why pull a post?

If you post a “statement of fact” to a public forum and someone repudiates your statement would you then retract the statement? Point in fact should you simply remove your post rather than support your point with fact and coherent argument? Someone said SL is sick and maybe dying. To which I responded with my standard and often repeated observation that no it is not dying in fact it is doing just fine and if a couple of large companies leave the grid it won’t make any difference as SL was doing just fine before those companies showed up. The response to my commentary was that they had data which showed otherwise, implying that LL was in fact in trouble and SL may not survive much longer. When asked to present that data, the post suddenly goes poof with no response from the writer.

WTF? If you have info that I don’t and I ask to see it that means I really want to see it! I am as full of shit as the next guy and I form opinions and base my statements from my observations. I fancy that I stay pretty well informed about this particular addiction. But look at this, why is everyone one worried about SL falling apart when Blizzard, makers of the hugely popular World of Warcraft just got picked up by Vivendi Universal which is infamous for rotten support for their products? How come no one blogged a river of tears about that? Jesus Cloony Frog! I hate when people just poof out of a discussion when you ask them to support their arguments.

If I am totally wrong about something I want to be told, enlightened, informed and if the other person makes me look like a chump in the process oh well. I still wouldn’t pull the post. That is like saying “I am going to take my ball and go home.” Isn’t that part of the point in journaling in a public forum?