OT Banned S2 (Former) Members

I don't condone anyone going after anyone's livelihood. That's never ok.

Here is what is known. For those who you who don't know the beef, The HCP used to have a shtick. He would "haze" newcomers pretending to bully them, calling them rooks, and messing with them. Several posters took this personal. A few may have even left because of it.

OB and Bodyman both now banned, were two who took it personal. They felt they were being bullied, they saw others they felt were being bullied.

Bodyman came up with a very ill gotten joke to get HCP back. OB said he would think about going along with it. They would tell him in the forum and/or send him a PM telling him that they sent an email to his bosses at the Blazers about it. In the end IB decided not to go along with it in case what actually happened, happened.

Someone actually did it though. OB has denied he actually did it. He has sworn up and down it was not him who actually wrote an email and sent it.

I have reason to believe it was someone else who is no longer here.

Anyway that is the origin of the beef between OB and HCP and OB and the Mods. That HCP was "hazing" newcomers and the mods were supposedly allowing it.

I have spent a lot of time hanging out with OB. I have helped him move, went to S2 get togethers at his house, saw his band play at several bars, went to Blazers games with him. I have seen in him nothing but a kind friendly dude outside of this forum.

I don't agree with his joke. It's terrible it became reality and threatened HCPs livelihood. Again, I don't condone that. Even if he didn't actually do it, he does bare responsibility for it because he considered going along with Body's joke.

 

I am only offering an objective, neutral take on the matter to get the whole story across. I was not yet a mod when this occured. I cannot speak on what their thoughts were behind all of it. My post is not meant to attack any of the parties mentioned but to express a clear unbiased set of events as to what occured for those who don't know what happened.

Frankly I am tired of this being brought up. I don't think it's condusive to HCP to keep bringing it up. I get his anger over it. I would be pissed too if it happened to me. Many on here are afraid of similar reprisals. I didn't want to comment. But, I thought it necessary.

 

No, you said @crandc called you a racist and I liked the post. You never said anything about HCP.

 

Really?

 

So fun fact: @Chris Craig went through over 500 posts in the OT section with the keyword racist in the search.

Chris is a good man, that took him a long time.

He did in fact find a post where someone called @ABM a racist. It was over a year ago in one of ABM's French Press threads.

The post was made by...

Spoiler

@UncleCliffy'sDaddy

And yes, I checked the post and I didn't like it.

Also ABM never replied or complained about the post.

 

I'm not paid.