Guano wrote:I never understood thinking anyone here doesn't actually care about the knicks. We all want em to win. We just have different ideas how to get there. And some of us are a lil rough at expressing that. But just cause a fan doesn't fck with this current team doesn't make them not a fan.
We don't have the same situation that we did years ago when we had posters that were actually wolves in sheeps clothing masquerading as fans. What we've had recently is a couple posters beefing and trolling each other with one poster consistently at the center of it. Myself and other mods have recently gotten PMs from posters completely outside of this dynamic who are feeling less and less compelled to be part of the community because the forum is so overwhelmed with this commotion that any serious discussion of the team or games gets drowned out. And it's not one or two posters saying this. It's a lot. That's a problem and it's a cumulative one. Not one that springs from specific incidents but over time the board is degraded.
This place is supposed to be fun. It should be a place to let off steam and spar a bit. But it needs to be fun for a variety of users and our more gentle ways of expressing this recently hadn't taken.
Look at the discussion that's transpired this morning. It's far from homer talk but what it isn't is full of instigation and veiled attacks at other posters and the resultant retaliations dominating the thread.
