[ExI] Meta: A request for clarification

[Max More]

John: Please note that I have *not* (yet) declared a moratorium. What 
I said was this:

>I was about to declare a temporary moratorium on posts related to 
>the consciousness/identity/Searle discussion. However, it appears to 
>have died down over the last day or so. If it flares up again, I 
>*will* be imposing a moratorium of at least two weeks.

I haven't seen a flare up -- just a very few posts that I think are 
within tolerable levels. I cannot agree that Mr. Swobe has since then 
gone at it "full throttle", though I have noticed a few posts not 
actually on the topic but addressing his dispute with you.

I strongly recommend that you let it drop. If the (fruitless) 
argument gets going again, I will put the moratorium into effect. 
(Or, I may put all participants on moderation, but that would be a 
major pain for your busy moderator...)

Max


>Gordon Swobe is correct when he says "I have no conversation with 
>him", for months he has refused to talk not only with me but with 
>anybody who asks hard questions about his very naive theories that 
>he can't answer; but that hasn't stopped Swobe from posting an 
>astonishing amount of verbiage in that time. Since I cannot talk to 
>him I was forced to talk about him, or at least his ideas.
>
>But now things have changed, despite Max's two week moratorium the 
>man seems determined to keep the good old Swobe gibberish engine 
>going at full throttle. So my question to Max is, does the 
>moratorium apply to everyone except Swobe and must his illogical 
>posts now go unchallenged?
>
>I have one more thing to say, it's not a complaint it's just an 
>observation; If I had called a fellow poster "nasty" and "obnoxious" 
>and "deplorable" when I was unable to counter an argument they had 
>made and if I had then said "He talks to himself there like he has 
>some sort of mental illness" howls of protests against me would have 
>been made, protests full of a rather pompous Latin phrase for name 
>calling. Again let me emphasize that I'm not complaining, I'm a big 
>boy and have been called worse, but it would be nice if I were 
>allowed to defend myself.
>
>  John K Clark
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