This is the order of events as I saw them:
1. They shut down political OT threads without warning or consultation.
2. Complaints in threads resulted in deleted/locked threads.
3. ABM sent out a PM to people saying that Sportstwo.com would be an alternative place to discuss basketball and other stuff
4. ABM sent it out to many Blazers regulars and included others, including an admin from the site
5. ABM was banned
6. maxiep continued to complain and was continued to be shut down by Community Mods who (a) didn't know anything about the Blazers community, and (b) were acting like the relative children that they are
7. maxiep made a statement (or four) about Kobe and was banned by a CM, who was a Lakers fan
8. Several of us indicated that BBF was going to drive the Blazers' fans away through piss-poor communication and entirely snobby/out-of-touch moderation
9. Some people left BBF, some people planned on waiting and seeing
10. S2 is superior from a technical perspective and had more lax rules, which seem to fit the style of many of us better
11. Eventually everyone landed here. mgb moderates there and posts here. sa177 is still a CM over there and I dunno if he's here. BBF Blazers board is a ghost town and, given the Blazers board had about as many posts as all the other Western Conference teams combined when we left, I would imagine the board as a whole has taken a significant dip.
Ed O.