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30 comments on The impact seems widespread, but there is hope

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Prof. Goose on September 2, 2005 - 9:34am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Mr Verdon, you seem to imply over at your place that we've systematically missed the good news over the past day.

My response is that I think we have hit the good news in its relative weight to the bad throughout this situation.  There's been a lot of bad news.  

While there are little pieces of hope that matter greatly, such as the one that HO just summarized (which says pretty much the same thing you have here in the comments, had you read under the fold) in his piece that you just commented on, there's also a lot of negative information that needs to be digested.

So, you can attempt to impugn all you wish.  We don't do this blog out of ego, we do it because we believe that the issues we cover here are important.  In that cause, I believe our treatment is representative and justifiable.

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greeny on September 2, 2005 - 10:19am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Prof. Goose-

can this site do instant polls?

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Super G on September 2, 2005 - 10:22am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Scoop has the capability to do polls, but I disabled them at the start. I would like to get them working at some point, but I've been busy just keeping the site alive.

Look for polls and a lot more other features to be rolled out in the coming weeks!

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NC on September 2, 2005 - 11:26am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I dislike polls.  Popularity contests or poor assumptions shouldn't hold the same weight as data.  To quote Opus from Bloom County "Just because a million people do a stupid thing doesn't mean it is not a stupid thing"

This site is excellent because most posts have data that backs up a statement.  We all (myself most of all) go off with predictions of our own beliefs about the future from time to time.  But the weight of data is what is steering our knowledge ship.

I think it is okay to make predictions and see how accurate they are over time.  I don't think people being polled about one particular idea at this site is very useful about future outcomes.

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