I just came back to read through this discussion after seeing it linked. Is it currently over? The points seem pretty heavily unresolved, but it has been 8 days since the last update and the previous longest gap was 9 days due to a technical problem, with nothing else exceeding 7 days. So I am guessing the thread is still going with time lapses to let the participants cool down, but I'd like to both confirm that this is the case (because I believe this type of experiment is extremely valuable) and note that there are people (at least one person) following along and at the very least enjoying the read.