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@SillyBilly You wanted an example of you making stuff up. You concoct motivations and conspiracies to account for the manner in which some members deal with you. I suspect you may actually believe those fabrications and it is therefore difficult for you to see them, but they are fabrications. 1. If ten people do this, it is because ten people believe you have been "guilty" of these actions and they object to them. There is no conspiracy involved, no group action, as implied by your use of the word "rally". 2. You say you may lack the time or competence to address questions. Really? If you lack the competence we might wonder why you were making assertions on a topic in the first place, but that aside - what would be so difficult about saying you don't know enough to answer the question. It would be the work of a moment. As to the lack of time - well, you have sufficient time to make six posts in this thread that have nothing to do with the thread, yet you cannot find the time to answer questions concerning earlier assertions you have made. To hijack your own words: "You do see a problem, don't you?" 3. This is a science forum. We deal with technicalities. If you find yourself "snowed" by any of them you need only ask and one or more members will be happy to explain. Continuing to argue a point that is contradicted by the evidence will not be viewed positively. Do you think it should be? 4. If you make commonplace and obvious logical fallacies then why should you expect other than a "predictable and formulaic" response. It would be a bizarre and subtle logical fallacy that would merit an unexpected and original response. On a separate point, you accused me in an earlier post of having insulted you. I have not done so. Trust me on this one, if I choose to insult you at some point in the future you will be in no doubt that it has occurred. I may have offended you, however that is often the consequence of writing unpleasant truths.

Hi Michel, My Computer was off for the last 6 hours but I had failed to log out, so it must have shown that I was online. I thought that we were in good terms and I note that you were the only one who gave me recently two praises but the effect on my overall score was lost as I again got some more neg voting. From my side you got more than 7 to 9 up voting in the last few days and perhaps you did not note that. Though these voting must be strictly done on merit I have realized that no one is doing that here and simply give praises to whom they like and down vote whom they dislike. Apart from you I also gave up voting to many and as I suggested that this can be transparent I did try and inform the recipients of my praise. Many of them have recently even got more than 5 praises individually. For those who have already a high score this hardly matters. Honestly I did think that I can bury this issue as suggested by imatfaal but your post has triggered this response so that I can give an account of what's happening. My score overall has never been worse than what it is with minor fluctuations. Ever since it started sliding down from -9 I have been upset and always thought that it is a matter of time before it becomes normal again. Frankly I could not concentrate on real science , Maths etc as I tried in my initial months here and I am unable to digest this hatred being shown here. Imagine someone telling me that he will give me 3 Neg Votes etc. If I am mean minded I can go after his 3500 score by down 3 every day. I have given over 100 praises perhaps [may be more] since I joined here but only 20 or less Negative voting. I have a fairly good idea who have tried to be mean with me. I am now reverting back to my Policy of giving No Praises and No Negative Voting to anyone whatsoever and let me see whether I'll be able to regain my equanimity !

Hi, I am new here and I tried validating my Gmail account but didnt not receive the email even whete resending the validation multiple times. With Outlook it works perfectly though. Any ideas?

! Moderator Note Unless this is not your first account with us, your statement that we have deleted a previous thread of yours on this topic is quite incorrect. I have once closed a thread of yours, though as best as I can tell, it is unrelated to this one. Furthermore, you were given adequate room in that thread to flesh out your hypotheses. You didn't and it was shut down as a result. The same will happen to this one if you follow the same path. Do not respond to this note within the thread. Edit. I went and reread your previously closed thread to check I hadn't missed something and I now retract my comment that the two are unrelated. You were not permitted to reopen the topic of conversation and as such, this thread is closed.

Why? Are you planning on breaking the rules? Pioneer was banned for creating a sockpuppet account, which is against the rules.

You do realize that the staff are all unpaid volunteers? This sounds like a LOT of work for questionable results. This system isn't supposed to be that big a deal. It's one aspect of your account, and a minor one at that.

WHY DID YOU DELETE MY THREAD ABOUT SCIENTIFIC MIRACLES IN THE NOBLE QUR'AN??? I AM NOT LYING I REALLY BELIEVE THEY EXIST LET ME CONVINCE YOU PLX

We can see who is repping posts. If we think a person is going out of their way to unfairly rep someone or someones, we do our best to reverse the damage. We also possess the power to remove the ability for someone to neg rep members. A quick glance at your account does not suggest to me that you have been targeted. Perhaps it's time to look at your posts instead of blaming the system or other members?

You don't get me I was asking you to zero them in either direction i.e. to delete them all and you can tell them the listing. Years ago I don't even remember giving rep points at all.

There is probably a plugin you can get for IP.Board that will allow you to do so. But I would say closing older threads wouldn't solve anything really. Just keep with the regular rules. If a post to an older thread is made that isn't sufficient to the rules of the forum, then delete it. Why solve a problem that doesn't exist?

