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352 comments on From the Editor's Desk: Peak Oil, Heretical Thought, Complexity, and the Future of The Oil Drum

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Euan Mearns on November 10, 2006 - 9:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
AMPOD - just scanned through the posts here before falling into bed. IMHO - it is a really difficult job to retain the freedom of speach and quality ( I'm only really interested in equality to speak where that is weighted by the speakers qulaifications to speak) - and here in lies the problem - who decides what's crap and what's not crap?

We are confronting a new problem. And that leads on to PG's discussion of trust.

I would judge that when I started posting here I got a rough ride - and I've moved on a bit since then.

What I will say is this - if I were to trust anyone with comming up with an new and fair editorial system it woud be the TOD editors and contributors.  If they drift from what I find to be accpetable - I'm off - but right now thetyre on the money but grappling with a difficult problem.

My hope is that TOD becomes the industry standard.

CW

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fleam on November 10, 2006 - 10:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
My hope is that TOD becomes the industry standard too. The only other "golden" links are peakoil.com which is too full of 9-11 conspiracies and other highschool level nonsense, (although improving lately) and dieoff.org which is great for some people, who like to dig into big meaty tomes  - not the other 99% of the population.

I'd like to see this site stay up as long as there is an Internet. It's very hard to wrap one's mind around the basic realities that "Progress" is a recent, and deranged, idea, that the bare-ass Australian Aborigine is more successful in Mother Earth's eyes than the CEO, and so on. This page provides the best help of all of them towards digesting these things at a gut level.

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TrueKaiser on November 10, 2006 - 11:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
your half right..
it's not nonsense but you do need a good grasp of at least high school level math and physics to understand it.
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AlphaMaleProphetOfDoom on November 11, 2006 - 2:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
". . . and here in lies the problem - who decides what's crap and what's not crap?"

Just pick somebody trusted, preferrably a female as she is not as likely to get emotionally invested in the ritualized dominance contests.

If "TheEnforcer" gets out of hand or starts acting like a Beyootch, then you boot her ass and get a new Enforcer.

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Oilrig medic on November 11, 2006 - 2:31pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"preferrably a female as she is not as likely to get emotionally invested"

do you know any females?

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odograph on November 12, 2006 - 11:07am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
LOL, any stalking horses you have in mind?
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