Inconsistent ban policy?

i'm sure einstein said "insert some strange stuff here" too.

anyway, knowledge is a prerequisite for the interpretation and/ or application of said imagination.

 

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I'm back after a weeks ban.

I was banned for calling another post 'word salad'.

I then gave the wikipedia definition of word salad.

So James decided that 'word salad' was insulting another member.

I'd say that I disagree, but shit, it doesn't matter. James is going to ban whoever he wants to, for any reason he invents.

 

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Welcome back AlexG!!!

 

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Public displays of inexplicable punishment are quite effective at keeping everyone in line, because no one knows exactly where that line's boundaries reside.

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Admittedly Alex, the "word salad" post was just one of the posts that lead to the time off... just to clarify.

 

Let me understand a bit. Were you banned for a week without any warnings? I wouldn't think that was good. However in another science forum I was in I knew a member that used 'word salad' a lot to describe the post of others and nothing was said to him, so others jumped on his bandwagon and formed a group that I could only characterize as forum bullies trying to control what other posters had to say. I'm not one to complain about other posters, but I don't do much posting in that forum anymore. In your case someone obviously complained, I can't comment because I wasn't following that thread. But when you got the complaint how did you respond to it? That might have made the difference in why you got banned.

 

I quite like the term "cognitive slippage", as opposed to "word salad".

 

I said the member was posting word salad, and then gave the definition of word salad from wikipedia.

So if I hadn't posted the definition, it would have been fine, along the lines of 'ignorance is bliss'.

 

"word salad" Definition

chronically incoherent speech: an incomprehensible mixture of incoherent words or phrases, a common symptom of advanced schizophrenia.

I first heard the term used in the TV series Boston Legal when James Spader playing Alan Shore had a serious speech problem in court while defending a client. I believe it was in the season 2 episode 4.

Per Wikipedia below:

Cognitive slippage is a symptom of several psychiatric diseases and mental disorders associated with cognition and formal thought disorders. It is manifested in patterns of speech, where categories and lists become overly broad as concepts unrelated at first glance become related through tangential connections.

An example of cognitive slippage might be as follows:

"List some types of cars." "Let's see, there's Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, Japan, Rising Sun, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Enola Gay, oh and Miata."

 

Yeah, I looked it up too. Just need to find the appropriate moment to appropriate it accordingly . . .

 

Word salad definition....

"Excuse me I don't know what you just said, because your intelligence has taken you to a level beyond my comprehension."

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Copy of pm to James R, as I said I would.

Hi,

I am not posting with this name (yet), but this is kwhilborn. I was banned. Let me explain briefly.

NASA has finally announced they stand behind LENR as a new green energy source and that they feel it is the green energy of tomorrow.

Please view this short (2 min) NASA video.

technologygatewaydotnasadotgov/media/CC/lenr/lenrdothtml
(edit: James R got Link, and it is in my threads)

(removed link from above to post as this ID)
Please look at the URL. This is an official NASA website and you can eliminate the subfolders on the URL to see that this is true. It is a known NASA website.

The subfolder attached to this website is called "media"

Now I know Global warming is of interest to you. We now have NASA standing behind a science that can remove 600 million cars from the road over the next decade.

Imagine buying a smog free car (Steam/electric/hydrogen are all possible with LENR)

So you can see why I have been excited about this science from the get go. If it turned out to be real. Wow! The impact on our society.

So now we have one of the best scientific topics of the last hundred years or maybe since fire was invented, and Trippy bans me from sciforums because he "feels" that this is not a NASA media video.

You can see for yourself it is on a NASA website in a media subfolder. I assume you can read a URL better than Trippy so I appeal to have the ban lifted.

After he banned me he then wrote a lengthy post about my view and I cannot technically answer back for 4 days. No offence intended, but that is childish.

I will also post this in Open Government and report it so any online moderators will see this ban for what it is.

Some people just do not like scientific progress. I have presented many peer reviewed scientific papers on the subject of LENR on the thread and probably have a better understanding of it then most members on sciforums including doctorates. I have been studying this for months.

I know I like some woo-woo topics like telepathy but I am also a licensed Soil Engineer with a strong background and interest in science. I do profit from the paranormal industry as well.

Anyways. I think a 4 day ban is a bit ridiculous, and wish you would choose moderators with better temperaments. Trippy banned me so I couldn't respond to his wrong comments period. Very childish. Most people can thankfully read a URL correctly. Does he suppose I hacked NASA and Hired Dr. Joseph Zawodny to act in a hoax for the sake of Sciforums?

kwhilborn

 

It can be very very frustrating when you have been banned and someone else answers to a topic you cannot answer in 4 days. I don't know why it is annoying, but it is.

And James, please don't punish Kwilborn about making a sock. He didn't know!

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Thing is, that is where something called Restraint comes into play... think about it like this:

If this were the "real world" and you had put something out there, then got arrested and were in jail for a week until you were cleared and/or as punishment, what could you do about it?

 

Be wary, you may be banned for using it.

 

Kwhilborn, you simply continue to make yourself look foolish here - over and over again.:bugeye: You've got FAR more problems than I care to address but I will deal with one of them:

You make it painfully obvious that you do NOT understand nor recognize the difference between "official" and "affiliated." You CONTINUE to think that's an official NASA website (and video) that you think vindicates your view on cold fusion. It plainly is NOT!!! It's simply affiliated with NASA and only the highly undereducated would take it to be "official."

That's EXACTLY the same problem you had with those various professors who viewed cold fusion (and Rossi) in a favorable light and their universities. Those jokers were expressing their own PERSONAL views and were NOT speaking officially for the universities!!! They are simply AFFILIATED with those universities!!!! Even a child would note that the universities themselves made NO official statements concerning those experiments. NONE!!:bugeye:

Until you can get that simple distinction through your head you will keep on believing everything you come across as official - which it CLEARLY is NOT.