I'm not missing the point, I'm disagreeing with it. Since you're missing my point, I will explain it. I thought the point of a forum was to create a marketplace of thoughts and ideas and encourage discussion and/or debate. Having three guys with strange internet quasi-police powers ban people with whom they don't see eye-to-eye does not foster a diverse marketplace of ideas; it eliminates it. Again, if she had been making threats or similar statements, I'd agree that something has to be done, but that simply was not the case. I think I recall a guy named Roy Toy getting suspended the other day for posting "_amian Lillar_?" in a game thread during a game where Lillard was playing turnstyle defense. His post made me laugh; the suspension certainly did not. BF was not my favorite poster, but she did get meaningful basketball conversations going. While her methods were not exactly how I would approach things, I really don't see how she endangered the forum. She debated zealously and sometimes used language, but I, for one, appreciated the spinoff debates and discussions that she often created. I concede that, as a one-month member with 50-something posts, I really don't have standing to tell you what to do. However, I wanted to give you an outsider's perspective that this whole thing seems a little ridiculous and clicky. You're either in with the cool kids or you'd better not say the wrong things. I'd be damned if I'm going to put myself in a position where an internet security guard can tell me I can or cannot post on an official NBA team forum. I'd suspect that other people thinking of becoming new members may feel the same way.
You clearly are missing the point if you think she was banned because people disagreed with her, or she disagreed with people. It's the way she disagreed and her actions when disagreement arose that got her banned. I don't understand why it's hard for people to understand. If you get defensive and attack people every time someone disagrees, you're going to draw attention and warnings from the mods. If you don't fix that behavior, you're going to get cut loose. Shit, I can give you a list of people that would be cut right now if BF was simply cut "because she disagreed with people". Our board would lose half its' members.
I stopped reading because it was starting to get like BF's posts. But I went back and read after you guys posted your comments.
Like he said, he doesn't know. He's only been here one month. There has been a lot more than usual mod activity here in that month. After a few months of being here he'll see if he's right or wrong.
I don't understand why people don't discover and utilize the ignore function on the board...then there's really no reason to ban anyone. Just click ignore and it's that simple. I understand Sly's position on this but feel a couple of moderators fed her fire without practicing what they preach here. I also think there's a lack of finding humor in her sarcasm that isn't lacking amongst other posters who trash talk each other. I won't paste some inappropriate comments I've read from long time members here, but in retrospect, it is a bit of a double standard...that's my 2 cents and if it bothered me that much, I'd find another site to join.
I'm just trying to save him the month or two of trying to figure it out. Time is money. But really...... You and I had the discussion when the (minor) changes first took place and it was announced this was the official Blazers' board (which I believe was the only discussion I ever had with a mod, and I believe you initiated it). I was skeptical. Changes have been made. But those changes have been relaxed some. As crazy as it's been the last month or two here, the forum hasn't changed that much (aside from a lot of new rooks). And the general freedom of the board is what made this place popular and what helped the Blazers choose it as their official board.
so deal with it! the heading covers some of the same ideas but 2/3 of the post are fresh laundry...you keep notes on my posts?
