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Showing posts with label younglogga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label younglogga. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Another scientist banned from HotCopper: Younglogga

MobyT | 2:30 PM Feel free to comment!
HotCopper is going great guns in its ongoing efforts to stifle discussion of science.  It’s banned another poster who tried to make the HotCopper Science and Medicine S&M forum about science instead of remaining a troll-infested meeting ground for the anti-science illiterati.

True to form, mods seem to be deleting any posts commenting on his disappearance.  This is in keeping with the HotCopper Omertà (selectively applied), so we’ll probably never know why he was banned.  (Evidence suggests that on HotCopper freedom of speech is a prerogative of redneck males only – see here.  Mods would probably all quit if HotCopper introduced a more open moderation policy.)

Younglogga was always polite, made fact-filled posts and would have been considered a treasured asset of any healthy discussion board.  His posts were very rarely moderated, except when the mods took sides with the trolls who make incessant complaints that some people post about real science instead of anti-science on the science and medicine forum.

Fare thee well, Younglogga.  You brought clarity and science if briefly to brighten the gloominess of that arid block of cyberspace.

This old Irish blessing is for you, though we’ve never met. (I’m not religious but I’ve always liked it.)

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Monday, January 14, 2013

How to be a Denier Troll

MobyT | 3:21 PM One comment so far. Add a comment
Another lesson in the crude art of trolling from Hanrahan, the resident expert on HotCopper's Science and Medicine S&M forum.

These are the only posts of Hanrahan's (to date) in a thread that began with a copy of this article on climate change from the Washington Post.

You will note the absence of: a) science and b) any reference to the substance of the original post.

(Hanrahan has been by far the most prolific poster on the thread making six posts so far.  I'll leave it to the reader to decide the value of his contribution except to point out that 6 x 0 = zero.)

1. Religion and Al Gore

Post an inane comment, carefully avoiding anything that could be construed as 'scientific'.  Throw in religion and Al Gore for good measure:


Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum

2. The Sky is Falling 1 

Check a map to see where in the world is China.  Observe that air quality elsewhere is improving.  (Remain unaware that it was strong environmental regulations that led to cleaner air and that sulphur emissions can mask warming.)  Finish off with labelling as 'fools' anyone who understands science.

Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum

3. The Sky is Falling 2 

Note the accolades that your previous post drew.  Repeat the last line hoping for more applause.  Finish off by having a go at the farmers whose cherry crops were badly damaged in the Big Aussie Heat.

Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum


4. Return to Religion - with No Sense of Irony 

Happy that your previous comment got lots of applause, return to the 'religion' refrain.  Then proceed to call scientist Younglogga a 'clear liar' - while at the same time complaining about imagined insults and about being called a troll.
Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum

5. Shift the topic to guns

Keep shifting the topic away from the original one about climate change, this time to guns:
Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum

6. It's all about ME

Finally (maybe or maybe not), Hanrahan gets to the crux of the matter.  It's all about him.  (Bemoaning the fact that his post number 4 above was moderated).

Source: HotCopper.com S&M forum



End of lesson.