I won't. Complain about it. I'll just navigate the forum differently leaving bits and folk alone. Did you know (and this is not trolling) but did you know you can't put a moderator on ignore? You guys are special, lol.
I've got curious about this now, just discovered @carlosp who apparently has an average of three likes for every post he makes. Can anyone beat that?
Is there a moral conflict of interests in getting likes to comments made defending against the complaint you get sycophantic likes?
Don't under sell yourselves your posts are eye catchers I decided yesterday to stick within one forum/sub. So just am winding up the other two I've spent too much time in recently. You guys are right, I've been full on. Can't really get a lock on some of the other shows in the franchise so participating in those forums is not much fun. Discovery is out and this one too/Misc. I like Voyager. Figured it might be wise to do that whole ignore list thing and then there won't be reading others and interacting the same way. That too has the advantage that mine are not out there too. It keeps the peace. Apart from Voyager.. there is coffee in that forum! Happy posting.. and I'm going to hit a 'like' on your post Emilia, lol.
This got me curious.... I found the "like" list, and this poster: jespah Messages: 3,701 Likes Received: 3,450 Has a nearly 1:1 ratio, and I've never even heard of them!
Shame on you, she's a lovely girl. Gave her left arm to a sick puppy. Teaches homeless people to tap dance and runs a unicorn sanctuary. Everyone loves her. Nah, new one to me too, I suppose a lot of this stuff comes down to our habitual hauntings, whom we tend to be exposed to. The bbs is a big place.
My interest in science allows me a new appreciation of the Bible. The story about Eden was not that knowledge was a sin--or it would not have been placed in the garden. I've even heard some suggested that--had it been the snake that was eaten--the forbidden fruit would have been allowed.. The real lesson--was that Adam and Eve were cast out by greed. Eden was in Iraq--once part of the Fertile Crescent. Not so fertile these days. My theory is that we had a Dust Bowl that never quit. That's how we were cast out of Eden--as it were. We went from a controlled environment to the darwinian hell that we were not prepared for. Many people of faith confuse the lessons of Darwin and Jesus. Social darwinism for dealing with your fellows--but thinking the Earth 6,000 years old. We fought the Dust Bowl by being less greedy with the land--by having regulation--being less rebellious than the folks cast out of the Fertile Crescent through over-farming. Now what I am about to say is going to shock some of you--but I hold that William Jennings Bryan was less an overall threat to education than Penn Jillette. Bryan feared Social Darwinism. He was a true Progressive who would have shamed today's Mammon worshiping free-trade Republicans. He was a simple man who didn't understand science--but he appraciated public education enough to fight for it. Penn--though he understands science far more than Bryan--doesn't care whether your kids get an education or not. If you are a public school science teacher--he may pat you on the back with one hand--and stick a shiv in your back with the other. As a libertarian--he wants to pay less in taxes. So much for public institutions. He is a libertarian Ayn Rand type. That is what angered Bryan. You see--an atheist in the popular American imagination isn't someone who doesn't believe in God. That's your Uncle Bill who drinks and doesn't go to church. An atheist in the popular imagination is a rake--a jack-legged blackguard who wears a shirt with puffy sleeves--a member of a hellfire club with no love of his fellow man--a libertine.. In his own way--Bryan got it right. The closest Jesus ever got to violence was with money-changers. The business lobby, as it were. That tells me Jesus was a union man. C.P. Ellis and Ann Atwater were from different worlds--but--like Bryan--they both wanted a good public education for their kids. The blue-blood Repulblicans looked down their nose at both. Religion and science occupy different worlds. The fundies just get it all bass-ackwards. The real prodigal son wasn't the one who wandered off. It was the resentful one. I did what I was supposed to--my brother he chose to be poor--typical talk radio stuff. But he was the one the father cautioned. He called that attitude sin. It's easy, say--to get mad at Trump--at America Firsters. But the Libertarians--those are the ones to fear the most. They are the voice of the serpent. We will let you have all the abortions we want--asd we shouldn't have EEOC regulations either. You marry who you want--and we can hire who we want. Come and play with us wolves. The mean old sshepherd puts boundaries up--he hits us with his staff and shears you every April 15th. Come past the fence--be free...with us. Bryan saw this--so long ago
Probably some of the more informative posts when it comes to that case, from a legal perspective. Explains all the likes.