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Re: Rationalskepticism,lol part III.

Post by DaveDodo007 » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:29 am

JimC wrote:In his eccentric way, surreptitious was implying that the poster in question has been banned from several sites...
His post was still so vague, what sites, when, did it happen in unison?
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:04 pm

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Post by DaveDodo007 » Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:15 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:Who cares? Really?
Obviously me, hence my post.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:29 am

Why do you care so much?
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Post by DaveDodo007 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:17 am

Brian Peacock wrote:Why do you care so much?
I want to see anti-free speech forums suffer, whilst I don't want to give them clicks.
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Post by surreptitious57 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:00 am

Jerome has been banned from Rat Skep and before that he was banned from International Skeptics that used to
be the old JREF forum. I am not aware of any where else that he has been banned from but there may be others
He might have been a troll but if so he was a benign rather than a malicious one. I did complain about it but that
did not go down well and I have decided to stay quite about such things from now on as that is not why I am there
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Post by Scott1328 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:09 pm

surreptitious57 wrote:Jerome has been banned from Rat Skep and before that he was banned from International Skeptics that used to
be the old JREF forum. I am not aware of any where else that he has been banned from but there may be others
He might have been a troll but if so he was a benign rather than a malicious one. I did complain about it but that
did not go down well and I have decided to stay quite about such things from now on as that is not why I am there
What didn't go down well, was your self-righteous moralizing, and misrepresentation of facts.

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Post by jamest » Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:15 pm

Svartalf wrote:I forgot about that... but evil slick is so lez been...
If you don't mind me asking, are you a member at ratskep?

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:46 pm

Jerome? banned? that's a surprise, I remember him as very softspoken for a dog botherer, but that was back in the RDF days...
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Post by Hermit » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:48 pm

Svartalf wrote:Jerome? banned? that's a surprise, I remember him as very softspoken for a dog botherer, but that was back in the RDF days...
He can be thoroughly insulting, and does let rip frequently enough at Mindromp at the moment. I stumbled across a post he wrote in 2009 where he mentioned the name of the first
forum he's ever been banned from. I gather his hobby is to regale atheist and sceptical communities with his flat earth (Yes. Really.) views, belief in young earth creationism and a whole raft of conspiracy theories.
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Post by JimC » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:13 am

Hermit wrote:
Svartalf wrote:Jerome? banned? that's a surprise, I remember him as very softspoken for a dog botherer, but that was back in the RDF days...
He can be thoroughly insulting, and does let rip frequently enough at Mindromp at the moment. I stumbled across a post he wrote in 2009 where he mentioned the name of the first
forum he's ever been banned from. I gather his hobby is to regale atheist and sceptical communities with his flat earth (Yes. Really.) views, belief in young earth creationism and a whole raft of conspiracy theories.
I think that maybe you are speaking of two different Jeromes...
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Post by Hermit » Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:17 am

JimC wrote:
Hermit wrote:
Svartalf wrote:Jerome? banned? that's a surprise, I remember him as very softspoken for a dog botherer, but that was back in the RDF days...
He can be thoroughly insulting, and does let rip frequently enough at Mindromp at the moment. I stumbled across a post he wrote in 2009 where he mentioned the name of the first
forum he's ever been banned from. I gather his hobby is to regale atheist and sceptical communities with his flat earth (Yes. Really.) views, belief in young earth creationism and a whole raft of conspiracy theories.
I think that maybe you are speaking of two different Jeromes...
Ah, yes. You are right. I just refreshed my memory via an RDF backup. The Jerome at RDF said his academic career was ended by TPTB when he became interested in paraspsychology, and he was indeed very softspoken. The other one was never a member there.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Oct 17, 2015 1:43 am

Jerome (the 'good' one?) won the first Dawkins forum science writing competition, iirc.
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Re: Rationalskepticism,lol part III.

Post by DaveDodo007 » Sat Oct 17, 2015 2:28 am

surreptitious57 wrote:Jerome has been banned from Rat Skep and before that he was banned from International Skeptics that used to
be the old JREF forum. I am not aware of any where else that he has been banned from but there may be others
He might have been a troll but if so he was a benign rather than a malicious one. I did complain about it but that
did not go down well and I have decided to stay quite about such things from now on as that is not why I am there
Thanks.
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Re: Rationalskepticism,lol part III.

Post by DaveDodo007 » Sat Oct 17, 2015 2:30 am

Scott1328 wrote:
surreptitious57 wrote:Jerome has been banned from Rat Skep and before that he was banned from International Skeptics that used to
be the old JREF forum. I am not aware of any where else that he has been banned from but there may be others
He might have been a troll but if so he was a benign rather than a malicious one. I did complain about it but that
did not go down well and I have decided to stay quite about such things from now on as that is not why I am there
What didn't go down well, was your self-righteous moralizing, and misrepresentation of facts.
Care to elaborate or our we suppose to just 'listen and believe' which is all the rage at ratskep nowadays.

Edit: Actually fuck it. I ask for information and surr57 supplied it. What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you seriously want to defend ratskep's decent into anti-free speech and atheist+ lite. How very sceptical of you.
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