You know. Some weeks ago I used to desestimate Sir Derp's style of making theories, which were based on mythologies rather than manga pages, or sometimes both of them.
But I kind of changed my mind when I started to think that Kishimoto had to use references to reach some outcomes, so if you think carefully, you could find that Sir Derp Obito's theories are not wrong... they are just created from outside the box.
I myself could say that I was wrong when being closed only to manga facts, since enclosing myself to facts could limit the possibilities out there... these possibilities known as unjustified asspulls.
In the end, it is in Sir Derp Obito's freedom to decide if answer or not the questions of people in the base. Silence can be interpreted in many ways, but these interpretations can't be absolute truth.
So... that's all, I said it. Byron, it's up to you to think whatever you like about him. I had to turn the switch to understand his way to do things in here.
Lol I myself was always fond of his theories but when theories are started to be created based on previous theories which have yet to be validated, then thy slowly start to lose their credibility. I've never said that basing a theory on a myth is a mistake, but to take such thing as granted to proceed even further with more comlicated things on things that haven't been proved correct yet creates only mess and in the end we forget the difference between facts and theories. Besides, I like thinking outside of the box, as long ofc that makes sense in a way, check my previous answer to Sir derp and you'll understand my reasoning.
As for his right of not answering to people, I'm sorry but I must disagree, when you create theories, you expect criticism and as long as that criticism is constructed in a logical way without being impolite, then no the theorist MUST answer. That is unless the only thing he cares about is to get fame without actually proving anything. Also, the problem here isn't that he doesn't answer to me specifically but the fact that he selectively chooses not to answer to questions that might seem difficult while he accepts with ease to answer to the easy questions. By doing like that it's just a form of censuring since he hopes that the "annoying" posts will at some point stop and get lost in the ocean of other posts. As for the myths, using them up to a point is acceptable but once he uses them as facts to create further theories we must remember that being based on a myth something, it doesn't have to follow it by the letter. That being said, Kishi getting an idea from a myth, doesn't mean that everything will go exactly as it went to the myth. And that's why using such theories as facts to create further ones is a mistake.
As for my comment you quoted, the fact that he closed his thread is another form of censorship since he didn't want to hear any of the possible negative comments but I'm sure that he will open them once again, in case he turns out to be right.
To sum it all up, its not his theories that matter to me but the way he reacts to the possible questions and his certainty which drives him in making theories based on "his yet to be confirmed" theories, creating a complete mess as to what is a fact, what a hypothesis and what a stupid idea which might become believable without any logic only because it was written by "Sir Derp Obito".