COMensarations
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Pipelining Discussions
An opinion on how to squelch discussion.
So there I was in a discussion about homeopathy on a web-site operating under the title of Snort Yourself Some Zinc.
It was an interesting discussion.....
....up to the point I was apparently cut off from seeing, let alone participating in the discussion any more.
How do I know this?
Well....
....because for the last several hours or so, I can no longer get there from my computer.
However, I CAN get there via my cell-phone’s web-capability.
Very interesting.
I hope that Derek Lowe can ‘correct’ the situation. But even if he doesn’t, I think we all understand the rationale for the banning.
As I mentioned, I was able to get to the site via my cell-phone. So I left behind a trail to this web-site. Let’s see if anyone follows it to continue the discussion in a more open and free environment.
UPDATE Blockage ‘corrected’ [012112T Jul 09]: Looks like Derek followed the ‘trail’ I left via my cell-phone and has ‘corrected’ the problem of my being blocked from his site discussion on homeopathy.
Good on him! More at that site later.....
However, I notice that the text-message input I provided via the cell-phone is ‘disappeared’. I can’t imagine WHY {nudge-nudge, wink-wink}.....