John Scalzi had a troll infestation from someone he’s now calling the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit; Scalzi is one of those notoriously liberal egalitarian people, and RSHD would whip up his Racist Sexist Homophobic followers and send them off to rampage through Scalzi’s comment threads. So what he’s done is announced that he’ll donate money …
Category Archive: Bloggery
Feb 02 2013
I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into
At 4pm Eastern today, I’m getting into some kind of online discussion with these guys: These are the questions we’re supposed to address: The role trolling has played in what the internet has become and what it will one day be (with the caveat that we must first define what a “troll” is). How free …
Jan 28 2013
The blog commenting universe
BoraZ has done another of his magisterial overviews of the blogosphere, this time focusing on the state of blog commenting. It’s an interesting picture that I mostly agree with, but some of it not — partly because he’s making a general survey, and Pharyngula is a weird beast. This bit I’d like to tattoo on …
Jan 27 2013
But I thought he was going to argue with me!
The other day Paul Fidalgo asked permission to quote something I said on our super-secret backchannel (there is no backchannel, no, we do not talk to each other on FtB; it’s all a lie, pretend no one said anything about it), and I got the distinct impression that he was going to pick a fight …
Jan 24 2013
Help out a fellow blogger
If you’re feeling generous, you might send a few bucks Avicenna’s way — he’s an impoverished blogger whose laptop just died. What good is a blogger who can’t blog? He’d have to just do that doctorin’ stuff for a living. [Revised at the request of one of the subjects.]
Jan 23 2013
Around FtB
Imagine all these people in the same room. It would be a madhouse, I tell you! Stephanie is cringing at some very bad acting. Avicenna is inviting gays to a dating site. Aron is mystified by the Texas educational system. Aren’t you? Ashley is playing the ukulele. Heicart doesn’t think it makes sense. Hank is …
Jan 20 2013
So…do they stamp a symbol on the side of the cockpit for each one?
A while back, one of the assholes claimed that it was people like me and Ed Brayton who were dividing the atheist community — that we were creating deep rifts over irrelevant issues. Wait, scratch that…it wasn’t one of the assholes, but all of them. But what I’ve seen instead is that they are the …
Jan 18 2013
Blocked!
The good people at CFI have been getting spammed by the usual cranky suspects on twitter, so they have officially announced their policy for blocking people on twitter. It’s a good set of general rules, and is actually simple common sense: there are people out there who don’t recognize reasonable limits and use twitter for …
Jan 15 2013
Around FtB
It’s been a while! Lots of catching up to do. Are you looking for help debunking geocentrism? NonStampCollector has a source. (Yes, it’s a real thing.) Ashley Miller catalogs the best of Ashley Miller from 2012. Avicenna slaps down Bodie Hodge. Answers in Genesis is such a rich source of lunacy. Biodork is playing with …
Jan 05 2013
Talking about bad science
We’re doing it on youtube right now. I’m watching comments there as they emerge as well. And here it is, if you missed it: Subjects discussed: Sharon Begley’s placebo article: http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/01/02/in-the-magazine/health-in-the-magazine/placebo-power.html Steven Novella on the placebo: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-placebo-effect/ Energy drinks: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/health/scant-proof-is-found-to-back-up-claims-by-energy-drinks.html?pagewanted=all Mark Lynas on GMOs: http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/ The Ars Technica review of Ben Goldacre’s book, Bad Pharma …
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