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james_s:

--- Quote from: m k on March 14, 2023, 10:32:41 am ---One could argue that community moderation is also cancel.
It's clearly justified by the size, a very little amount of total collective.
Obviously being private can't be it so not much else left.

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I don't like community moderation either, it tends to turn things into a toxic cesspool and echo chamber. I much prefer to have a handful of moderators that at least try to be balanced.

james_s:

--- Quote from: Tomorokoshi on March 14, 2023, 12:07:03 pm ---It would actually seem to be a framework, modified in any form you wish to avoid the subject that shall not be talked about, except that it also is an invitation to define "cancel culture", "woke", etc. The point being that while you have repeatedly tried to narrow the discussion to the only Dilbert and Scott Adams, you yourself keep using politically-charged and subject-that-shall-not-be-named-charged terms like "cancel culture" and "woke". Therefore you are breaking your own rules; put in engineering terms, you have a case of bus contention. Mismatched impedances. while(1).

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Well the alternative would be to lock the whole thread, which I suppose may be your goal? Personally I don't see why people that are not interested in the thread don't just exit and ignore it? Nothing exists in a vacuum and to some degree it is impossible to completely and totally separate politics from everything else. Corporate politics are a real thing we all have to deal with, politics are everywhere.

Dave can do whatever he wants, it has been stated in the past this is his sandbox and it isn't a democracy.

Buriedcode:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 13, 2023, 10:01:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: Buriedcode on March 13, 2023, 08:37:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on March 13, 2023, 04:53:06 pm ---The more times a theory holds up to being tested, the more confident we can be that the theory is truth, but it's never really 100% proven. Science encourages continuous testing and questioning of everything, and occasionally things long believed to be true turn out to be incorrect.

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Just to add, often people will constantly raise the bar for "proof" if they don't believe in a finding, or lower the bar to ridiculousness if they want something to be true.  Because you cannot really prove a negative, cognitive bias skews peoples views on what constitutes evidence so if a study is negative - it just wasn't precise enough, or wasn't large enough.  If its positive - no matter how small or poorly designed - it must prove my theory right!   Case in point the whole silly hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin debacle - where people are still quoting obviously fake studies.
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Face masks are another one. The evidence now points in the direction they're completely ineffective, yet many still hold onto bad studies which state otherwise. Heck I was one of those who thought they were effective, yet my opinion has changed, in light of new evidence.
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The evidence doesn't point in that direction at all.  Sources?

MK14:

--- Quote from: Buriedcode on March 14, 2023, 07:09:40 pm ---The evidence doesn't point in that direction at all.  Sources?

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Just a friendly reminder, as to what has previously been said:


--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 13, 2023, 11:00:48 pm ---Ok, Just STOP IT with the covid posts.
I'm deleting any further posts.

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SeanB:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 14, 2023, 11:03:03 am ---And it'll either turn into a free-for-all, or there are dozen reports every day because someone hurt someone's feelings. And then that animosity spreads into other areas of the forum.
People have voted no many times before, and it remains no.

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Isn't that why Reddit exists though, so best to do there, though currently looks like some snowflake is doing a DDOS on it currently.

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