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whatifitaint has been banned as a sockpuppet of vuquta

danston has been banned as a ranty sockpuppet account of nyouremyperfect10 edit: but you already know this. (xpost with phi)

! Moderator Note kristalris You need to stop hijacking threads to discuss Bayes. If that's a subject you want to discuss, start a new thread on it and leave these other threads alone. Do not further hijack this thread by responding to this modnote.

For incessant trolling, abuse and soapboxing, Kiss_My_Hand has been suspended 3 days, with an option to extend this indefinitely (once more moderators have weighed in on the unfortunate situation) update: the option has been exercised.

PureGenius has been banned for much the same reasons he was suspended. Soapboxing and hijacking, and a stated intent not to follow the rules about soapboxing. (Also a count of plagiarism/copyright violation for good measure.)

As discussed in this thread, please consider whether a post to a video link is a violation of our rule against soapboxing. To reiterate the main points there: We are NOT banning videos outright. This will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to see if they violate the spirit (or letter) of rule #8 "Preaching and "soap-boxing" (making topics or posts without inviting, or even rejecting, open discussion) are not allowed. This is a discussion forum, not your personal lecture hall. Discuss points, don't just repeat them." Basically what this is announcing that we've decided that, as an example, a 30 min video posted by itself, to make or rebut a point in a thread, is a barrier to discussion. This includes a video of a person pontificating or asking questions as a substitute for writing the material down. Refer to the "lecture hall" comment above. As will other rules violations, you can be warned about this (and asked to include some commentary), and/or the staff have the option of removing the post, depending on the circumstances. Any commentary on this policy should take place in the linked thread.

Because of repeated thread hijacking/advertising of a pet theory, roger4464 will not be participating for a week.

krash661 has been banned for continuing to be a jackass after being warned and suspended for same.

Your notation is wrong. e.g. 12O5 makes no sense, the down index is the number of protons, and in any event, it's not clear how you get there with neutron bombardment.

Windevoid is suspended 4 days for hijacking, not complying with the rule to support speculations with evidence and for either trolling or being utterly clueless about scientific inquiry, with no effort to learn.

Though technically not a reported post, it should have gone that route http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/77789-a-question-about-anti-matter/?p=758483 Claiming that gravity is responsible for particle annihilation is indeed speculation, and not what the thread was discussing, making it a hijack as well.

Regarding http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/77703-was-the-law-of-conservation-of-energy-ever-proven-for-electricity/page-2#entry757870 "I don't agree with Noether's theorem" is not "questioning" the validity of the theorem. There is no substance to the disagreement, and it had been pointed out previously that substance was required. It was clearly stated that the reason for the thread closure was the lack of substance, which is contrary to the rules of speculations. If anyone wishes to open a thread and actually discuss the ramifications of Noether's theorem and what Popper has to say on the subject, i.e. the kind of things that were conspicuously lacking in the closed thread, they are free to do so.

A reminder, based on a recent report, that reports are supposed to be for rules violations or other mod action. This does NOT include complaints about getting downvoted

PureGenius is suspended from posting for 4 days for personal attacks right after being warned about personal attacks. -- VictorEliasEspinozaGuedez banned as a sockpuppet of VictorEliasEspinoza and clones.

David Levy has had his posting privileges suspended 4 days for multiple instances of thread hijacking.

milkywayhalo banned as yet another sockpuppet of mpc755 as has deformationcontinuousmedia (post deleted as well)

Linus was banned for spamming his crackpot pdf link all over the place. Normally spammers aren't logged, but his posts generated a few responses, and as crackpots have a tendency to return after being banned it's good to keep a record of them.

No, they won't, but it's because of mathematics and economics.

That's not forbidden. It depends on how much you are borrowing. That's not forbidden.

rwjefferson is suspended for his trolling.

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/75794-things-that-are-wrong-imo/?p=749996 It is incumbent upon the poster to make sure your posts are relevant to the thread, which means they contain enough information to make that association. Otherwise it's no better than spouting random words and until that association is made, off-topic. Snorkel. Albuquerque.

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/75015-two-mass-hanging-on-a-pulley/?p=744829 Let's see here. "if the cords are Mass-less then there cannot be tension on the pulley" is wrong, and though that's not why the warning was issued, it's a bad start. This is a physics 101 problem, so anything but a physics 101 solution is off-topic. All the blabbering about quantum fields, regardless of its veracity, is way beyond the scope of a question whose answer simply involves Newton's laws of motion. And some of it is non-standard physics. That's why the warning was issued.

Arjun Deepak Shriram has left, and we've locked the door after him.

agachak will not be posting his usual nonsense for at least a+a-a+a days (a=3.5)

Ben Banana has been suspended 7 days for abusive behavior and daring us to suspend him. Happy to comply.