Notice The Personal Insults have to stop!

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  1. CupWizier

    CupWizier Well-Known Member

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    I have made an effort to be more respectful, but when someone comes at me in something that doesn't involve them it becomes hard to ignore. I also really don't need someone telling me that they perceive a double standard either as I will leave that to the mods. If you find my comments offensive then I suggest you take it up with the mods and let them decide and I will do in kind rather than create a messed up thread. I know I have started some as well but feel some posters take much of what I say out of context to help fuel an argument with me. I would prefer if you just ignore my posts rather than continue this but I have no interest in taking things to pm if it's just a continuation of what's been going on. There shouldn't be anything I need to say in a pm that I wouldn't say to someones face or in a post. If you choose to ignore me, that's completely your prerogative and it honestly wouldn't hurt my feelings if that's what you decide to do.

    No hard feelings on my part.
     
    CupWizier, May 17, 2018
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  2. kjironman1

    kjironman1 Well-Known Member

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    FTFY
     
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  3. Orion Bailey

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    Pm please. Gonna spare the forum this conversation. I guarantee they dont want to hear it.
     
    Orion Bailey, May 17, 2018
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  4. Stevenson

    Stevenson Old School

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    Interesting how O-Live closed, some folks came here, and this place is starting to resemble that one.

    I say ban the perpetrators @SlyPokerDog and let's all get back to whining about basketball.
     
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  5. CupWizier

    CupWizier Well-Known Member

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    I am done.
     
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  6. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    There are at least 4 kinds of insults which this board should keep.
    1. brutally true..needed to wake up some moron who is self-hypnotized
    2. humorous...makes a point while showing a ridiculous paradox of the opponent's thinking
    3. subtle...leaves it to the reader's imagination, not quite closing a circle of logic
    4. comeback...I propose we award a monthly "HCP Trophy"

    Like great art, a Nobel-winning insult can be interpreted in more than one way.

    "Kjironman1's iron is malleable."

    Instead of being an insult, Shakespearian art can simply be colorful suggestive description for its own sake.

    Instead of dumbing down the board, moderators should encourage us to increase all insults, subtle and artsy, by praising the best and asking everyone to amp it up. After the nuclear war and centuries of recovery, archaeologists will dig up these posts and display the best for posterity, so write with two meanings, stay alert, and write on your toes.
     
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  8. kjironman1

    kjironman1 Well-Known Member

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    And we could neutralize each other......:smiley-ripley: or just piss all over the place :smiley-piss:
     
    kjironman1, May 17, 2018
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    I was considering yesterday starting a thread very similar to this one, but focusing more on the sniping and backbiting that has suddenly made the forum so much more unpleasant. I could call people out, but y'all know who you are.

    Fact is (as I intimated in another thread earlier), it takes two to tango. Another poster mentioned how sometimes it's "hard to ignore" when someone comes at you...I don't understand that. You all are adult enough to be able to not respond when someone's being an ass. You all are intelligent enough to know when a comment/response is only going to make a situation worse. And you all are capable of being respectful, even when the other guy isn't.

    You don't have to escalate confrontations. You don't have to respond in kind when someone is behaving boorishly. You don't have to call people out on passive aggressive comments. Every time you do, you become part of the problem.

    To paraphrase Gandhi, be the change you want to see in the forum.
     
    PtldPlatypus, May 17, 2018
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    Duly noted.
     
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    This forum is going the way of the Oregonlive forum with the incessant Passive Aggressive comments.

    Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching meltdowns. However, the shit show has become just that.
     
    Hobbesarable, May 17, 2018
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  14. riverman

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    then what are you going to do?
     
    riverman, May 17, 2018
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  15. Chris Craig

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    Something with her dentures
     
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    Like others are saying, it’s not really the personal insults. It’s the bait stuff. I can name three or four posters who constantly try and bait me all the time and make passive aggressive comments but they don’t cross that line however you know they are trying to be little assholes. That stuff never gets penalized and they get away with it constantly because it’s a “gray area” but everybody else recognizes that these people are trying to get reactions or implying things that are insulting. That to me is the most frustrating thing about the forum. Specifically the OT section.
     
    Cippy91, May 17, 2018
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  17. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    So, is there a indicator to show who has been micro-banned? It's not entertaining for the rest of us if we don't get to laugh at the banned poster.

    barfo
     
    barfo, May 17, 2018
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  18. riverman

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    ignore is easy....just click the tab
     
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    Yes, it is unless you have caustic individuals who will destroy a forum. That happened to the Oregonlive Blazer forum.
     
    Hobbesarable, May 17, 2018
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  20. SlyPokerDog

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    You'd know if you went to the staff meetings.
     
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