14 years ago
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Medusa, The Internet
Mitchell Porter, alone of all the people in the world, saw fit to show interest in my work in a thread on the PhysicsForums site. After eight months, the forum moderators suddenly decided that the thread did not fit their commenting policy, and the thread was promptly deleted. Oh, Medusa, there are still those who have not seen your strength. Of course now Mitchell has posted the thread on a new blog.
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This so called comment policy supposedly states that no papers from viXra will ever be discussed, because they lower the standards of the discussion. Links to viXra papers have of course been admitted on the forums for some time, as far as anyone can see. One does wonder if the belated application of this comment policy was perhaps due to something Mitchell said, that was a little too far out of line?
ReplyDeletePerhaps the moderator who had his/her arm twisted could enlighten us as to the real names of the instigators of such censorship, which is no doubt carried out regularly on stupid crackpots, who only superficially appear to know more mathematical physics than pretty well anyone who hangs out at the forums?
Oh, Medusa, I would not want Mitchell to waste too much time averting your gaze, but thank you ...
Some readers will remember that there was a time when I visited the forums, years ago. Unfortunately, it is a bit of a groupthink loopy hangout, with a few control freaks who post endless threads about a few really boring papers.
ReplyDeleteGood for Mitchell and you, though always sad to see censorship and petty tyrants loose in the world.
ReplyDeleteYes, PF is still a bit loopy. Ironically, when I recently discussed quantum gravity with Smolin, he asked my opinion of Cohl Furey's unified ideals paper. He's currently her research supervisor at Perimeter.
ReplyDeleteAnd when I recently spoke to Smolin, and told him I did not enjoy ostracism and starvation, he ignored me.
ReplyDeleteHey, that word, "loopy", is a big finding :-) Of course I knew its use as "crazy, bizarre", and one can notice that "loop quantum gravity" has then a crazy flavour when English is your first language. But now I like that it points to the inner origin of craziness: to keep repeating on the same topics. The Spanish-Argentinian translation, "revirado", does not bring the same flavours.
ReplyDeleteYes, as a language full of borrowed words, English has a special ability to be concise.
ReplyDeleteGee, the professional credentials of my readership is definitely above average today (and the average is rather high anyway). Just shows what a little attempted censorship will do ...
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