OMG!!! Why is our wonderful site going down the tubes?

Chef Green · Starting Rotation Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 769

Waitaminute...isn't the OP the same guy who started a thread the other day calling the Nuggets - specifically the black guys with tattoos and cornrows - "wannabe ghetto thugs?"

And, didn't that thread get locked, by a mod, about 5 minutes later?

Seems to me as if everything is working just fine.

Canuck · Star Player Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1316

GoldenThroat · Moderator Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 37474

Personally, I think that this site has improved immensely over the last 6-8 months, and it's not because of the pleasantly surprising season that the Lakers have put together.

Vitriol, instigation, and throwing your "e-weight" around was a hallmark of this site when JD was a mod. The things that people were banned for, and the overtly aggressive actions of the staff were unbelievable, and I rarely visited as a result.

Phil put the clamps down on that childishness, and the site improved immediately. Then, consider the nature of VLF & Alpha's posts. For example, the "instigation" that VLF put forth today was nothing more than an unpopular opinion of the Kobe rape case.

The trolls and whatnot? No, there isn't a quick trigger, and props for that. Guys like KobehastheMAGIC and Pajamahadeen end up finding their way to Bansville, it's inevitable. But the trivial and sophmoric instigation from THE STAFF does not happen anymore.

Kudos to DB and the current Mod team for keeping a good thing going. I'm here much more often than I used to be, and that's because the maturity level of the staff has increased enormously.

JD · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:25 am Post subject:

Funny how GoldenThroat throws around his personal insults, coupled with a holier than thou attitude.
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Alpha · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

Reason for lock: Thread is becoming exactly the opposite of what the OP is trying to accomplish.

Most posting here are some of the main contributing members to the site. The only reason you all have such strong opinions is because you DO care about this community.

I was looking for ways to keep the thread going but too many personal attacks and non-constructive, negative posts are in here... and I don't have the patience to edit/delete/clean up the thread.

I think these posts pretty much summed it up.

Also, just because in one's opinion someone is being an "ass" doesn't necessarily mean that they are violating the TOS. Often times it's those "close calls" that rest on the judgement of which ever mod happens to stumble on the post.