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I just "Happened" upon the Science Blog tonight...Well Ben, I imagine you to be a possible OC internet etiquette control policeman...Do you actually hear loud noises when I type the letters in all caps? Do you actually hear a "rat-a-tat-tat"????? And are your comments about long URLs wrecking havoc with the formating of this blog site serious? The "ALL CAPS" etiquette, was created by the never ending supply of control freaks who manage to control any and every person place and thing that they can! If you have a problem with "All CAP TITLES" being overly excited, and therefor ignored or skipped over, you have not demonstrate this with your "Overly Excited, critical critique of the "Morgellons, Nutter Domain." I just happened to be curious as to what Morgellons was...For all I knew it could be a virus, a syndrome or the name of a town...What I did read made me want to read more, to see what else the blog writer had to say about it.You obviously do not see the Morgellons, as credible, you told them that no one thinks they are,. Guess what, you are not a representative of the web, it's too big, and after looking on Utube about the condition and other sites I have found that there are others out there, even researchers, and health professionals, who believe the people who are afflicted...Maybe you should be more concerned about actually believing the groups on this blog, or keeping your mouth shut, or just not accepting anyone who has beliefs or actual facts that you do not believe in...Whatever.... Anyone who knows how to actually write the HTML and CCS code for web sites knows that the long URL, CAN NOT, (hey, you need to pay attention or ignore this major point so I typed in caps)wreck havoc on your blog site! If you are having problems, you or whoever maintains this site does not have enough knowledge about HTML code..This is not just an opinion, by self proclaimed, experts on net typing rules! In college level English 101, you are taught the basic rules of writing in traditional formats. Within each format there are additional rules and formats. The rule that writing in all caps is too loud was declared by someone who is confusing the written English language with their psychological need to impose their opinion on others as a fact! It is an acceptable rule in several writing formats,(reports, essays, articles, books etc...) to use all caps for your title.... Writing in the English language, does not change because someone on the internet says it does! The big picture Ben, is that your comments about writing the English language in the internet format according to your rules, are as valid as preferring the color blue to green. You may have been told that the color blue is the preferred color to use as a back ground on a web page, you may even believe it to be the best color the one that most people respond to...But , in the real world there is a huge difference between opinion and established rules for, say writing English, Spanish, French, etc,,,or how about math, science, HTML code....And to top it all off you were very disrespectful, insensitive, demeaning,and patronizing to this group, writing, "Let's face it: Morgellons (Morgellons, is that the name of this cult, the Morgellons, is it a religion or some kind of cult leper colony?) has been made to look like the domain of nutters.(Yes, face it,you all look like your nuts or nutters, you must change the opinions of the world wide net, but how? What would lend credibility to the masses?...) It doesn't help when blog entries related to it (or any subject, for that matter) have headlines WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS.( yes all caps all caps that must mean that your all nuts, or a sign of being nutters, All Caps = Nutters!...) It looks overly excited and actually winds up getting less attention."( Yes all caps are = to being overly excited, and therefore, nutters, if you stop writing in all caps the people who thought you were nuts will decide that your credible, that makes real down to earth logical scientific sense.) At the end of your comment you excuse your rude demeaning behavior of the Morgellon Nutters by basically saying, "Oh Well, I was nasty but now I said it all, I can leave now, get off the soap box....WOW, honestly the more I think of it, your comment, misinformed opinions,and lack of knowledge takes away any credibility that this site claims to have...