by Doug Coulter » Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:55 pm
Ok guys, heard and I hope understood. Here's my plan - for the moment, I'll keep it manual (maybe Jerry could help me with the better captcha stuff), because the number who'd have joined would have taken down our servers with mostly bull - and just looked like they wanted to ask questions more appropriate over on the fusor.net forums - so those I direct over to there - that was the deal PaulS and I made to start with - they get grade school, we're post-grad.
The ones who can't send a message without mentioning JFK assination, UFO's or other conspiracy theories, sorry pal, we don't need you - and as pointed out, they already have plenty of places to spew their stuff.
I will just start letting in the ones who are at least not obviously completely crazy, and as Jerry says - if they have nothing to say, they self eliminate or the mods take them out - I'll try to keep it to manageable numbers/day. I'm also going to create a new subforum for electrochemistry, as someone who is already a member, but non posting, is expert there and has been sending me cool stuff in email - he really needs an appropriately named sub-forum for his stuff.
And hey, only about 100 more requests and messages today so far, so that truly was a 15 min fame thing. But some of them are serious/scary - I now have 3 offers to do TV series, one book offer, and an offer to donate money from a large charitable org. Not sure how real any of that turns out, and frankly, I don't want to be a TV personality, write another book (isn't this enough?) or take any money with either strings attached or any promise of success - we've avoided that so far, one of the reasons being - everyone else in the alt-energy business that trolls for bucks, so far, has been a fake. We. are. not. fake. No need to get painted with that brush, IMO, though it sure would be nice to have a decent lab assistant to push things along quicker - the limit isn't currently equipment, though there are a few minor pieces I'd like to get - it's hours in the day, primarily.
There is all this other stuff to do on a farmstead. I don't even really need a lab tech - if someone would do all that other stuff and free up my time. We'll just have to see how it all rolls out.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.