Quote from: repentance on March 08, 2014, 01:16:03 AM

Quote from: retrend on March 08, 2014, 01:00:36 AM

Quote from: repentance on March 08, 2014, 12:54:35 AM

nless he's willing to publish and be damned regardless of whether or not Vessenes and Matonis step down, then he's not a crusader for truth at all - he's just another egomaniac seeking validation.

Completely agree, the blog post is massively attention seeking. He could have simply mailed the two guys in question with the facts he has and told them he would reveal unless they stepped down.

Nope, that would just make him a blackmailer. He has no integrity as a "whistle-blower" if there's any scenario under which he won't publish the information of wrong-doing he claims to have. By not publishing, he's with-holding the very information he's accusing them of being wrong for with-holding.

Whistleblowers get fame. Blackmailers get the job done. If the people who are poisoning the place are removed that's better than congratulating ourselves on how informed we are. He's going Taken and that's what's necessary now.

There's a bit too much hopeyshamey going on here. Exposure is nothing if you don't have power. I'd rather have a fire put out than be told up to the minute what the temperature is. What I find hilarious is that after exposing we would then have some long winded process in which people will be removed and some other charlatan take their place, when we can just have them remove themselves.

Blackmail is effective. Whistleblowing only gets half the job done. After the whistle is blown, someone still has to apply pressure or procedure. Why not cut to the chase?

Do you really need to know the gory details of what anyone with half a brain already knows? If you see someone harming someone else, do you A) shout and spend a long time trying to get the people in power to stop them, or do you B) stop them? This obsession with information is just delaying effective action. Removing two people directly beats months of trolling by supporters and accusers which only allows the next shyster to take over.