You have one account - we don't allow multiple accounts, neither parallel nor serial. I wasn't around when the rule was formulated - but I would expect that it was designed to allow debate in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, respect, and camaraderie; you can get this only when there is continuity. You take responsibility for your posts and your opinions. There is no (or very little) impersonation and duplicity as one's posts remain on record. Post stuff that you are happy with now and don't mind being associated with in the future. But don't overly worry about the past - to the largest extent people will judge you on what you post in the future not in the past.

Why? I'll make better posts with my new account. Thanks How do I delete this account?

You can't. You can edit your posts for a limited time - but you cannot edit or delete after that certain time. You can even change your user name for a short period after joining. But you don't get to delete your account and start again.

Just got off a 2 week ban for losing it. Need to trash this account and create a new one. Thanks

That's against the rules here (§2:9) and the staff will almost certainly ban the new account. Just FYI. You agreed to this yourself when you signed up. http://www.scienceforums.net/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules "Registering more than one account to yourself is not permitted without administrative approval. "Sockpuppet" accounts (those registered with the intent of using them to spread the original member's ideas, or for other malicious purposes) will be banned on sight, as well as those registered to evade a ban." On another note, it's "so long" FFS!!

I don't know if it's XRumer causing the problem with WebShield in the OP or not; I was...erhm...speculating, yeah speculating. (Sounds better than wild ass guessing don't it?) I do know XRumertest is here because I have been seeing it as logged in at the 'Show Registered Only' who's online list. >> http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/87156-sand-making-machine-makes-great-contributions-to-sand-production-line/When it's there it is grayed and you can't get to a profile the same as when a banned member logs in but can't do anything. Whatever it's doing it can't be good for the board. I reported it to an Admin but got no reply so can't say if it matters or any action was taken. My suggestion was to delete it as a member. As to malware, well it's often bootjacked (or is that shoehorned? Hat-banded?) into spam. Any port in a storm. (Any gird in a loin?)

Yes. Yes, I am. Your only recourse now, of course, is to send me money. I will PM you my bank account information so reparations can be made without further delay. OT: All members here volunteer their time. No overhead, really. Only cost is server that hosts the forum and those costs tend to be quite low. Also, as mentioned by Phi, there is some revenue from ads on the site that likely more than covers this. Your best bet to give back to the site is to educate yourself, help others whenever possible, and be sure to look for answers to basic questions on your own before posting them here. That little bit of extra effort from you will allow all of us to enjoy richer and more thought provoking discussions since questions will be more specific and thread participants more informed.

I had a similar problem and had to open a new account. I was unable to change my username. Please feel free to delete or suspend my previous account.

Yes, after some testing I can confirm that. I picked an old inactive account, with zero posts and a very low number of profile views, and then visited it multiple times and after around half an hour the counter spiked with the same amount as my visits. So it is very likely that any member/guest could have contributed several times to another members profile views. I did not visit your profile close to a hundred times, which the counter now have almost increased to. (53,378 views up from 53,286 when I made the timestamp on your profile.) And since your profile still lists me as the latest visitor, the latest increase must all have been done by guests or hidden visitors. I am pretty certain that partaking in a thread on the first page of the New content list will draw more interest to member profiles, than threads that is hidden somewhere far below amongst the older threads. And since we are talking about the profile views counter, I suspect a lot of people get curious and check the counter themselves and thereby increase the count even more. I also notice that you currently have a Recent Status Update listed on the main page, which probably causes more profile views too.

Is this thread just going to be an extension of "crackpots in physics". I enjoy speculation posts, So do others by the post and reply count, PS sunshakers got some good posts in speculation, damn, I have used wrong account to post

agreed - it does seem hyper-susceptible to misinterpreting input Nope; the above done in wysiwyg mode, quote, quote, highlight&delete, highlight&delete

Other account has been suspended. Thanks for letting us know

I couldn't activate this account as I used a hotmail address but that's sorted now since I used a gmail address Just to let you know, since I was confused, I'd created another account (I don't remember the username to be sincere but it's on the same IP so easy to find) so it's just 2 I have right now.. and tbh, I tried to email the staff on this email in the announcements but my hotmail account got temporarily locked cos there was apparently suspicious activity which I don't understand, so it would be easier to create another account to PM the admin which I did but that account turned out to be a mess so I decided to try to change my email.. it seems that hotmail addresses are being rejected for some reason? so you might want to check that out? Pffttt, sorry for the longish story, but I don't have any good reason to keep my other account anymore so feel free to delete it since it's against the rules anyway. Sorry for the bother.

If no attachments, please moderator to delete

You can yourself erase all personal information on your profile page and then simply stop coming here. But your account and post must remain though to keep threads readable. I would advise you to keep your password safe so you can return later if you change your mind, lots of members take breaks and come back again after a few years, as long as you don't misbehave and get banned you are always welcome back again.