I’m afraid it would not be very memorable. Any indication that you sponsored an actual flame-out would probably result in the disappearance of your username and all your posts with no mention of the event.
The odd occurrence that prompted this thread is being treated as the sort of one-on-one private betting that we have already tolerated in regards to elections. Promoting trolling would not be viewed in the same way.
How was it a bet? Liberal paid PRR to go away. PRR accepted. Sounds like a business transaction to buy off an annoying poster. Liberal did not even offer up a feeble “I’ll bet you $500 you cannot refrain from posting at the dope.”
He butted heads, tried to get better people to participate in the farce and somehow finally convince **Triskadecamus ** to be party to this stupidity.
So why is it only a one-on-one betting situation again?
All I have is good riddance to the bigotted bastard prr. His position was that anyone (us 95%…) that believe in a god are stupid, illogical and NOT to be even listened to or taken seriously. Bigotry defined. For Lib to goad him into taking his 30 pieces of silver and leaving, is just icing on the cake.
So who should we pay off next? Maybe Der Trihs, he gets pitted on a regular basis? He hates religious people and soldiers. How about **Shodan ** or **Martin Hyde ** on the other side of the spectrum, they generate a lot of hatred on the boards? …
Where does it stop that this was a good thing overall for you?
I don’t respond well to bribery. I’d either refuse, or take the money if it was offered up front and not leave. I’d consider it my own personal fine for bribery, and if you complained - well, trusting someone who accepted a bribe wasn’t very smart, now was it ?
I was not offering, I invoked your name only as you are seemingly less popular than even PRR, I was trying to make an example. I hope you did not think I was suggesting you should be bought off.
And in this case…what? It’s o.k. to pay off the people you disagree with? A small percentage of Dopers disagree with? The majority of Dopers disagree with?
Who decides?
What if prr had come out as vehemently against people in favor of gay marriage? Or equality for blacks? Or women? Or Martians?
He would still be the same bigot. And it wouldn’t take a $500 bribe to get him off the board! The mods would have stopped him in his tracks (as they really should have here… months, YEARS ago).