All opinions are welcome. I know others have made comment on this earlier in the thread.
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I believe this is an excellent reference repository for the prosecution, defense and LE, but in varying degrees, and for differing purposes.
Each have different agendas/goals/resources at hand:
1. LE and the SA - have likely got the most resources (not that they aren't stretched) to investigate the case using 'traditional' techniques. Their primary goal will be to find facts to support what the existing evidence already shows. While they may benefit greatly from threads like the ping and text threads, I don't see that SA or LE would post 'leading' questions here. As well, they have a great deal more to lose if they did. That would be all sorts of NOT GOOD.
2. Defense - have less resources available to them for investigative work of any sort, traditional or non-traditional. Their goals differ and there are more of them. For example, they will monitor opinion polls to get a feeling for case weights per issue. As well, threads where contentious issues are debated passionately are a breeding ground for testing "what if's" as a trial run for 'reasonable doubt' arguments they might try, or disregard.
(still 2) Further, the rumour thread must be a delight amongst the many MySpace and FaceBook ones, and all others of the like. Benefits are two-fold: Where can conspiracy doubt be cast, &/or who/where can we deflect attention to today via PR or motions? (JG DNA, for example)
(and more 2) I do feel the defense or informal representatives might post here. As I posted before, 'honing their skills' in the case of students, and trying to find a tip for the point of the spear for the more experienced defense members.
IMO, some might be pegged as part of JB's team who really aren't. They're just fighting the fight for constitutional rights and guilty until proven innocent. Straight up posters, you know their stance, and it is right out there.
It is the other ones, as noted in many posts above, who embed the ''what-ifs" just barely, thinly disguised that lend us to believe they're here - and heck ya, they're posting. And they can't get in the kind of 'NOT GOOD FOR THIS CASE OR OUR SIDE OF THE PROFESSION' that the SA & LE could.
I also surmise that several of have been as disgruntled in the process of this endeavour with the many clever WS'ers as several here have been with those posters. :wink:
All's fair in love & posting, so long as TOS isn't broken; then some learn, some feed, some breed, and some make sport of it as a chew-toy for the brain.