Originally posted by jamie83
So it's ok to simply post anything you want and say somebody told you?
The only reason I ask is because I had several people demand one of my threads be removed because I didn't provide sources.
The OP is not saying it is a definite fact, they are saying, "I have an insider, that I consider reliable, who has leaked some information to me
about a possible Palin affair and sex tape being shopped around by a bitter ex-lover."
If that were not acceptable, none of the threads on "leaks" regarding Area 51, or other conspiracy topics where the identity of the source is not
revealed would not be acceptable either, and I think we are pretty able to see that they are.
Saying that you have information that may or may not be true is very different than claiming you have a fact, a truth, and having no way of sourcing
that fact.
I, by the way, am not one of the people that called for your thread to be taken down. I do not agree with you politically, but I do not think your
views should be stifled, even though I really do not like some of them. I personally do not even mind that you did not quote your sources, though I
think one should link to sources in general if one wants to look like more than a ranter. I am not a mod however, and if they say source it, source
it. I think what got your thread criticized was that you made claims that certain things had
already been said in the media, but did not
source them. Which should be very easy if those things had indeed been said in the media.