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Well it's over now. He's gone from there. And deserved because it's one thing to say you don't think a 10 day thread should be created, but it's another to be grossly abusive.

I had the fortune (or misfortune) to be reading there at the time, and yes I do believe some of the worst of it has been deleted.

On the one hand, we all know that a 10 day threat is highly unlikely to come to pass. At the same time, on a board for weather enthusiasts, if people wanna talk fantasy about it, let them. It isn't hurting anyone. It's just a conversation thread, not a military operation.

Good post!

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On the one hand, we all know that a 10 day threat is highly unlikely to come to pass. At the same time, on a board for weather enthusiasts, if people wanna talk fantasy about it, let them. It isn't hurting anyone. It's just a conversation thread, not a military operation.

I agree. The weird thing is I know he said he didn't like how things were done here aand talked about how Greg Fishel doesn't look past 5 days, but then he went all crazy about the thread over there and mad because posters would not prove why they needed to start the thread with support. So in turn he was acting more like the ones here that he said he didn't like. Bizarre. It is like he flipped his lid because someone started the thread and didn't want it to work out because his forecasts haven't worked out for the long range. Either that or someone hacked his account.

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Wow. If I ever go out, I'm going out like that. Full on self destruct scorched earth nuclear meltdown warp core breach disintegration.

 

That is a good way to describe what happened.  Although honestly even if he hadn't asked, I do believe the ban hammer would have come down anyway, even if just a temporary one.  Some things were said that... well.

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Sometimes I think it would be okay to have 7-10 day threads, because you can learn just as much about it by seeing what does NOT work out, and trying to understand why it didn't, as what does.  It's not all about being right 100% of the time, and the ingredients that make a storm (or heat wave, for that matter) start a lot further than 72 hours out.

 

I wouldn't mind seeing such threads, but I would name them specially so that people who choose not to partake of them could do so.  Such as [speculation] 2/1/15 Potential Storm Threat.  And once they are inside the magical 72 hour window, either change the existing thread name and continue posting in it, or create a new [Official] 2/1/15 Storm thread.

 

At least that way, there could be a civil discussion, with those who choose not to pay attention to it having a very easy way to filter the speculation threads out of what they read.

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