starsgoblue said:
I've read the thread...but I'm sorry I still don't understand what exactly happened with those two...if someone wants to explain here or email me about it I'd appreciate it. Not drawing a line in the sand, I just want to understand.
I was a little late on the story myself, but from what I understand, when "The Edge" started posting on here a couple of weeks ago, he was advertised as "officially the real thing" by the staff on this board, and we were basically told that yes, this IS the edge from u2. So of course this place goes nuts and everyone was posting to the edge, and "he" actually responded to several posts. most people (including myself) bought it and thought "gee, isn't this place terrific; the edge actually is on here posting".
appartently a couple of people (salome and angela) questioned elvis about the validity of this person, and were basically told to shut up. there was a question about why the posters' IP address was in chicago, but that went ignored. also, there was never any real proof that it was indeed the edge. so as some people argued with elvis, they got banned.
turns out that the poster was in fact NOT the edge, and a whole lot of people here became extremley angry, for a number of reasons: people accussed elvis of pulling this stunt on purpose to get more premium memberships, or to get people to vote for this site as the best, or basically just stringing people along without any kind of effort to really verify who this person was.
in the end, those 2 mods are fired, many people have left this place over it, and there's been no real explanation as to exactly how someone could impersonate the edge and get away with it.
this is the way I understand it; perhaps I'm missing some details.
and since I hadn't commented on it before, I'll comment now: how an organization like this that prides itself on integrity and keeping watch on posts so that nothing offensive or rude or dishonest or whatever ever gets posted, I find it incrdible that this person was billed as the edge without 100% positive ID. and was so for several days. and this place is constantly asking for money too.
I'll keep coming here, because in the end I still enjoy most people here and find most up-to-date info on u2 here. I'm forgeting about the incident. alot of people here were close to salome and angela and probably will not want to forget about it.
2cents.
JOFO