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When Shutting Up isn't Cowardice

 
 
nimh
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 06:30 pm
dyslexia wrote:
It's far more interesting to me that foxfyre and ticomaya are supportive of Possum than what possum has to say.

True dat. I was just baffled when I saw Foxfyre praising him. Can you imagine Soz or Edgar praising, say, freedom4free?
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 06:34 pm
I was googling around, trying to find out if you'd posted (anywhere) your personal voting preferences (based on finn's question) - found that and went "that'll fit in somewhere/someday" Cool .

nimh, you've got fans all over the place <grin>
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 06:57 pm
I sincerely doubt that got Herbert banned. but who knows.


On Thomas' point, I try, I try, I try, to do what he said, especially once I catch on.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 07:22 pm
ok, just pretend that I am not here.
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 07:26 pm
Reminds me of the time that I found this on FreeRepublic on night:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680254/posts
Quote:
To: psychopuppy

The de-mokkker-rat party has been weighed in the scales and found wanting.

24 posted on 08/08/2006 8:38:08 PM PDT by tomzz


And then saw....

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2198417#2198417
Quote:
The de-mokkker-rat party has been weighed in the scales and found wanting.


And I thought... that's odd... so I looked at this and thought it was pretty funny who turns up in the places you would leas... actually, most expect Laughing

Cycloptichorn
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Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 07:28 pm
gustavratzenhofer wrote:
ok, just pretend that I am not here.


possum is Dyslexic for bernardr/mariont/massogato/renautus5/etc

Cycloptichorn
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 07:28 pm
I agree with Thomas. In fact months ago (don't recall when or where) I made the recommendation that we "good guys" simply SHUN the trolls. By simply ignoring them we can procede as if they were non-existent.

Say, could THAT be why people rarely respond to my comments?
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 07:33 pm
Cycloptichorn wrote:
gustavratzenhofer wrote:
ok, just pretend that I am not here.


possum is Dyslexic for bernardr/mariont/massogato/renautus5/etc

Cycloptichorn


Thank you. I love you like a brother.
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blacksmithn
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 08:21 pm
Thank God. For a minute I thought it was me...
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 08:24 pm
Most of the members do not hate you, blacksmithn, but they do look upon you with a certain sense of disdain.
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blacksmithn
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 08:37 pm
Well at least it's disdain and not bemused ennui.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 08:45 pm
dyslexia wrote:
It's far more interesting to me that foxfyre and ticomaya are supportive of Possum than what possum has to say.



He's a litmus all right.
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JPB
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 08:45 pm
Thank you, Thomas.
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snood
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 09:03 pm
Is it disdain, or datstain?
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 09:08 pm
It's so haaaaaaard to not respond!
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snood
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 09:15 pm
be strong, grasshopper....
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 09:33 pm
I shall, master.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Thu 19 Oct, 2006 11:38 pm
Oh that Gus, such a master of tough love.
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blacksmithn
 
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Reply Fri 20 Oct, 2006 05:30 am
Gus is, for many of us, our hero and our muse.

Well, for some of us.

A few anyway...

Okay, so he's got a small, deeply deranged cult of followers.

But all the barnyard animals just love him!

And vice versa.
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Fri 20 Oct, 2006 05:50 am
Any of you old psych majors remember learning about intermittent reinforcement? The point is that a behavior is reinforced more strongly when the responce is sporadic, than if it is responded to consistently.

In other words, if you want this behavior to stop, NEVER respond to it. Sometimes responding to it, will make the behavior continue more strongly than if you always respond to it.

If you want a good example of this phenomenon, think "slot machines". Very Happy



Quote:
The interesting thing that Skinner discovered about intermittant reinforcement and maybe one of Skinner's most important discoveries was that behavior that is reinforced intermittantly is much more difficult to extinguish than behavior that is reinforced continuously.


http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Intermittent_reinforcement
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