[HOAX] 'ET' False Flag Operation to Begin in August [HOAX], page 94

Originally posted by schuyler
Hey guys, we're in the forensics stage of this thread. We all know that. I don't speak for greatlakes or Lexion, but I share their frustration. This thread took off fast and for awhile it was literally impossible to keep up. It also has attracted an interesting subset of posts.

1. People who said immediately, "It's a hoax." That's about all they said. In other words, their contribution was minimal. They didn't try to analyze anything. They didn't try to study the issue. They just 'proclaimed' a hoax, thus sharing their infinite wisdom with lots of people who were more intrigued.

2. People who joined up just to post. Now, they could have been lurking for years without joining, or maybe they just showed up, but somehow they used this thread to push them into joining so they could participate. A certain sub-set of these people proclaimed, "It's a hoax." They just got here sometimes minutes prior, judged the entire situation, and made a proclamation.

3. After the hoax had been proclaimed, THEN members of both sub-groups above made posts such as, "It was obvious all along." In some cases they said, "I didn't even read it."

It is this third group that is particularly irritating. Your hindsight is 20/20, of course. You may feel particularly proud of yourself for recognizing a hoax after already knowing it was one, but to those of us who spent some time analyzing the issue, your contribution approaches zero. You get no stars for stating the obvious. You get no applause. Do you have a right to your opinion? Sure! Opinionize away! But given what you've said about how much effort you put into this, your opinion is less than valuable.

These guys remind me of people who say, "I don't like asparagus. I've never tasted it." or "You're raising you child all wrong. I don't have kids." or "I don't like that movie. I've never seen it." Well, whoope do! Next time, why don't you consider contributing something useful. Thanks.

I agree with you 100%, I am a researcher at heart so I have read all 94 pages because this topic has great interest for me. I have formed my own opinion on this matter but will keep it to myself as I do on most topics.
However, when a thread is this big I can see the tendency for others to "skim" get the big picture and not dissect every word. Any questions or comments should be accepted, analyzed and discussed regardless, insulting a members intelligence is not contributing to the discussion any more than someone commenting who has not completely read the thread.
It is far better to just ignore or not respond to a post that one may find not worthy then to use one's precious energy and take up space in a thread to just bash the post.
My comments above to Lex were also based on an accumulation of negative posts in several different threads that I had read last night. I tend to keep my opinions and comments to myself but the overwhelming negativity on this board lately reached its pique with me last night after reading thread after thread filled with off topic unrelated posts that just insult, bash or argue just to argue. This seems to be the trend around here lately and I feel we are getting away from denying ignorance.

In closing, speculation, debate and discussion should always, no matter what level, be accepted on this forum but as my mama always said "If you don't have something nice to say about someone, then just don't say it"