That's a suggestion Rosie, but given that I didnt start a thing, it's not particularly germane to the discussion. So here's a suggestion for you- if you don't like a thread don't read any more of it.
My wager has nothing to do with any holier-than-thou sentiment, rather it was me calling out someone who exhibited that very sentiment. So you should be thanking me, not attempting to chastise me. Holier than thou people never offer a wager either, for future reference.
And I haven't made any threat, so I have no idea what you mean by this.
And I can't speak to what drives more people away, but I can speak to what has driven away people whom I know. But what I do know is that people should be able to respectfully disagree with a position without having the Raider posse attempt run them out of town for daring to not subscribe to groupthink.
Well don't get me wrong, I find it pretty hilarious that a bunch of adults will throw stones at each other on the internet over nothing. It's provided for some sad thrill for a few minutes. And I think you're absolutely right, people should be able to respectfully disagree. I don't even think half of this has been respectful. Especially not since Page 7. Minus multiple failed attempts to return this thread back to recruiting talk.
I didn't claim you started anything, either. Truthfully, I don't really care who started things for that matter. I haven't followed this thread as much as I did a few days ago after people became minions.
Speaking of minions, I did notice your 1st post was a clearly rhetorical questions directed to something or "someone" being the root cause as to why people don't post here, and your 2nd consisted of you targeting gary and other posters as "minions", so I'm going to say it's safe to assume that you were hinting around at gary and/or others being the cause? You may not have started, but you definitely managed to jump in and keep it going.
I don't think I should thank you because that's not what I requested you to do. What I said was that you seem to be unhappy with certain people/the way things are going here so perhaps you should go to where you are happiest, instead of wanting to make a bet to either rid this board of you or another poster. Which is asinine in itself because I think even you know that no one has ever said "Roy is Jesus" and "Dean is God" unironically. Either way, we'd lose a poster, which would go against the point of your original post.
I think most would constitute "Your mouth keeps writing checks that your ass can't cash." as well as the rest of that vulgar post as an extremely hostile threat. But maybe that's just me. But that's not even what I was referring to.
The threat (and yes it was a threat, hostile or not) was that you should say "fuggit" and stay on the payboard, which sounds like it would be a better use of your time. Like I said, I've seen 2 people in this thread other than you have said they'd go back to the "pay board" or some other board because of some sort of dissatisfaction, yet they still come here. In fact, they are the ones who were fanning the flames of this train-wreck. If you want to go back to the payboard, then just go. There's no need to drag others down with you.
Anyway, I'll refrain from going further with this particular issue. Hopefully the mods will deal with this at some point.