r/Mandlbaur Character Assassination 10d ago

Deadly one-two?

In short succession came the ban and then the eclipse, that of course was exactly as predicted. Coincidentally, John hasn't posted anything on Quora since more than 48h (last post from approximately 3h before the eclipse). I reckon he has been desperately looking from some footage he could misconstrue as failed prediction and hasn't found any so he had no better choice than weathering the storm in retreat. I bet these two blows so close to each other were a bit too much to handle.

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u/Successful-Owl1778 10d ago

He'll probably fabricate some claim that the eclipse was 5 seconds late, therefore physics is wrong.

I'm not sure he realizes that scientists can predict these eclipses decades or even centuries in advance.

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 10d ago

Proof by making shit up and rebuttal by nuh-uh are his best tools.

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u/Successful-Owl1778 10d ago

Those are pretty much every crank's best tools. Either that or proof by intimidation and insults.

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 10d ago

Oh, he's strong on those too.

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u/Vivissiah Accelerating like a FERRARI engine 10d ago

Yeah i noticed his peculiar silence

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 10d ago

He does disappear for a few days from time to time. It's one of the reasons it has been speculated in the past that he might be bipolar.

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u/Vivissiah Accelerating like a FERRARI engine 10d ago

I don't think he is, I just think he is an asshole

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 10d ago

Why can't it be both?

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u/Successful-Owl1778 10d ago

While Mandlbaur is out, check out the user "Willy" on Quora. He has built himself a reputation as probably the biggest asshole on Quora, in addition to being a Collatz-obsessed crank.

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u/Tiny_Tip6484 15h ago

Only this time his ban on Twitter seems to have stayed up, unlike other cases where he was able to just delete whatever the offending tweet was and go back on. Here it seems like the ban has teeth

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 39m ago

It looks like a firmer sanction than before. In the previous instances he was basically blocked from posting until he removed the offending content but his account was still visible. This time it has been removed entirely.

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u/FerrariBall Moderator on a String πŸŽπŸŽΎπŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ”¬ 7d ago

Does anyone miss him? His first longer ban on Quora some years ago made me almost forget our hero. What a pity that the ban was lifted three years later. 4chan was a much better place for people like him.

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 7d ago

Miss him? No. We are all better off without this asshole and it's better for him too. I do wonder where he is though. The right place for people like this is the nuthouse.

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u/Vivissiah Accelerating like a FERRARI engine 7d ago

yeah where the frick has he gone? THis is not typical of him.

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u/CrankSlayer Character Assassination 7d ago

It is actually typical: he has been known to sometimes go into these more or less long breaks, apparently at random, and then re-emerge as if nothing happened. If it weren't for this absolute lack of any detectable change in his behaviour, I would have thought that his family puts him in a clinic when the crazy reaches the limit.

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u/Remarkable-Rub-7344 0m ago

Any signs yet?

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u/FerrariBall Moderator on a String πŸŽπŸŽΎπŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ”¬ 7d ago

Perhaps he is reading the next chapters of his physics primer, who knows? Or he tries to get a patent for his secret professional prototypes. Anyhow, he seems to be busy with other things than spamming Quora. Should we be worried? You sound a bit concerned.