Tap tap tap, this thing on?

I'm waiting for 3rd Doorman to leave. CTTF has its problems but at least he's blocked over there. :-)

Too many bashful people on this forum.

I can’t imagine why CTTF is still the preferred platform. Even with less moderation the platform is terrible and outdated.

Its the community, I've seen other communities that actually value getting at truth whereas there are serious limitations at CTTF. Those limitations have shaped the community. People who write papers rarely join the discussion at CTTF.

This place being an offshoot by request of Miles, under the duress of Askimet and Josh basically going MIA without any explanation, I can assume that there is serious disfunction under the surface of such a community. Commenters would complain but there is an entire political scene under the surface I suspect. Most were willing to just have faith in Josh and even if they did have something to say, and the courage, they didn't post anything. I could go into specfic examples and name names, but instead I'll just say I have NO SURPRISE that this place is so quiet. With Josh returning, and Miles' critique that this place will "censor" we can expect no promotion, the wind in the sails diminished.

CTTF can't even clean up its spam/possible bot problem, look at AYV, on the current page, who I pointed out in the past is posting links to his own blog, and nothing else, now for the 5th time maybe. Many posters seem just as self interested, checking in every few months or something.

Look at the link to Nevyn's lab that helps take up all that potentially useful space on the right column, have you tried following it recently? Is it useful to have TWO giant blank columns of unusable space confining comments into tighter and tighter limits? Seems like I'm the only one to notice, I have no idea if Josh is aware that its HIS decision to organize it that way.