Somebody did some major post-cutting here. Not that I was too attached to any of my brilliant posts, but whoever did that, please explain how the censorship works on this site, it seems rather randomly applied.
Fritz "They Are Censoring Me Again" Zwicky
Censorship is the devil
Re: Cornell 2009 admissions
It's Grant's site, so he does what he wants. He spells out some of the policies on the FAQ, and there was much discussion last year in this thread.
The posts were just a series of personal attacks completely unrelated to the original topic (which some people might have found useful, but was buried by your posts) and to the purpose of these forums as a whole. It's not surprising that they went poof.
That said, I think twistor's economic insight is correct (also see what happened to Cornell's endowment -- another reason why more TAs might not be in the cards).
The posts were just a series of personal attacks completely unrelated to the original topic (which some people might have found useful, but was buried by your posts) and to the purpose of these forums as a whole. It's not surprising that they went poof.
That said, I think twistor's economic insight is correct (also see what happened to Cornell's endowment -- another reason why more TAs might not be in the cards).
Re: Cornell 2009 admissions
I was the only major opposition to censorship on this site. Nobody spoke up so this is what you get.
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Re: Cornell 2009 admissions
Well, we agree on this one. Since I don't like censorship, especially randomly applied, I am now gone from this site, so this is my last post (not that I expect anybody to miss me too much).twistor wrote:I was the only major opposition to censorship on this site. Nobody spoke up so this is what you get.
Fritz "Frak Censorship" Zwicky
Re: Cornell 2009 admissions
Fritz.Zwicky wrote:Well, we agree on this one. Since I don't like censorship, especially randomly applied, I am now gone from this site, so this is my last post (not that I expect anybody to miss me too much).twistor wrote:I was the only major opposition to censorship on this site. Nobody spoke up so this is what you get.
Fritz "Frak Censorship" Zwicky
How is it random? You two take a normal thread and spend 20 posts spewing cuss words at each other, and the completely irrelevant and obnoxious posts were deleted. Start a thread in the lounge for cussing each other out if you want, but don't do it here.
Re: Censorship is the devil
I sense a poll coming... and ah, the legacy of 400nm lives ongrae313 wrote:Start a thread in the lounge for cussing each other out if you want, but don't do it here.
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On 2/21/08, 400nm wrote:twistor, you obviously think that what happened to me is just fine, as do several guys on this site, or all of you wouldn't have stood up for RG and thought the male locker room was a great idea. So from my viewpoint, the forum did not take care of itself. If it had, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Just to summarize what I said before, I think it's a good idea for entire threads that are off-topic to be moved to (or started in) the |L|O|U|N|G|E|,and that posts which are hateful/offensive that are directed at another person should be deleted, or at least responded to, if that person reports them.
twistor wrote:I give up. Enjoy the new and very boring physicsgre.com.
twistor wrote:The lounge is where polls go to die.
Re: Censorship is the devil
Just to make my position clear, I don't care if off topic, and/or hateful, and/or explicit threads are started in the prospective grad students forum, but I do object when the squabble of two people completely derails a thread like it did. When every conversation starts turning into "*** you," and "go eat a dick" then the flavor of the forum changes.quizivex wrote:...
Re: Censorship is the devil
Go eat a ....
sandwich.
sandwich.
Re: Censorship is the devil
twistor wrote:sandwich.
mmmmm
I love...
sandwiches
and twistor