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A downward spiral, of course. The best kind.  ;) Abed Nadir (talk) 10:31, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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[edit] Don't bother

He's not listening to anything you say. He's only here to repeat what he was taught at 8chan. This is obvious once he started repeating many months old false claims about Anita. Typhoon (talk) 13:51, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

True, but I'd been waiting to use the 'filthy casual' line all the way through lunch. Queexchthonic murmurings 13:54, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Eysenck

I took out the list of books since you criticized it. You say Eysenck is irrelevant to this site's mission. But there's an article about Freud on this site, there an article about the age of sexual consent. Freud seems no more relevant to that mission to me. Eysenck wrote in similar topic areas to Freud. And the age of consent seems completely unrelated to this site's mission.--PBustion87 (talk) 13:05, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Freud is quite often cited by woo-peddlers to support whatever it is they are flogging. Freud is well-known in popular culture, and a nice worked example of questionable science later discredited. Despite Eysenck's racism, he's just not influential enough outside of the sphere of psychology. Even if a woomonger started (ab)using his ideas, that would still be better mentioned in an article for that woomonger. As a general point, 'these other articles are also largely off-mission' isn't much of an argument. There's a lot of cruft that nobody has been bothered to clear away yet. Queexchthonic murmurings 13:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit] It's about time

Now you have a mop. How you use it is up to you. Alec Sanderson (talk) 14:04, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Unblocking

When you unblock someone, it helps to check Special:BlockList to see if there is an autoblocked IP associated with that user account. Alec Sanderson (talk) 14:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Unused to the tools here. Been trying to find where blocked IPs ended up. Queexchthonic murmurings 14:22, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
There's a handy reminder, with link to the blocklist, at the top of one of the block/unblock dialog boxes, but I forget exactly where. Oh, and you've been blocked for gambling. Alec Sanderson (talk) 14:26, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit] Porting discussion off Nutty's talk page.

I get it. Communication is essential, and we're not getting enough of it. Doing things like blocking users without explanation is the kinda thing that causes communities to fall apart and into obsequious groups of people fawning for the approval of overpowered moderators to stay in the in-group. It's pretty clearly a very important component of why, e.g. rationalwiki gives most people sysops. But people were going too far there and making unfounded accusations to try and sort things into a black and white world that wasn't accurate.

I'm not trying to push for a false middle. I think the concerns here are real, and Nutty quite strongly hinted that he personally was being sued, which explains his anger if nothing else. ikanreed You probably didn't deserve that 15:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

I think it's not so much trying to oversimplify the situation or deny potential problems as that his behaviour was sufficiently over-the-top and indiscriminate that any explanation ends up seeming far-fetched. Queexchthonic murmurings 15:22, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
I understand. It was bad, and I don't disagree with you... but context matters. ikanreed You probably didn't deserve that 15:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
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