Is it happening again?

[The Sebastian Express]

I actually always come in to any forum with good intentions. I'm never a dick and I always voice my honest opinion. If it's a pro-Laker one, I voice it, if it's a pro-whoever the fuck else, I post it. Just because I'm a Laker fan doesn't make me biased. I may be a fan of the team but I'm a fan of the NBA first and foremost and I hardly ever let my fandom effect my opinion. If I say something, I believe it because that's what I believe, not because of who I root for.

Despite this, I still have been treated like shit on numerous occasions here.

Unfortunately you are probably getting that treatment not only because we have some douchebags ourselves, but because the majority of Laker fans in Oregon are probably some of the biggest assholes you will ever meet; and, right or not that probably leads to several other people being wary of Laker fans.

I personally could care less who people are a fan of as long as they're respectful and want to engage in productive and fun conversation. Even if they are Laker fans.

I am now preparing to be hanged by some fellow Blazer fans for this statement.

 

[cloudydays]

whoah cloudy putting his foot down in the new forum!

lol!

 

[Wheels]

Unfortunately you are probably getting that treatment not only because we have some douchebags ourselves, but because the majority of Laker fans in Oregon are probably some of the biggest assholes you will ever meet; and, right or not that probably leads to several other people being wary of Laker fans.

I personally could care less who people are a fan of as long as they're respectful and want to engage in productive and fun conversation. Even if they are Laker fans.

I am now preparing to be hanged by some fellow Blazer fans for this statement.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.. just because someone is a fan of another team it isnt a problem to me. Last nights game for example.. had a classy Laker couple one row below me, and I conversed with them and appreciated their input. The Jackass to the right of me though yelling "I hope you never walk again Rudy!" is unfortunately 90% of the Laker fans that come to the RG.

 

[cloudydays]

Unfortunately you are probably getting that treatment not only because we have some douchebags ourselves, but because the majority of Laker fans in Oregon are probably some of the biggest assholes you will ever meet; and, right or not that probably leads to several other people being wary of Laker fans.

I personally could care less who people are a fan of as long as they're respectful and want to engage in productive and fun conversation. Even if they are Laker fans.

I am now preparing to be hanged by some fellow Blazer fans for this statement.

I agree 100%.

I go to OSU, but I am friends with several Duck/Laker fans.

 

[Moo2K4]

That's funny, I've rarely had pleasant experiences when you lot have come in here. There's obviously some thick-skinned exceptions, but in general it doesn't work out well. So what are you doing here?

Why am I here? Because it's a public forum. Read that, PUBLIC FORUM. It's not cut off to only Blazer fans. I have just as much right to be in here as your or whoever the fuck else. Just because I'm a Lakers fan doesn't mean I don't have the right to step foot in a Blazers forum.

 

[Wheels]

I agree 100%.

I go to OSU, but I am friends with several Duck/Laker fans.

Now listen here A-Hole... I am NOT a Duck/Laker fan

 

[Minstrel]

One of my best friends is a Lakers fan.

True story.

 

[Wheels]

One of my best friends is a Lakers fan.

True story.

my dad is a Laker fan.. made for some interesting times growing up lol.

 

[J_Ray]

You're the one missing the point. I don't care if a Bobcats' fan is enthused to join this site or not. I don't give a fucking flying fuck, how many times do I have to repeat that? When I wanted to talk with some Bobcats' fans, I found another forum. On another website. It wasn't that hard.

There's already plenty of places to talk NBA with lots of different people. At BBF there was a wide variety of forums for other teams, it did little to improve the quality. All the people on S2 sure haven't done much to improve quality, tonight's "invasion" being the latest example out of many cases where someone comes in here trying to counter all the "homerism," leading to nothing interesting.

I'm not missing the point, you just have an agenda and don't want to listen. This site we're on called "Sportstwo" is more than just a Blazer site. The whole point of it is to get sports fans here to talk and debate, not just go to other forums or not join our site at all. I could give a rat's ass about another site called BBF. Having our members go else where to discuss stuff does our site no good. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just wanted to point out a goal for some mods that are trying to help the site grow. Obviously everyone isn't completely stupid and try to piss people off by saying stupid shit like some people did today.

