Comment fakery at WUWT [Stoat]

I must admit that I’m surprised, because up till now I’ve not detected this, or heard of anyone complain of it. Routine censorship, of course, but fakery is a new thing. So:

Potholes In Their Arguments is a post on the recent IMF report. I put in a comment pointing out that it was a bit late to the party, others already having said the same thing (and, I didn’t add, had said it with less verbosity; the prose there is somewhat prolix). That got an unexciting reply, to which I responded:

William Connolley Your comment is awaiting moderation.
May 29, 2015 at 12:17 pm

Plenty of other people got there ahead of you; try http://ift.tt/1IJiGfx for example. Ignorance of prior art is part of what’s holding you lot back.

Notice the date and time; that’s because I cut-n-pasted it straight from the WUWT page after I submitted it. And kept a copy of it, as I’ve learnt to do.

Imagine my surprise when I read the reply, from Willis Eschenbach May 29, 2015 at 2:17 pm:

William Connolley May 29, 2015 at 12:17 pm

Plenty of other people got there ahead of you; try http://ift.tt/1B9QyKM for example.”

Thanks for an interesting article on the total global sea ice coverage, William. However, I fear I don’t see the relevance to the current discussion…

And now I look at “my comment” on the WUWT page, I discover that it doesn’t say what I wrote. Someone has faked in the wrong link. Oddly enough, my subsequent complaint of fakery didn’t get published.

This seems to me to be below barrel-scraping from AW and his merry gang of clowns. I’ve learnt that they’re often so desperate to “win” that they need to censor those with unwelcome views; but actually faking comments I would formerly have said was beneath even them.

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1RwlrTf

I must admit that I’m surprised, because up till now I’ve not detected this, or heard of anyone complain of it. Routine censorship, of course, but fakery is a new thing. So:

Potholes In Their Arguments is a post on the recent IMF report. I put in a comment pointing out that it was a bit late to the party, others already having said the same thing (and, I didn’t add, had said it with less verbosity; the prose there is somewhat prolix). That got an unexciting reply, to which I responded:

William Connolley Your comment is awaiting moderation.
May 29, 2015 at 12:17 pm

Plenty of other people got there ahead of you; try http://ift.tt/1IJiGfx for example. Ignorance of prior art is part of what’s holding you lot back.

Notice the date and time; that’s because I cut-n-pasted it straight from the WUWT page after I submitted it. And kept a copy of it, as I’ve learnt to do.

Imagine my surprise when I read the reply, from Willis Eschenbach May 29, 2015 at 2:17 pm:

William Connolley May 29, 2015 at 12:17 pm

Plenty of other people got there ahead of you; try http://ift.tt/1B9QyKM for example.”

Thanks for an interesting article on the total global sea ice coverage, William. However, I fear I don’t see the relevance to the current discussion…

And now I look at “my comment” on the WUWT page, I discover that it doesn’t say what I wrote. Someone has faked in the wrong link. Oddly enough, my subsequent complaint of fakery didn’t get published.

This seems to me to be below barrel-scraping from AW and his merry gang of clowns. I’ve learnt that they’re often so desperate to “win” that they need to censor those with unwelcome views; but actually faking comments I would formerly have said was beneath even them.

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1RwlrTf