dougthonus wrote:Stratmaster wrote:I had to come back and see if this thread was still going.
Well, it has been going for about a year and a half, so I assume it wasn't a big surprise...
I see you are still poking back at anyone calling you out. I will say it again. You are the one who is off base here, and particularly as you are the decider of what content is being allowed.
I made a comment to someone, whom four separate times mocked a phrase I corrected and provided an explanation for without acknowledging said explanation or discussing any point relevant to it. Even so, I didn't censor that person in any way (ie, decide what content is relevant).
Much like last time you commented to me in this thread, and I asked you to respond by actually provide some specific, relevant information as to what you are actually talking about but you decided not to, so what is eating you now? That I theorize the pandemic will get better (and used the phrase "hope" not "certainty") and think so because I believe vaccination rate will increase significantly due to government/corporate mandates and improved, delta specific vaccines? Sorry if you think that theory is way off base, feel free to tell me why you think so, you very well may have a great thought that I haven't considered.
But you won't step back and think about that.
It is hard to step back and think about something when someone had made a vague, nonsensical comment to you.
All that said... have fun. I will check back periodically to see if this BS is still going on.
Given that you have yet to define what BS is or what you object to, fair chance it will be.
Ok. I am going to try once more.
I am not debating your opinions. Everybody has one. I agree with most of them. Whether I agree with you or not has abso-f#$%ing-lutely nothing to do with anything.
Stating opinions that " life is pretty much back to normal", conjecture that the virus is going away, predicting it will become like a cold, that we should let it run it's course, the conspiracy theories from a certain poster, suggestions that vitamins would be helpful... Most of this is "unsupported" at best. Again, it doesn't matter which side of the opinions you, or I, am on.
Social media sites are being pressed to stop the spread of mis-information. The larger sites are doing fact checks and in egregious examples pulling posts down.
Meanwhile, I guess RealGM, a sports social media site, has multiple threads now where meatball sports fans like me can just post whatever they want on the subject to try and prove they are smart. I am told some are even further out there than this one.
If this site is going to go there with a public health emergency, it has a responsibility to monitor the content appropriately. But, at least in the case of this specific thread, the people responsible for monitoring the content are part of the conjecture, and in some cases, bad advice and opinions.
When this gets brought up, people ask that the person complaining prove their conjecture wrong. As if it is possible to prove where this will be in a month, or a year. Covid was going away once before, until it wasn't and Delta took hold. One of the reasons it spiked again were opinions being spread, by people with no qualifications, that it wasn't serious. That it was like a cold. That it would go away in its own. Thus, the crackdown on misinformation in social media.
So, what is "eating me", is that I have been supporting a site that is acting irresponsibly. As far as how long the thread has been here, the point is meaningless. I don't recall when I first noticed it, and at first it seemed it was to track what players might be out of lineups due to Covid and how the virus was affecting the NBA; a perfectly reasonable discussion for an NBA social media site to be having.
Ironically, I have seen basketball threads locked almost immediately because the thread made a claim that was unsupported by any evidence. Or quoted a source that was known to be unreliable.
So I won't be supporting it any more. Just like I don't support sites wth hate speech, or flat earth sites, etc.. Sad for me that I will need to try to find a new outlet for my sports info and discussion. No big whip for anyone but me, I know. The world will turn without any one of us tonight.
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