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Psychics and Missing People

Ah, just occured, perhaps they're keeping an eye on this thread due to the referral stats?
 
Would contacting Tricia Griffith and being up-front about the concerns regarding psychic predators be useful? I noted an email address on the top of the http://www.websleuths.com/ site. If you say that you're not there to troll or anything nasty, it may help.
 
John Jackson said:
Yes, Kelly.

It's another UK skeptically orientated site/forum. The project is going to be relaunched shortly with a new name and new look which is why it's currently only readable by members.

It should be open in the not too distant future.

John
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Might want to get the JREF forum to add them to the Links. :)
 
I had never heard of a forum being able to tell where a prospective member clicked in from, but I believe it!

I know Tricia personally, and she knows I am doing the series and supports it. However, my preference was to be anonymous in a sense when trying to do a little "woo prevention" over there. It might be claimed I am biased, hence the new members who try to win over believers with logic.

Thanks for the info......I learned something new today.
 
KellyJ said:
I know Tricia personally, and she knows I am doing the series and supports it. However, my preference was to be anonymous in a sense when trying to do a little "woo prevention" over there. It might be claimed I am biased, hence the new members who try to win over believers with logic.

Thanks for the info......I learned something new today.
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Yeah, as you said, you know her personally. But it might help if people here contacted her, said that they were (and are!) genuinely interested in contributing to the forum (just as they are genuinely interested in contributing to helping with missing people in general) and will behave themselves instead of gung-ho 'debunking' attitudes. In fact, it'd be interesting to see what tactics are used and perhaps use that as the basis of essays and responses here. Sort of a devil's advocate thing.

And if people are going to end up looking over here, it's best not to look like maroons who are just going to charge in and create flamewars.

And hello to anyone from that forum who are wondering where people are coming from! :)
 
Kiless said:
Yeah, as you said, you know her personally. But it might help if people here contacted her, said that they were (and are!) genuinely interested in contributing to the forum (just as they are genuinely interested in contributing to helping with missing people in general) and will behave themselves instead of gung-ho 'debunking' attitudes. In fact, it'd be interesting to see what tactics are used and perhaps use that as the basis of essays and responses here. Sort of a devil's advocate thing.

And if people are going to end up looking over here, it's best not to look like maroons who are just going to charge in and create flamewars.

And hello to anyone from that forum who are wondering where people are coming from! :)
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No, we certainly wouldn't want to look like angry cynics.

The "woo" people took over my psychic thread over there with Rocky remaining unchallenged. I wish I had the time to take on those challenges personally, but I don't. This is an aside to my not wanting to alienate the general population, because they are a very helpful group when it comes to missing person's cases.

At this point, it's up to the volunteers if they wish to pursue it. I hope the WS admins will have an open mind to this. It is highly unlikely that Tricia approves the memberships herself.

Hi Websleuths admins! :sewelcome:
 
KellyJ said:
I had never heard of a forum being able to tell where a prospective member clicked in from, but I believe it!

I know Tricia personally, and she knows I am doing the series and supports it. However, my preference was to be anonymous in a sense when trying to do a little "woo prevention" over there. It might be claimed I am biased, hence the new members who try to win over believers with logic.

Thanks for the info......I learned something new today.
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What do you mean? You told me you could see when someone came to your blog from mine. No different.
 
A forum would not work quite the same way as the blog. I assume they would have a more complex hits tracker. On the blog, I can only see history going back so many pages. I can't see, for example, visitor info from 3 days ago.

The registration process on a forum isn't on par with leaving a blog comment. I have no idea where the anonymous commenters come from because my hits counter is fairly basic and doesn't take a leap from the blog page to the comments page, which is a separate page anyway with no hits counter.

I don't know alot about forums and the way the hits might track a person as they visit the site and then register, but I suppose had I thought about it long enough and hard enough, it might have occurred to me that they would know where the person entered their site.
 
KellyJ said:
A forum would not work quite the same way as the blog. I assume they would have a more complex hits tracker. On the blog, I can only see history going back so many pages. I can't see, for example, visitor info from 3 days ago.

The registration process on a forum isn't on par with leaving a blog comment. I have no idea where the anonymous commenters come from because my hits counter is fairly basic and doesn't take a leap from the blog page to the comments page, which is a separate page anyway with no hits counter.

I don't know alot about forums and the way the hits might track a person as they visit the site and then register, but I suppose had I thought about it long enough and hard enough, it might have occurred to me that they would know where the person entered their site.
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Years ago on here, someone linked to a web page of a guy who claimed he could make clouds disappear with his mind. Neal Slade. Well, Neal was able to detect that a link to his page was here and he dropped in. Much hilarity ensued.
 
And just out of habit, I always go from one web site to another via Google precisely for this reason. I made Google my home page and hit the Home button every time I leap in or out of a web site.
 
The stats kept by my StopKaz site tells me all of the web pages people have linked to my site from, but it does not tell me who linked from where.

But I can imagine such a thing being a feature of forum software.
 
A good counter can record the IP address of a visitor, which pages on your website that visitor viewed, and the web page that visitor arrived from. All fairly standard counter technology.

No matter.
 
In other news, I was contacted by a reporter for People Magazine and had a preliminary interview, which has been submitted to go up the food chain there. Now, before you get all excited, the topic of discussion is the emotional effects of having a missing loved one. There is no guarantee at this point in the process of it ever making the magazine. It's in the beginning processes.

However, you will be pleased to know that I took the opportunity to educate her on our issues here, and I strongly suggested that she consider it for a future story. (I gave her the link to the series.)

I then remembered that I have a direct contact with a reporter from USA Today from the time we were in there last July. I sent him the link and basic info as well.

When I get done with the series, I will send it to other media who take an interest in missing persons, such as Nancy Grace and Greta.
 
Volunteer needed on this site (PSYCHICS WHO THINK THEY CAN HELP OR OFFER INFORMATION) http://flfiesta.com/forum/index.php (high level forum). The sub forum was almost dead for a time then psychicladyshar has started posting lots of stuff there. She claims to be a psychic.

I would love to challenge her, but I think I am a bit out of my depth with this lady. Does anyone want to got there and challenge her? So far no-one has.

Otherwise any tips on how I can do it? I already have put a few posts there showing how stupid the psychics are, but those were easy to do. I am expecting a hostile reception (obvious statement).

The forum exists to help find a missing lady.
 
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