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What is/should be the policy for "bee in the bonnet" questioners?

eg.

  • Polcott who is very personally offended by Mr. Gödel
  • Thinkingman and his antiGod pro physicalist 100s of questions
  • Circle Etymology earlier Vitalie Ghelbert IIRC, who is very personally offended by zero. This recent question prompted this meta question
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    I believe you've neglected the user who keeps asking "can one have a justified belief in X, or Y, or Z, or W, or .....?". Yes, at least they don't say "god" explicitly every time, but it sure feels like they mean "god", and 90% of the time it's a language issue about "justification", or "belief".
    – JonathanZ
    Commented May 24 at 12:52
  • Youre welcome to edit that into my question @JonathanZ. [We have community wiki answers but not questions]. Obviously the point is not to chronicle the varieties of the bees but how to contain them (if any)... You may well like the stings and the honey!!
    – Rushi
    Commented May 24 at 12:53
  • I'm used to the math.se standards, where we don't do more than minor corrections of what someone else has said. And I really don't want to risk to be seen as putting words in someone else's mouth - especially as things are a bit more opinion based here. But please feel free to take whatever part of my comment you feel appropriate and add it to your question!
    – JonathanZ
    Commented May 24 at 12:58
  • @JonathanZ The problem with that questioner is different. Its often nothing to do with Justified Belief but its always thinly disguised Christian proselytism under quite well argued philosophy (theology). Check my older meta questions on the place of theology out here one, two. Ver broadly, the problem I am talking of is more of trolling. That is closer to spamming
    – Rushi
    Commented May 24 at 13:02
  • Me, I don't see such a great difference, but since you do, let's leave that example out of your question, so as to keep the scope smaller, and increase the chance of getting useful decisions here.
    – JonathanZ
    Commented May 24 at 13:23

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My personal take is quite simple: The same as with anyone else!

If anything, the best take should be to more rigorously vote as duplicate all the questions that guise the same idea in different words.

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  • I appreciate your position Phil. Please excuse me though, for not using the VTC
    – Rushi
    Commented May 24 at 12:49
  • Also note that the question is closed but is still being actively edited and hence bumped by the questioner. You can say I am adding to the disorder by adding to my answer. My defence is that I try to keep my edits close in time to the users bumps so the questioner is near the top of active questions any way whether i did it or not. Earlier I had a note there saying: This answer may be deleted along with parent question, to signal that in my opinion this was a deleteable quesion
    – Rushi
    Commented May 24 at 13:16
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Good question.

I have had bees, and in my bonnet too, and I would tread softly, cos that bee is obsessed! But yeah, vote as duplicate and move away haha.

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