 

[Minstrel]

my dad is a Laker fan.. made for some interesting times growing up lol.

My dad was a Lakers fan too! I grew up a Lakers fan due to that. Loved the Showtime Lakers. I generally don't bandy that fact about much, but I'm going to sleep, so I can't really be lynched til tomorrow.

 

[J_Ray]

Why am I here? Because it's a public forum. Read that, PUBLIC FORUM. It's not cut off to only Blazer fans. I have just as much right to be in here as your or whoever the fuck else. Just because I'm a Lakers fan doesn't mean I don't have the right to step foot in a Blazers forum.

Ay men!

 

[Wheels]

Why am I here? Because it's a public forum. Read that, PUBLIC FORUM. It's not cut off to only Blazer fans. I have just as much right to be in here as your or whoever the fuck else. Just because I'm a Lakers fan doesn't mean I don't have the right to step foot in a Blazers forum.

As a Blazer fan.. I agree with that one too. Stupid question on his part asking why you are here.

 

[DaRizzle]

my dad is a Laker fan.. made for some interesting times growing up lol.

Ugh...why did he have to fail you and let you be a Blazers fan. Thats like making kids Cubs fans...Think of how much sports joy you could have had in your life by now

 

[Nate Dogg]

Re: About my thread Lakers being Suspended

So you can conclude a "type of behavior" from a sample of 4 fouls?

Can you think of other NBA clubs have been in the news about 4 suspensions lately in the past 4 years?
I'm just stating that other NBA clubs haven't been in this sort of attention lately in the past 4 years and the Lakers have been labled this so far. http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137476
Is the Laker organization concerned about what they do to other players? I am being serious on educated thoughts not on specific player or club bashing. Why does Laker players keep on doing this in the limelight? Sportsmanship morals out the window?

 

[DaRizzle]

My dad was a Lakers fan too! I grew up a Lakers fan due to that. Loved the Showtime Lakers. I generally don't bandy that fact about much, but I'm going to sleep, so I can't really be lynched til tomorrow.

I sensed there was some good in you!!!

 

[Boob-No-More]

Ummm...you sure you were responding to my post? You brought up that all the action is going on in the Blazer forum while the others are dead, but they're partially dead because of all the OT threads in here. That's the only thing I really was refering too...



Weird how I was referring to everyone, not just you. There are tons of OT threads here all the time rather than other forums. I was kinda directing that towards them, for example the J-Kidd threat, or Odom being suspended...or even Z-Bo airballing at the end of the game. Besides Z-Bo, the other threads don't really belong in the Portland's forum, and that's why the site seems dead since all the discussion is going on here rather than other forums.

Why is it our responsibility to prop up the other dead forums here on S2. If a team forum can't achieve critical mass with posts from their own fans, why should I even want to visit such a virtual wasteland, let alone spend time posting there where no one will read it.

The reason there a so many OT posts here is because their are so many posters here. We get more off topic posts than the other team forums get on topic posts. Don't try to blame us for the lack of traffic in the other NBA team forums. I come here to converse with other Blazers fans about the Blazers. That's the only reason I'm here. I have no desire to waste my time in any of the other team forums. I don't go trolling there. I don't even go lurking there. There's nothing in it for me and I feel no responsibility what-so-ever to drum up activity in forums that are of ZERO interest to me.

BNM

 

[Wheels]

Ugh...why did he have to fail you and let you be a Blazers fan. Thats like making kids Cubs fans...Think of how much sports joy you could have had in your life by now

lol Touche DaRizzle.. but my being a Blazer fan had to do with 2 things.. 1 growing up in Oregon (he moved here from LA in his teen years) and 2 was we had an unwritten rule in the house to never EVER root for the same team. So some of it was out of spite in my early teen years.. but have been going to Blazer games since I was 5. Sorry to dissapoint.. what if I told you I root for the Giants against the Dodgers?

 

[huevonkiller]

Well, the site rules here are relatively new so I can understand their confusion. They were under the interpretation that what they were doing was perfectly normal.

The rules were written up for a poster in the past from another forum, because it became too amorphous what an offense around here was. I see various Blazer mods cite the rules around here but they forget past huge controversies and were not around for them.

