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Buffalo Blazer said:
I'm not missing the point, I'm disagreeing with it.

Since you're missing my point, I will explain it. I thought the point of a forum was to create a marketplace of thoughts and ideas and encourage discussion and/or debate. Having three guys with strange internet quasi-police powers ban people with whom they don't see eye-to-eye does not foster a diverse marketplace of ideas; it eliminates it. Again, if she had been making threats or similar statements, I'd agree that something has to be done, but that simply was not the case.

I think I recall a guy named Roy Toy getting suspended the other day for posting "_amian Lillar_?" in a game thread during a game where Lillard was playing turnstyle defense. His post made me laugh; the suspension certainly did not.

BF was not my favorite poster, but she did get meaningful basketball conversations going. While her methods were not exactly how I would approach things, I really don't see how she endangered the forum. She debated zealously and sometimes used language, but I, for one, appreciated the spinoff debates and discussions that she often created.

I concede that, as a one-month member with 50-something posts, I really don't have standing to tell you what to do. However, I wanted to give you an outsider's perspective that this whole thing seems a little ridiculous and clicky. You're either in with the cool kids or you'd better not say the wrong things. I'd be damned if I'm going to put myself in a position where an internet security guard can tell me I can or cannot post on an official NBA team forum. I'd suspect that other people thinking of becoming new members may feel the same way.
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You clearly are missing the point if you think she was banned because people disagreed with her, or she disagreed with people. It's the way she disagreed and her actions when disagreement arose that got her banned. I don't understand why it's hard for people to understand. If you get defensive and attack people every time someone disagrees, you're going to draw attention and warnings from the mods. If you don't fix that behavior, you're going to get cut loose.

Shit, I can give you a list of people that would be cut right now if BF was simply cut "because she disagreed with people". Our board would lose half its' members.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
You clearly are missing the point if you think she was banned because people disagreed with her, or she disagreed with people. It's the way she disagreed and her actions when disagreement arose that got her banned. I don't understand why it's hard for people to understand. If you get defensive and attack people every time someone disagrees, you're going to draw attention and warnings from the mods. If you don't fix that behavior, you're going to get cut loose.

Shit, I can give you a list of people that would be cut right now if BF was simply cut "because she disagreed with people". Our board would lose half its' members.
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Like he said, he doesn't know. He's only been here one month. There has been a lot more than usual mod activity here in that month. After a few months of being here he'll see if he's right or wrong.
 
I don't understand why people don't discover and utilize the ignore function on the board...then there's really no reason to ban anyone. Just click ignore and it's that simple. I understand Sly's position on this but feel a couple of moderators fed her fire without practicing what they preach here. I also think there's a lack of finding humor in her sarcasm that isn't lacking amongst other posters who trash talk each other. I won't paste some inappropriate comments I've read from long time members here, but in retrospect, it is a bit of a double standard...that's my 2 cents and if it bothered me that much, I'd find another site to join.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Like he said, he doesn't know. He's only been here one month. There has been a lot more than usual mod activity here in that month. After a few months of being here he'll see if he's right or wrong.
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I'm just trying to save him the month or two of trying to figure it out. Time is money. :cheers:

But really...... You and I had the discussion when the (minor) changes first took place and it was announced this was the official Blazers' board (which I believe was the only discussion I ever had with a mod, and I believe you initiated it). I was skeptical. Changes have been made. But those changes have been relaxed some. As crazy as it's been the last month or two here, the forum hasn't changed that much (aside from a lot of new rooks). And the general freedom of the board is what made this place popular and what helped the Blazers choose it as their official board.
 
riverman said:
I don't understand why people don't discover and utilize the ignore function on the board...then there's really no reason to ban anyone. Just click ignore and it's that simple. I understand Sly's position on this but feel a couple of moderators fed her fire without practicing what they preach here. I also think there's a lack of finding humor in her sarcasm that isn't lacking amongst other posters who trash talk each other. I won't paste some inappropriate comments I've read from long time members here, but in retrospect, it is a bit of a double standard...that's my 2 cents and if it bothered me that much, I'd find another site to join.
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Rinse and Repeat, eh? That's the third time you posted the same material.
 
