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Should I apologize to Clown Crusher?

Someone named "Michael" has confessed for many of the misdeeds that I believed were done by Clown Crusher--creating hundreds of fake accounts, flooding this group with questions, writing obscene poetry about me, etc.--and says that we shouldn't blame Clown Crusher for that.  While I find the confession rather dubious, I will apologize to Clown Crusher for believing that he did that.

I won't apologize for complaining about the lies he has told about me, about the lies he told about science and for him blocking people.

Since the confession has been deleted twice already, here is a screen shot of it:

Update:

Daro, I have nothing to apologize to you for. In the original question (probably from 2 years ago) you made the claim that NASA said the climate was cooling.  I said the article you read (which you didn't name or link to) was probably a news release about the cooling THERMOSPHERE, which runs from 500-2000 C anyway and has practically no air in it, so it had nothing to do with our climate. It probably took you a month to find a reference, which only proved I was right all along.

Update 2:

Also, Daro, you have lied about me numerous times--pretty much every time you've mentioned me. I mostly think that's because you're very gullible and not too bright, so maybe I should not hold it against you...but I do.

Update 3:

Daro, the references in your jpeg did not show that the reported warming was influenced by poor station siting, no matter how much you'd like that to be true. The point was that there were no references that supported the idea that the warming was incorrect.

Update 4:

The idea of taking legal action is misguided.  He (or they) crave attention and I'm quite certain have virtually nothing in the way of assets--beyond, perhaps a collection of Twinkies wrappers in their den dating to 1989. They're almost certainly on the government dole.

Update 5:

Davie Bwoi, I was always telling the truth here. Always.

Update 6:

Time is almost up, so goodbye to all. Feel free to contact me at diracpegminer@yahoo.com I will be happy to give even more long-winded answers to you climate questions. Clown Crusher, Daro, JimZ, DavieBwoi, I am sorry that you were never unable to figure out I was always telling the truth--you might have learned something.

Update 7:

Lots of great answers and a few stupid. I'm going to give BA to AlP, thank you.

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  • Al P
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago
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    Unlike you, the other side was never here to work on science, and your unrelenting accurate work on scientific questions succeeded like no other contributor here on Yahoo Answers. They insulted you and tried to bury your efforts in a sea of garbage, but you never gave up. You have nothing to apologize for my friend. On a scale of morality, there is no moral equivalence between you and them. Well done Dirac.

    At Koshka, one of my favorite Beatles songs in terms of lyrics is:

    We Can Work It Out

    Best wishes to you, David, Darwinist, and many of the other fine scientific contributors here on Yahoo.

  • 1 week ago

    Holy crap, how stupid do you have to be to not understand he was trolling you? It's no wonder you think everyone believed your exact same and obvious trolling BS.

    As far as the same stupid replies below. You people have to be the biggest bunch of gullible dumbasses alive. It's no wonder you believe everything you read.Either that, or all the accounts with dumbass replies are you.

  • 1 week ago

    Nobody believes you fat boy!

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

     Oooo, I hate that clown crusher guy. He’s sooooo mean. But I am wondering if Yahoo is willing to archive this so we can file a case against him? I mean….look what he proposed. This is both unlawful and hurtful. I save the text and encouraged others to save it. Can we get together? I know there are lots of pros here. Any attorneys?

    Here is the text.

    Yahoo Global Warming, Wanna hear my confession?

    Hi, I’m Michael, and I was doing many of the bad deeds you blame Clown Crusher for. It wasn’t him writing all the poetry about the Deluded Troll. It was me.I was also the Neapolitan ice cream guy. I cloned a bunch of accounts and avatars. I even cloned Clown Crusher, sometimes to his chagrin. You see, Clown Crusher only posted the legit questions about polar bears, extreme weather, and such. I was the anonymous one.----- Oooga Booga! Lol

    But I am proud to say that I never deleted a single question or answer. Oh, but it wasn’t from not trying. I once tried to delete a question by sock reporting. I reported it 70 times, but alas, it would not vanish. I thought it best to leave deleting to paid alarmists like Georgie.

    I knew there was a bot because I learned about them through moderating a conservative women’s forum. Someone suggested we would need a bot to deter all the liberal men who secretly wanted conservative women. I said that wouldn’t be necessary because conservative women know how to handle themselves. A few limp wristed libs showed up, but quickly closed their accounts when they saw all the buxom and pretty girls. I saw their chatter later when they said girls frighten them. I guess that is why the alarmists here reported the hot girl pics, usually after soiling themselves.

