Notice Foaming forum problems....

***Can you see this post?!?***

I wasn't considering leaving, but if you can't see this post, I might have to reevaluate!

 

We already covered this..... younger..... cooler.... and better looking

 

This is why you have a ban hammer Sly.....in my view you either need to use it or lose more quality forum members ...having meetings and spending days dealing with it for free is completely unnecessary use of what is supposed to be an entertaining fan site .....coddling this ongoing problem is not solving it.....my 2 cents....I used to feel bad if I couldn't make a meet and greet...that's sure changed. With HCP and kj bailing....the writing is on the wall. To me it's become glaringly obvious what's gone down here and it keeps getting a pass. Good luck with this mess bro....I hope it works out for your sake. I'll be here much less from here on out.

 

He should ban people because some of you got your feelings hurt?

 

Perfect. That makes two of us...

 

redundant

 

not my feelings.....Sly will do what he wants.....my baby brother died this weekend...that hurt my feelings.....I just like HCP and kjironman as friends......you I don't pay much attention to at all....

 

Definitely some drama queens up in here.

Option 1: Put the person you don't like on ignore and never have to see their posts again.

Option 2: Make some big statement about how you're leaving the forum because you don't like so and so and you can't go on having to deal with them in your lives.

I will say this, it's crappy that someone went after HCP's job, but he made a racial joke and that joke was forwarded by someone. It was his choice to make his identity public on here. If you don't have the anonymity of the internet protecting you anymore, you're exposed to people going after you in the real world. That's just the reality of that choice. If you don't want people to know who you are in real life, don't tell them and/or don't post stuff that might get you fired. There's a reason why I post almost nothing on facebook and literally nothing on linkedin. I don't need one of my hot takes coming back to bite me in the ass. That's why I do all my shit talking on here.

 

you've just described my marraige

 

The whole forum is drama. It always has been. People that have been posting forever who don't like each other constantly fighting. It has been that way since we came over in 2008. Our group is too small to drown it out. There's similar arguing on places like Reddit, but their community is much larger so it's not quite so personal.

It just is what it is, and if people think other places are different, well....... I guess they can think that if they want.

 

I don't understand....HCP has been asked to stop doing some things and has. OB has been asked to drop the shit and continues with the drama. Whether he sent the letter or not, we may never know. But there sure is a lot of coincidental evidence for it it seems.

I can't fault any of the mods they do a great job and do it for free. The OP is evidence enough that they put a lot of thought into the actions they may take.

Sooner or later, playing nice isn't enough. While OB may not have sent the letter himself, at BEST his actions and words inspired someone else to and that type of real-life consequence may permanently impact how people interact on the forum. That itself IMO warrants some mod-designated time away from the forum...but hey that just me. Does HCP's schtick get old sometimes? Sure, lol. But coming from a guy that sometimes doesn't know when to quit pushing people's buttons IRL I get it. The fact that OB JUST RECENTLY put HCP on ignore shows me he was never truly serious about changing his own ways or leaving the situation alone.

 

Let's be honest here though, if he hadn't posted something racially insensitive, he wouldn't have gotten in trouble. If someone posted something similar on facebook and got fired because of it, would you feel sorry for that person? And that's a website that's supposed to be only people you accepted as a friend. This is an open forum where he has represented himself as an employee of the team. It's just not very smart.

 

I'll admit that sometimes I haven't played well with others, but I reflect and try to modify my approach. I will get irritated sometimes, but almost always it's overreaction and most of those times, it's in game threads when emotions are rioting

I just looked and I don't have anybody on ignore. I've actually discovered it's possible to ignore somebody's posts manually by seeing the poster and moving on before reading. That way, I reserve the option to get outraged and/or irritated if that's my time-wasting inclination at that moment in time

I'm sorry that people are self-banning because of this situation. I understand why, but it's a damn shame, and will make the forum a lesser place

and I'd personally like to say to HCP: please don't leave; your wife and I appreciate the time you spend here

 

I may have missed what exactly he said that was racially insensitive? Mind filling me in?

I do agree it was not very smart that HCP had let it be known he worked for the Blazers...I don't trust people I don't know personally much as it is. He definitely put himself in that risky position in the first place...but bringing that cancel culture bullshit to this forum? Whoever did that is a pretty shitty human.

 

Can't we just rename this thread "As S2Turns", "The Bold and the Petty", or "Days of Our Forum Lives" and move along?

 

You're much prettier than I was expecting.