I agree with Serenitude and Lurker on discussing publicly about poster's habits. I find it annoying to see posts like that in the middle of interesting discussion about astronomy. Jerry has especially been a target for that kind of posts, it seems that Jerry can't participate any discussion without the "Jerry haters" starting to post about Jerry's person and/or his posting style (you can see posts like that in this thread too). I have to wonder why some people seem to think that someone posting about ATM subjects is a free target for insults.
I don't have problems with Jerry's posts. Jerry points out problematic points about theories (and problematic observations for them), and that is what I find interesting. I don't have much interest in discussions where someone posts results of a new study, and then few posters praise it, and everything is just peachy. I'm interested in problems of (any) theories, and that's what Jerry talks about. Sometimes it turns out that Jerry's problems are not real problems, and in those cases Jerry has admitted being wrong (at least in those that I have seen lately).
I also agree with dgruss23's post above.
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