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Originally Posted by Ray
To be fair to the WAB and its Moderators, is the Letter to the Editor (without mentioning it so) valid as being authoritative for serious discussion or allowing it to be passed off as the Gospel truth?!
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If you were modify your statement to "Is a Letter to the Editor it valid for discussion?" then yes, that is a true statement.
That's what we do here: Discussion of both facts and opinions. That's debate!
But back to what you said: Is it wrong to try to pass off opinion as fact? Hell yes it's wrong, and it's a great way to invite a LOT of unwanted attention from your fellow members
The irony is that it takes all of 10 seconds to type:
"This is an Op-Ed from today's
Chicago Tribune and I'd agree with points A, B and C. What do you think?"
Not a lot of work involved I'd say.
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Originally Posted by Ray
When something is posted, no one checks back since it taken that it is true. Each member has faith that they are not being fooled, or else all would just be busy checking the veracity of posts being posted! The whole issue is based on FAITH and one Moderator commented that everyone is not an encyclopedia to know everything!
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Actually what I said was that
the WAB itself is not an encyclopedia
That is to say, we do not advertise ourselves as being an online depository composed of pure fact and hard knowledge.
We're merely a humble debating forum!
It falls to the membership to believe or not believe, to double-check or not; somebody else's posts, if they so choose.
If somebody starts talking smack, then other members are free to refute that smack.
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Originally Posted by Ray
I wonder if breaking the faith or a breach of trust is what is being suggested that should be allowed!
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I don't think that we need an addition to the rules for that sort of thing, IMHO.
I'm rather proud of the fact that we have an intelligent and perceptive membership here and we tend to quickly jump on people who try to pass off opinion or bad data as the Gospel.
And people that habitually try to pass off bad info as Scripture are invited to change their ways or Exit Stage Left.
The case of Asim however was the same thing as the other 2 members that were banned: An issue was declared closed, yet all 3 figured they were going to continue arguing with the Moderator and/or get in that last word.