Moderator Alan

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• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  For those who are interested, this thread has now passed CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE to be the longest on this site yet....
• Commented on Dead plots
  With which I think this entry is exhausted...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  This particular occurrence of the Multi Named One has now been banned for wildly failing to follow the rules that Charlie explicitly imposed on her....
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  @691 has been dropped Charlie is free to resurrect it of course if he sees any value in it....
• Commented on What I published in 2018
  As this year's Worldcon has already taken place, getting a membership to it will be tricky. Next year's is in Dublin, and I'm looking forward to it. The venue is interestingly vertical, but it has escalators (vertiginous ones, so if...
• Commented on The Pivot
  I have now unpublished the entire sequence from when the initial attack occurred. Given that this thread is well beyond its Use By date, I'm also closing it....
• Commented on The Pivot
  They do now...
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  Somewhat late, I'm sorry, but on it...
• Commented on The World of Tomorrow
  Now cleaned out....
• Commented on 2117 revisited
  Now gone. Sorry, been away....
• Commented on Some notes on the worst-case scenario
  As Charlie is currently in the air, it rests with me to tell GT and SW that they are on a 24 hour suspension. Normal posting rights will not be resumed until Charlie has landed and had a decent chance...
• Commented on A Surfeit of Emeralds: Healthcare in the Middle Ages
  Only if you restrict yourself to those states of matter and ignore the others, such as Bose Einstein condensates and the like. (I take it as special pleading to be honest.)...
• Commented on New guest blogger: E. C. Ambrose
  I suspect if I asked to come stay with C & F during the Fringe, I'd get glared at. So, Nojay, you have a spare bed we could borrow? (More seriously, there is actually a whole bunch of performers whose...
• Commented on A reminder
  Pass My last visit to the surgery was last Friday morning, as a result of falling in mud and cutting my hand — it's quite difficult to clean a would using only your non-dominant hand. So I cleaned myself off,...
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Note: I've just unpublished a string of 11 consecutive comments from a certain poster, pending Charlie's decision on whether her recent behaviour — including causing him potential legal problems — is acceptable. In her absence, I would advise fellow posters...
• Commented on Reality is broken
  I added the avatar picture after Greg's comment. Once the next comment arrived, it started showing...
• Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
  There used to be quite draconian ones about product names, URL shorteners, YouTube, etc. The cancellations were automated, and posts were then resurrected when a moderator noticed the ham languishing in the pending folder. Some other posts would be cancelled...
• Commented on Brief interlude
  If Charlie wants a thread on what happened, then he will start one. But unless he does, it's grieve and give thanks for those who haven't been taken....
• Commented on Please ignore those damned writer memes (and don't repost them)
  Greg, Dirk Kindly stop your squabbling before the pair of you get bans. Just because Charlie is away is not an excuse to descend into the mire....
• Commented on Long range forecast
  ... with a spammer? Nah. I think it's entirely one way....
• Commented on Science-fictional shibboleths
  OK people, this thread has gone on way longer than usual, but as it has finally gone quiet I am now closing it. For those that are interested, it is well over 600 comments longer than the previous record holder...
• Commented on Repurposing Memory
  Yes, he had. I've now fixed it...
• Commented on Magic, ecospeak and genre distinctions
  A warning: it is the apparent opinion of the owner of this blog that the members of the brassica family are so noxious as perhaps not even to be suitable for feeding to livestock. In light of that, I would...
• Commented on The Future Is Not American
  If your attitude to a guest post is just to dismiss it without submitting any evidence against it, perhaps it would be best for you not to comment at all....
• Commented on 21st Century: a complaint
  Another pun that bad and you'll be up for a yellow card mate!...
• Commented on Brief hiatus
  It had been a couple of days from the last comment, so my judgement is that it was pretty close to exhausted. I'd agree that the subject per se may not have been, but an entry with that number of...
• Commented on Brief hiatus
  Since you ask: The present in deep history (Sep 6 2015) : 1533 A different cluetrain (Feb 25 2015) : 967 Two Thoughts (Jul 19 2015) : 908 Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (Dec 18 2013):...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  Alright people, this thread seems finally to have run out of steam and is now closed. (It was not only the longest thread ever, it was almost 60% longer than the previously longest.)...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  cough Now fixed, you two....
• Commented on The present in deep history
  Yes. The previous record was 967 comments, several months ago. (And that was the first one that looked like it might breach the 1000 mark)...