Well now, someone seems to be ever-so-slightly pissed at me. ;-)
title=Response_to_Stephen_Gilbert
- Stephen G.
One should consider that a good sign.
In general I agree with Jimbo that we should take extraordinary measures against a crank who isn't clearly a vandal, but there is one danger I can see from him in our present state: our current community of editors may not alsways have someone of sufficient knowledge to correct his nonsense. When he screws up something about science, or math, or economics, I can pretty confidently identify it as nonsense and remove it. But when I read some of his stuff about green politics, even if it looks like nonsense, I'm not entirely sure, because I'm just not up on that topic. So I think there is a danger of some of his stuff slipping through the cracks until someone with particular expertise can repair it. Hopefully that's a short-term concern, but it does worry me.
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