BotanyBay said:
I believe his name is more closely watched. Say the wrong thing and you'll wonder how you can get away with saying the same kind of thing about "dopers" like Lance or AC, but never JV.
Armstrong won't be granting any exclusives to CN, as they "pee in his soup", so it's OK to have 10 threads going that explore everything from his singular testes to his supposed obsession with Greg's kid. He's fair game. But not JV.
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Stirling work, sir.
But, here is another way to look at it. There were initially so MANY threads about Lance that last year we decided to create a single Lance thread. There are still so many people wanting to discuss different aspects of him that there are sometimes extra threads THAT DISCUSS DIFFERENT TOPICS. (in general I mean - I do realise that it would be easy to find a duplicate or 10 in 18months of posts)
Regarding JV, there appears to be one solitary topic being discussed here repeatedly - "He doped but he won't man up and confess in public"
Now, you may think that warrants 10+ threads but frankly I think (as I stated quite clearly) that it would be good if some people took a little effort to see if what they want to discuss has been flogged to death already. There are horse carcasses all over this forum at the moment because everybody thinks a new thread is warranted.
I will ask you to do two things:
1) Go and look at the other recent JV theads and then show us something in a post in THIS thread that hasn't been said about 10 times this week already
2) Go and look around at JV threads and show us where a Mod has edited a comment or removed a post for any other reason than a breach of forum rules.
I think if you do those two things you will discover that JV certainly is NOT protected. In particular, note that the people most recently discussing this topic around JV got so sick of the nastiness of certain posts that they wanted the thread closed and called out for it loudly.
Not only did the Mods NOT block negative discussion of JV, they even refused to make the evidence disappear when the people that said the things wanted it gone. In short, your argument is completely ridiculous.