A flashback to a PM I received in the final days of the BBF MELTDOWN. Why maxiep got banned... I banned him. It was originally a 5-day ban, but was changed to a permanent ban, and here's why: obviously there was a lot of ruckus involving why the political threads were moved to the PE forum. I closed one of the threads that had a ton of discussion (as I was asked to) and told them that if they had any further issues about what happened, to PM a Community Mod or Admin. maxiep didn't want to listen, and kept creating new topics. I gave him an infraction, and warned him to stop or it would result in a ban. He didn't stop and kept creating new threads, this time about Kobe Bryant raping women, which was an obvious attempt to try and get under my skin. I deleted those threads and banned him for 5 days; however, he created a new username that same night and started posting under it, which is a direct violation of the TOS (ban evasion). That ALWAYS results in a permanent ban; I don't care who you are on this board. So I banned his new username, and changed the ban on his "maxiep" username to permanent. I really didn't want to as I don't want members leaving, but it had to be done. I know some members disagree with it, but it's over with and he's gone. It had nothing to do with him and Dan going at it or anything about his political views or whatever else you might want to believe. He would have been back tomorrow if he hadn't created a new usernamne. Hope that explained it for you. - Basel57
It's only drama if you let it be drama. I have no idea how people can get so worked up over words on a message board?
Turns out, we're all human and have some emotional ties that aren't rational. It's easy to get worked up if you have a strong opinion, some insecurity, and an audience you think might be secretly judging you (pro tip: they are).
Dude, you gotta check yourself. Where did I say that I wanted to leave? You take a lot of stuff out of context.
The fact that they are openly saying they don't care if we're there or not just shows what complete morons they are. Umm, yeah.... we're a message board. We make money on number of hits. But he don't really care about hits. The Blazers fans were there in droves, left in droves, came here in droves...... that's a ton of hits. This thread alone has how many hits. It's about some rook getting banned. Yeah, maybe they don't understand the business model? Even funnier is that mixum thinks we're going up in a blaze of glory. This is pretty much a typical week for us. We have a thread like this at least once every-other-week.
Is your new avy supposed to be an homage to BF. If so, it's pure genius. If not, well, I'm going to pretend you did so and just try to give you credit (even if you wandered into it blindly).
I do not let it be drama, but I call it like it is since I am not a robot. However, I also stand for a certain set of principals. This means, when people are blatantly causing problems (and breaking the rules) on a place that I like to visit and talk about things with others, I call them out. I also can understand why other people would complain as well. There doesn't have to be the nuisance in the room that everyone tries to ignore but secretly is screaming on the inside, forever. We opened the airlock and let the shit out. You're trying, for lack of a better analogy, taking "the zoloft pill" (where it allows nothing to bother you) and then saying everyone else should do the same. I get it, but in my opinion, all that does is enable the bad/annoying/etc to continue to be bad/annoying/etc.
Very well said. When the site announced they would be the Official Blazers Board... I thought... hey... this could be cool. Maybe we will get some new blood in here... new perspectives. Some old posters that haven't been around in awhile that I really enjoyed poked their heads up too. But another part of me sat back and waited for the fireworks that I knew would happen... pretty sure the board would protect the old order of things, which seems to be exactly what happened.
I honestly think Buffalo Blazer is missing the point. The point is, she continued to break the (sites) rules and cause problems with other posters in damn near every thread she participated in. Then she was warned to stop, and she continued to repeat the same behavior, this resulting in her ban. I do not see how that translates to a 'good ol boy network' or being banned because people 'didn't like things she said'; it was't about peoples hurt feelings, it was about the repeated rule breaking. Habitual line stepper.
Yeah, but he's not the only one missing the point. There's several other posters missing it, including some long-timers.
I think BF would be quite proud to know the interest in her situation here has generated more posts than the last game thread.
I miss MIXUM......and his outright stupidity! I signed in over at BBF last night. That guy Basel is posting in MIX's thread right now! I say we all go back for 48 hours!