This isn't BBF or whatever, the rules are quite slack. In fact I think the Blazer forum is the most strict to be honest.

 

[DaRizzle]

what if I told you I root for the Giants against the Dodgers?

id tell you baseball sucks and I dont care

 

[cloudydays]

lol Touche DaRizzle.. but my being a Blazer fan had to do with 2 things.. 1 growing up in Oregon (he moved here from LA in his teen years) and 2 was we had an unwritten rule in the house to never EVER root for the same team. So some of it was out of spite in my early teen years.. but have been going to Blazer games since I was 5. Sorry to dissapoint.. what if I told you I root for the Giants against the Dodgers?

Hey now, I'm a Giants fan. Don't be hatin'

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

One of my best friends is a Lakers fan.

True story.

most of my friends are laker fans.

 

[Wheels]

id tell you baseball sucks and I dont care

haha ok then, I will find some way to offend you!

j/k

 

[Toko]

Re: About my thread Lakers being Suspended

Can you think of other NBA clubs have been in the news about 4 suspensions lately in the past 4 years?
I'm just stating that other NBA clubs haven't been in this sort of attention lately in the past 4 years and the Lakers have been labled this so far. http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137476
Is the Laker organization concerned about what they do to other players?

I'm just wondering, how come your "research" only extends to the last 4 years? could it be because if you go further back, there's nothing, and since you wanna "conclude" a type of behaviour, you figured limiting it to 4 years makes it look more incriminating?

 

[The Sebastian Express]

Why is it our responsibility to prop up the other dead forums here on S2. If a team forum can't achieve critical mass with posts from their own fans, why should I even want to visit such a virtual wasteland, let alone spend time posting there where no one will read it.

The reason there a so many OT posts here is because their are so many posters here. We get more off topic posts than the other team forums get on topic posts. Don't try to blame us for the lack of traffic in the other NBA team forums. I come here to converse with other Blazers fans about the Blazers. That's the only reason I'm here. I have no desire to waste my time in any of the other team forums. I don't go trolling there. I don't even go lurking there. There's nothing in it for me and I feel no responsibility what-so-ever to drum up activity in forums that are of ZERO interest to me.

BNM

An argument for us assisting in increasing other team board's activities could be that it would help increase visibility of sportstwo.com as a whole, which leads to not only other new posters for other teams boards but possible new Blazer fans posting in our own forum here.

It'd be a win-win situation ideally.

If only we could cut down on this pesky assume every fan from another team posting here is a troll thing that happens a lot.

 

[Wheels]

Hey now, I'm a Giants fan. Don't be hatin'

haha well I am a *coughcoughYankeesFanCoughcough* but I'm not one of those bandwagon ones who joined on in the championship years in the late 90's. I grew up and Don MAttingly was my favorite player for some reason as a kid, and the Yanks sucked at that time.. so I at least take pride in not being a bandwagon fan.. back on the Giants.. I am so glad Randy Johnson signed with you guys.. even if the only reason is because I laugh everytime I see the MLB2k9 commercial and Randy tells Linceicum (sp?) that his Computer model guy "should put a towel on" not sure why but I laugh every time.. kinda like the VOTE ME commercial

 

[huevonkiller]

Why is it our responsibility to prop up the other dead forums here on S2. If a team forum can't achieve critical mass with posts from their own fans, why should I even want to visit such a virtual wasteland, let alone spend time posting there where no one will read it.

The reason there a so many OT posts here is because their are so many posters here. We get more off topic posts than the other team forums get on topic posts. Don't try to blame us for the lack of traffic in the other NBA team forums. I come here to converse with other Blazers fans about the Blazers. That's the only reason I'm here. I have no desire to waste my time in any of the other team forums. I don't go trolling there. I don't even go lurking there. There's nothing in it for me and I feel no responsibility what-so-ever to drum up activity in forums that are of ZERO interest to me.

