What are you talking about? What are you paranoid about? There seems to be a lot of general paranoia in this place. This is hard to follow. ---Futilitist
So why do you want to spoil the fun? This is a big site. Why not find something else to post about? Party pooper. Besides, I read loganonlove's post as broadly applying to all relationships. Like the ones on display here in this discussion. A positive, respectful, and encouraging approach is better than a fight. ---Futilitist
While may of us here deeply appreciate the enthusiasm of youth, the great passion of the inexperienced and the naivete of the uneducated, like many/most web sites there are rules (also called "Terms Of Use") that you must agree to and follow if you wish to participate here. I encourage all new members to review those rules if they wish to stay and play. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! As for another "why": ....from his blog. I am always a bit puzzled by someone who calls themselves an atheist....and then goes on at great length in extreme xtian terms dogmatically accepting the Christ myth as historic fact. :shrug: That seems so....contradictory. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Guess that sorta explains it somewhat.... I understand the need to feel important and the desire to have others look up to you, but that is something that must be earned if it is obtainable at all. If you desire the attention of and engagement with educated adults, you must conduct yourself respectfully (you give respect in order to get respect, there is no other way to obtain that) and at least attempt to follow the rules most of the time - especially when you are a new member. If you choose to be unpleasant and/or uninteresting no-one will desire to interact with you. If that is what you wish, then why bother to join us here?
You asked no questions and invited no discussion. Why did you choose a science forum to post relationship advice. Don't worry, I'm putting you and Futilist on ignore. I suggest you do the same for me.
Can you drop all the paranoia? Its fine to have a little but you seem to have a lot. And my comment was simple enough to follow. My paranoia is people confusing me with some of the other R1D2 things the searches bring up. I like this site and visit daily. I don't feel like leaving any time soon. Simple enough. I don't have a blog or a twitter account. Let alone of the same name.
Why not just post a link to your blog and be done with it? Anybody who wants to read your blog can go read your blog.
The Big Frame Up!!!! Sorta is right! Ha ha ha! Nice try. Here is the way that quote above should have read: So the reason it sounds like two distinctly different speakers because it actually is! My post sorta explains things a whole lot better. Reads kinda different when you get the quotes right, huh? All in all, a very amateur frame up. The space where the speaker designation goes is still evident! Stoniphi obviously believes that no one knows how to read. He is projecting. That's a psychology term. By the way, why go to so much (little?) effort on my account? I've never even met you. Have I? Yeah, I'm feeling real welcome here! Stoniphi, you, sir, need to read the Terms of Use! This is supposed to be a science forum. Seriously. I would like to register a formal complaint for intentional misquoting. Very sh!tty thing to do. If you were an actual scientist, you could loose all standing in the scientific community for this sort of fraud. You should at least apologize to me. Actually, you should be BANNED for life. You should never be taken seriously by anyone again. You will probably be promoted to moderator, instead! Shame on you, sir. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If you really want to know the truth, and I can tell you don't, go to my blog and read it for yourself. Here is a link: http://futilitist.blogspot.com/2012/10/picturing-ashvins-redemption.html. If you really, really want to know the truth, I pity you. Go to: http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/forum/index.php#c4 and check it out. But you have to sign up to see the really good stuff. Here is the direct link to the juicy stuff after you sign in: http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/forum/index.php?topic=910.0 I sure hope you have a strong stomach. Good luck. I don't think this is a good place. You are witnessing a crime. Run Logan, run!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! ---FutilitistPlease Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
loganonlove, Are you surprised by any of this? Please check this out: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?129474-A-question-from-a-new-member You are witnessing a crime. This is not a safe place. Run. ---Futilitist
But your post wasn't directed at me, was it? I've never done any search of your name, period. I genuinely don't know you. You seem pretty nice. ---Futilitist
If I post something here, it should be obvious that I want to know what you guys think of it. I don't believe I have posted enough to just post them as links, but I'll look into that, sir.
Normally we only invoke it when it's done commercially. However the administrators also don't appreciate people advertising things on SciForums that aren't precisely commercial, such as other discussion boards. I'm the Linguistics moderator so I put more thought into issues like this than most people. Lately we've been inundated by spambots. We even had to establish a new procedure that places all new members in a moderation queue so they can't get out into the real boards until they've been verified. Unfortunately we get so much spam that it can take a while to clear the queue so legitimate members lose patience. So the whole concept of spam has become a sensitive subject. As a professional writer, I would advise anyone who writes a blog, and is thinking of posting the same ideas on another website, to not cut and paste the text. Rephrase it. State it in a new way that's more appropriate. It stands to reason that something that people are going to respond to wouldn't necessarily be written in exactly the same form as something people are only going to read. If you're trying to start a dialog, then write it as the opening statement in a bloody dialog, not as a lecture or an editorial. Disciplining yourself to never say something exactly the same way twice is a great way to improve your communication skills. Be proud of your ideas, not your sentences.
What we want on sciforums is original content. We don't want stuff copied from facebook, or your favorite blog, or even The New York Times. If you want people to read a great new article you found at http://sciam.com, try posting a brief extract, with a link to the original article, plus some questions or points of discussion that you thought of yourself when you read the article. In other words, try to post things that lead to an original discussion. Don't come here just to say "Hey guys! Check out this youtube video I found!" and then leave it at that. If we want to watch random youtube clips we can all go there to do that. If we want to read somebody's blog, we can go there to read it. sciforums is a discussion forum. Regarding spam, what does all of the above imply? It implies that if you post a one-liner post that only contains a link to your favorite blog, chances are we'll regard it as an advertisement for that blog and presume that you have little of worth to contribute to sciforums.
I guess not one single person here thinks that Soniphi's blatant smear attempt against me was wrong. Anyone? Great. I am going to have some serious fun misquoting people here! What a cool game. Please don't get mad at me. I'm just trying to fit in. ---Futilitist
Well, this escalated quickly.. From now on I will post a link and an excerpt from my blog instead of the entire thing. And if people are interested they can just go there. Let it be known that anything I post on this forum is up for discussion. I am pretty much here for others to criticize my thoughts, debate, and enlighten.. Thank you. P.S. Futilitist, everything will be just fine..
