Has anything been decided about David continuing as moderator?
David's post on that AGW thread today is bizarre... he seems to be suggesting that moderators should censor discussion of AGW on the forum because there may be too many posts to read? Instead he suggests that he, Andrew and David...
Seriously, I think you've lost the plot David... as Typoz says, if you wanted to start a private conversation with someone you would just go and do it... the publicity you've given it shows that what you're actually trying to do is censor the discussion in public... it's ridiculous... Alex...
Not very related, but the only thing I remembered. There are some awareness during anaesthesia studies from a professor at Hull. One paper involved playing recording verbal targets to patients. IIRC some had partial recall of the actual target words (say... gooseberry), others recalled the...
If you ban people and delete the thread in under 24 hours, you won't get your wish.
One poster on that thread appeared to be well informed regarding NDE's in the blind... I engaged, but David deleted the thread for absolutely no valid reason... his co moderator Laird openly disagreed with...
I'm bothered about new Skeptiko posters, Who were recently banned and/or their threads totally deleted, in less than 24 hours in some cases
David still won't even acknowledge these events... every new Skeptiko member who has started a thread recently has been savaged by David... they've all...
Yeah, it wasn't always like that, a change was made to hide the other forums, and nest them deeper down the site structure... google gives them less weight...
No I definitely don't agree... I think the overwhelming majority left here support moderation, and don't want to give up a safe space, but it's not either or. We can have moderation from a moderator who deals with spam, and temporarily bans existing members. Xenforo has loads of options to...
It's Alex's site, so it's up to him... although I don't think he takes much interest in anything but the podcast discussion forum... either David stands down voluntarily, or Alex pushes him... neither seem very likely.
The site structure was altered some time ago, since then, the non-podcast...
In the Skeptical thread which David recently deleted - a rediculous decision- Even Laird openly disagreed with Davids decision.
We never did that when the banned of 7 were around. We gave warnings, then short temporary bans... permanent banning and total thread deletion for what was going on...
If you don't do much moderation, then it should be simple for you to step aside...
Also, I don't care why you started the thread... once again you try to steer the discussion... as if your moderation, and lack of active new members should not be up for discussion.
...all the new members...
It's entirely reasonable... David needs to pack in his role as moderator, and if he won't leave it voluntarily, Alex needs to push him out. Laird has an entirely different approach to moderation...
You may feel you need to be fair to David, but if you look back over his behaviour more recently...
David doesn't like that skeptical thread, delete it, ban the OP, doesn't like that religious thread ban the OP, doesnt like that thread on sex, the latest political thread now...
Time to bow out... or Alex needs to remove you.
Personally, I've come to the conclusion that David has passed his sell by date... in the last couple of months he's become increasing irritable, conservative and intolerant in his views, and although I hate the word, I think he could be described as the biggest materialist on here. He seems to...
These are two good middle of the road factual lectures, one on the historical Jesus (note that one should not muddle 'history' with the 'past')
...and one on the Nag Hammadi GoT...
Anybody suggest any other forums where they are actively discussing this stuff below, with an open mind, and relaxed moderation policies...?
(perception, indirect/direct realism, NDEs, OBEs, memory, telepathy etc.)
At least the OP gets to keep his thread... the potentially interesting one last week to which I contributed was deleted and the OP permanently banned in less than 24 hours IIRC.