Hobbesarable said:
Rinse and Repeat, eh? That's the third time you posted the same material.
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so deal with it! the heading covers some of the same ideas but 2/3 of the post are fresh laundry...you keep notes on my posts?
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I'm just trying to save him the month or two of trying to figure it out. Time is money. :cheers:

But really...... You and I had the discussion when the (minor) changes first took place and it was announced this was the official Blazers' board (which I believe was the only discussion I ever had with a mod, and I believe you initiated it). I was skeptical. Changes have been made. But those changes have been relaxed some. As crazy as it's been the last month or two here, the forum hasn't changed that much (aside from a lot of new rooks). And the general freedom of the board is what made this place popular and what helped the Blazers choose it as their official board.
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The only change the Blazers asked us to make was no swear words in the thread titles and I think I'm the only who blew that one, lol.
 
riverman said:
I don't understand why people don't discover and utilize the ignore function on the board...then there's really no reason to ban anyone. Just click ignore and it's that simple. I understand Sly's position on this but feel a couple of moderators fed her fire without practicing what they preach here. I also think there's a lack of finding humor in her sarcasm that isn't lacking amongst other posters who trash talk each other. I won't paste some inappropriate comments I've read from long time members here, but in retrospect, it is a bit of a double standard...that's my 2 cents and if it bothered me that much, I'd find another site to join.
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For me personally, I generally "ignored" her posts just fine without using the ignore feature. What is much more difficult to ignore is the myriad arguments her style generated, and the generally vitriolic tenor she brought to the board. Even without reading her posts, the impact of the condescension was noticeable and unpleasant, and prompted me to avoid threads in which she was active. Even the BF-v-BFW thread--in which I expressed intrigue in the outcome--quickly became tiresome and unreadable.

It's not about the individual poster; it's about the impact that the individual poster had on the community. I never had a problem with BF directly--in fact, we often disagreed but still got along quite well--but I certainly don't doubt that the board as a whole will actually be better without her.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
For me personally, I generally "ignored" her posts just fine without using the ignore feature. What is much more difficult to ignore is the myriad arguments her style generated, and the generally vitriolic tenor she brought to the board. Even without reading her posts, the impact of the condescension was noticeable and unpleasant, and prompted me to avoid threads in which she was active. Even the BF-v-BFW thread--in which I expressed intrigue in the outcome--quickly became tiresome and unreadable.

It's not about the individual poster; it's about the impact that the individual poster had on the community. I never had a problem with BF directly--in fact, we often disagreed but still got along quite well--but I certainly don't doubt that the board as a whole will actually be better without her.
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Well said.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
For me personally, I generally "ignored" her posts just fine without using the ignore feature. What is much more difficult to ignore is the myriad arguments her style generated, and the generally vitriolic tenor she brought to the board. Even without reading her posts, the impact of the condescension was noticeable and unpleasant, and prompted me to avoid threads in which she was active. Even the BF-v-BFW thread--in which I expressed intrigue in the outcome--quickly became tiresome and unreadable.

It's not about the individual poster; it's about the impact that the individual poster had on the community. I never had a problem with BF directly--in fact, we often disagreed but still got along quite well--but I certainly don't doubt that the board as a whole will actually be better without her.
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"DOWN GOES FRAZIER!! DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!!"
 
riverman said:
I don't understand why people don't discover and utilize the ignore function on the board...then there's really no reason to ban anyone. Just click ignore and it's that simple. I understand Sly's position on this but feel a couple of moderators fed her fire without practicing what they preach here. I also think there's a lack of finding humor in her sarcasm that isn't lacking amongst other posters who trash talk each other. I won't paste some inappropriate comments I've read from long time members here, but in retrospect, it is a bit of a double standard...that's my 2 cents and if it bothered me that much, I'd find another site to join.
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They all have you on ignore.

Just sayin'.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
Go into settings and change your post view from 25 to 40 posts per page. Then the thread is only 14 pages long.
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How long is the PapaG thread under my current settings? Is it 22 pages under the 40 posts per page? Or 22 pages under the 25 posts per page?
 
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