User blog:PsiCubed2/To Alemagno, Rpakr and others: I came here to do googology

I came here to do googology, discuss googology, learn about googology and teach googology. That's why I've created things like my Letter Notation, my Psi Levels, and my latest ordinal notation.

I do not come here to do "drama", or to answer accusations by people who didn't even bother to get their facts straight, or to play endless cat-and-mouse games with our resident troll. Really, I'm just a simple person who came here to talk about large numbers.

The problem is, that doing this here in the current environment is impossible. At least for me (and judging from the number of people who left here in the past few months, I'm not alone). And contrary to what some people think, ignoring the problem is not going to make it go away.

Accusing me of paranoia isn't going to make the problem go away either. Edwin is using tons of sock puppets while remaining below the radar. I may be wrong about a few of these (heck, due to the sheer number of suspected accounts, it is almost certain that a few false positives would creep in), but it doesn't change the overall picture.

Now, I fully agree with those who said that this suspecting atmosphere is unhealthy. Indeed, this is the worse kind of damage that Edwin has inflicted upon us: He has created a situation where it is simply insane to trust new users, and by that he had rendered our entire community useless. But that's not my fault, is it? Please don't kill the messenger just because you don't like the message.

So, what is the solution I'm proposing? Unfortunately, I do not have one. For months I've tried countless approaches and nothing worked. Some of these attempt were probably interperted as "seeking drama", but that was not my intention. My only goal was to try and get our community back (either on this site or somewhere else). I failed, but that was my only aim. Meanwhile, the only think I can do is keep everyone on their toes. Because as much as "a suspecting atmosphere" is unhealthy, simply pertending that the sockpuppetry problem doesn't exist is far more dangerous.

Maybe others will have better luck.

As for me - I just long for the days where we could just come here and have our googology discsussions without fear.