Getting banned by Myers isn't exactly difficult, though. The man is extremely prone to righteous anger.
Not as much as one would expect. There's a very long list of people who have been banned but PZ's blog is one of the most popular blogs and covers controversial topics. I haven't seen much evidence that it is easy to get banned by PZ. In the case of Caledonian he got banned from Pharyngula for being generally tone-deaf and engaging in what amounted to trolling but it probably would not have been sufficient to get banned by many bloggers. Note that as Annoyance he never got banned here, and he in fact has positive karma.
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To provide some background: Kimiko, the main character, is moving to Nephilopolis, where all empiricism is strictly regulated by the Department of Inquisition: "You couldn't so much as make an observation based judgment without a license." Since her bag is lost, she has no references, so she was rejected and is attempting to appeal.
My first reaction was that the Department is acting ridiculous. But on further consideration, given the futuristic setting, it would actually be quite plausible that she's a hologram or an automaton or something of the sort (I do wonder why they don't mention this hypothesis).
So, discuss! Just how ridiculous are they being? What do you think of this "credibility score" idea? Or, if you were to implement such a score, how would it be determined and how would it be administrated?
This comic was also a convenient excuse to offer my apologies for delays getting started on the sequence I posted about. I've been having a really rough time with some house issues, though it looks like the worst of it may blow over in the next day or two. I'm going to cautiously say the first post will be out early- to mid-next week.