rajajackal wrote:Im Coming Home wrote:rajajackal wrote:but now the board is less entertaining for others who aren't so sensitive. i think if it bothers you, you should ignore the poster and then everyone wins. but by getting them banned, now others who enjoyed the content are deprived of the option. if i could have it my way people that didn't like melo would just fight back and nobody on either side would be punished. the only time i think moderation is even necessary is when weirdos start getting tough and asking people to PM their addresses
Brother I think you're looking at this the wrong way.
I am not sensitive, I've been in the internet a long time and dealt with plenty of trolling, arguing, etc, arguing in bad faith gets very tiring to read after awhile. There's no "winning" an argument with someone who is constantly arguing in bad faith, moviing goal posts and when all else fails, lying about posters whenever they are infact "losing" and argument. It clearly wasn't leading to anything positive on the board, and was causing a ton of long time members to stop posting and cause actual insight to be lost.
There's a difference between being "sensitive" and not wanting to deal with people acting like straight up children just to get a rise out of people.
As far as Melo goes I don't think he's banned permanently but who knows, and he wasn't the only one who would act in the way I'm describing, and if it he is, it's not like it wouldn't be warranted. I'm the only one really speaking in the matter but we all know there's a lot more posters who feel the same way on the issue. And also those who were just tired of it and up and left the board. It's been going on for 3-4, years now, multiple big arguments, etc.
RealGM Knicks is not in a spot where we can afford to allow trolls to take over, create a toxic environment and cause people to leave, and/or cause potential new posters to not want to bother coming here to post. It's unlikely this next generation is going to want to post about Knicks on message boards like this one so to cause the old heads who have been here for a decade or more to not wanna be here is not the move. It boils down to it being immature not being sensitive, the only people who tend to troll to that level that it causes that level of toxicity are people who are immature
I'm done with the victim blaming going on in this thread. Time to reflect on people's actions and the toxicity they created here instead.
i know sensitive sounds like an insulting word and i'm not trying to insult you or anyone else. i just think that a "victim" of melo's rabble rousing is inherently self-made. the only people he ever gets into with are the ones who get genuinely mad at his bait. don't feed the troll as they say. the rest of the people who engage with him are usually clowning him right back in a way that feels ultimately friendly. sham clowns melo, nodope clowns sham, guano erratically oscillates between love and violence, etc. lot of tongue-in-cheek lore stirs the tomfoolery but i assumed we were all in on the joke
nobody on here is a basketball genius, so while i do enjoy talking hoops in greater depth when we do, ultimately i'm here to hang out and have fun with an interesting cast of characters who love the same team as me
I clown meLo more than sham, like I said before, sham is a proper villain. There's no real engagement with sham if it's not basketball, he'll go back and forth with you a little, but you write more than a paragraph, and he's gonna Euro step your post like it's not there. Truly diabolical, and I respect his game. meLo on the other hand will engage in back and forth, and then carry that forward where you can get a glimpse into it actually annoying him because he'll mention it later on, and of course he'll get suspended
The 9 month crashout over Randle while trying to pretend to be unbothered is going to be hard to beat for funniest thing on here.
I enjoy trolling trolls, which is why I go at meLo, he's often stretched thin because prolific trolls have a lot of enemies that they're constantly arguing with, while I have none. So, it's an easy lick, sort of like Omar robbing drug dealers, it's not like they can call the police. My posts seem cold, logical and dry, but I really take nothing on here seriously, it's why I talk like a super villain at times, because it's all jokes, unless I can get someone annoyed for real. Like if I had known NYKmentality was a psycho, I would have made it my entire persona on here to mess with him, culminating with me giving him a fake address to fight me, simply to waste his time driving or taking the train somewhere.
. Wearing homie's dog tags like he got killed in battle 
