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  • PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 13 11:33:18 2024
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    so it seems PTD wasn't a big fish (Trump) elsewhere.


    The BIG FISH comment reminds me of a Master's thesis, I forget where,
    that analysed roles of people in newsgroups. It caused great amusement
    here (AUE) because it so badly miscategorised the roles of the
    regulars. In
    particular, it concluded that PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars, because of the many responses to him. It's true that he did
    start the most arguments.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Daniels

    i thought that this page (for a long time) said that
    PTD was among the most respected of the regulars of AUE, where
    he is seen as the unofficial moderator.

    -------- but i can't find that now.



    _____________________________________

    ........ He was a bit of a
    misfit in AUE because he got into so many disputes, usually because of
    an inability to admit when he was wrong.


    And his astonishing ability to be wrong or misleading so often on
    so many topics. Eventually a lot of people, including me, stopped
    correcting him. <<<


    ---------- What was he famously WRONG about ?

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Sat Apr 13 11:39:17 2024
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    On 4/13/2024 11:33 AM, HenHanna wrote:

    so it seems PTD wasn't a big fish (Trump) elsewhere.


    The BIG FISH comment reminds me of a Master's thesis, I forget where,
    that analysed roles of people in newsgroups. It caused great amusement here (AUE) because it so badly miscategorised the roles of the
    regulars. In
    particular, it concluded that PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars, because of the many responses to him. It's true that he did start the most arguments.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Daniels

    i thought that this page (for a long time) said that
    PTD was among the most respected of the regulars of AUE, where
    he is seen as the unofficial moderator.

                                    -------- but i can't find that now.



    _____________________________________

    ........  He was a bit of a
    misfit in AUE because he got into so many disputes, usually because of
    an inability to admit when he was wrong.


      And his astonishing ability to be wrong or misleading so often on
    so many topics.  Eventually a lot of people, including me, stopped correcting him. <<<


                ---------- What was he famously  WRONG  about ?


    how odd... from TB(ES), this is the only 1 i can see.

    from NovaBBS, i can see 3 almost-identical posts (by me).

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