This an open letter to Druff that I hope other people agree with or can come up with an alternative way to deal with the problem.
In the JSearles v Vegas thread I made the comment that perhaps there should be a forum rule regarding bets. Something along the lines of all bets being non-binding unless money is escrowed OR a third party confirms the nature and validity of the bet.
The reason i say this is because it seems like PFA is starting to fracture into groups and personal vendettas (similar to another forum that many members here were part of). I think this forum is great; legitimate debates have been robust and for the most part the drama has been minimal, but this seems to be changing. My thought is that by eliminating a serious problem (the E-Dick swinging that "bets" bring about between people who either can't pay, or have no intention of paying to begin with) we could slightly diminish the presence of trolling posts and stem the fracturing of the community.
Now legitimate bets should still be allowed (I'm not advocating doing away with them altogether) but there should be some guidelines as to what is a binding bet and what isn't-- After all we are dealing with the Anonymous Internet here. In one case we had a drunken(?) poster make a bet and now we have this nonsense about some Bill Clinton-esque what does "use" mean.
I'm hoping other people also want to nip this in the bud, and get back to talking about important things like naming the radio show!