R.I.P. Jello top answerer

Good.

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Originally Posted by dana1981 

 

Now that Yahoo Answers has resumed updating the top answerer lists after over a year of failing to do so, we no longer have to see Jello listed as top answerer atop the Environment or Global Warming categories.  The evil reign is over!

Congrats to you for being at the top now!

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Originally Posted by dana1981 

 Hopefully it will stay that way.

Hah I wouldn't count on it mate, he doesn't seem the type to go down without a fight. Congrats on number 1, just don't ease up or he'll be right back at the top of GW.

I wonder if reporting their behavior to the admins would deter the spam.  One could simply point examples of the constant repetition.

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Originally Posted by bucket22 

I wonder if reporting their behavior to the admins would deter the spam.  One could simply point examples of the constant repetition.

I think that may be a wasted effort.  Some of them are obsessed with being seen and viewed as Top Contributors.  They have no problem skirting the system.  I think SWC created another account as a female named "oops".  I'm guessing he's making a run at TC status.
 

What a shame. It completely defeats the purpose of having people vote if there are others scamming the system and abusing it for their own means. If Yahoo can't come up with ways to moderate people who are doing that or alter the system so that there are limitations on how many times you pick someone for best answer in a given day (I'm just making things up), that's sad.

I think randall may have gotten his account suspended again. I had reported him about half a dozen times for cheating the system and answering my questions even though I had blocked him. As far as i know that kind of cheating the system is a big no-no.

But yeah, scorpio has pretty much taken his place, and is all the more annoying for saying he is open minded and free thinking--yet in an email he admitted to having blocked over 20 AGW proponents from his questions. Real 'open minded' there bud.

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Originally Posted by dana1981 

Now Randall is back (5 questions today) and michael ninga boy has joined the ranks of the Jello lackeys asking a bunch of questions and giving him best answer every time.  Pretty soon I'm going to have to switch from calling them physics flunkies (PFs) to Jello's b*tches (JBs), because it seems that at this point their only goal is to keep him in the top answerer spot.  Really it's quite pathetic.  They just think it's all a game, especially ninga boy.

 

I've started reporting SWC, beacuse I think Randall may have gotten banned for asking so many rhetorical questions, and frankly I'm getting sick of the lot of them.

Let it go.  It's not that important. 

Read the latest publications from the NAS, UNEP, position statements from the White House, and focus on the discussions here.  That's where the action is.  Y!A is pure entertainment with as much relevance to the real world as The Transformers have to national defense. 

That said, losing at a game sucks, but the skeptics play dirty and in most games cheating is a very effective strategy if there is no enforcement of the rules.  But there is no loss of honor from walking away from a rigged fight.

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Originally Posted by gcnp58 

 

 

Let it go.  It's not that important. 

 

Read the latest publications from the NAS, UNEP, position statements from the White House, and focus on the discussions here.  That's where the action is.  Y!A is pure entertainment with as much relevance to the real world as The Transformers have to national defense. 

 

That said, losing at a game sucks, but the skeptics play dirty and in most games cheating is a very effective strategy if there is no enforcement of the rules.  But there is no loss of honor from walking away from a rigged fight.

 

Agreed.  It may seem worthwhile if we justify it by claiming that we may help a fence-sitter better understand the situation, but that is simply wishful thinking.  It may be time to move on.

 

In a pissing contest it is all too likely both parties will get wet! 

Do it! I guess somebody has to keep the clowns in check.

Just be sure to check which way the wind is blowing! You know - leeward, windward and all that 

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Originally Posted by dana1981 

I just don't like going to the site and seeing the first page covered with questions from the same 2 people.  It pushes all the real questions out of sight.  I don't mind spending a couple of minutes reporting them for this behavior.

Unfortunately they probably read the posts here, laugh, and ask even more questions than they would if they hadn't read it. I know ninga boy reads this thread; I wouldn't be surprised if he checked it every day. I don't know if SWC has found it yet but I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it too.

Once jello is top they'll get bored and find some other forum to be trolls in.

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Originally Posted by dana1981 

I just don't like going to the site and seeing the first page covered with questions from the same 2 people.  It pushes all the real questions out of sight.  I don't mind spending a couple of minutes reporting them for this behavior.

There are more interesting windmills to fight, is all I'm saying.  Duking it out with climate skeptics on the internet, as I've learned from bitter experience, is an exercise in punching pudding.  You land solid blow after solid blow but at the end, it's still pudding and hasn't changed a bit.  If you like that sort of thing and are doing it just to get fit that's fine.  But in a larger sense it is pointless, the pudding itself doesn't care since it is too stupid to know it's been clobbered (it is, after all, only a pudding), and the only spectators are other puddings. 

Personally, I can't think of enough good questions to come anywhere near the skeptic totals.  But what is amusing is by asking a couple a day once a week, I tie them in knots, and get to read some semi-hysterical stuff from them in return, suitable in most cases for "Climate Skeptic Retard of the Week." 

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Originally Posted by gcnp58 

 

 

There are more interesting windmills to fight, is all I'm saying.  Duking it out with climate skeptics on the internet, as I've learned from bitter experience, is an exercise in punching pudding.  You land solid blow after solid blow but at the end, it's still pudding and hasn't changed a bit.  If you like that sort of thing and are doing it just to get fit that's fine.  But in a larger sense it is pointless, the pudding itself doesn't care since it is too stupid to know it's been clobbered (it is, after all, only a pudding), and the only spectators are other puddings. 

 

Personally, I can't think of enough good questions to come anywhere near the skeptic totals.  But what is amusing is by asking a couple a day once a week, I tie them in knots, and get to read some semi-hysterical stuff from them in return, suitable in most cases for "Climate Skeptic Retard of the Week." 

Don't you mean punching jello?  :)
 

Thanks to those who got me connected up with this site and thread-I could not figure out what was going on over there at Y/A with all the meaningless and inane questions and comments from certain people, but now I see that Jello has reclaimed his 'top spot' by colluding with SWC to manipulate the system.  It makes sense now that I see what has been discussed over here, I could NOT understand why SWC was choosing Dr. J's answers as 'best' when there was no analysis or real content, sometimes it was just a couple of words and BOOM (so to speak haha) as soon as Jello posted the best answer was given to him and the question closed.

Man-doesn't Yahoo see this?

Anyway-as a non scientist who is interested in climate change and alternative energy (I chose a wind turbine as my avatar to start out because I am into the wind energy business on a couple of levels and I can see probably 100 turbines from my front yard), thanks for helping keep guys like me up to date on what is going on.  I'll probably remain compelled to comment on the word games that are going on over there.

It's hard to beat references to 'State of Fear' for comedic relief though.  Good grief.

Bleep Blurp.  How could I be blocked if I can still see the question, answers and post answers myself.  I guess I'm not. 

Right.

Please disregard the message which occupied this spot earlier.

SWC is seriously a moron, and a hypocrite. He sent me an email once and so I was able to talk to him a little before he blocked me among the rest. Here are some of the things he said: 

Then this: 

...signs of a learning disability, perhaps?