Gentlemen,
Personally, I did not have
too many problems myself with Drck, and he had a lot of reasonable advice. A lot of what Chase recommends as "fundamentals" is essentially what Drck preached (repeatedly... many, many times) all over the boards. And there's nothing wrong with that -- Chase has mentioned many times that guys should
really focus and hammer down on fundamentals first and foremost because it'll have the most drastic effect on female attraction for you with minimal effort. Increasing your fundamentals can increase your passive value tenfold if done correctly.
I think where we had to draw the line with Drck was when he started
claiming that the senior members here don't get "it" when it comes to seduction. That's not respecting the hierarchy of the boards here, and it's not respecting the guys that Chase and I have personally vetted to know their stuff.
Any guy who has reached Rank 4 on these boards has been discussed by Chase and I in-depth at some point, and we've both arrived at a mutual conclusion that this individual has a strong grasp of seduction, women, relationships, and possibly even more than that. The Rank 4 guys are also the ones who come onto these boards simply to help the newer, green guys get past their own struggles because many of the Rank 4 members were there at one point. They get little self-benefit from providing their input, and they simply do it out of the kindness of their own hearts.
We obviously allow contrarian opinions on here, and that's totally fine. But when you start trying to take small jabs at our senior members and position yourself as an authority on the boards (when Chase and I haven't recognized you as that type of authority), then you risk confusing newer members about the Ranks and the validity of the people wearing those Ranks. At that point, if you feel like you can't trust the Rank 4 members, then why would they even want to continue helping people? I surely wouldn't want to spend time helping people on a forum if some other guy (who obviously has less knowledge than myself) kept butting in on all of my posts attempting to say that "I don't quite get it." That's frustrating because my goal isn't to win an argument -- it's to help members with struggles that I recognize and have possibly been through myself.
Anyway, I think we just wanted to avoid a situation where our Rank 4 members -- some of whom I've become friends with in real life and have witnessed their success first-hand -- come to me asking, "why should I even keep posting if we are allowing contrarians to overrule the authority here? My time is wasted typing up these large, helpful posts only to have someone with less experience say that 'I don't quite get it' when I really do get it."
As lostnumber mentioned, I think Drck wanted to help. And I think there's a place for Drck on another forum. Maybe Drck's enlightenment journey has grown on to a path that leads outside of the realm of GC boards, and he'll make a fine fit on Red Pill, Roosh, Return of Kings, or Good Looking Loser. But as of now, all he was doing was frustrating the senior members; they aren't here to debate Drck -- they're here to help guys who want to learn from them.
I hope this clears things up a bit. No hard feelings to Drck, but we gave Drck a warning about this already too, and it didn't really seem to be improving. So hopefully he finds a better fit for himself elsewhere.
- Franco