No one defended his post. I will defend people's rights to express their opinions. There is an active discussion about Kobe and the sexual assault in the OT section. None of the people who posted in that thread did anything wrong. They were expressing their opinions. In this specific case Maris' post did not belong in this thread but that doesn't mean it doesn't belong in the forum. I read his post and moved it to the appropriate thread.
I will always believe that less rules are best. We have enough problems with personal insults. To add some vague common sense rule to the forum would be extremely difficult to enforce, to explain, to teach staff how to fairly and uniformly apply. Common sense according to who? Me? You? We suddenly shut threads down to vote on the common opinion? I've seen people argue it's common sense to trade Lillard. It's common sense to keep Stotts. You can use common sense to try and validate any opinion. But common sense is too subjective.
Now in this case I just so happened to be moving his posts when you saw them and proceeded to insult him. I'm going to ask you again, just like I've asked you before, please, instead of insulting people you disagree with, could you please flag the posts or PM us. Ultimately we were in complete agreeance, those posts did not belong in this thread. I choose to move those posts to a similar thread, and you choose to insult the person who made them. I think I was the one who made the correct decision. I'm sorry that you don't agree with my decision to move the posts but in the future please contact us by PM or by flagging the post instead of deciding to break the few rules we do have.
