Origionally posted by "leonidas"
"my point was simply that people take respect threads on good faith, so judging who is and is not deliberately using misleading scans is a tough call. it's gonna happen. all we can do in that case is hope someone knows the true context of it."
"Posted by DarthGoober" less than a week ago,
"I understand and like I said I'm not talking about everyone that slips up. I'm talking about those rare instances in which the person was OBVIOUSLY trying to mislead others. It's pretty obvious that if a feat is repeatedly brought up by someone(that admits to reading the issue in question) and is then debunked and is followed by excuses or counter accusations rather than acknowledgement and/or apology for inadvertently misleading others that the offense was intentional. Or if the scan is debunked to the poster one week but he/she is STILL posting the scan or incident out of context a week later in a debate with someone else who wasn't there for the original debunking.
Basically I don't think people should be caught red handed in the act of lying and get off easy only to do it again next week the way that nvr used to. We shouldn't HAVE to research every issue that's brought up just to make that people aren't talking out of their ass and people who get caught deserve to get some kind of recognition in regards to their being untrustworthy. Otherwise we're just making things hard for the posters who're seeking accuracy and easy for those who want to pass off faulty "evidence". With an actual rule present(even if it's barely enforced) it won't be nearly as big of an issue because NO ONE want's to get called on having to lie just to keep up in a debate.
Barring that, we need stricter policies in regards to supporting your case with evidence for those posters who have a tendency to point others to respect threads or cite feats and abilities for characters rather than scans on the grounds of the feat/ability being "common knowledge that everyone should know". All to often I've looked into "common knowledge" only to discover that's actually a common misconception brought about by a misrepresented source or outright speculation."
Darthgoober less than a day ago,
"Basically I don't think"
I HATE BABY JESUS!!!!!!!
Can we really afford someone like this?!?
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