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editor said:
Some may say that planning a website so badly that it was unable to sustain itself speaks volumes of your own inadequacies and shortcomings in this area. I'd tend to agree.

Part of the process of building successful on-line communities involves thorough and extensive planning and research, and by cobbling together a site that flopped because of your poor planning, you've actually left users worse off.
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exactly, I posted on a Robin Hood message board for YEARS, then it disappeared, where do I go now?
 
The thread just keeps on giving:

Robin Hood was autistic, a member of the World Wide Robin Hood Society is to claim at an international conference on England’s most renowned legendary outlaw.

Jonathan Bishop, an e-learning expert with a background in analysing media, who has built educational websites about the legend, argues that analysis of the depictions of Robin Hood in ballads, books and films reveals that the medieval outlaw exhibits many autistic qualities.

"Robin Hood exhibits many leadership qualities some of which are similar to those characteristic of autistic people", Mr Bishop explains, "Robin Hood has the leadership quality of having concern for others as well as having a strong sense of justice, something that is characteristic of both autistic people and leaders and is often portrayed as having no respect for authority, an autistic trait that suggests he has a clear value system, which is a leadership quality"

Mr Bishop said that there were also other clues that Robin Hood is autistic, "Picking up the Ladybird series of Robin Hood books, such as The Ambush and The Silver Arrow as well as many other series of Robin Hood books, Robin Hood is usually seen wearing the same clothes, which is characteristic of leadership and also of people with Asperger Syndrome, and also the fact that Robin Hood has only one close friend, which was Little John, someone who he met in a confrontational manner, is also typical of autistic people".

Based on the evidence of Robin Hood's autistic qualities, Mr Bishop carried out a study to investigate how the Robin Hood community would react to Robin Hood if he also has autistic aliments such as a monotone voice.

Participants in his study were asked to listen to audio recordings of three actors playing Robin Hood; a professional actor, and amateur actor and an autistic actor with a monotone voice. The audio files were presented one after the other and then the participants were asked to rate the speaker on specific attributes characteristic of leaders. Analysis of the results proved that people judge another person’s leadership qualities based on their voice and showed that in most cases a professional actor will convey in their voice stronger leadership qualities than an amateur actor or an autistic actor.

Speaking about the research, Mr Bishop said, "The results suggest that if Robin Hood does have a monotone voice and is autistic then he must rely on his dominating behaviour to portray the leadership quality of dominance to the Merry Men, rely on taking part in bold activities to demonstrate his courageousness, and rely on policies such as robbing the rich to feed to poor to convince people of his leadership qualities of having a strong sense of justice and being concerned about others".
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I thought this was an April Fools at first.

Oh, and how many people were interviewed, JB?


http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/20189/
 
"Picking up the Ladybird series of Robin Hood books, such as The Ambush and The Silver Arrow as well as many other series of Robin Hood books, Robin Hood is usually seen wearing the same clothes, which is characteristic of leadership and also of people with Asperger Syndrome, and also the fact that Robin Hood has only one close friend, which was Little John, someone who he met in a confrontational manner, is also typical of autistic people".
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I base all my historical research on Ladybird books.
 
Wait. I must be misreading this. Surely to Jebus?

Authoritative statements about a fictional character, based on the clothes he is pictured wearing in Ladybird books? :cool:

e2a Beaten to it twice, damnit. That's still pretty special, though.
 
Hang on. Putting 2, 2, 5, 1 and 7 together makes me think that Jonathan has Asperger's. I suddenly feel a lot less comfortable with mocking his social inadequacy. I think I'll leave it there.
 
kabbes said:
Hang on. Putting 2, 2, 5, 1 and 7 together makes me think that Jonathan has Asperger's. I suddenly feel a lot less comfortable with mocking his social inadequacy. I think I'll leave it there.
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Given that I have no medical training beyond basic first aid I am going to assume he is just insane.
 
It is possible to have Asperger's and also be an idiot. :)

As I posted on his other thread, I think what he is doing has no value and that he ought to find something else to do. That advice stands whatever his position on the autism spectrum. He needs to be told.
 
kabbes said:
Hang on. Putting 2, 2, 5, 1 and 7 together makes me think that Jonathan has Asperger's. I suddenly feel a lot less comfortable with mocking his social inadequacy. I think I'll leave it there.
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Given that he elected to return here to specifically attack another poster and continue to brag about his achievements, my sympathy is pretty low, whatever the circumstances.
 
editor said:
Given that he elected to return here to specifically attack another poster and continue to brag about his achievements, my sympathy is pretty low, whatever the circumstances.
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It might possibly be less about sympathy and more about what you hope to achieve.
 
jonathanbishop said:
You don't have to be a rock to study geology. However, I ran two sucessful community websites between 1998 and 2003. Successful in that they helped people find the information they wanted. Due to lack of financial backing, both were taken down as they were both niche sites. One was targetted at people with connections with Llantrisant, and one for people interested in Robin Hood.
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where do you think this site's financial backing comes from?

hint, your site isn't a success if you can't keep it running
 
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where do you think this site's financial backing comes from?
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MI5. They use it to keep track of dissidents. They employ undercover trolls to monitor activity and steer debate onto controversial areas. I'm not totally sure who the agents are, but I have my suspicions of Jazzz...
 
See, you could if you were bored and skilled map a duke nukem game using the quake engine for great justice.

Someone do this, and make it OSX compatible.
 
So, Shibboleth had an update recently didn't it? Tbh without more info it's hard to tell if it was a shibboleth problem or something at the vendor's end.
 
it's almost certainly at the university end, but the problem could be anywhere in the identity stack. And it's a big stack.
 
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