You used to be able to at least hold your own, but as Trump unraveled, so did you. Now you’re reduced to the occasional tantrum. Sad.

You are getting slow in your old age, techie- try to keep up!

Dont worry, I am sure he is keeping SOME people in the loop!

This Alinsky-ite dependence upon mockery and obnoxiousness to address people one wants to marginalize is always on display and has been for years.

Pot meet kettle, kettle – pot.

As for TB, for a long while as the Zone was decaying, he was one of the few posters remaining that was worth reading and one knew his posts would be well sourced and thoughtful. No one did more to save this place from the doom of becoming a Media Matters for America back up forum with a ‘space board’ attached.

The cognitive dissonance, my posts triggered here is off the charts. Whether it be the fallacy of the 3.1mm ocean height rise or the fact the Deputy AG just settled in two weeks ago and started to process the firing of Comey.

Disagreeable facts are pure toxin to those who can’t update their database.

Perusing the boards before I posted, this place seems like a secret ku klux klan meeting where nonstop vitriol and hate is the reason d’etre for each post and then reinforced with a circle jerk of more hate.

It’s actually a great microcosm of the failure of the left in society and the past elections; fanatical and unable to see how they appear to everyone else; isolated, they think their hate is mainstream. Then when their own depart or the ranks don’t grow – they blame others.

Hillary still blamed Comey for her failure – well, until he was fired. Clinton, Podesta, Weiner none had any probs at all – they were victims because their true actions and words were exposed to millions. The toxic truth!

Same thing goes on here. “If only those pesky ‘conservatives’ would stop coming by every year posting their nonsense, this place would be a paradise and thriving with members!”

Looking back I realize this place is really a quasi spin-off of MSNBC and then the hate, dysfunction and aversion to truth all makes perfect sense.

You would think with that photographic memory he claims to have that he would remember how many times his behavior has ended in his total embarrassment.

*-And ‘BOOM’ goes the dynamite-*

That long screed below was so full of crazy and conspiracy theory- (Obama threatened to take a supreme court justice’s children if he didn’t rule in Obama’s favor???!! REALLY?!)… Techie is completely insane, and TB is right there defending him.

So if you don’t like Robert’s proposed reformatting of the Zone, fine, don’t come back.

But you’re right about one thing. We’re no longer a “well-respected and useful forum for the space community”. You saw to that.

You are blaming people who show up here once or twice a year for driving everyone else off. Get a clue. It isn’t them. People driven off have told me what the problem is.

This is not a “well-respected and useful” forum for the space community.

This board is a tiny handful of people making mouth-foaming soapbox speeches to each other, a noncritical audience who will never argue with them. A “provocateur” is anyone who knocks you off your very narrow-gauge rails for a moment, and the response is mindless fury. Destroy the invader.

Look around. Your “majority dialogue” is now down to six people, and two of them are the same person. Robert may well succeed in building a stronger shed wall, but the isolation will all be on the inside.