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Patrick says

It's a good idea for essentially duplicate threads.

I just ignore the duplicate threads. Not changing topics, but the covid ones got out of hand so I ignored them. We all know it was bad. We're already 5 years removed from the start. Epstein started 20 years ago. We can only beat a dead horse so much on some topics.

I agree with the merging and I don't agree with censoring, but so many topics don't need 15 threads. Between a rock and a hard place on it. I choose to ignore the repetitive ones or ones I don't want to view.

WookieMan says

Not going to talk about anyone directly. Because it's multiple users. Some of you cats beat a dead horse over and over and over. No one cares. If they did they'd address you and you'd just go back to the original bull shit you spewed out. Some of you are clearly not open to dialog even with actual proof you're wrong. It's extremely hard to have a conversation with some of you. No one here knows everything. Stop acting like you do. Grow up toddlers.

"Outrageous Claim"
Information showing Outrageous Claim is BS or at best, a conjecture, but some 'facts' were not. They were simply accepted from a conjecture that was repeated so many times (see "Mosaddegh Coup" claims which are a flaming bucket of half truths and lies, leaving out his family was nobility that lost the throne to the Pahlavis, he violated the Constitution by refusing to seat Liberals and Pahlavi Royalist MPs duly elected by the dozens, and used Shi'a Militants - the forerunners of the IRGC - to beat up his rivals and intimidate voters. The Shah was within his rights in the Limited Monarchy powers in the Constitution to can his ass like Oscar the Grouch, all Kermit Roosevelt did was provide leaflets and radio waves to offset Mossadegh's control of half the print media in Iran).
Two weeks later: "Repated debunked outrageous claim"
If you perservered using Autstic like powers of break down parts of claims one-by-one?
"I guess. I don't know"
A month later: "Repeat Outrageous Claim"

A certain user was INFAMOUS for this shit.

I added an email alert which goes out to you when you log in, because at least one user said he thought someone else had logged in as him.

So that gives you:

1. the knowledge that someone logged in as you, and when
2. the opportunity to change your password right away if it wasn't you (which will kick the other user out right away)
3. the opportunity to let me know

Downside is that you'll get an email each time you log in.

New feature: on the home page and other pages with tabs:

active
new
views
unread

You can now type ^u (control-u) to open the next unread comment on the threads listed on that page, in a new tab.

Combined with closing the tab via the keyboard (command-w on a Mac), this makes it very fast to see what's going on without even touching the mouse.

Before, you had to actually click the "unread" tab to open the next unread comment.