kennf said:Yeah, the moderators over there are very strict about "unfounded" doping accusations. Apparently, you can only talk about people if they've failed a test, or been mentioned in the press as having been linked to a scandal.
DPF is a total joke. It's one of the last bastions of doping apologists. Their rules were made to protect Armstrong and Postal from being accused of what they were obviously doing. Even making a crack about someone's bad performance being due to being a pint low will get Steve up in arms. Meanwhile, accusing lab technicians, [censored] Pound, whole ethnic groups, etc. without a shred of circumstantial evidence is a-okay.
What is really funny is that since Operation Puerto, it has now sunk in to many of the thickest posters on DPF that there really is widespread doping. All the riders getting busted; the confessions of Manzano, Gaumont, Voet, and all; the research on the size of the performance effects of various kinds of dope; the police actions; the clear indication that testing is ineffective; and the mountains of evidence was not enough for them to draw the obvious conclusion that doping was rampant. But with OP, even the slowest amongst them (Hombre/bobke) are starting to see the light.
Now the DPF is like a bunch of deer caught in headlights. A majority seem to have finally come the conclusion that all the top pros are on dope but the posters cannot say anything about it without big bad Steve throwing a hissy fit. It's a really sad state of affairs. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of dodos.