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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
Why do people care on here what other people claim to have done or not done?
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There's actually a very legitimate reason for this. We're on a message board/forum of many others, nearly all of us pretty much anonymous. In order to justify the time spent here, rather than some other forum elsewhere or none at all, I need to think that for me to learn anything from others here, I have to begin with whose opinions to value more highly.
We all win wagers that we didn't bother to post here. But, if we were always redboarding, or saying "yeah, I was thinking about that horse, remember, before I changed my mind and bet the favorite?", then it would warp our perception of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the forum group. We would then assign more significance to the posts of the wrong people. We would then be more susceptible to learning from the wrong people their wrong headed thinking