Ive noticed that too, but from an outside perspective. The few times Ive gone to the site, or heard him interviewed on radio/tv, I noticed that the more he got recognition the less impressed I was with his "knowledge". It was like seeing someone who really wasn't all that impressive with his knowledge, and finding out they're getting all sorts of publicity for some strange reason. In a way he's like Joe the plumber. Minus the cool hairdo.
It's possible he was being sarcastic. Regardless, when you say that David Duke would be proud in response to someone's criticism of a Blazer you are saying an avowed anti-semite, racist, sexist former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan is proud of your post that's pretty harsh. My wife and son are of a group that David Duke would like to see wiped off the face of the earth. I find it to be far harsher for instance then saying someone is ignorant of history and their comments lack depth. Also, the poster sincerely wanted to punch another poster in the mouth and made it clear they were not kidding. I won't say who it is as it's bad enough I've said as much as I've said about why I'm frustrated with Dave's moderation. To be fair, I did initially compare Blazers Edge to being like a Gulag so I see your point. Gulag I would argue is a commonly used over the top phrase to describe restrictive rules and a punishment mentality, where as David Duke is alive and denies the holocaust and spreads violent racist propaganda in the here and now. The thing that really bothers me is that I asked the poster to apologize and they didn't. I spoke with Dave about it saying I was offended and he doesn't bother to respond but proceeds to threaten me with banning for a far lesser offense. So I will leave it at that. I want to go in and post about Basketball and relate it to whatever analogy I want, historical and otherwise.
We appreciate you being here. We're probably 180 from BE because we don't have some superstar individual poster that the site's all about, rather we're about the posters themselves. To that end, our staff is here to help where possible and otherwise stay out of peoples' way. You might check our rules link at the top of the page and get a feel for it. Conversation goes where it goes. And we don't particularly encourage swearing though it's allowed. It's not something we want to have to crack down on otherwise great posters about, and something people naturally do.
Smilies button on the editor. It's not in the quick reply editor at the bottom of pages. You can choose to use the advanced editor from your UserCP. It may be the default for everyone... There's a "Go Advanced" button below the quick reply editor that switches to the deluxe one.
BBF was simply a case of the political ideology of a new mod leading to irrational and biased editing/deleting of posts. Said mod then called in reinforcements, who subsequently panicked, and people left for this site. O-Live and B-Edge, however, have Blazer press credentials, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was "recommended" to both places that they need to clean it up in order to keep their access. Or, maybe not.
Not true. The moderator wasn't new, and he wasn't deleting/editing posts. He got sick of all the sniping going on in the political threads and moved them all, en masse, to the site's political forum and unilaterally banned political threads in the Blazers OT forum. A rash, incorrect move to be sure, but not one based on any political ideology other than "I'm sick of moderating political threads."
False. He targeted thread by posters on the "right", and some of those posters ended up being banned. Plus, said poster had recently been named a mod, regardless of if he had done that job before on the site. Anyhow, perception is reality.
Wrong, all political threads were moved. Not just the ones started by conservative posters. Those who were banned were not banned by him. He left the site after moving the threads. The bannings were done by the CM who came in after to try to handle the situation.
Speak for yourself brother! I run this joint! "Who's house.....................HCP's house!!!!!!!!" And I thought we were supposed to vote if any new people can join or not! Send this rookie home!
Not to be mean, but BE attracts a very odd group of posters. The last time I went there, they were running a poll - and roughly 3/4 of the respondents had voted to keep the current group of Blazer players together, even if it meant never winning a title! There are "fans", there are "nuthuggers", and then there is "lethal attraction!"
I remember what Dave did to EnglandDan, who is among the best Blazer posters on the web, period. At that point, I washed my hands of BlazersEdge.
Oh yeah I remember EnglandDan he rocked what happened there? I also don't understand why Cloudydays so vigorously defended a poster and when I explained my reasoning disappeared without even so much as a Big Lebowski quote "That's like...just your opinion Man!"
I hear ya. that was just really odd. BE has been rubbing me the wrong way for awhile. Regardless, I love the new digs here and appreciate the openess of this new forum. Very cool indeed.
