Originally Posted by
dodger
not disagreeing ... but ... anything and everything said hangs on the credibility of the person making the post. if the post involves another person, that person's reputation comes into play. then there is the reader's judgement. what i'm saying is, not that easy to smear someone. smears based on lies and such just don't carry much weight because these lies and misstatements just don't hold up. don't hold up with reasonable people, anyway. at least ... that is the way it should work.
take Roksana for example. the lady has a reputation established over a period of time and supported by a pretty fair number of other folks. when she says something, it has gravitas ... with me, anyway. and if someone says something which appears contrary to her established reputation, i would not dismiss it but i would weigh it against all that i have already learned or observed.
this is not to say Roksana cannot make a mistake or do something which may be uncharacteristic. just saying that when one person says something about about another ... especially on a board like this one ... it tends to be one data point. worthy of note, perhaps ... but still ... one data point. and i get that the topic of this thread is not Roksana, herself.