StopSylvia email: "Hummmmmm"

mushy said:
Lol, this is what im up against. I gave my opinion that his site was badly laid out, you nit pick and say "oh you claimed this" then you dismiss it by saying its opinion rather than fact.

IT WAS ALWAYS MY OPINION, I gave my opinion on his site, That has to be one of the most pathetic displays i have ever read on this site.
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You have, unwittingly, paid this site a huge compliment as a critical thinking site, if this is one of the most pathetic displays. Take a minute to think about that...
 
AdMan said:
It may be splitting hairs, but I called his behavior in this thread trolling.

And I would define that as posting deliberately provocative messages with the intention of causing disruption and argument.

I don't know what his motivation is or was, or if he truly believes what he says, but his posts did come across like trolling to me, given he hasn't yet provided the evidence he promised he would show.
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Trolling, at times, is in the eye of the beholder.
 
RSLancastr said:
As I say on the site many times, I am open to stories of her successes, but I have yet to receive an email with any verifiable instances of Browne being meaningfully correct in a single missing person or murder case. This does not prove that there are none. It may be that people who have such stories are hesitant to share them with a site named Stop Sylvia. But if that's the case, why haven't these stories been published elsewhere? If you know of any mushy, please let me know.
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Don't count on it.
 
Severus Snape said:
Don't count on it.
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It had to be asked, regardless.

Which reminds me of a related point which Mushy may not know about:

Mushy, in (IIRC) 2007, a pro-Browne site named "Go Sylvia Browne" was created by a Browne supporter. It was promoted on Sylvia's own site (and her newsletter) as a "fan site". It was obviously a reaction to my site, having a Green Light theme in contrast to mine's Stop Sign theme. it was broken into sections which more or less paralleled those on my site. One of those sections, paralleling mine's Articles section, was empty, but the webmaster/owner promised that it would be filled with testemonials and examples of missing persons cases which Browne had solved.

Rather than having been created by a mere "fan", it turned out that the site had been created by Heather Brown, then the live-in girlfriend of Browne's son Paul DuFresne.

Heather had direct access to Sylvia Browne, and, I believe, worked at Browne's headquarters. So I looked forward to reading whatever cases she would put in that section of her site, figuring that I would be able to give the skeptical POV on them.

But none were ever published, to my knowledge. The site's forum was fairly active, full of Browne fans. Any comments skeptical of Browne were summarily deleted, and the poster (and his or her IP address) banned from the site. Heather's Blog section of the site got two or three entries over the first few months, but other than that, and the site's forum, the site was stagnant. The forum was soon shut down, and, in late 2008 (IIRC), the entire site was shut down, with not a single Testimony or Solved Case ever having been shown.

Heather and Paul DuFresne did get married - I forget just when that was.

So mushy: if a person with both family and work ties directly to Browne, running a fawningly pro-Browne site, evidently never came up with successful cases or testemonials worth publishing, what chance did/do I have of coming up with some?

I continue to look, and to ask, but still come up blank.
 
mushy said:
You are convincing no one. Its truly pathetic the lengths you went to just to have a go, to jump on the bandwagon. Truly truly pathetic.
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It's OK. No-one will judge you if you don't get around to answering my repeated questions. Apart from, of course, your inability to answer them. Sadly for you, you now can't even pretend you are unaware of them. I wonder whose "fault" that is? (and yes, that one was rhetorical. You have a lot to learn, little boy.)
 
RSLancastr said:
It had to be asked, regardless.

Which reminds me of a related point which Mushy may not know about:

Mushy, in (IIRC) 2007, a pro-Browne site named "Go Sylvia Browne" was created by a Browne supporter. It was promoted on Sylvia's own site (and her newsletter) as a "fan site". It was obviously a reaction to my site, having a Green Light theme in contrast to mine's Stop Sign theme. it was broken into sections which more or less paralleled those on my site. One of those sections, paralleling mine's Articles section, was empty, but the webmaster/owner promised that it would be filled with testemonials and examples of missing persons cases which Browne had solved.

Rather than having been created by a mere "fan", it turned out that the site had been created by Heather Brown, then the live-in girlfriend of Browne's son Paul DuFresne.

Heather had direct access to Sylvia Browne, and, I believe, worked at Browne's headquarters. So I looked forward to reading whatever cases she would put in that section of her site, figuring that I would be able to give the skeptical POV on them.

But none were ever published, to my knowledge. The site's forum was fairly active, full of Browne fans. Any comments skeptical of Browne were summarily deleted, and the poster (and his or her IP address) banned from the site. Heather's Blog section of the site got two or three entries over the first few months, but other than that, and the site's forum, the site was stagnant. The forum was soon shut down, and, in late 2008 (IIRC), the entire site was shut down, with not a single Testimony or Solved Case ever having been shown.

Heather and Paul DuFresne did get married - I forget just when that was.

So mushy: if a person with both family and work ties directly to Browne, running a fawningly pro-Browne site, evidently never came up with successful cases or testemonials worth publishing, what chance did/do I have of coming up with some?

I continue to look, and to ask, but still come up blank.
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I was member there briefly and got myself zapped just for calling Browne "Umbridge" (guess they are also harry potter fans too).
 
They took unbrage?

I was actually a member there for a couple of weeks. Made some friends, made some... not-friends. Eventually was banned, though I don't remember what for.

Heather and I actually had a very civil email correspondence back then.
 
RSLancastr said:
They took unbrage?

I was actually a member there for a couple of weeks. Made some friends, made some... not-friends. Eventually was banned, though I don't remember what for.

Heather and I actually had a very civil email correspondence back then.
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Didn't she at one time had lawyers sent out "cease and disist" to any Browne fan sites?
Not a good PR move IMO.
 
I hope to write up the Osama thing, yes. Just as soon as I conquer the tech issues preventing me from updating the site. Randi has been told about it, so maybe it will get into Swift.
 
mushy said:
No, i don't believe in psychic ability. Still does not change the fact he refuses to publish success stories and i know he has recieved emails with success stories.
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We are still waiting for you to provide evidence that RSL has recieved emails with success stories that he refuses to publish.

Put up or shut up, or are you just a troll?
 
mushy said:
So, i guess i was right when i said you were doing this for attention then? lol
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I think that any time someone creates a thread (or even simply replies in one), they hope their post gets some attention. I started creating threads here about certain SSB emails because forumites requested I do so, as in:

Forumite #1: RSL, do you ever receive emails from people who say that they had been Sylvia fans until they read what is on SSB, but no longer are Sylvia fans?

RSL: Occasionally, yes.

Forumite #1: Please post them here - I for one would LOVE to read them!

Other Forumites: Yes, please post them!!!

- or -

Forumite #2: RSL, I bet you get lots of crazy hate mail.

RSL: Very little, surprisingly.

Forumite #2: Please post them here - I for one would LOVE to read them!

Other Forumites: Yes, please post them!!!
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...and so on. So I started posting them, and they were generally well-received. Had they generally been poorly-received, I probably would have stopped posting them. Does that make me an "attention-seeker" to you?

I also developed the habit of posting an email, and my reply to it, to see if anyone here thought I should have replied differently.
 
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