"How did we get a host?" a locked thread asks? Here is the answer.

[SpoonFed]

73. I cannot express properly in words how disappointed I am...

to see that even with DU3 the rampant vitriol for kristopher and more importantly why such behaviour is tolerated on E/E when clearly the posters have a severe distain or outright hatred for the guy and almost never add any salient points to the OP. We get it, you don't like him, you don't respect him, you don't respect his position on anything, you don't want him here. Too bad, he seems to have the metal to keep slogging through the crap that gets slung in his direction.

To that end, a discussion as to why we got a host (then hosts) and the circumstances in which this happened is totally valid in my opinion. I don't care that kristopher may or may not have wanted to be a host, frankly I have lost total confidence with all the crap flying and incredible thread locking that has happened since one was appointed.

The guy (kristopher) has a right to exist and a right to his opinion at least under the premise that this is some sort of progressive, open forum for discussion, whether or not you agree with him or like him as a person or whatever. He routinely attempts to back himself up with citations and logical argumentation, unlike most of what I read from a certain identifiable section of what I am starting to suspect are sock puppets.

I can only assume the rampant personal attacks are tolerated because of some sort of dislike or inherent bias from above, and the lack of stomping down on all the total shit and personal attacks in E/E makes this place more and more a complete waste of time (which is what I would assume the nuke industry really hopes to accomplish).

There needs to be some serious ass-spanking, smack-downing until everything posted in this group that doesn't pass as semi-respectable, polite discussion is gone, and I think the switch to DU3 would have been a suitable point to break with the past despite how much pain that might bring to some of the long term verbose posters with such tendencies.

But I can't see this happening, given the current circumstances.