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Originally Posted by Rob_K
LOL, I realise you and Carl are having a ball in Astronomy Science Craig, but I think this sort of thread is exactly what Mike had in mind when he created the sub-forum. That is, a place where people involved in amateur contributions to astronomy science could gather and discuss what they're doing. And photometry is smack bang in the middle of that.
Unfortunately the long-winded and sometimes esoteric cosmology/EU threads have utterly dominated the sub-forum - and that's fine, it's a free forum, but personally I'd like to see much more about the interesting things that IIS members are up to. I do wonder whether members have been a bit hesitant in posting here because of the argy-bargy...  Maybe we need a poll on that! 
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It's not so much that the threads start on EU/PC but Alex hijacks the threads where he thinks he can speak his drivel. He then expects we'll just leave them alone and let his nonsense get promulgated without question. The reason why people tend to stay away from these threads is that they don't want to get involved and most don't have the necessary science background to be able to counter argue Alex, anyway.
If the members post their own stuff, Alex will most likely stay away from their threads, unless it's something he can stir up controversy in. It's a pity that someone has to be around to wreck what might otherwise be good threads and excellent topics just because they have a bee in their bonnet about a subject that 1.) they really know little about, 2.) they follow some pseudoscientific whack-jobs that wouldn't know if their rear ends were on fire, even if you pointed it out to them, and, 3.) Seems to think they have all the answers and that everyone else is a fool and doesn't know what they're talking about.