Originally Posted by
regnis
I have never expressed an opinion on Dawg's claims, and I still am not going to do so. But why should anyone have a problem with his posting? He is intelligent and well spoken, whether you believe what he posts or not. Read it, don't read it; believe it, don't believe it--up to you. But why shouldn't he be able to post?
The problem I would have, as a site owner, would be one of responsibility. If you are trying to grow a forum, one assumes a greater and greater percentage of gambling civilians coming to the site.
Here's where I'm going with this. I would treat my own forum as a kind of basketball camp or coaching clinic. If I'm running a basketball camp or coaching clinic, ostensibly I know something about basketball and can teach it. Now I won't be expert on every aspect -- post play, press defenses, conditioning, free throw shooting -- but I would screen people so that (let's assume volunteer camp teachers) everybody teaching each aspect would appear to know what they are doing.
If I have expertise regarding skill development and winning at basketball, I want the people who come to my camp to learn real skills and how to win. If one of the volunteer teachers is there every day and keeps pushing shooting hook shots as a way to make free throws, I have to intervene and throw him out of the camp unless he sticks to stuff that has some real world traction. And if he says he shot hook shot free throws at 88% his whole life and has taught others to do it, but he provides no proof, I have to be practical and get him out of there. Otherwise I compromise the credibility of the entire camp or clinic, and I demean everyone who is teaching actual expertise and how to win at basketball.
Now, one can say that nobody will believe somebody can hook shots at 88% and the camp attendees should know better.
But should they? And what does allowing him his hook shot riff say about me?
Of course, if I'm just there to make money off the camp and/or sabotage the development of attendees who might one day compete against teams I actually coach, then maybe I allow the hook shot free throw guy to do his thing. He's popular, well spoken, and everybody likes to shoot hook shots.