Opinion of the J. J./jfern coin flip debate

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think that was the single stupidest debate in forum history, and that includes the "debates" that Derek and HoffmanJohn were involved in.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, J. J.'s constant usage of "jFRAUD", would no doubt be infracted for personal attacks and/or trolling today. Which I don't have a problem with since it did significantly lower the quality of discourse on the forum, but it does show how much of a joke Moderate Hero era the forum was in since everyone knee-jerkedly sided with J. J. just because jfern had a reputation as a somewhat abrasive hack (which might've been true, but I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't apply to J. J. today either)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

For the record I can see why jfern's whole coin flip analogy was a poor one from a statistical standpoint (for example no one would argue that a car that doesn't start 9 times out of 10 attempts doesn't have engine trouble, or even if it only starts 5 times out of 10 attempts it has obviously engine problems as well. The key is the null hypothesis.), but rather than just point this out J. J. just used it and jfern's then unpopularity as an excuse to be an immature gloating, "jFRAUD" spewing jerk.