Reply To: Global Warming

[Rezwan]

The thing is, we’re trying to send positive messages about fusion on this site, but people who visit it are faced with an abundance of postings by Brian. He posts more than anyone, and many of them are repellant, as repellant as he finds whoever it was he was alluding to.

Brian, it’s your style, not the content. I find a lot to annoy me about “greenies”, too, but would never try to talk to them the way you do. And can’t discuss the issues with you without your shrilly demanding that I think exactly like you or be crucified. You have a repellant way of pushing your ideas down everyone’s throats as if they are the god given truth. Only on the technical areas do you throw in a qualifying AFAIK or IMO. Otherwise, you shrilly assert things, and cut off options for dissent, equating dissent to your opinions with whatever. You really mirror those you criticize. I’m surprised you’re not aware of this.

So, just as with Brians own example about people not getting involved because they are repelled, people may not be getting involved with FFS because Brian seems to be its voice.

Henning, I hear your vote of confidence. A good point. He does have constructive remarks – although due to his certainty in expressing things that are in doubt, and his utter BELIEF in fusion working with no reserve of objectivity, I tend to wonder about any other information he has.

In any case, I think it would be good for the site to let other voices emerge (Brian’s had quite a bit of time to express himself, and it may be driving other people off)

We could confine Brian to the Technical posts about DPF where his comments are useful and just revoke his noise elsewhere.

The goal is to ensure the forums are an open, respectful, enjoyable environment for constructively networking about fusion. I honestly think a lot of Brian’s posts are detrimental to this. They create a hostile forum environment. If he wasn’t so prolific, we would let it pass. But he is relentlessly over-represented and it drowns out and intimidates other voices.

At this point in the forum posts, I feel like the judge who sentenced the guy to life in prison for stealing a slice of pizza. But it was the third strike. You hit my last nerve, buddy. People aren’t being constructive because they’re repelled by greenies? Wow. Look in the mirror.