Hello fellow members, according to the precedent which Imminst just set, I have no doubts this post too will be immediately pulled. As many of you are aware, I began a thread in which we were hearing both sides from the CEOs of Longevin and RevGen as I have recently been in email contact with Bill Sardi himself. It quickly became one of the extremely active threads on the board within a matter of days, as the subject matter was obviously interesting to many, and was fufilling a lot of curiosities many had about both products. As the thread grew more and more attention, and certain things were being put on the table, Imminst killed the post. There was no warning, no questioning the members. In fact, when the idea was brought up earlier in the thread, everyone in the thread shot the idea down quickly, as they too wanted to continue reading.
Now, I was always fairly aware that the bias of many members on this site was usually leaning to RevGen, which is perfectly fine. However, I never though the website itself was biased. Until now. To pull a thread with so much activity, and so much curiosity, with no apparent reason other than certain aspects of RevGen, and possibly it's CEO, being brought to light. I personally am so convinced there is an illegitimate bias held by the site Imminst.org towards RevGen. It made me fairly nauseaus to see that they did this, I literally was on the verge from retiring from the site (which I'm sure would be a joy to a select few). I was sent an absurd personal message, by Brainbox, one of the navigators, with pure sillyness and irreverance and transparency as to why he pulled it. Towards
the end, certain people started getting defensive and irrational, and Anthony and I imparticular starting having a little heat. Anthony's behaviour started to get out of line, as did mine (but I'm not the CEO of a company), and I can almost hear Anthony whispering to the navigators "pull it now" so as to quickly douse this fire. It wreaks of obviousness, I'll let the readers decide for themselves (should they get to see this post).
I, and others, wanted to hear from the other side, Longevin, which isn't often brought up. Sure there was bickering and some non productive replies, but those are found just as readily in most all other threads. But for the most part, it was curious people with curious questions, and people trying to divulge answers. There was talk of opening a new area just for topics like this, but it was agreed upon majorly to leave the current thread open until that is done. So by Imminst blatantly going against the clear wishes of it's members, wreaks of bias and suspiscion. Instead they said they would move the thread into the "Free Speech" section. The "Free Speech" section?! I've been an active member on these boards for months, and I've never even heard of the Free Speech section. It must be where posts they want to hide, go to die. Any person who googles the topic or even navigates with any interest in Resveratrol, winds up in the current threads which where we all do. When people want answers on Res, they come here, not to Free Speech. So Imminst essentially ushered our thread off into obscurity. The retarded step child in the basement. I'm not lashing out at Imminst, I am just very dissapointed in the behavior since I had never suspected them personally of being biased until now.
Anyway, I will not rant, I just wanted to let the facts be out there, as well as my opinion on them. Imminst, if you truly have nothing to hide, I would hope you'd let this thread live for a week or so to hear some others peoples voices who either support or refute your decision so you can know for the future. I'm sure there will be people who disagree with how I handeled posting it, but for those people, I would be curious as to what you think of the situation itself, and not my tactics used to show it.
There are many old and tired posts that have grown cobwebs on these forums for ages, with no one touching them. Surely they wouldn't negate those and skip straight to one of the newest and most highly active posts in recent days. Allow me to show you some examples that have been around for a loooong time with no urgent need to shut them down, and then you all can tell me why they chose this one.
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18185 - Last post Oct 15th 2007 (a total of two replies) - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=14872 - Last post Oct 15th 2007 -NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18152 - Last post Oct 17th 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=15488 - Last post Oct 23rd 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18432- Last post Nov 1st 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18481 - Last post Nov 3rd 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18622 - Last post Nov 15th 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...o...14578&st=90- Last post Nov 17th 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...o...13429&st=30 - Last post Nov 19th 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=18387 - Last post Nov 28th 2007 - NOT PULLED
http://www.imminst.o...showtopic=19509 - Last post Dec. 7 2007 - NOT PULLED
Now skip forward to a few days ago, with nearing a thousand views in a few days, consistently at the top of the thread list, my thread, which seemed to inadvertantly be causing damage to RevGen -WAS PULLED. Let's see if we can deduce a pattern from the above.
I hope you get my point. This is but a mere handful from 2007, that haven't seen the light of day in over a year. There are many many many many more. For some reason, these weren't pulled with such great urgency.
This is ludicrous and ridiculous and would hope Brain box will put the thread back up after looking at the incontrovertable evidence. There were a large handful of questions to which members asked me to forward to Bill Sardi to which I was about to reply, but the rug was pulled out from under me and the thread was removed.
Now Brainbox, I do like you, so this isn't a personal attack on you, but simply one on your decision. Sure I agree we were getting a little off topic, and unproductive for a few posts, but that is a navigators job to quell it with a personal message so the thread can continue as happens ALL THE TIME in other threads. To simply remove the thread altogether is extremely suspicious and in my opinion biased. I will for your edification now post Brainbox's personal message to me, and you all can decide for yourself.
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I will also post a link to the thread where they moved it (which was no easy task to find, even on google). http://www.imminst.o...o...26539&st=30
On another note. Even if there is no public outcry for a reinstatement of the thread until the new format comes into play, I will post a new thread with simply the link to where they have hidden the Original Thread. Whatever their point was in removing it, surely they can find no fault in at least letting people know where it is unless they are further trying to bury it. It seems to me, if it were fair play, they themselves would have posted a link, since people who want to know of Res come to this forum and not Free Speech.
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Edited by zoolander, 04 January 2009 - 05:27 AM.
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