A vote for total deletion of 'Room temperature supercon'...

[chrismb]

I vote to delete that 44 [and counting] page abomination of a thread in 'news' called 'Room temperature superconductivity'.

It is wasteful bandwidth and the main protagonist has no apparent capacity to take even good advice of those whom he agrees with, let alone those he doesn't!

It is a self-indulgent, self-promoting morass of NON-NEWS.

It is going to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on if someone doesn't pull the damned plug on it. I'm fed up seeing it at the top of the 'news' list for the last freaking 7 months!!!. I only put my 2 pennyworth in to see if I could stop the bloomin' thing.

Vote to request moderators delete it.

[Betruger]

Bandwidth wasted only if you open it.

the main protagonist has no apparent capacity to take even good advice of those whom he agrees with

No excuse for censorship.

It is a self-indulgent, self-promoting morass of NON-NEWS.

It'd sink like rock if no one replied.

I'm fed up seeing it at the top of the 'news' list

This is like those hetero guys who get all worked up every time they see gay touching. BFD. Stop looking at it. In that thread's case: Move it to General; it's not fusion news.

I only put my 2 pennyworth in to see if I could stop the bloomin' thing.

Now that's funny.

[chrismb]

I only put my 2 pennyworth in to see if I could stop the bloomin' thing.

Now that's funny.

Indeed. In hindsight, my naivete. My bad.

[mdeminico]

It is going to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on if someone doesn't pull the damned plug on it. I'm fed up seeing it at the top of the 'news' list for the last freaking 7 months!!!. I only put my 2 pennyworth in to see if I could stop the bloomin' thing

*sigh*

Chris, just ignore it, honestly. Half the updates in there are you bickering in that thread, that's a lot less updates that you have to look at. Your desire to "not have to look at it" doesn't trump the history and information that's in there.

Maybe we should sticky it

[rjaypeters]

...Move it to General; it's not fusion news.

Seconded.

It's amusing (and all the other emotions, too) seeing the next person try to help the Doctor. Like "The X-Files", we want to believe.

[chrismb]

Chris, just ignore it, honestly. Half the updates in there are you bickering in that thread, that's a lot less updates that you have to look at. Your desire to "not have to look at it" doesn't trump the history and information that's in there.

You have a point. I was merely trying to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion for all. I keep forgetting and misunderstanding the odd trait in many humans where they resent people wanting to help.

But, yes, my 20 posts in that thread have, in hindsight, stretched the word-count out maybe one extra percent in its total enormous length, and they are only 20 posts of my 1800 total (whereas 6 of your 8 previous posts to date are also in that thread). Gee. Have I really written 1800 posts over 2 years?.... must be time to quit.... but y'all [mostly] are such good sports to debate with, it's just not always clear which are good sports and which aren't, when you stick a new post in someone's thread. Like I say... in hindsight, &c..

[krenshala]

It seems you've calmed down between when you started this thread and the last post you added to it. I'm glad to see that.

Having read every post in the 44 pages of "room temperature superconduction" it seems pretty obvious to me that while Prins doesn't have the best interpersonal communication skills, 95% of his outbursts are exactly like yours, Chris ... a direct result of someone posting either implied or outright insults (whether intended or not). If more folks on here would read what they are posting before sending it, and rewording the stuff that could be misinterpreted, everyone would get along a whole lot better. The end result would be more intriguing discussions, and less "OMG, you called me a WHAT?! /picks up toys and looks for the exit"

[hanelyp]

It should be moved to general.

[rcain]

I agree, a move to general seems appropriate since it can no longer be regarded as news. the rest, as they say, is history.

[Betruger]

One thing I'll agree with Chris (if I understood right) is that the News forum should be strictly polywell or fusion news.

[chrismb]

while Prins doesn't have the best interpersonal communication skills, 95% of his outbursts are exactly like yours, Chris

I argue. It is true. Whether 95% alike or otherwise, it is the 5% that are direct ad hominem attacks on others that I find so disgusting, and that I think others should also find disgusting.

I might conceivably say 'your idea sounds stupid to me'. This is not a personal insult. If you so strongly associate yourself with your idea then that is your issue, but in that phrase I have referred only to my opinion, and only about a concept which is not a person. Whereas if that is taken to be the same as 'you are stupid', the like of which Prins regularly comes out with, this is a whole different kettle of fish and he has simply lost the plot in thinking that in some way the people debating have become the debate.

Prins is raging at "the machine". It is "the machine's" ideas and perceptions that he has found objectionable because they have shrugged off his ideas. But he doesn't know how to progress this so he is now raging at the people with those ideas and perceptions. This is losing the plot and to misunderstand wherein his issues lie.

[Betruger]

I'm curious how you could understand that so clinically, yet let your emotions take over a matter that's rooted not in emotion and personal values or stake but physics and patents and the shrewd tactical world of politics.

In your own words - Any off topic content in the output of Dr Prins, or anyone else in any other scientifically oriented dialog, should automatically filter. Water off a duck's. It's irrelevant and thus inconsequential.

[chrismb]

I'm curious how you could understand that so clinically, yet let your emotions take over a matter that's rooted not in emotion and personal values or stake but physics and patents and the shrewd tactical world of politics.

I don't quite understand your point/question. During a discussion on the dissemination of scientific results, Prins called me "a coward ...lower than a snake's asshole". Are you suggesting I should debate this point with respect to its scientific merit, just because it was embedded within [what should have been] a scientific discussion?

I am not sure I do really have an emotional reaction to that, other than me feeling that this degrades my attempt to debate and argue on a scientific/engineering point. I put some effort into writing my points and rebutments, and what else should I feel if that effort is thrown back in my sub-rectal serpentine face?

[Betruger]

Are you suggesting I should debate this point with respect to its scientific merit, just because it was embedded within [what should have been] a scientific discussion?

The opposite

I am not sure I do really have an emotional reaction to that, other than me feeling that this degrades my attempt to debate and argue on a scientific/engineering point.

Unjustified feeling because your concept-which-is-not-a-person is separate from both Prins' person and Prins' concept of your "CWINAP", and because Prins' snake-ass concept is irrelevant and thus inconsequential to the scientific meat of the topic. And I suspect from very vague memory that it wasn't you explicitly that the snake ass quip (how extremely offensive!!) was aimed at but at your implicit echo of someone calling Prins a snake oil salesman. A turn of phrase which you can't reasonably call diplomatic.

I put some effort into writing my points and rebutments, and what else should I feel if that effort is thrown back in my sub-rectal serpentine face?

None. You get carried away because of nothing and for no good.
Second thing, minor thing: the criteria - that your effort put into writing your points and rebutments is "thrown back into your face" - for "feeling" upset, that's what you might call irony given your rhetorical methods since shortly after you started using this forum.

[KitemanSA]

One thing I'll agree with Chris (if I understood right) is that the News forum should be strictly polywell or fusion news.

This forum is for discussion of current events and news stories, whether on the Internet or in mainstream media. Each thread should discuss one story.

Start a new thread here if you've found a news story (or have inside information) that hasn't already been discussed. Include not just the link, but a synopsis of the story and comments about why you think it's of interest. Feel free to reply to existing posts to add your reaction, ponder the implications of the story, or give your own interpretation.

Having noted what the administrator says in the "News" forum guidelines, I too would kind of prefer that the news be at least SOMEWHAT Polywell related. Room Temperature Superconductivity sure seems to me to fit that bill.

There is forum software out there that automatically does sub-threading. I wish this one did.