If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

There is a new thread on JREF about the latest twist in the thunderf00t vs FtB saga. That place always cheers me up when the baboons get me down!

Hrmmm.... * Rebecca gets suspended from JREF forums. * Returns from suspension with unauthorised privileges. * Abuses privileges for personal entertainment. = Joking! Get over it guys. * PZ Myers overhears security code in conference call * Uses code to gain unauthorised access. = LOL. PZ's da man! ...

Surly Amy in an interesting short podcast: http://bit.ly/NAiA8w ... She says that she wants policies to say "making fake jewelry and intentionally offending people is not okay nor is grabbing someone's ass." (There is ass-grabbing? I wasn't aware this was a problem or actually happened at TAM or at...

Somewhat OT, but it seems the "SchrÃ¶dinger's X" meme is taking on a life of its own. A commenter named "Kate" on the Daily WTF (a collection of humorous IT related stories) has invoked his name to rebuke someone who wasn't nice to a support tech. The guy in the last story was pretty rude. The suppo...

This really is quite insanely awesome. I remember seeing the EDL animation prior to launch and thought, "There is no way this is going to work". Quite happy to be proven wrong!

I just have to say, Dillahunty has really gone de profundis in recent weeks. A smart, clever guy when it comes to dealing with religious arguments, but a complete arsehole when dealing with Baboons and their vapid behaviour. Dillahunty's relapse into dogmatism is, for me, one of the most disappoint...

Nope, as we all know, TF00t was kicked out for daring to have a contrary opinion, and for unabashedly calling out PZ and the Skepchicks. I believe PZ called it a "lack of collegiality". From the cesspit of lies : Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues. Colleagues are those explicitly u...

I'd love to be all yay Dan, but I don't support all this word bannination. I don't have a problem with it if it's being done consistently (which he has said he intends to do) and the rules are there for all to see (which they are). It will certainly be an interesting constrast between his blog and ...

Seriously; if Thunerf00t was booted for poor writing (yeah, right), why is this pseudo-intellectual given air time? There is never any substance to her writings - and that's when she manages to string a coherant sentence together. Actually, I'll retract that. There is often little or no substance t...

It seems Fincke has given Ms Reed a well-deserved smack-down: Dan, reading through these comments, you have pretty epically dropped the ball here. You are NOT in the position to be dictating whether or not targeted insults are or not â€œas badâ€ as slurs. And you SERIOUSLY need to step back, and ma...

I'd love to be all yay Dan, but I don't support all this word bannination. I don't have a problem with it if it's being done consistently (which he has said he intends to do) and the rules are there for all to see (which they are). It will certainly be an interesting constrast between his blog and ...

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Oh, the poor dears. I have so much insincere sympathy for them.

Is it just me, or is this thread moving much faster than the old ERV thread?

Za-zen wrote:Tigzy

The privlege argument is such bullshit as applied because it is nothing more than an appeal to "poor me, nobody can understand how hard i have it".

I thought that was the Emo argument? ;)

... From a gene's perspective, an organism is damaged only if it can't pass on it's genes. Not true. Take the worker cast of hymenoptera, for example. E.g.: Worker bees. They can't pass on their genes (directly), but they are not 'damaged'. For evolutionary purposes, I lean towards considering the ...

She doesn't get many comments on her blog, does she? You'd think she'd be grateful for the attention. Take a look at the changes to her comment policy : I've realized I simply don't get to the computer often enough to moderate comments effectively. It makes debate and discussion between commenters ...

So I guess the next time a creationist takes offence at someone wearing an atheist/evolution themed t-shirt, we know who's side the FC5 will be on, hey? Also, with regards to Ryan Grant Long's excellent comment still being up on Ophelia's blog, he has probably adopted the time-honoured slymepit tact...

The only thing missing on that parody blog is the circle-jerk link-fest to each others articles.

Sister Chromatid wrote:Emily is concerned:

I always smirk when people refer to it as a harassment policy.

That didn't take long. The @Skepchick_Anon twitter account has been suspended.

I would also like to join the chorus welcoming the return of our former overlord :mrgreen:

but perhaps the time for the Slyme Pit has come and gone. In many ways that might be the best. You guys have been like bulldogs, finally getting people like Paula Kirby aware of what the PZ bullies are doing. I'd be concerned that it would be seen as a successful take down of an opponent to the bul...

Lsuoma wrote:Where IS the Hoggler, BTW? And Scented Nectar, for that matter?

SN has indicated on her blog that she won't be joining in because she doesn't like forums and also freedom of speech issues.

Stephen Packard (aka: DRBUZZ0), the "upskirt camera" guy, has posted a note on his facebook page announcing he has decided not to attend TAM 10 due to fear of harassment. From his post : After a great deal of consideration Ive decided not to go to TAM this year. I love TAM - it's the highlight of my...

I think the JREF forum has a 10 minute editing time limit. It also has a little "Edit reason" box which allows you to attach a note explaining why you edited - is this an option on pbpBB? This has worked well on JREF. If you really want to edit a post after the 10 minute limit, you can PM a mod and ...

Lsuoma wrote:
Darren wrote:I wish the polls weren't limited to 10 options.
Now 25.

Thanks! I edited the poll, but unfortunately (I found out) editing a poll kills all the votes up to that point. Note for future reference!

Big thanks to Lsuoma for setting this up. I love the new forum format already. Definitely more flexible and easy to follow than the mega-thread approach.

Also, thanks to Abbie for putting up with us for so long. Hope things work out for you.

We need to show that this is a safe space. I suggest we go with "porcupine free zone" I like this one, too. Plus, less chance of mis-interpretation by fence sitters than the Laden reference, which may be lost on some. OT: Is there chance of setting up an auto-mod to translate "porcupine" to somethi...

I think it is desirable, but is unlikely to happen. A "truce" would involve compromise from both sides. Can you really see any of the FC5 compromising on anything?

Hey, if we're going to quote invective, quote their invective!

How about, "Lying face-down in the mud, kicking your ass".

I wish the polls weren't limited to 10 options. Along with some of the other suggestions made (I esp. like "cupcake"), I forgot "privileged"! How could I possibly forget "privileged"!?!! I must have been blinded by my privilege.

OK... I'm confused. Who the heck is this "Paul Loebe" character?

I voted #1... I was a little disapointed I was the only one so far. That said, I don't have a problem with "bad werdz" in and of themselves... but maybe less invective can help though.

Hey, we can do polls, now!

What's an Endogenous Retrovirus?

If there is to be any serious attempt to back-off on the invective (and I'm not even sure that's why we're here... I seem to be the only one who thinks so in John Greg's poll, so far), perhaps it's not such a good idea to have a CK reference in the description of the "Take it outside" forum. I don't...

Does anybody know what this entry (now 404'd) on Justin Griffith's blog was about? Google doesn't seem to cache FtB blog posts, but searching for "Dragged into the Slimepit" (with quotes), as of this writing, still gives links to the blog entry, with the following preview text: This is me: Not this:...

I like the curtains.

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