Official Not So Random Thoughts Thread Version 2.2

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #1221 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:26 pm

IMO so long as a guy doesn't intentionally repeatedly violate TOS or engage in repeated flaming of the same message boards, there's nothing wrong with allowing him to post. The board is less fun when it becomes "sanitized".

I've been considered off-the wall at times. I like Ji, 95% of the time. He has a unique insight on things and even when he says something incredibly politically incorrect, it's usually funny as all heck. I appreciate a change-of-pace type person.

I miss the weather stuff, too, Pine. I never got why people ripped him so much on the bad juju stuff. It's not like the Wizards have been good enough to matter whether they won or lost in the past 25 years, either way.

What Swami said, Pine--You can reinstate Ji.

Post #1222 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:48 am

Is Ji waived again??

I didn't know that.

Cramer · Post #1223 » by **Cramer** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:38 pm

A "Free Ji" movement is forming. Is this a great country or what?

I'm in. Where do I sign the petition?

Loved his weather thread. I mean, how wrong can one guy be, and how often, and keep after it with such enthusiasm? The guy would get me pumped for snow in July. It was a beautiful thing.

Post #1224 » by **montestewart** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:44 pm

What happened to Ace Degenerate? Is he banned? He was hilarious. I'll bet he's got a perspective on the Crittendon news as it relates to Arenas.

Illuminaire · Post #1225 » by **Illuminaire** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:39 pm

Ace was suspended, then came back and blasted/threatened the entire board. I suspect that earned him a ban...

Illuminaire · Post #1226 » by **Illuminaire** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:40 pm

On another topic: Is anyone interested in a Wizboard fantasy football league? (There probably already is one and I missed it, hehe, but I have to ask.)

Post #1227 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:01 pm

Start one up Illuminaire.

Sounds like fun.

Post #1228 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:45 pm

daSwami wrote:
pineappleheadindc wrote:This forum has seen its ups and downs and lots of changes over the years.

One change that I don't like is this:

-- We had a significant weather event unfold over the last week, and not a single peep from Ji.

I miss him.

you're a mod. re-instate him.

WizardsKev will tell you, getting someone reinstated is hell. I just went through this on behalf of someone who had no business being banned and it required me to fight just about every mod out there in a behind-the-scenes environment.

I thought Ji had a new screen name. Did THAT one get banned too?

Ji, if you're okay, drop us a line.

Cramer · Post #1229 » by **Cramer** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:11 pm

So I'm guessing you aren't going to go to bat for BCH?

Scabs304 · Post #1230 » by **Scabs304** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:37 pm

Cramer wrote:So I'm guessing you aren't going to go to bat for BCH?

No I believe that boat has sailed

Post #1231 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:52 am

^

LOL Cramer and Scabs.....actually, if it were up to me, I'd go back and reinstate BCH, SD20, Ji (if he's banned), Fokus/Ace and just about everyone else banned.

My thinking has really evolved on banning since my run in with the other mods on the banning of WizardKev's friend. I think mods - I'm calling myself out first so nobody thinks I'm trying to escape the criticism that I deserve - are human and can overreact in the heat of the moment. Once a ban occurs, you end up having a debate with everyone under the sun about the banning if you want to unban somebody. (Kev's friend REALLY didn't deserve the banning at all. And no, I didn't ban WizardKev's friend).

I know SD20 sometimes drops by the board under his new S/N and when he has, I've told him that he's welcome back. I really regret pushing for his ban b/c while he was irritating (to me), everyone else seemed to be handling him just fine....more or less. I was trying to "fix" a non-existent problem.

My real regret is that it's really difficult to undo the screw up.

That being said, some people deserve (and need) the time out just to chill out. So, when appropriate, I think a 24-hour, 3-day, or 7-day timeout is okay to award posters who need it. But because the bans are so permanent and applied (again, calling myself out here with the rest of the banning mods) sometimes in a not-too-objective fashion, I don't think I'll be asking for a ban on anyone unless:

1) He's just acting like that MARCOPOLO guy at the old ESPN boards. He didn't post, hey'd just drop the one line "WHORELANDO TRAGIC -- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" and do it 900 times in a row so that it's all you saw when you logged in.

2) The rest of the members of this board are rising up and TELLING me to ban somebody.

My dos centavos.

Scabs304 · Post #1232 » by **Scabs304** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:15 am

Ban Cramer think it would be good luck for Maryland.

Post #1233 » by **Zonkerbl** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:08 pm

Illuminaire wrote:Ace was suspended, then came back and blasted/threatened the entire board. I suspect that earned him a ban...

Oh, I remember that. I imagine that's in the Hall of Fame thread now.

Post #1234 » by **montestewart** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 2:53 pm

Where's Hoopalotta? He's too polite to get banned.

Post #1235 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 7:50 pm

^
I think that lack of a basketball season and the prospects of no season for a while has cut into traffic. That's kinda expected. I hope they resolve the labor dispute soon.

Nivek · Post #1236 » by **Nivek** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 7:56 pm

If you can arrange to avoid ever having kidney stones, do it. Had a bout with one recently, and it was the 2nd most painful experience I've ever had. To give you an idea, dislocating my knee is #3. Rehabbing from shoulder surgery ranks 4th.

Post #1237 » by **pineappleheadindc** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 8:05 pm

Sorry to hear that Kev.

P.S. Back to banning - and no, it wasn't me. How could we all think about who we'd like to reinstate without the screen name "Giltwanbutler" being mentioned. That dude was fearless about trolling EVERYBODY'S board.

Post #1238 » by **montestewart** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 8:13 pm

Nivek wrote:If you can arrange to avoid ever having kidney stones, do it. Had a bout with one recently, and it was the 2nd most painful experience I've ever had. To give you an idea, dislocating my knee is #3. Rehabbing from shoulder surgery ranks 4th.

What was 1st? I've had cats that suffered similar, and it looked like the worst pain I've ever seen a cat endure, short of being run over by a car.

Nivek · Post #1239 » by **Nivek** » Tue Sep 6, 2011 8:22 pm

#1 was a "mild" pancreas infection. I went to the emergency room on my 33rd birthday in agony. It took just four and a half hours to receive treatment. Only another hour after that to get pain medication. They insisted on giving me morphine even though I told them it made puke. They administered it to me at the same time they gave me some dye to drink for a high-contrast MRI. Which, of course produced high-contrast vomit.

Back to the pain -- on a scale of 1-10, it was a 15+. Unbelievable, unrelenting, searing, agonizing pain. I seriously thought I was going to die. At one point in the waiting room, I was kinda hoping for it.

I ended up spending a week in the hospital, almost exclusively for pain management. They never figured out why the pancreas was inflamed/infected. It just got better. I lost 15 pounds that week.

Cramer · Post #1240 » by **Cramer** » Wed Sep 7, 2011 3:56 pm

Scabs304 wrote:Ban Cramer think it would be good luck for Maryland.

True.