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As I tried to explain it takes two to tango. He is hostile because of reasons I mentioned before. The crowd feeds of this hostility, because that is what crowds do. Things escalate. Brake the circle! Be a good human!

The thing to do is to not feed the evil god of hostility. You don't see me hostile towards him do you? No, I save my hostility for real assholes. Those wankers who really deserve it.

I presume Paul's main interest was in the beginning to discuss science. Of course forum dynamics have sometimes taken him away from this objective. Just like forum dynamics have taken me away from discussing science.

I think I had my first 1000 posts mostly only in the biology subforum. I hardly ever ventured out to places such as freethought, politics or religion. Now I spend most of my time in feedback, about members, SOF and the cesspool. They are rather safe forums with not so much chance of things getting out of hand, since I am bit of a drama queen myself.

In conclusion, the xev thread had nothing to do with how this all started. It was an end result.

 

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Spuriousmonkey,

I see your point.

But my policy is this: Once heavy words begin to fall, it makes little or no sense to continue the conversation, as the person who started with the insults or insinuations has thereby shown that they don't wish to keep the communication at a certain level of politeness. Just because someone called me a bad name, I don't think that I should call them a bad name in return; I withdraw. Because if we aren't willing to talk in a polite manner, then there's no point in talking -- this goes esp. for scientific discussions.

I think that one should be a conscious communicator. This includes not pursuing a line of thought at all costs. When heavy words begin to fall, it is time to think about attitudes, and withdraw, if necessary. As continuing with a bad situation is a matter of clashing egos, not of clashing scientific ideas.

I think that one can find onself a "sewing circle" anywhere. And with these people, it is then fun and beneficient to communicate. Don't give up.

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I mentioned this thread as an example.

 

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What the fuck? "That this invasion of privacy affects us all"... did he fucking watch you in the bathroom? Exactly when did you loose privacy which you would have otherwise had? The ONLY outcome of this is that people now know who you are... but that sure as hell isn't the fault of whoever called you.

If it makes you feel less safe, that's because you were naive to begin with. People can easily track you down if you provide the kinds of details you did.

You can post whatever shit you want, but don't cry because of some undemonstrated "invasion of privacy".

 

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You're missing the point, John. There isn't an "ONLY outcome." There are more.

Since I was called at work, now that's 2 outcomes, which could possibly lead to more outcomes.

It's NOT my fault that he called me. I didn't tell him to call me, I didn't permit him to call me, I didn't force him to call me.

If one were to draw your conclusion out, then crime can be blamed on the naivete of the victims. That's pretty thin logic, John.

 

And nobody said that he can't call you.

Hell, I'm going to call you tommorrow... just to chat.

 

are you calling to harass me, John?

 

Good grief. The drama is still going on.

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paulsamuel, either take legal action or shut up.

 

Other than the original post, I am merely responding, I am not perpetuating the thread. Please read the thread before accusing me.

 

Nope, just calling to say 'hello there... how are you today'.

I see you know how to search registries. Notice the rest of the info in there.... take note.

Well, that's the point. The person calling didn't seem to do anything 'bad', and wasn't told to stop calling. It wasn't unsolicited, as a previous relationship seems to have existed (even though we aren't 100% sure who it was).

Who gives a shit? If you aren't going to stand by your words you shouldn't be making your identity known. If they refuse to identify themselves, tell them not to call again and hang up.

After that it would be harrassment... but that isn't what appears to have happened here.

 

John, don't ever call me.

John, please take note of that statement.

Now you're threatening me, John.

You ought to look up in a dictionary 'unsolicited,' because it appears you don't know what it means.

 

Lol, how i that a threat? Are you loopy or something? I'm pointing out that the rest of the entries say something along the lines of 'private', and that you should take note of that.

Poor fella. If you ever feel like it, give me a call. I'll most likely hang up on you... but that's ok.

 

John this, John that, John, John, John -- this is getting so personal.
Paulsamuel, you must have warm feelings for John, aren't you?

Sheesh.

 

PaulSamuel,

I think what you should do since the continued attention is persisting is get a Premium rate number (like the XXX numbers etc), continue the thread and repost your new data to include the Premium number.

Then when they call to harass you in some form you can makes some money out of it on the side.

Perhaps Sciforums should start a "Voice sample" thread with users asking "Are you from the sciforums.com forums?" then you can eliminate those that don't match your memory from the enquiry.
(And while you at it, it might seem an nice advertising gimmick for the forums too.)

 

I think 1-800-dum-bass is already taken.

 

Good idea. Here's my sample.

 

I think SkinWalker is the devil

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yes, taken by you

 

Well, ya. I fish... and bass are pretty dumb fish.

What's wrong with that?

For only $0.35/minute you too can learn the secrets of catching bass.

 

... And to the Cesspool it goes!