That’s fine but I think what he’s saying is don’t take things so personally. Oh, and get a better spell-checker.
I'm not questioning people's fandom here. This is the ONLY place I go to talk hoops/Blazers and get my fix. Not questioning posters emotional ties. I simply said just don't hold this place up like the holy grail. This place is nothing more than some random dudes talking. Nothing that gets said on here should be so important that you lose your mind or let it get to you at the level it does. Or so upsets people that they try to affect/effect others livelihoods and go after them and their job. Nobody could post anything on here that would for one split sec make me want to go after them in the real world. Nothing. That's what I'M talking about.
BRO you thesearused the shit out of this post. That affect/effect.... Please you had cj write that shit.
I have the then/then and there/their down pat........ when it comes to affect/effect, I'm still lost.
well for the record i had nothing to do with that and nothing on this forum has ever affected me to that point where i would even think of doing something outside of here. until i heard that someone did so and i was the suspect, i never took anything here as more than forum banter as well. No matter how heated it got. I never meant for anything like that and never thought anyone here would even think of such a thing cause i thought we were all a Blazers family...
If we're such family why don't any of you invite me over for Thanksgiving or at least give me a box of Milk Bones for Christmas?
come on over (in a year and a half) ! you'll have to do at least 6 tricks for one milk bone....3 gets you half a bone....I have the grandawgs well trained when they visit but I've got a stick paradise down by the creek you can chew into sawdust
moderate democrats are fucking useless, racist dumbasses Now I didn’t INSULT you... but I did in a way. I *think* this is the point OB is trying to make. People get away with massive generalizations and then insulting trump supporters. to be clear, not actually calling moderate Democrats those things, just trying to make a point // which I do somewhat agree with. Y’all let people get away with insulting people by saying “trump supporters are X” when they’re clearly taking pot shots at people. I do find it pretty entertaining though.
That's not moderator bias, though. There are people here who insult liberals or Sanders supporters or Biden supporters. You could see it as an end-around the "no personal attacks" rule, which would be a fair point to raise (and we can discuss that, if it's a concern), but it's not really an example of bias IMO.
Not a concern for me... just saying what I thought OB might be concerned about. I’m not in his head so I could be wrong. Also, admittedly, didn’t make it thru all the posts before throwing my hands up in the air and wondering what grown ass adults took this THAT serious. Unless you’re tryna catch these hands at Mt. Tabor, of course.
I think there is bias. Im biased, you’re biased, its part of just being human. I think all of the mods, “try” to take a step back when moderating. Lets face it though, if say one of us Mods loves Trump, we think he is amazing, and someone on here says man whoever hates Trump is an absolute moron! We’re not only more likely to agree with a post like that, we’re more likely to either continue a thread going in that direction by piling on, “like a post”, which if you’re one of the people who is “insulted” were now as mods also kinda saying publicly that yes I also think you’re a moron, or be protective of that line of thought because its something we also kind of think. I dont “moderate” nearly as much as I probably should. I believe a majority on here leans left that there is a forum bias, and that sometimes I think those who lean to the right are cornered into defensive mode because they feel dog-piled on, by a plethora of posts saying, republicans are ‘x’. I think your post earlier was kind of spot on. Though at some point there are people you’re willing to converse with and others you arent. When people want to start posts with Trumptards, Repugnicans, Libtards, etc its pretty easy to see that those posts arent looking for a conversation they’re looking to insult people. Anyways, in terms of Mod bias, sure I sure I have bias’, we all do. It often comes down to intent, is someone deleting modding posts because they simply dont like a poster, their political views etc, and that is bad moderating. Best we can do is try our best to not get wrapped up in our feels when we moderate.
Guy says he doesn't understand why people take things personally on this site. Yet this is the same guy who took it personal when I refused his invite. So personal in fact, that he liked & quoted every one of his buddies posts who said he was a good guy irl. Like it was proof I was being unfair. Ironic. But nobody asked me.
That's my point, though, when I say "moderator bias." I don't mean moderators don't have inherent personal biases as humans--I mean that I haven't noticed biased moderation. We have liberal, moderate and conservative moderators and I haven't seen any of them insert bias into their decisions as moderators. Not that it's impossible that it's happened, but I haven't seen it.
