I would hope so! My wife is a blonde and I have a son, not a daughter. I am a huge Farley fan, however, and that picture always makes me laugh.
Rule #1 has been heavily debated the past few days. Some of the staff has felt that Mixum has been breaking rule #1 for a long time now. Denny's two quoted posts were admission of guilt, but yes, the disrespectful posts and personal attacks were absolutely a contributing factor.
We've never had a rule against trolling, per se. "Fuck the Lakers" would be considered trolling, wouldn't it? He was disrespectful of other posters, no doubt, though we've allowed people to post things in anger. The idea isn't for us to scrutinize everything you do and find some reason to punish you. He called people cowards - that violated rule 5. The two posts of his that I quoted are pretty much an admission on his part that he doesn't have honorable intentions. He's claimed to have honorable intentions all along, and half the people saying he doesn't and half the people saying he does isn't conclusive enough. I suspended him once, and gave the staff and other admins every opportunity to make it permanent, and not a single one of them argued for it.
I'm not a mod, but I'll give my $0.02 that I don't think his suspension should be permanent. I would submit that he should be on a shorter leash than others for his previous behavior. When he actually wants to talk hoops, he's not a bad poster. And I'm always of the mind that the more posters who actually want to talk hoops the better. Hell, I'm even willing to converse with DaRizzle and Mamba even though they root for evil incarnate.
I think Mixum should receive the same punishment that Master Shake did for doing the same things. (Free to post anywhere on the site but the Blazers forum)
If someone were to repeatedly post "Fuck the Lakers" in the Laker forum that would be trolling. Posting it once in the Laker forum is acceptable after a tough loss like the last time the Blazers played them. Posting it here is almost a requirement for any real Blazer fan. FUCK THE LAKERS!
Get him outta here. I might actually start posting here now that i dont have to sift through all of the MIXUM garbage... and theres a shitload of it.
^^he's absolutely not alone - I'd say a lot more of us would spend more time and post much more without Rudy here. A temporary suspension might keep him in line for a couple of days but there's absolutely no doubt that witin a week, he'll be back to his old antics. His previous Maurice Lucas suspension didn't do much to tone down his act.
Well, it freaking says "Chris Farley Lives" underneath the pic. Man, you're an awful dad! Ripping on your "child" in a public forum!
I'm rather indifferent to Mixum being banned, but I can't help but wonder.....who will be next? For the record, and contrary to what some folks have claimed, I post what I really feel - and I assume the same about other posters until proven otherwise.
Exactly. Let's put it this way - the dude is driving traffic AWAY from the site. Isn't in the best interest of S2 management to rid themselves of an extremely unpopular poster that is driving traffic away from their site? I understand that there are a somewhat vocal MINORITY that champion "free speech" and the "letter of the law" and believe Mix doesn't deserve to get the boot, but they're the MINORITY. Most of us want the dude gone. He's not entertaining. And he's damaging the quality of this message board two fold. He litters the board with garbage posts that are meant to inflame the S2 members, and he's now driving away quality contributors. This is a no brainer. Permanent ban.
