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The Word Herder's avatar

Good! I've only banned one guy, and I don't have trouble with anyone else.

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Richard Seager's avatar

How's that essay going.

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And welcome back btw.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Thanks for the references. Will have a look.

Noticed this "They thought this was the genome because their hypothetically generated 30,000 base sequence was 89.1% similar to, “a bat SARS-like coronavirus (CoV) isolate"

on https://drsambailey.com/covid-19/warning-signs-youve-been-tricked-by-virologists/

Of mice and men even if you do believe their computer models. If you didn't you'd be in banana territory (i.e. comparing human DNA to)

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Richard Seager's avatar

Yes saw you claiming that elsewhere.

I'm more interested in the stone circles in that part of South Africa. Apparently there's a few.

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

"And you wern’t really banned Frank, just that I needed a break"

Slanders,

Rich needed some space. It was about him; not you...

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Richard Seager's avatar

Yep my brain needed some space.

Also it can be a chore to figure out all the games being played which also needed some space. So better handle on that now, Baz.

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Richard Seager's avatar

In it for keeps aye.

We all are.

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Elizabeth's avatar

In reading Frances Leaders piece 'Water Miracles' and a link within it to the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, I have been reflecting on the behavior of others and the choices they make (and of course myself as well), and how those behaviors affect others.

(In reference to the work above I'm thinking about vibration)

Some behaviors are abusive or toxic and can affect others detrimentally. Especially if that other is easily triggered, has a history of experienced abuse.

And of course triggers can be learned from and no's can always be said.

And bans can be shunning or impinge on freedom of speech, and around and around we go. We all have to draw our own lines and do our own work.

(and those comments you delete and are no longer on your feed, even your own, are still seen by the one they were directed at)

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Richard Seager's avatar

Yes we need a new paradigm. I would like a 'dislike' button.

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

I am surprised that Sub does not have a mute button, like with the bird and other platforms.

Within the rules, anyone should be free to speak. However, anyone is also free NOT to read/see any comment. Thus, a mute button is fair to both sides.

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Elizabeth's avatar

You can now 'collapse' comments which maybe has the same result?

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

I saw the "collapse" command but had never tried it. I tried it on this comment of yours! :) However, it only collapsed from that comment thread down; not the person, though. Thus, I could see your other comments which I had not collapsed.

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I haven't played with it much. Yeah it doesn't mute a specific commenter, if that's what you mean.

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You can also mute a thread (I'm not sure it's called muting)

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

I use the Activity page. I've already muted the email notifications for comments and likes.

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Richard Seager's avatar

the email notifications are a few minutes slower than the activity page.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Oh it is called muting

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Richard Seager's avatar

Mine was more about making the blog a little more democratic. I've offered to put an essay up if Frank wants to write one and in that case he can run the comments under it if it can be swung with Substack's settings. But my posts were being flooded with (often) off topic conversations. The problem is that there is information in Frank's comments which is often better than anyone else's comments. It's just that there's a lot of nonsense padding them out. Frank is welcome to reach out if he wants to put up a post. As is anyone else.

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Elizabeth's avatar

I wonder if that would help. It would still give negative attention to some. Something some thrive on.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Yes I'm thinking from my own selfish viewpoint. I guess there's nothing that can really be done that can't be gamed.

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Elizabeth's avatar

I'm not sure I follow... gamed... as in used?

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Richard Seager's avatar

Yes I mean that if someone doesn't like your blog there are various ways of attempting to undermine it.

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Elizabeth's avatar

I guess there are a lot of layers here. And what you've experienced has been extreme.

On a simpler level deleting a comment that is offensive or abusive is appreciated by me and is important. And I think I can understand why you might not want to go to the extreme of banning. (or so I think)

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

I've been following the same policy on my blog, too, from the very start.

People who ban differing opinions are either feeble-minded or liars (the two do not exclude each other).

Not sure what I would do, if a bot or a troll (or more of them) tried to take over the comment sections, but I guess, it would depend on the type of attack.

I hate it as the most destructive form of attack, when they flood good sites with half-truths and moronic comments. Zerohedge is a good example, although the commenters have never been rocket scientist there. (I do not comment there, but it gives me a good idea of the latest trends of manipulative news and tactics that are not addressed to the absolute-lowest level of the populace.)

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Richard Seager's avatar

I should spend a little more time on Zerohedge, they've been on to this covid con almost from the start.

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Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

ZeroHedge is a mixed-bag. It has some good stuff and fluffy, sales stuff.

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Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

I scan the articles (most of the time, only the titles, because I get the info elsewhere) and check the comments. I might be wrong, but I think the comments serve as decent examples of those Americans' standing, who still read, although thinking a couple of steps ahead is already not their forte. They usually fall for the first idea that they consider renegade and vote down the extremely-few thinking commenters. Still, the comments are like a status report on the public's mood...

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Yes, and they were pushing Bitcoin after it started dying.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Well they would. How many thousand is it down today?

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Ah I see it bounced before going under 20k. Must have been quite the coordination. My prediction, 14k by Friday.

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Richard Seager's avatar

That song starts so nicely....

I assume you mean 17.

supersatan - what's that? advertising?

Agree re moloch but just seems a case of 'when in rome'.

Are you sure you're helping? I just watched a sam bailey video - seems much more effective but just as anti germ theory.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Mr.

And gaining ground on jabs. Nobody believes in them anymore.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Penny Lane was on the back of that particular single.

"A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

And though she feels as if she's in a play

She is anyway"

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Richard Seager's avatar

The fracas was about a week ago. This was just me trying to figure out how to make the blog a place for all. And possibly getting it wrong. But I have time constraints as well and don't get paid for running this blog (about $500 total income so far).

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