Post by JayUtah on Sept 20, 2007 9:36:09 GMT -4
From his brief stay, I gathered that he was someone that made claims, didn't back them up, and asked to be banned when he found he couldn't defend his claims.
Essentially yes, but there is some additional fun detail. He showed up asking for special treatment -- either to have the board appoint one spokesman (who else but me) to whom he would speak exclusively, or to relax the rules so people wouldn't "overwhelm" him. When that was rejected, he tried to have his debate anyway.
During the debate he pulled several IDW standard tricks such as claiming not to be able to access onine evidence to which he had been directed. In the end he had a typical IDW meltdown in which he claimed to have proven that BAUT was just a bunch of self-serving former Apollo contractors protecting themselves.
All in all, not an atypical IDW experience, although I have to admire his ability to control the profanity. IDW is notoriously foul-mouthed.
I believe he asked to be banned in hopes that his posts would go away, making it look like we censored him. Then he could claim to be an HB martyr.
Probably. At other boards when a poster is banned his posts are removed. Not only does this support an accusation of censorship, but it allows the conspiracist to tell others anything he wants about what he "really" said. The BAUT moderators tell me that some posters want their posts to be removed because they are quite clearly backed into a corner and don't want the embarrassment recorded for posterity.
BTW, and comments by computer folks about C++?
It came about when we discussed conventions for representing scientific notation in text-only contexts, which includes computer programming. IDW's latest fiasco on another board is confusing the notation for ordinary exponentiation with that for scientific notation.
In true IDW fashion he's milking it rhetorically for all it's worth, claiming that's the way he was taught (unlikely) and that people are trying deliberately to confuse him (false).
Anyway, the computer languages in question included some older ones still in use and whether they could support newer coding disciplines. So sorry for the stroll down ferrite-core memory lane.
Essentially yes, but there is some additional fun detail. He showed up asking for special treatment -- either to have the board appoint one spokesman (who else but me) to whom he would speak exclusively, or to relax the rules so people wouldn't "overwhelm" him. When that was rejected, he tried to have his debate anyway.
During the debate he pulled several IDW standard tricks such as claiming not to be able to access onine evidence to which he had been directed. In the end he had a typical IDW meltdown in which he claimed to have proven that BAUT was just a bunch of self-serving former Apollo contractors protecting themselves.
All in all, not an atypical IDW experience, although I have to admire his ability to control the profanity. IDW is notoriously foul-mouthed.
I believe he asked to be banned in hopes that his posts would go away, making it look like we censored him. Then he could claim to be an HB martyr.
Probably. At other boards when a poster is banned his posts are removed. Not only does this support an accusation of censorship, but it allows the conspiracist to tell others anything he wants about what he "really" said. The BAUT moderators tell me that some posters want their posts to be removed because they are quite clearly backed into a corner and don't want the embarrassment recorded for posterity.
BTW, and comments by computer folks about C++?
It came about when we discussed conventions for representing scientific notation in text-only contexts, which includes computer programming. IDW's latest fiasco on another board is confusing the notation for ordinary exponentiation with that for scientific notation.
In true IDW fashion he's milking it rhetorically for all it's worth, claiming that's the way he was taught (unlikely) and that people are trying deliberately to confuse him (false).
Anyway, the computer languages in question included some older ones still in use and whether they could support newer coding disciplines. So sorry for the stroll down ferrite-core memory lane.