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re: Fuller Rumors: NCAA Charges Coming
Posted on 1/4/15 at 1:15 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Posted on 1/4/15 at 1:15 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
I hear what you're saying but here's the deal as I see it. AND THIS IS ALL COMPLETE FICTION JUST AS AN EXAMPLE.
Let's say I have a buddy that works in the athletic department. Let's say we happened to get together over the holidays and have a few drinks. Let's say while drinking he lets on about some potential problems with Coach X. Even if he doesn't explicitly say it, you know by the nature of it he wouldn't want you to divulge it. Now you go blathering his name, jeopardizing his job, and yeah, I think I would be pissed at you for releasing his name.
Instead of pressuring people to out their sources, I suggest we just take it for what it states in the OP...a rumor. May turn out to be right. May turn out to be nothing. So I guess it comes down to posters just not posting anything they hear because they're all rumors even if they name the source or posters just not sharing what they hear because they're not going to piss off a friend much less jeopardize their job or their relationship with the University.
Let's say I have a buddy that works in the athletic department. Let's say we happened to get together over the holidays and have a few drinks. Let's say while drinking he lets on about some potential problems with Coach X. Even if he doesn't explicitly say it, you know by the nature of it he wouldn't want you to divulge it. Now you go blathering his name, jeopardizing his job, and yeah, I think I would be pissed at you for releasing his name.
Instead of pressuring people to out their sources, I suggest we just take it for what it states in the OP...a rumor. May turn out to be right. May turn out to be nothing. So I guess it comes down to posters just not posting anything they hear because they're all rumors even if they name the source or posters just not sharing what they hear because they're not going to piss off a friend much less jeopardize their job or their relationship with the University.
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Posted on 1/4/15 at 1:29 pm to reedus23
I think with the anonymous internet posting format though that's where the rumor stuff becomes literally impossible to distinguish from trolling or biased attempts to stir something for some reason and the like. You definitely don't have to say "this is what I heard from John P. Smith, assistant athletic director for marketing" or any such stuff. But there's a middle ground there to me that is kinda like the examples I gave above.
In the Quin/Kleiza girlfriend example I didn't name any names just that "a friend of mine said they heard from a person in the AD." That's really broad. Could be anybody. The specific source is nowhere near identifiable, but it gives you all at least some idea where I claim to have gotten it from.
I guess with posts like 808's that's all I'd ask if possible. Anything broad like that that you can share 808 - did you catch these whiffs from within the university, perhaps someone who says the talk to people in the AD, maybe somebody who knows someone at the NCAA, etc. There's ways to pair it down a bit without being so specific that you are anywhere close to outing the exact identity of the source. Again, you certainly don't have to and reedus what you describe is how it mostly goes in practice on the interwebs message boards these days. I'm just saying I'm more likely to put more stock in those sorts of posts where there's some sort of source chain attached, and sometimes posters do provide it.
In the Quin/Kleiza girlfriend example I didn't name any names just that "a friend of mine said they heard from a person in the AD." That's really broad. Could be anybody. The specific source is nowhere near identifiable, but it gives you all at least some idea where I claim to have gotten it from.
I guess with posts like 808's that's all I'd ask if possible. Anything broad like that that you can share 808 - did you catch these whiffs from within the university, perhaps someone who says the talk to people in the AD, maybe somebody who knows someone at the NCAA, etc. There's ways to pair it down a bit without being so specific that you are anywhere close to outing the exact identity of the source. Again, you certainly don't have to and reedus what you describe is how it mostly goes in practice on the interwebs message boards these days. I'm just saying I'm more likely to put more stock in those sorts of posts where there's some sort of source chain attached, and sometimes posters do provide it.
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