I agree COMPLETELY with Big EZ about his premise. I started to post a thread today then I figured the major offenders would never bite so it was kind of worthless. The way it would be is this:
Someone state-casts or wish-casts (not honest questions, just discounting so-and-so model/forecaster/logic based apparently on their relative location). Someone else hits them with the Put Up Or Shut Up challenge (aka the "Storm2k Challenge"). The poster questioned then has 1 of 3 options:
a) explain what they were talking about with sound reason and/or logic;
b) Publically admit they were state-casting and/or -removed-
c) accepts the Storm2k Challenge and puts his or her money where his or her mouth is. At the point they call the challenge, the challenger is now on notice. He gives an alternative point of view (or why he believes so-and-so was -removed- or statecasting) and what might happen instead. If the statecaster/wishcaster ends up being right, the challenger has to contribute $10.00 to Storm2k or voluntarily surrender their posting rights for 1 week and vice versa.
Me? I'm man enough to put my money where my mouth is, though no one would ever accuse me of -removed- since I usually anti-wishcast just to make sure I don't jinx any potential storms that might come my way. I spent my childhood hurricane watching years looking at any storm that had a shot at hitting me turn at the last second or just not do what they said it was going to do.
I already offered this challenge to someone in another thread (a good guy) but they declined.
Steve
