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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by mrguyorama on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:43PM (#17728313)
Are you asking me to go through each of them and give a thorough post about the background of the issue, the facts as they lay, the most reasonable conclusions, the possible influences/biases from each side and their possible agendas etc etc etc?

And you're saying that I should do this each and every single time someone wants to discuss a (IMO) discredited study or blog post or something?

Do you not see how easy that is to abuse by people acting in bad faith? It's a pretty classic DDOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by lylecubed on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:58PM (#17728440)
Isn't that what you tried to do to me? You asked me this: "is there actual factual standing behind the positions I listed?" First of all, why are you asking me about the factual standings of your examples? And second, you didn't just allege that the ideas you listed were 'silly'. You said they do "actual damage" despite being out in the open and actively refuted. Is it so much to ask that you provide proof? Had you just said "I think these are silly ideas" we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by scarejunba on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:10PM (#17728536)
Hang on, just to check, which of the specific things called out as "bad ideas" do you take issue with?