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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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