    I was also the anonymous one who talked about “it,” the next big thing for YA Gloobal Gloobal. “It” was a collection of 30,000+ questions that I was going to flood here. For example, here are 800 random questions:

    If you thought the trolling here was bad, then you only saw Pearl Harbor. I was about to unleash the atomic bomb! lolI also had thousands of questions from academic study sites. I made sock accounts with 2500+ points (like this one) so I could get the maximum 20 questions per day from each account. I had group accounts, too. For instance, I had 50 similar accounts with US state names. I didn’t even need a spreadsheet because each account was identical, except for the state name.

    There was a single password for the entire collection. I had so many accounts that I couldn’t count them. I would estimate350-400. I was surprised how few Yahoo banned. Maybe 20-25.The only reason Operation “It” wasn’t used was because I was having so much fun. 

    I could see Marx and Engels (Dirac and Georgie) getting weary, so I just played it by ear. Operation “It” would have been virtually auto pilot. That meant several hundred questions per day. I would not however, have been able to interact, and hence the fun element would have been gone. So, I postponed it.

    In conclusion, please don’t blame Clown Crusher for this because it was me all along. I wasn’t always proud of what I did, but I did what had to be done.

    Good day.

  • Jim2
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Only if he apologizes to you, and to others, for whatever part he played in this stupid drama on here.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    2 weeks ago

    Like Mike is claiming now that he is generating the questions, lib(ido) crusher claimed responsibility for moving questions early on and posted them using his accounts, so no, you have nothing to apologize for.

    Don't get me wrong, it is relatively simple to do what Michael claimed he did, you would need to use a proxy for each account and keep the number of question down to 1 every hour or so  per account and no more then  3 a day to get around the yahoo algorithms.  With only 350 accounts, hat would still be only a thousand a day. You could, even reply to them with some of the other accounts and award best answers randomly or to one person in particular, to gt that account to the top of the leader board .  You can even report answers that are not one of your bots, but that would affect anonymous posts by your friends as well.

    So while it is relatively easy to do all that, I didn't see evidence of that happening on a large scale, I imagine that if it had occurred Yahoo would have stepped in and you'd need to buy a few hundred more accounts and start all over, but more carefully.  If it is in place we could expect a large inrush of "questions" starting from Sunday evening, YA is slow to react to such attacks and at that point those accounts are all worthless anyway.

    But like I keep repeating, next time keep your answers really simple, do not take the bait do not follow their claims about food production being up, or what some reporter or politician said, it is pointless, it confuses every one watching and sows doubt. (pun intended)  Just answer with one line, something like thanks to "modern farming practices, and Genetic manipulation production is up."  And then insist on them answering those types of extremely basic questions to show they either accept AGW is happening (making them alarmists) or look like idiots for denying what normal people can see is happening.  You don't have to call them idiots, most people, including fellow deniers will see it, even if when they fail to answer in the affirmative.  I am giving you a

    I have enjoyed reading your posts and you have always been helpful, same for some of the other regulars here.  I even learned something more about global warming.  I would also like to thank the deniers, you have given me hours of laughter.  And a special tip of the hat to Graphic Conception, the only intelligent denier here who knew how to make an argument (until he got sloppy)

    And of course, who can forget the leader of the pack, #45, he was hilarious.

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  • Regina
    Lv 5
    2 weeks ago

    Oh brother look at the responses.  I read the "confession."  I read the responses.  It humors me when liberals say conservatives are conspiratorial and stupid.     

  • 2 weeks ago

    Clown Crusher thinks he's James McAvoy in Split, he's more like Millhouse from the Simpsons 

  • It's up to you to decide, IF that is true or not is another thing. I wonder how the anonymous user that pasted the ''question's'' had time to copy it...oh well, who cares. Forgive and forget is what I would do, but you do what you want to. Less than 3 days left!

    This is for everyone : https://youtu.be/1A8sOOKianA

    xx

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Clown Crusher is such a liar that I wouldn't be surprised if he actually posted the "Michael" statement.  You don't owe anybody an apology, after all the harassment they've put you through.  In a few days they'll be gone and you can forget about them.

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