Blazer Fanatic has been banned. (2 Viewers)

[SlyPokerDog]

Due to a rather large number of PMs we've received from multiple different members complaining about the forum not being fun due to BF's presence, a number of PMs exchanged with her with no satisfactory change, and after long discussions by all of the Blazer mod staff we feel that she is too disruptive so I have banned her.

I'm posting this here in the main forum but will move it to the off topic section after a few hours.

Thanks, Sly.

 

[blazedanugz]

haha what did she do/say???

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

thought police!

 

[BlazerWookee]

Fascist!

 

[Eastoff]

haha what did she do/say???

She seemed to be pretty argumentative. =\

 

[ponderguy]

yay!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

She insists upon herself! :MARIS61:

 

[BlazerCaravan]

She seemed to be pretty argumentative. =\

That seems to be the best reason I can think of: disrespectful to people (not posts) in arguing points aggressively (not conversationally). On the other hand, she served as a great reminder that people we thought were all about attracting attention to themselves were in fact pretty mild, all things considered.

I'm not too concerned about the ban after thinking about her delivery and how it was sometimes very insulting on a personal level, but I will admit I was surprised by the original post in this thread, and its reasoning.

I suppose this is a nice little message that the tyranny of the uberhomer is over.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

She seemed to be pretty argumentative. =\

As are, ahem, several posters.

I see no reason to ban this poster.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

So......you sent her to get her shine box?

 

[Wheels]

As are, ahem, several posters.

I see no reason to ban this poster.

differing opinions are fine IMO.. the inability to deliver that opinion without attacking someone/mocking the actual poster, is not fine.

BlazerCaravan's post sums up alot of how I feel.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

So......you sent her to get her shine box?

Man I love Goodfellas.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I tell ya, I take a couple days of from the forum, and look what happens...

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I tell ya, I take a couple days of from the forum, and look what happens...

Is the over/under thing kaput? (just curious, I think I was in the cellar)

 

[santeesioux]

 

[riverman]

I'll miss BF's input to the threads. There are worse things being bantered around but once I discovered the ignore function, they ceased to bother me much. Couldn't these multiple people have just ignored her threads if it cut into their fun? She has pretty thick skin when she's been attacked by misogynistic guys here. Are there any female mods that were involved in this decision? Anyway, it's your ball guys. I'll just sit here on the bench.

 

[Further]

I liked having her opinions, but I didn't like how she got abusive towards those whom she disagreed. Too bad, a little adjustment on her part and she could have been a great addition around here, but she seemed unwilling to temper her attitude.

 

[oldguy]

As are, ahem, several posters.

I see no reason to ban this poster.

+1

Go Blazers

 

[blazerboy30]

Meh.

She was obviously a big blazer fan, but I had gotten to the point where I just skipped over her posts because they were nonsensical and usually attacking some poster or person in the media.

 

[TBpup]

differing opinions are fine IMO.. the inability to deliver that opinion without attacking someone/mocking the actual poster, is not fine.

BlazerCaravan's post sums up alot of how I feel.

Good summation. I enjoy differing opinions because if everyone was the same, how boring. However, it often seemed to come across so dismissive of anyone else's thoughts or input and that if you disagreed with her take you were just an idiot. Fairly easy to see where that takes some of the fun of it out.

 

[riverman]

Meh.

She was obviously a big blazer fan, but I had gotten to the point where I just skipped over her posts because they were nonsensical and usually attacking some poster or person in the media.

Wth the ignore function on the site there's no need to skip anyone, you can just put them on ignore and their threads disappear. I am not a fan of personal attacks on msg boards either but you'd have to ban more people here to be consistant about that policy

 

[BigGameDamian]

Would you go as far to say she was a Blazers homer?

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I thought she had been toning down the act and finally got it. Good Blazer knowledge and a good writer . . . but some strange issues of having to belittle posters who don't agree with her.

I didn't want to see her banned . . . hopefully it produces the desired effect of having things a little lighter around the board.

 

[riverman]

Would you go as far to say she was a Blazers homer?

If being a Blazer fan is being a Homer, then yes and I guess I'd be one of those as well....never thought of it as a character flaw though

 

[SlyPokerDog]

There is nothing wrong with being a Blazer homer.

 

[illmatic99]

There's so much other clutter on this board that was pressing for some moderating. Her disruption was so minimal. People really PM you complaining about other posters' writing style and tone? Really?

Some of yall take this shit too seriously. I come here to get updates on the team, cheer without inhibitions, and talk shit by venting. Not sure what some of you guys who complain about such things really do here.

And BTW, I got no one on ignore, but if you guys didn't really like her posts, use the damn function.

 

[Rhal]

I would think a suspension would be warranted before a straight up ban

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[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yes. This seems kind of like a straight up bitch move. I don't know, I don't think I really got "into it" with her, so I don't get all the butthurt.

 

[Eastoff]

For the record, I tried to tell Sly to use this method first, but he declined.
[video=youtube;ASacQYJWOPI]

 

[dviss1]

Blazer Fanatic offered more logical information and stats in her posts than 90% of people in here. People whine in unison and someone gets banned. I for one don't think she did anything wrong and there are far worse posters who post in here everyday. Whiners should be dealt with like floppers: look at them, say nothing, and ignore the whine. When you reward the flop with a whistle what happens? More fucking flopping.