Replies to post #1958 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Georgia Bard]

Precisely! Refuting false accusations that are made like the examples being posed tonight are basically merely ridiculous posts to generate disruption or rather fester anarchy. These are cleverly disguised "Do you still be your wife" questions. You can't answer the question or refute or even deny and to make any attempt to try merely feeds disruption. No other reason for making the examples being made.

In Bob's example if they actually had proof and specific information, which would be their underlying basis then why n the world would they being making such a blatant personal attack on a thread instead of delivering the underlying basis to the proper authorities. Since apparently they do not have even a remote underlying basis then the only alternative is to take it to the internet as a personal attack or disrupt a thread. Now both of these are TOS on even unmoderated sites where anarchy reigns supreme.

I agree with you about trying to deny. From experience I know, you can deny and refute these personal attack / thread disruption posts for months and even years and even from the same stalker. Heck, you can be set up with innuendo and insinuation and end up before the SEC and not get charged but some other source is charged but it will still be there to personally attack and harass after even all that. It will always be used as a personal attack to build an "Urban Legend" on the individual.

All of this makes no sense to me at the moment. I am curious where it is all leading ...






:=) Gary Swancey

[Was (Bob)]

But the point is that if I had made the actual accusation, how could one refute it?

Maybe I've got a too-simplistic view of it, but my off-the-cuff answer would be "No, I'm no more a pedophile than you are and I challenge you to prove otherwise."

Of course, it someone had actually made that statement, it would be a personal attack.

What's really tough right now is that we're delving into some pretty unlikely scenarios when 95% of the calls I and chairfolk have to make are nowhere near that difficult. For example, to use the vitriol-laden example with me in it earlier. How often is that going to get posted only once? That's the verbiage of someone who's going to step over the "harassment" line in pretty short order, making whether the one post constitutes a personal attack a moot issue.

I'm going to back way off on my participation on this thread for a few days and would appreciate it if we could all keep the number of posts down in it. I literally spent the whole day just trying to catch up to the top of this thread, and only got to about 3 PM's and half a dozen of my emails. And there are currently 162 messages in my Inbox. This work pattern is obviously not workable. I had to cancel my plans for tomorrow because I'm going to need at least a full day just to get caught up.