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Originally Posted by ExpErdMann
I found your complaint of "collaborative development" a bit odd in the thread in question. The OP poster paul schroeder had proposed a number of ideas which were seemingly based on Le Sage's theory of gravity. Trouble was, his ideas seemed to fall in between the particle- and wave-based Le Sage models. Several posters put in some ideas of their own about these different variants. There wasn't a collaboration in progress, just posters trying to be helpful and adding comments to the discussion. What you seem to be implying is, don't come to ATM unless your thesis is finished and ready to defend, all on your own. That seems like a pretty tall order. I think the worse situation is the ATMer who is so sure he's right that he doesn't want any help from anyone.
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That's worse, IMHO;
I don't think Fraser could have been more clear: "
In other words, if you've got an interesting new theory about the Universe, you've got 30 days to deal with objections, and then we'll seal it up - preserved for all eternity. Any new topics started up by the ATM theorist will be shut down immediately, and/or deleted."
If, as may be the case, these '
[s]everal [other] posters' introduced '
some ideas of their own' that had already been presented in previous ATM threads, then perhaps the mod team failed ... by not removing those posts and deleting them?
But perhaps the ATM policy that
Fraser announced on 1 March this year isn't as clearly spelled out as it should be?
Oh, and to repeat:
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ETA: and to repeat what
Moose said, it's not like this policy hasn't been discussed - there are quite a few threads in this very section on it - and
Fraser has, many times, clarified and repeated the policy in those About BAUT threads. If you're interested, I'm sure folk will help you find the threads (if you can't find them yourself); also, IIRC, at least one is still open, so you may continue discussion of the policy there.