Welcome to everyone.

Projects and Investigations Defunct Project Threads
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Hello everyone.

As described in the PM to you, if you were brought on board for this project, it was because you were determined to have knowledge and credibility pertinent for the objectives of this forum.

The roster for this project is:

samurai_steve
Phrost
dakotajudo
Te No Kage!
omega
Meex
kickcatcher
Samuel Browning
Mr_Mantis

The objective of this forum:

Come up with a set of standards and principles concerning Bullshido Investigations and Bullshido Declarations.

Some preliminary warnings and notices:

#1. This is a confidential and privileged forum. What’s said in here and discussed stays in here.

#2. The roster of people here are people who are believed to be open to criticism of their ideas, and will criticize in turn in a matter consistent with advancing a topic rather than scoring points in the eyes of the membership.

I’ve called together professionals from the fields of law, medicine, business, and martial arts to craft standards that draw upon those fields, but are not constrained by the limits in their fields. As an example, we won’t be using legal definitions of fraud in our guidelines because in our eyes, allowing someone to fall prey to and being damaged by a fradulent enterprise is antithetical to our mission. However, the law would only offer remedy if a person acted upon fradulent info and actually got harmed.

All of you were PM’d questions and notes that I came up with as a starting point for discussion. I think that an effective way of handling this issue is to start multiple threads on single topics so we don’t get too unfocused on areas.

Thank you all.

  • Steve
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No Asia huh?

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He’s received all the PMs. but no response.

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You didn’t have him in the list above.

So Steve, to get us rolling here ~ please state our strategical objective and as many of the tactical objectives that you can identify for this mission. :gwbdance:

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Tactical objectives:

#1. Create a definition for Bullshido above reasonable reproach.

#2. Create a set of guidelines on how the website can proclaim something as Bullshido without incurring legal liability.

#3. Create guidelines on how to separate member actions vs. site actions in terms of liability, such as if a member creates a thread saying “So-and-so is a fraud” or goes to a dojo they saw on Bullshido.com and challenged students to gong-sau.

#4. Establish principles for what constitutes the most valid and least valid evidence for Bullshido declarations of McDojo or Bullshido.

#5. Establish ranks of Bullshido, ranging from non-Bullshido to total Bullshido, with at least two intermediate ranks.

#6. Create a set of guidelines and principles for either the staff or member investigators to follow when doing an actual investigation (such as with Ashida Kim/Radford Davis)

#7. Discuss these issues in the context of the most recent “investigation” (JFS USA) without getting bogged down in personal animus. Lets acknowledge what was right and what was wrong, objectively and in our opinions.

That’s what I can think of right now.