Podcasts #868 was my last straw. I get too frustrated listening to Stef. I would like to listen to the podcasts and weed through the BS to find the golden nuggets of truth, but I get too upset when I see him evading, defending himself instead of seeking or explaining truth. He psychologized me when all I wanted is an answer to a question, a clarification of something he already said. I hope to be able to continue learning about myself, but I'm just not in a healthy state listening to Stef any more. Maybe once I cool down and take a break from him, I'll be able to put up with his crap again to get to the good stuff.

Anyway, I would really appreciate any discussion about his podcasts here in this forum. I have no problem with the topics he covers (if he would only stay on topic!). If a podcast interests you, please summarize it here (minus his bullshit, or at least warning where his bullshit is) and I'd love to discuss it with you.

Thanks.

I noticed there is no way to delete my own account at the FDR forums, like there is here (and on other forums I've visited). Is anyone familiar with the software Stef uses for the FDR forums? Does the admin have an option to allow or disallow members from deleting their own accounts? Or does the software just not offer this option to members? I wonder if there are a lot of abandoned user accounts that Stef counts in his stats when he sees "X number of forums members."

I dig re being too fed up with Stef to listen. I think I won't be able to help you much re summarizing podcasts as I can only access FDR in like an internet cafe or something, and that's just not worth it.

also, I think most if not nearly all of the excellent (and new to us) stuff has already been podcasted on. I don't see what good new stuff he can come up with these days, except for the occasional sharp but relatively unimportant insight or whatever. I could be wrong though.

I tried to log back into FDR today, a week after I requested that Stef delete my account (in a private message on the forums). I could not log in, but received this message:

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The username and/or password cannot be validated, or your account is locked out or has not been approved yet.

That tells me that the account is not deleted. Perhaps he thought he was being nice: by not deleting my account, if I ever change my mind he can reactivate it and I won't have lost my history of posts. But I requested that he delete it. I don't know whether he uses "locked out" accounts in his forum statistcs ("we have X accounts - woohoo!"), and the only way to know is to ask him - I don't care that much. I just thought it was interesting that he would did not delete my account when I requested it.

did he respond in any way when you asked him to delete your account? I btw have very little time to post today, perhaps after midnight here

ah, you have no way of knowing whether he responded cuz you cant acces your account of course

Right. Since I can't log in, I don't know if he repsonded to my private message. But my account has my email address linked to it, and he is the admin so Im sure he can access it. Also, my account is set to receive email notifications of new threads (which I am still receiving. hmm...), but I am not sure if I get email notifications of new private messages.

k. have you listened to the latest podcast btw? on debating and UPB? I havent, but it sounds interesting

I have not listened to podcast #872 ("Debating and Universally Preferable Behavior"), but I remember Stef enumerating the reasons why you could not argue UPB without using UPB briefly in a video, as a supporting point to another argument. I think this will just be a long-winded version of the same. But I may listen to it in the next couple days.

After a few more weeks of still receiving email notifications of new posts on FDR's forums (because I had subscribed to those topics when I participated there), I emailed Stef and asked him to delete the account and not just lock it. He said he would, then emailed later and said he did. I am no longer getting email notifications but when I try to log into the account I still get:

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The username and/or password cannot be validated, or your account is locked out or has not been approved yet.

My guess is that Stef turned off email notifications for the account or deleted the email address within the account, but kept the locked account (for higher board statistics?). I suppose it is also possible that he read the private message I sent from that account and that is how he learned of the PM invitations to LM. Total guess, though.