What about the other forum thingy – the BAUT? Are there new rules there as I gathered and, if so, what are they?

@ # 38. Davidlpf :
The light hearted stuff is fine and I often get into as well. Cursing I try to avoid as much as I can but once while I have let it out. But there have been a couple of posters here that did nothing but be rude in insulting and one was actually worse at Universe Today in my opinion. I have also say at times I can get a little heated as well.

Me too. We’re all human & we all get carried away and mess up on occassion. I think allowing a little latitude for folks is therefore a good thing… Although of course this does have its limits too.

@ # 40. Torbjörn Larsson, OM :

@ StevoR: “Do we really want to make things too exclusive and restrictive?”
I wasn’t analyzing other effects.

Huh? I don’t understand what you mean there at all.

They can be synthesized, but you need supernova to scatter them throughout the universe.

But what about the solar wind and other ejection processes? The references I saw was that “Novae and X-ray bursts” (IIRC at writing this) are thermally hot enough to let the CNO process run away (or is that “slip away” ) towards iron.

@ StevoR:

Do we really want to make things too exclusive and restrictive?

I wasn’t analyzing other effects.

Example – up until recently I’ve used ‘StevoR’ for many initial serious posts but then when I need to correct typos or other flaws in the original post I’ve adopted ‘StevoR-Correcting’ to indicate that the post is a correction on a previous one – & to break the monotony of too many posts with the same name in a row!

With the new editing ability ( thanks again BA /Discover ) I didn’t think I’d need to use that tag any more and could “retire” it … until I found myself running out of time to correct everything!

Still off-topic, sorry …

@ Davidlpf # 34

OTOH allowing a certain amount of bantering and light-hearted humerous “insulting” stuff along those lines (eg. PZ Myers Vs the BA) is another thing though and, I think, a line arguably does need to be drawn somewhere allowing such “banter insults” but preventing really nasty, mean and unpleasant attacks.

Such really nasty insults are, in any case, usually a clear signal to everyone that the insulting party has lost the argument & often the plot so … anyway, yeah.

Sometimes hyperbole and rhetoric are part of people’s – & even some culture’s – general style. For example, I think much cultural and political misunderstanding occurs because the traditional Arabic world -Muslim style is full of such overblown poetical /rhetorical exaggeration which isn’t to be necessarily taken literally – but sadly too often is. So style & even cultural exchange can sometimes be cramped by too narrow a set of regulations.

Personally, I do try to follow the rules and be polite and rational, if sometimes funny or silly for FXT and do the right thing netiquette ~wise and all, and I feel (felt) the BAUT laws were (are? Even worse now?) kind of harsh and overly limiting.

That’s just another perspective to consider, BA?

PS. Sorry all this is well off the topic here I know, but anyhow.