Leading amateur experts allegedly say eJAAVSO 87 and 92 are meaningless

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Allegedly, because they're allegedly scared of getting attacked on all
Martin Nicholson's many unalleged blogs, so they can't be named.

So, they say it to each other quietly, one or two allegedly complain
to the AAVSO boss about what the hell were those papers all about in
alleged private emails, but they're private emails, oh, and alleged.

Whilst the author of the papers says all sorts of rude things about
people on all sorts of blogs and usenet posts.

There ya go people, take the lesson, cyber bullying works. Get your
blogspot, your livejournal, your twitter, probably your myspace and
facebook too, say what you want when you want about who you want.

It won't make any difference to astronomy, "experts" in the amateur
field talk to each other behind everyone else's back, just as happens
in the whole of life. Social networking on the internet, marvellous
stuff, it's not where the decisions are made though.

So one learns second hand and very much long after the fact that a
candidate for leadership of a leading group's new robotic subsection
had no chance, and indeed was completely unsuccessful, because people
within that group were already unimpressed with the candidate's lack
of robotic telescope derived tangible results even after years of
using them.

In the long run then, it is safe, the cyber bullies don't win if there
is something out of their control that they need to gain. It just
depends on whether they are just interested in the bullying itself or
not.

But that is one thing and this is another.

Probably.

It is easy to be rude and not care about others. It is very difficult
to present private evidence without it being clear who people are, and
when it involves a person who sets up new blogs and wikis and all
sorts of things whenever he feels an injustice coming on (you know,
comers over him in waves like a hot flush, no doubt) to either subtley
suggest something rotten is happening of which he is a victim or to
outright damn people personally in the hope the facts those people are
presenting might be forgotten about, well, then there's usenet too.

One of these days I must go read that moderated bit of sci.astro, the
research bit, and see what people in there talk about, and whether all
the sorts of posts Nicholson does in the unmoderated groups are
allowed in there.

I mean, if there is a proper grown up sci.astro.research group why
does he keep having to come to these groups where he is perpetually
complaining about nutters and cranks? There can only be one? Is that
it?