Anyone who is proclaiming "Viva la Revolution!" over this is a drama queen....PapaG will be back before you know it
I'm not an expert on these things, but I think you may have some self-interest in this proposal. I vote to let OIG back if he pays up on his bet . . . that is 2 posters to none . . . mods, the posters have spoken, please follow through on our request.
LOL, nah just pointing out that if he does pay (which I'm not holding my breath that he does) it would show he's more fan than troll.
He was taking bets on when LMA would be signed, then when I offered to bet $100, he disappeared. No honor in that, whether he pays up with you or not. Good riddance to that schmuck.
He'll be back so this won't be an issue for long. This is also not my forum so I'll let the Blazer people figure it out. Don't agree with the suspension, but I wouldn't want to get involved unless someone said clearly egregious stuff. I don't find the accusation of troll offensive, it just looks silly to me, like most trash talk.
Is this a good time to mention that I am working on a website and forum for us when this eventually happens again?!
I had some arguments with PapaG, had some threads that agreed with him. Never thought he deserved a ban - but I was not around to see where it all went down. That's only half the quote. Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely!
Some people may find MIXUM's posts unpleasant, but it's not against our rules to be unpleasant. If the community is large enough, at least one poster is likely to not like some other one. All we ask is for a little respect for people even if you don't like them. FWIW, I think he's certainly a character and negative on the team and some players, but why should we squash unpopular opinons that aren't hate speech (the nazi/kkk kind)? In his favor, he stayed away all summer like he promised he would, and I don't think I've seen him attack anyone who is not a public figure... We sure gave OIG and at least one other poster here more leeway than any other message board probably would have - it's not our ideal to be banning people who are demonstrating a real interest in being a member of the site. There's a clear line where we've banned, and that's when a poster is belligerent and making posts full of insults at other posters. Especially if those other posters are new to S2. The number of suspensions have been about 5 to my knowledge, since 2007. Those were all posters we want to stick around. I actually wish we had no written rules. The idea is to simply act like an adult. We're an open forum, which means we let people sign up freely. The staff positions are unpaid. The guys who volunteered are doing us all a really big favor by doing what they do. Since there are enough regulars here to have a reasonable vote, we elect the mods - in other forums we ask for volunteers (mgb for one). They're posters first and foremost, and really just want to have a good time like the rest of us. It's not too much to ask, IMO, to show them respect even if you don't like them or something they did "wrong."
