Allow Trolls to increase participation

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@timbandtech

I think possibly, lausten, you are caught here as both a moderator and a participant in the discussion.
Obviously this forum needs your participation, but if you can’t find the time to provide some support for your arguments, then I can imagine you are feeling spread too thin, yet at the same time wanting to participate and thus keep the forum up and running.

Honestly, from my perspective here as a fairly new (or at least recently re-engaged) user, that the statement “you can’t or won’t post your proof” is an awfully mild form of trolling. Admittedly, none of us will ever prove anything here in the mathematical sense. We are caught developing our beliefs from dubious sources. The falsification of those sources is possible, even when they act en masse and have reputations as intellectual sources.

This ability that we have here to do this is new. It is an artifact of the internet. Wee citizens can, and a few of us do, speak here. I think just the fact that you care to break this out and have a discussion in the open like this points to your integrity as a moderator. On the other side though, for you to maintain integrity in the discussion will require more.

Confirm that this problem exists on this website.

I didn’t know that moderators could use new threads to conduct personal indirect attacks against other users → My Christmas Wish

I think when a user already expressed many times that they felt uncomfortable by the other user/moderator behavior (constant (undesired) reactions on one’s posts with only critics and belittlement), the user/moderator should normally stop.

Leave this comment knowing that it would probably not change anything, so it’s simply an information for prospective users.