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Alicorn, if a "should this be moderated" poll is required anywhere in this thread this is the kind of trolling that needs to be targeted. Way across the line.
It's rare enough that handing people with those sentiments the weapon of "any dissent is immediately silenced" is worse than the disease.
Not remotely suggested. Since when does "immediately" mean "after a spiraling trend over a couple of years"?
I suggest that if this is applicable to any behavior in this thread it is to the actual trolling, not Will just being a crackpot.
A fraction of my comments are outright critical and I am only posting a few comments per week. There have been dozens of highly critical comments lately not made by me. Some of them containing direct personal attacks.
If you really perceive the few harsh comments that I make, that reflect a widely held opinion, to be too much then you lost all touch with reality and require much more criticism than I could deliver.
Wait a few more years and the shitstorm is going to increase by orders of magnitude and I won't even be part of it.
Do you really believe that you can get away with your attitude? Be prepared to be surprised.
And stop calling everything "trolling". It's really getting boring.
The quoted sentence refers to the weapon, not the event from which it's shaped (through misrepresentation or motivated misinterpretation). Even community voting that hides comments that happen to be critical is being used as fuel for accusations of censorship.
What is way across the line is when people start asking about "secretes" and basilisks and there is any chance of such possibilities being taken seriously. What is way across the line is when an organisations tries to actively impede research.
Some harsh words are completely appropriate then.
I have no problem with Will Newsome and find a lot of his output enjoyable. But if he starts to lend credibility to crazy shit like basilisks in the minds of people then that has to be said.