I expect that he graciously accept that he was wrong and continue to post on the board as normal.
I don’t think people remember how egregious Blake was. I dug up one of his threads where he was so confident that he had a cite that no animal was capable of jumping more than 1 meter from a standing start. When people chimed in with their own eye witness accounts of their personal pets clearly jumping two meters he managed to dismiss all of them as if they were mistaken perceptions on the scale of ghost sightings.
Somehow, no other cites was as good as his single cite, people pointing out that some animals were clearly capable of jumping at least 3 meters and that his cite was a generality that, in it’s very phrasing, allowed for exceptions, were all pooh poohed by him. This goes on for 100+ posts dedicated solely to the rest of the Dope trying to convince one man of one extremely obvious thing. Finally, @Desmostylus manages to find the absolute perfect cite that is now indisputable that Blake is wrong and Blake chooses this exact moment to take a board hiatus, coincidentally never having to acknowledge that his argument was obviously terrible from the start.
Funnily enough, after the entire debate ended, someone bothered to read the original piece Blake cited and discovered that the authors themselves stated that the one meter rule was on average but animals could differ by as much as threefold around the average, meaning cats jumping 2 meters was perfectly in line with their observational model.
I remember making a game of it, every time Blake got owned, to see if he would take a board hiatus to avoid taking accountability and he would reliably “coincidentally” stop posting at that exact time and then return a few weeks to months later.
Like Stranger, Blake had some genuinely interesting contributions to the board and he was filled with real knowledge. But also like Stranger, Blake was extraordinarily thin skinned and arrogant and would refuse to accept that other people also had legitimate expertise and would often confidently get way out over his skis and assert expertise he obviously didn’t have.
I can’t speak to anyone else but for me personally, I have absolutely no problem with people being wrong on the internet. I see people posting wrong stuff on the SDMB all the time and, for the most part, I let it go and occasionally I muster up the energy to correct someone. It’s not the being wrong that’s the sin, it’s how you handle the correction. If you refuse to learn and continue to bluster and gaslight, then I keep you in my memory banks as someone with a massive ego problem.