Why could ACM not just have left this one standing without trying to go into a fundamental discussion? It was a conversation between you and Terry after all, what was the point of weighting your words with gold here? If I have a normal discussion with a colleague and an nearby standing person would interrupt us like that, I would be hard pressed not to request him to please leave us alone, if he has nothing constructive to add...

As you can see from my linked answer above, I am no fan of local hidden variables. But why should I interrupt you every time you say that you "suspect the jury is still out" on hidden variables and proposals like 't hoofts ideas on cellular automata or digital physics?

@ThomasKlimpel If anyone wants to have a conversation without other people potentially giving their thoughts on it, then they should have that conversation in a dedicated room, not our main chat room. If any conversation - regardless of topic - someone has in the h bar is not meant to be potentially joined by others present, then having it elsewhere achieves that goal flawlessly.

@ACuriousMind I had read that conversation under the assumption that vzn had again intentionally tried to annoy somebody, with the intention to ask him why he keeps doing this. But after I read the conversation, my conclusion was that at least in this case, vzn was innocent, and it was you who went off on the tangent of a tangent to start that discussion.

(On another occasion where Daniel Sank complained about vzn making unfounded statements, I do think that Daniel Sank was perfectly right to complain.)