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This being the case in quite a few fora, perhaps members could more easily slap this card on the table when challenged by other members. Particularly when there is something that is highly questionable, shouldn't some degree of discretion be left to the members to believe or not believe, as they choose? We are all adults here, and we are not responsible for the mental stability (or lack thereof) of our fellow cyber-brethren. We are responsible for ourselves. We can certainly post where we like, but we cannot threaten or belittle. Evidence cannot be had in a great number of issues here and it is simply worthless for a bunch of wannabe skeptics to march through arrogantly declaring that their intelligence will not be satisfied because "pix or it didn't happen. 2nd line".

Originally posted by SonoftheSun
The OP claims to be 50 years old and yet finishes most of his replies with a "lol" as most teenagers would do. Which, again, would certainly be a lie and against the T&C.

Uuum "LOL" is NOT restricted to teenagers. I've known and "LOLed" with hundreds of old people for 16 years now.

The Gray Area is the Comic Section to me - It's the HOAXER's Free-for-All Area. Very rarely do I see anything there that's not a hoax. They should really just go to the writer's area with the fiction stories.