BNM

I think it is beneficial to visit the other team forums because it is good to observe a different perspective or forum that isn't subjective. You'll learn intricacies of other teams and understand the current game better, imo.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I'm not missing the point, you just have an agenda and don't want to listen. This site we're on called "Sportstwo" is more than just a Blazer site. The whole point of it is to get sports fans here to talk and debate, not just go to other forums or not join our site at all. I could give a rat's ass about another site called BBF. Having our members go else where to discuss stuff does our site no good. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just wanted to point out a goal for some mods that are trying to help the site grow. Obviously everyone isn't completely stupid and try to piss people off by saying stupid shit like some people did today.

So, your goal is to grow the site. That's different than my goal - to talk Blazer basketball.

Rather than blame the stagnation of the other forums on us Blazer fans who choose to post exclusively in the Blazers forum, why don't you have a stern chat with your fellow mods who came here deliberately baiting and trolling. While my goal may not be the same as yours, at least my behavior isn't detrimental to your goal.

BNM

 

[huevonkiller]

Ay men!

Yep.

 

[number 10]

It's too bad the initial thread was deleted, because there's some serious revisionism going on here. Everyone now seems to be trying to claim that they came in here, innocently seeking discussion, nothing more, whereas in reality they posted nothing but crap.

Why am I here? Because it's a public forum. Read that, PUBLIC FORUM. It's not cut off to only Blazer fans. I have just as much right to be in here as your or whoever the fuck else. Just because I'm a Lakers fan doesn't mean I don't have the right to step foot in a Blazers forum.

I don't give a fuck if you're a Laker fan or not, but you've just said that your presence in this forum is rarely an enjoyable experience, a feeling which, on my part, is most certainly mutual. Obviously you have the right to be here, I've never said otherwise. But why, if you don't enjoy it? Why come here and post about how you don't like it?

I'm not missing the point, you just have an agenda and don't want to listen. This site we're on called "Sportstwo" is more than just a Blazer site.

If you've been listening, it's not more than that to me. This Blazer community is the only reason I come here, it's not for "Sportstwo."

The whole point of it is to get sports fans here to talk and debate, not just go to other forums or not join our site at all. I could give a rat's ass about another site called BBF. Having our members go else where to discuss stuff does our site no good. I'm not trying to attack you or anything, just wanted to point out a goal for some mods that are trying to help the site grow. Obviously everyone isn't completely stupid and try to piss people off by saying stupid shit like some people did today.

That's your whole point. I've been repeating it again and again, but I don't care about helping the site grow or any of that. Why should I? I've demonstrated how, at least in my opinion, having lots of different fans from other teams doesn't really improve much in practice. If anything, it often worsens the entire experience. So forgive me if I'm nothing but a locust, but I don't see why I should care about sportstwo.com

Who knows, maybe you all will be the exception to the rule. Should we all start over? Despite all my arguments, I don't have anything against Laker fans or otherwise posting here in theory, I just don't really think it works.

An argument for us assisting in increasing other team board's activities could be that it would help increase visibility of sportstwo.com as a whole, which leads to not only other new posters for other teams boards but possible new Blazer fans posting in our own forum here.

It'd be a win-win situation ideally.

If win-win means attracting the sort of people in the highly "visible" justin.tv chats, can we go with the lose-lose instead?

 

[J_Ray]

Why is it our responsibility to prop up the other dead forums here on S2. If a team forum can't achieve critical mass with posts from their own fans, why should I even want to visit such a virtual wasteland, let alone spend time posting there where no one will read it.

The reason there a so many OT posts here is because their are so many posters here. We get more off topic posts than the other team forums get on topic posts. Don't try to blame us for the lack of traffic in the other NBA team forums. I come here to converse with other Blazers fans about the Blazers. That's the only reason I'm here. I have no desire to waste my time in any of the other team forums. I don't go trolling there. I don't even go lurking there. There's nothing in it for me and I feel no responsibility what-so-ever to drum up activity in forums that are of ZERO interest to me.

BNM

Other forums are virtual wastelands b/c everything is being posted in one forum. If things were posted in the right forums, other people could go to other forums rather than just here. Also it's not trolling going to other forums, it's only trolling if you talk shit for no good reason. It's just ignorant to go on with this argument about going to other forums, because not all of you see that this is a sports site, not a Blazer site. There are always communities within sites, but the site is only great when all the communities come together to become one big forum.