Quote Originally Posted by prophetic_joe View Post
You being wrong was in acting like we should all know what you knew before Hex's post # 103. You were behaving like us wanting to know what was going on was a terrible thing when you obviously wanted to know as well hence you and Hex pm'ing eachother. To act in this manner was wrong.

I will repeat myself, I am not holding anything against you, saying that makes the whole thing seem personal. When this whole mess started I stopped trusting darn near everybody. I also must admit that in my line of work the person who comes out saying no one is guilty of anything is usually the one guilty of something, so I had to ask myself why you seemed so against Hex making this public. I now understand that it was because you had already talked to Hex via pm and found out information on the situation, with that said you could have saved us both time by either posting in this thread that you knew something from Hex earlier or sending me a pm. I would have thought we knew eachother well enough for you to do that.
I hear what you're saying... Kinda hard to trust anyone unless you REALLY know them, eh? I mean - really - we hear about all the "friendships" on these cigar boards. The only ones I really put any kind of faith in are those that have been over years of interactions. Some of the people I've seen that have been around for six months or a year and are "good friends" with others on the site raise my suspicions...

The one thing you can do is trust that those that have been around for a long time typically have weathered a lot of the crap you're seeing now. And have a pretty uncanny insight into what's really going on. It may surprise you sometimes when they go after someone you think is a great guy - only to find out later they weren't so wrong about going after the person. I've seen it a number of times - and I've rarely seen it be wrong...