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PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars

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Subject: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars
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by: HenHanna - Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:30 UTC

so it seems PTD wasn't a big fish (Trump) elsewhere.

> The BIG FISH comment reminds me of a Master's thesis, I forget where,
> that analysed roles of people in newsgroups. It caused great amusement
> here (AUE) because it so badly miscategorised the roles of the
regulars. In
> particular, it concluded that PTD was the most-respected of the AUE
> regulars, because of the many responses to him. It's true that he did
> start the most arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Daniels

i thought that this page (for a long time) said that
PTD was among the most respected of the regulars of AUE, where
he is seen as the unofficial moderator.

-------- but i can't find that now.

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> ........ He was a bit of a
> misfit in AUE because he got into so many disputes, usually because of
> an inability to admit when he was wrong.

>>> And his astonishing ability to be wrong or misleading so often on
so many topics. Eventually a lot of people, including me, stopped
correcting him. <<<

---------- What was he famously WRONG about ?

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PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars	HenHanna