Comments on: Reacting to the budget proposal http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reacting-to-the-budget-proposal Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Jeff Foust http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196734 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:17:50 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196734 Dave: unfortunately some people go to great lengths to cloak their identities, which make such filtering difficult. Short of moderating all comments or disabling comments entirely, my suggestion is to ignore the trolls; without attention they’ll go away.

]]> By: Dave http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196720 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:41:56 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196720 Jeff – is there any way you can block those with a history of uncivil language on this site? It’s really getting in the way of intelligent discourse and learning new things. Thanks.

]]> By: Jeff Foust http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196641 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:17:18 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196641 A reminder to please be civil in your comments. If you’re unable to do that, please don’t post here. (That goes especially for you, Mr. Elifritz.)

]]> By: Anne Spudis http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196627 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:41:05 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196627 Where is the “troll” Whisperer?

]]> By: Inyerface http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196617 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:20:17 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196617 I am all for a good argument.

Anyway when I am reading a discussion and someone starts attacking another personally instead of defending their views with facts,

If you were just reading this discussion, that would be fine, but you were participating in this discussion with the comment ‘I thought I ended this discussion’. In the America of this present administration, comments like that will no longer go unchallenged. Get used to it.

well-known space troll Thomas Elifritz.

Let’s talk about the opinions of John Yoo then.

You are the most pathetic excuse of an American I have ever encountered.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196600 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:43:18 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196600 most people would never get down in the dirt like
they do if it were not so anonymous.

The creature may be using pseudonyms, but it’s the well-known space troll Thomas Elifritz.

]]> By: Scott http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196595 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:36:36 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196595 I think you missed the point. I am all for a good argument. This is really
a web phenomenon, most people would never get down in the dirt like
they do if it were not so anonymous. What I am really referring to might be
more akin to respect for others opinions than intelligence or maybe a little bit of both. It may boil down to something as simple as to the way you were raised. Anyway when I am reading a discussion and someone starts attacking another personally instead of defending their views with facts, I quickly move on…Just felt like I needed to say something this time because it surprised me to see it here.

]]> By: Space Garbage http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196578 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:03:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196578 some subjects should be immune to that kind of garbage.

Do you think space itself should be immune to your garbage?

Let me clue you in. It’s not.

I guess I am thinking intelligent people would not stoop to that level.

You think it’s better to either not talk about your problems, or deny them?

Let me clue you in. It’s not.

]]> By: Scott http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196573 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:55:48 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196573 yeah I know Rand, but it just seems out of place. I expect it some places…ie mac vs pc users etc but things like space exploration, physics etc it seems should be different. I guess I am thinking intelligent people would not stoop to that level.
I hope you know what I mean.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/27/reacting-to-the-budget-proposal/#comment-196549 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:09:18 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2055#comment-196549 I just find it amusing but kind of sad that even on a forum like this people resort to personal attacks.

People are people, regardless of the topic.

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