Feet of Clay

[JimC]

Cunt, it is clear from your posts in this thread and others that you have not taken our warning about malicious trolling seriously. As a consequence, you are now suspended for a period of one month.

[Seabass]

I was really looking forward to him discussing the Pareto Distribution with Brian.

[pErvinalia]

I wonder if he genuinely doesn't get that he trolls.

[Hermit]

I wonder if he genuinely doesn't get that he trolls.

He knows. Every time he returns from a suspension his snide sarcasm is almost turned to zero and he even engages in actual discussions, but before long he tests the limits of what he can get away with, gradually getting closer and eventually overstepping them.

In my opinion he ought to be suspended as soon as he exceeds those limits, and for shorter periods. Suspensions are not supposed to be punitive. They are supposed to act as aversion therapy. Short suspensions applied as soon as limits are exceeded work better than long ones after protracted periods in which he managed to derive satisfaction of getting away with trolling and the attention he was awarded for it.

[pErvinalia]

I don't think he should be suspended at all. Just troll the cunt back.

[Brian Peacock]

You can to Twitter for that kind of nonsense.

[Hermit]

You can to Twitter for that kind of nonsense.

Or Mindromp. Everyone who loves to troll flocks there simply because it is permitted.

[Joe]

You can to Twitter for that kind of nonsense.

Or Mindromp. Everyone who loves to troll flocks there simply because it is permitted.

I guess not many people love trolling. The place is dead.

[Hermit]

You can to Twitter for that kind of nonsense.

Or Mindromp. Everyone who loves to troll flocks there simply because it is permitted.

I guess not many people love trolling. The place is dead.

Forum members still log on. Some of them even post. In the past 122 days (just over four months) Mindromp has grown by 69 posts. That works out at almost 0.57 posts per day. 54 for of them have been added by our member from Yellowknife (27) and his offsiders Jerome (11) and MondoVman (17).

[Joe]

So three members account for almost 80 percent of the activity for that time period. I remember checking out Mindromp out a couple of years ago. It seems like it was much more active at that time.

[Sean Hayden]

Apparently some people are actually able to walk out on toxicity, I wonder what that's like?

[Joe]

A relief. I left a forum that was amazing when I first joined, but went to hell from trolling over 8 or 9 years. One day I realized there were more flame wars than discussion, and that was it.

[JimC]

Of course, posting here will slow down a bit. For some posters (not naming people such as Seabass), many of their posts involve shrieking at having calm, measured discussions with Cunt...

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's like he's never heard of Talk Rational. He wouldn't get banned from there, but he'd get shredded much less politely than he does here.

[Brian Peacock]

Anyway, back to the topic.

Dennett is the only one I've continued to read, but in a way he's the only one of the four equestrians of doom who moved on. I always enjoyed Hitchens, even though I disagreed with him on a fair bit, because his writing sparkled so. Harris' moral argument for literally nuking Muslim women and children exposed him as a man who had worked hard to dress his desires, passions, and lusts in the language of rationality and reason, and in so doing subsumed his sensibilities in righteousness - a classic expression of patriarchy. In that sense he has far more I'm common with Peterson than he'd be happy to acknowledge.

Dawkins was always a great science communicator, and The God Delusion arrived at a time when the zeitgeist was receptive to its message - and he's the reason why I'm here, so cheers Dickie. But as we know, he's also a suppurating rat's anus, and lately a bit of a TERF.

The other writer I encountered at that time and have continued with is A.C. Grayling, whose output is pretty prolific and diverse.

Similar to these big guns are people on the fringes like thunderf00t etc, whose rational and evidenced, and funny, dismantling of religious concepts and arguments on YouTube seemed so new and refreshing at the time. However, after Elevatorgate he turned his attention to dismantling the concepts and arguments of feminism to become the darling of the burgeoning MRA movement - and nows seems to have fully integrated the essential misogyny of the Abrahamic traditions which he once put so much effort into criticising. That kind of sneering dismissal is now a feature of content providers who seem overly focussed on downplaying racism, sexism, and social progressivism in general: "Look what these idiots are saying now lol!"

To some extent I don't think you'd have people like Sargon, Pool, and Shapiro, even Rogan, Molyneux, or Peterson, without the audience and cultural space the MRA movement created. By my lights, the so-called New Atheism of the late naughties is one of the progenitors of the alt-Right in as much as it gave people (mostly men and boys) a certain model of identity along with certain modes of communication. Unfortunately, this might make "Facts don't care about your feelings" a part of New Atheism's cultural legacy.