I don't know. To me it looked like a lot of people screaming abuse at Al Gore in the other thread, and saying how much he didn't deserve it.Correct me if you think I'm wrong (as though you needed any encouragement from me ), but it seemed as though Dr. Bill objected to others posting opposing views to his, and as OP, he wanted the control to say who that was.
At least in this thread, the OP doesn't seem to be trying to shut the opposing side down through MOD intervention.
Which is more tolerant? I'll leave that to the readers to decide.
That hasn't happened here.
I actually don't know for sure what this guy said or not, although it's clear that there's an ongoing argument about that. The earlier posted transcript seems reasonably clear, but yeah....I didn't hear it in full context so don't really know myself.
Does he deserve kudos for turning whatever it was into something that'll do good for some other folks? Hell yeah... I said that already a few times.
Should this thread continue to be used as some kind of political "prove my point"?
Depends where you want the future of the board to go. This thread is divisive. If starting a thread about a Nobel peace prize is political and divisive, then there's no doubt about that. Given that it's the OP of this thread that pointed that out to start with......IMO it's also extremely hypocritical, and even MORE divisive that he hasn't done the obvious thing when the other thread was closed, and had this one closed as well.
Remove the middle ground and you force people to take sides. That's EXACTLY what this thread has done.
But hey....if that's how we want SB to be.........