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Halcyon:
Do nothing until it crosses the line of being troublesome.

Who hasn't been wrong at some point in their lives?
bdunham7:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 12:41:05 am ---I don't drink.

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I'd recommend you start!  But that's probably bad advice.

I think it is possible for a thread starter to be a troll, but I'm not sure exactly how to define "trolling" in a technically oriented forum like this.  However, I'd much rather be tolerant of such apparent abuses of the debate process rather than see people being censored--even for being egregiously unsusceptible to reason. 
bill_c:
The ignore list should be all that is needed.  If I just don't like someone for some reason (and some are rather silly), then I ignore them.  There are many other smart and helpful people here with posts that I would rather read.  If someone doesn't like me for whatever reason and decides to ignore me, that is fine too.  People can disagree, post wrong info, post right info, and usually its easy for me to see right from wrong. I think this forum is good as is.  ...or maybe add a popcorn emote when you know this is gonna be a long dramatic thread :-DD
Andy Chee:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on December 27, 2023, 04:54:55 am ---I'm not sure exactly how to define "trolling" in a technically oriented forum like this.

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Anything discussing the technical merits of Stanley Meyer's fuel cell, to me would be trolling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_cell

OTOH if it's purely historical interest, for example, Nikola Tesla's ambition for global wireless power, then I suppose that's ok as long as it doesn't branch off into free energy.
coppercone2:


or stoic discussion

that episode of stargate with the aliens that manner of factly say QM is a common blunder and walk through walls comes to mind.

and I would be cautious being super vehement about abstract concepts and theories, even something as simple as the James Webb telescope seems to be really shaking up the physics community. And I have been reading basically to-the-death arguments and statements about 'simple' astrophysics on the internet for a LONG time that seem to be brought into question... no doubt that the people writing were totally sure they were right. Based on the tones of the various authors over the decades, I am not confident the new facts/data are even being considered properly because there was upmost confidence in some ideas people had.

But in general, when you see people get blazing mad over a black hole we probobly won't even get near for god knows how long, its clear that things are totally blown out of proportion very frequently. Guys almost get into a knife fight over a DSP generated theoretical pixel on a folding umbrella sent down to earth and put through 500 data filters....
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