Originally Posted by
BoSox
Originally Posted by
kewlJ
I have Mdawg blocked here because he is unable to behave like a decent human being, only the lowlife lying piece of crap that he is. So I won't interact with him here and I don't care for Mike's solution at WoV, so I won't be interacting there under these terms.
For the record, I believe I was mislead by Mike into believing the Mdawg thread would be moved to the betting systems/voodoo section and then would no longer appear on the main recent threads section. If nothing changed and it still appears on the main board, why would I agree to that? I feel mislead by Mike and frankly this is the second time he has sided against me with someone clearly out to disrupt and make a mockery of him and his forum.
KewlJ, did you in fact even discuss with Mike S does the Systems forum new posts even appears in the recent threads section? Or did you just make an assumption that it would not?
Now a deal was made between you and Mdawd regarding such a move and I want to clear up a point. Within one of your recent suspensions, I challenged management on the board and asked for the MDawg thread to be moved to the same board that it ended up in. We both won only I feel you won on all accounts better than everyone, let me explain.
Just because the MDawg thread still appears in the recent post section is not the important thing. MDawg's trade-off "I call concession" is extremely relevant in my mind. That deal made is admitting to the entire board including to all of his detractors and supporters that he is a systems player. Yes, the detractors knew it all along
but now he is admitting all of it no small concession on his part by any means. Pertaining to why you won the most out of this deal. You do not have to bother with the WOV MDawg thread again a major victory for you. You should be happy. Plus no more suspensions.
I see this completely differently. I see it as Shackleford moved a guy posting cancer quackery from the "Medical" section to the "Alternative Medicine" section. The guy will post as much if not more. The guy gets less pushback because some of the doctors in the "Medical" section have agreed to not challenge "Alternative" claims. The key questions are whether the profile of the quackery poster is improved by the switch and whether more or fewer people will buy into it because of the switch.
So, is MDawg going to garner more, less, or the same attention by the switch? Will he be taken seriously by more or fewer people because of the switch and muzzling of a key debunker?
I'd say, at best, it's a push. I think, at worst, there's a good chance he gets more attention and he gets taken seriously by more civilians.
I think, BoSox, that your communications assessment is flawed here. You are arguing that one line of disclaimer (attached to a section and not the specific poster) will somehow neutralize or override months and years featuring hundreds and eventually thousands of posts running tens of thousands of words. Anybody who thinks one line of disclaimer is going to matter versus the thousands of words already posted and tens of thousands to come is being very, very naive.