Reply #177: I made the same mistake

[m berst]

I, too was initially highly suspicious of the posts of Bozos and Geo. I was wrong. I spent the time looking into it once it finally dawned on me that there was more than met the eye to the situation. Start with whom you can trust and work outward, one at a time. If you haven't built solid trust with other members, listen to the people like Eloriel and the others who are coordinating all of the election fraud issues at DU.

This particular brouhaha was very weird because all of the roles were reversed. I was so alert to people trying to STOP threads that I wasn't carefully reading what Geo was saying, and I fell right into it.

All that Geo, Bozos, SomethingsGotToGive and I have been saying is to be cautious - not telling anyone to stop any line of investigation, rather just to suggest to people to be alert and don't let yourself be whipped into a frenzy of suspicion about other members and be led off in the wrong direction - (given that I am speaking here for others, so they can correct me if I am wrong.)

Just because someone questions the quality of a piece of information that someone brings to DU, that does not mean that they are working for the dark side.