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The GreekGazza, just a little reminder,there is no such thing as freedom of the press ,freedom of the net and so on .on BV board does he not edit and remove posts at his discretion?.to me this issue was like going in a sold out theatre and yelling fire ,with the ensuing choas .i am talking from the land of liberty and freedom for all ,and if you believe that well .you get where i am coming from.oh by the way i never bought into that aussie report .Quote
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In addition, if you 'banned' people for posting a 'rumour' that turned out to be incorrect, you'd quickly have no one left on any board. Even the people who run it. People do get info wrong despite acting in good faith. It happens.
For example, I heard this rumour that Gazza may have an aunt who may have balls. I can neither confirm nor deny this story.
That would be my dad's long lost sister - good old Aunt Fred.
Strange ol' bird.
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The GreekGazza, just a little reminder,there is no such thing as freedom of the press ,freedom of the net and so on .on BV board does he not edit and remove posts at his discretion?.to me this issue was like going in a sold out theatre and yelling fire ,with the ensuing choas .i am talking from the land of liberty and freedom for all ,and if you believe that well .you get where i am coming from.oh by the way i never bought into that aussie report .Quote
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In addition, if you 'banned' people for posting a 'rumour' that turned out to be incorrect, you'd quickly have no one left on any board. Even the people who run it. People do get info wrong despite acting in good faith. It happens.
For example, I heard this rumour that Gazza may have an aunt who may have balls. I can neither confirm nor deny this story.
That would be my dad's long lost sister - good old Aunt Fred.
Strange ol' bird.
I never really bought it either and whilst it's bv's site and his choice to remove posts as he sees fit, I don't believe I've ever seen him remove a post quoting a news story.
IMO, spreading a rumour that you know to be untrue just to upset people is one thing (I've booted people from my own board for doing just that myself, so I've no qualms about it) - posting a story 'as is' that appeared on a news site which is in the public domain is another thing entirely. All it took was to do a google news search for 'Rolling Stones' or 'Charlie Watts' and it was there and if Deathgod (who I know is a stand up guy and not a bullshit artist) hadnt done that, someone else would have done a few minutes later. I personally check search engines for Stones stories every day and I'm sure lots of other people do too.
Its not his or anyone else's fault that a journalist posted the original story - and the story's existence to begin with was deemed significant enough for the band's press office to wake up after several months in a coma to actually take the trouble of dismissing it.
Its a message board, and its in the nature of any message board to have its members quote or copy and paste news stories, whether they're good news stories or not. If its already in the public domain, its absolutely pointless to pretend it doesn't exist. The person posting the story is NOT the person who is spreading the rumour.
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I think he looks like that Susan Boyle in a wig.
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Undercover is sticking by the absolute truth of the story until Charlie Watts himself denies it.
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Undercover is sticking by the absolute truth of the story until Charlie Watts himself denies it.
This is ridiculous: then you can create any story about any person an continue doing so just stating it is true until the related person denies it.
Then I can say: Undercover has been paid to publish this history by some mean people who want to undermine Stones. Or Undercover is an anti Stones homepage.
This is true until Undercover can prove the opposite
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What if this story was intentionally put out as a trial balloon, or a test?
The PR department figured that a strategically placed "rumour" would draw reaction from the die-hard fans only. Little did they realize that the Worldwide Stones Community would be informed almost immediately, setting off a chain reaction that they couldn't imagine, let alone comprehend. This obviously set off a reaction that warranted an "official" statement, within hours of the initial "leak."
If you buy into my theory, then I ask this question...
What type of reaction do you think that they expected?
Or, what type of reaction do you think they desire?...
Talk amongst yourselves...
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Kurt
What if this story was intentionally put out as a trial balloon, or a test?
The PR department figured that a strategically placed "rumour" would draw reaction from the die-hard fans only. Little did they realize that the Worldwide Stones Community would be informed almost immediately, setting off a chain reaction that they couldn't imagine, let alone comprehend. This obviously set off a reaction that warranted an "official" statement, within hours of the initial "leak."
If you buy into my theory, then I ask this question...
What type of reaction do you think that they expected?
Or, what type of reaction do you think they desire?...
Talk amongst yourselves...
Not an entirely impossible scenario. If so,I think they probably did get the reaction they wanted and expected.
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>> What if this story was intentionally put out as a trial balloon, or a test? <<
... a "test" of what?
disinformation to check who it is in the "semi-inner circles" that goes leaking stuff to cashmere llamas?
yeah maybe