I just want to LOL at something I found from using the "New Posts" button (my new fav. thing on this site)... one of the instigators/spammers from tonight made a post explaining how he did poorly on progress reports and is now grounded. I was kidding around when I said these posters were teenagers, but progress reports in Oregon only go out in middle school, not high school. So depending on if things are different or the same down in Compton/Malibu/Hollywood/Beverly Hills/Vegas, one of the flamers is as young as 11.
Lol well Lost One is 17ish but his parents are very strict. He lives in the burbs with overbearing people. He's not a bad guy overall, you'll see later hopefully.
Some of you need to wipe the tears off your keyboard and stop worrying about who's trolling what. We just whooped the shit out of the Lakers more convincingly then any other team has this year. Just like their team who couldn't handle getting their ass handed to them on a platter and swung at one of our players head while he was at full speed in mid air, their fans are having fits because they haven't beat us in our house in 7 tries. Its a tough pill for them to swallow. I never heard much from Laker fans on this board since last night. Its funny what a good ass kicking can do.
To me this not quite accurate. DaRizzle does and is humerous as well. As an apology to him, we have argued that what we both saw on the tapes of the "incident" will just have to go down as we disagree. I rather enjoy him posting here however the others on those threads were not so welcome the way they came in in my book.
I just wanted to say that it appears that Minstrel worked very hard to try to defuse this situation and Huevonkiller was really good about not throwing gasoline on the fire. I'd like to thank them. As a former businessowner, I like BNB's take on the whole thing. I didn't read any of the original threads but I know if my employees (moderators) were violating policies of my business I would let my customers (Blazer posters) know that I was aware of the situation, had counseled my employees (clarified the policies of the business) and then would assure my customers it would not happen again.
I'm ready to leave if we can leave one of the negative troll poster here. I was on when the other mods were posting here and I made one post and left. I don't need that kind of crap especially when it is other team mods. If it was just other team posters it wouldn't be quite as bad.
bump for a good Wednesday morning read. Wow...I go away from the site for like 12 hours, and all hell breaks loose w00t! go blazers!
I think it's fucked up, too. We have private forums for staff to discuss things. This is one of the major things being talked about now, about what these mods did. Generally they're good guys, but this is unacceptable. For the record, we've already had one of our younger moderators quit because he was told one too many times that what mods do out here reflects on the site. He took a staff position at another site where the posters are (almost) all under 20 where he probably fits in better. But he still posts here.
The difference I'm hoping we make at S2 is that it IS your forum, you make it what it is, and S2 is the sum of what all the posters contribute (not a hunk of iron that can serve WWW pages).
If I may speak for others, it's not that you're not welcome in here, it's because of your unfortunate allegiance that you may have to tread more lightly than someone who supports another team. You also have to have a thicker skin. We don't like the Purple & Piss. Most of us believe Kobe is guilty. We've hated Phil Jackson since Chicago. We think Lamar Odom is a punk-ass bitch. If you were a D*llas fan and you went into a Redskins forum, you'd have to have the same attitude. It's all about situation awareness. It's like the time I went to a wedding in Lahore, Pakistan. I didn't dress up as Captain America with my boombox blaring "God Bless the USA". I understood there were some cultural boundaries that needed to be crossed first. If you want to figure out how to do it well, talk to DaRizzle. I hate the guy because he challenges my preconceptions of L*ker fans--he's actually likeable, knowledgeable and funny...dammit.
I love the idea of S2 being more active with other teams, but the reality is that right now it's not. If there were 29 other communities like ours, I think that would be great. However, I don't think the solution is us posting all over the forums.
Re: About my thread Lakers being Suspended If you are going to try to know anything about prob and stats you should know this first; What happened to the Pacers and Pistons at the Palace brawl would be known as an anomaly, or an outlier. Those are things that can skew good sound research because of a single anomalous incident such as the brawl that resulted in the most suspensions in NBA history. To include that would be ridiculous as the true intent of the research is to look at incidents that resulted in a single suspension. Going back to include the Knicks/Nuggets brawl would also be anomolous as several suspensions were meted out due to a brawl. The point being that a brawl is not indicative of dirty play. It could indicate that one team was able to bait another team or a team just flew off the handle and started swinging. I know that in the Detroit melee Ben Wallace was the instigator in a blow out. I am not sure about the Knicks/Nuggets melee. But back to the Lakers. They have not been in a brawl, so the numbers associated with them are not skewed. They have demonstrated a history of commiting flagrant fouls. So the proper research is to compare the rate that the Lakers rack up flagrant fouls vs the other individual teams rates as well as the league's collective rate. You also do not compare todays rates to the rates of 1977. In 1977 players policed the game themselves. There were more punches thrown back in the day and there was no such rule as flag 1 or 2. Try staying with in the parameters and don't let outliers skew the results, just explain what the outliers are.
I wish we had 29 other team forums like this. One at a time. Some people don't have the vision of what a site that big would be like. In the meantime, one team at a time.
