stemming from your location which are the tides.)
  13. We're in free fall with respect to the sun, as we are in orbit.
  14. PandaBear has been banned as asockpuppet of B. John Jones
  15. PolishBoy has been banned as a sockpuppet of the Maciej Marosz pantheon
  16. ProgrammingGodJordan has been banned for repeated spamming of topics after threads had been locked.
  17. I don't know that I would necessarily expect two boys (or two girls) to handle the same situation the same way. There is a spectrum of behavior, and it applies within a (traditional) gender, as well as between them.
  18. Downvotes are an entirely separate entity than rules violations.
  19. This distinction is not as clear-cut as you might think it is, or might want it to be. That's probably a discussion to be had in the biology section.
  20. Dan B. has been banned as a sockpuppet of David Levy.
  21. Sammy Boy has been suspended for repeated civility violations. edit: this has been promoted to a full ban on the evidence that this is just another Mikemikev sockpuppet
  22. Anonymous Participant will remain anonymous but no longer be a participant, because enough is enough. Despite whatever self-delusion is there, the rules apply to everyone.
  23. swansont replied to iNow's topic in Politics
    I'm fairly sure he's a native American born, but not a citizen of the US. But the latter is part of the satire.
  24. Anonymous Participant has been suspended for persistent abusive behavior and not really having a clue that he doesn't get to tell moderators how to run the site.
  25. AnubisSight has declared an intention to leave after engaging in some abusive behavior, and we have closed the door behind him.

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