DVD Talk Forum - Blu-ray.com

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Originally Posted by tonymontana313 (Post 11265906)

For those wondering which post it was that unraveled Penton-Man's insider status. I've pasted the reply below courtesy of Robert Harris's initial post about the matter on HTF.

The way blu-ray.com handled that whole Penton debacle was really bizarre. All Grover Crisp did was state unequivocally that Penton doesn't work for Sony.

blu-ray.com locked his thread and posted the following information (which I'm paraphrasing):

blu-ray.com always referred to Penton as strictly a "Hollywood Insider" and never stated that he worked for any particular company or studio. There was never any intent to mislead members of blu-ray.com.
Penton had anonynomity and moderator status in his own thread because all insiders were granted those things during the format war and he remained grandfathered into that.
We're thankful to Penton for all the information over the years and now we're permanently locking his "insider" thread.

This response just seems incongruous. If there was really no intent to mislead members of blu-ray.com then why not just confirm the truth? Penton could have easily left Grover Crisp's post up and responded by saying, "No, I don't work for Sony, but I stand by the information I've provided throughout the years. I apologize to Mr. Crisp if he felt I misrepresented him somehow in a recent post." Then he could have continued babbling on about soccer and posting youtube clips all day. Instead, Penton deleted Grover Crisp's post, remained completely silent about it, and blu-ray.com shut the whole thread down, which is a de facto admission that they'd been colluding to present him as someone he wasn't.