Is it possible to review 'waived' posters offenses?
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:14 am
Is it possible to review 'waived' posters offenses?
Scuttlebutt around the boards seems to suggest the Miami Heat boards may have gotten a little hypersensitive and perhaps overzealous in playing 'whack-a-mole' on perceived trolls.
I suspect elevated expectations and the summer's PR stumbles (in the case of LeBron) may mean the team is more vulnerable to the Nelson Muntzes of the world haw hawing at every mini misstep, I can see why gunslinger mods might be a little jumpy, twitchy with the hairtrigger, but even so it seems to me a poster ought to progress through warnings or suspensions before they are drop-kicked out of the room on a permanent basis.
The wizboard lost our resident jinx, 'ji' who's naturally a bit of downer but we enjoy his Eeeyore aspect and his completely inaccurate weather-predictions. This is along-time poster who has long ago entered into the lore of the board, and generally adds amusing content even if he is clearly entirely responsible for all our previous terrible luck (in injuries, crappy draft picks up to now, etc).
His demeanor is rarely positive, which can read as trolling I suppose, but to be fair he's more of a plague on our team than anyone else's, and seems to me it ought to be fair game to occasionally wonder about a front-office decision. IN this case it looks like the guy was banned for suggesting that the Heat would eventually regret Chris Bosh's contract. That seems to me a reasonable opinion to offer, even if I think he's basically wrong considering they got LeBron for pennies on the dollar in large part because Bosh signed with the team. Seems to me it would be fair to debate the point though, not crush a poster like bug just because their opinion don't jive.
I suppose I'm used to the Wiz Board where we kinda welcome trolls (not kinda, we actually had a 'Welcome, trolls' thread for a while, just so we could get a good debate going) but it seems to me that a little back-and-forth on a topic is what keeps these boards from being a self-flogging circle-jerk and instead become a FORUM for conversation and discourse and even a bit of well-reasoned debate, Heck, even jibes and jeering among friends, so long as the thread is not derailed and the topic is germane.
ji does not to appear to be the only casualty of what must have been a trying night for moderator patience or something. Looks like a few posters got caught in some sort of toxic fallout. I'd just feel a little better about the deal if there were some sort of star chamber to review whether the execution of a fellow was warranted, or perhaps admittedly a bit hasty, to be commuted to time served after the fact..
Scuttlebutt around the boards seems to suggest the Miami Heat boards may have gotten a little hypersensitive and perhaps overzealous in playing 'whack-a-mole' on perceived trolls.
I suspect elevated expectations and the summer's PR stumbles (in the case of LeBron) may mean the team is more vulnerable to the Nelson Muntzes of the world haw hawing at every mini misstep, I can see why gunslinger mods might be a little jumpy, twitchy with the hairtrigger, but even so it seems to me a poster ought to progress through warnings or suspensions before they are drop-kicked out of the room on a permanent basis.
The wizboard lost our resident jinx, 'ji' who's naturally a bit of downer but we enjoy his Eeeyore aspect and his completely inaccurate weather-predictions. This is along-time poster who has long ago entered into the lore of the board, and generally adds amusing content even if he is clearly entirely responsible for all our previous terrible luck (in injuries, crappy draft picks up to now, etc).
His demeanor is rarely positive, which can read as trolling I suppose, but to be fair he's more of a plague on our team than anyone else's, and seems to me it ought to be fair game to occasionally wonder about a front-office decision. IN this case it looks like the guy was banned for suggesting that the Heat would eventually regret Chris Bosh's contract. That seems to me a reasonable opinion to offer, even if I think he's basically wrong considering they got LeBron for pennies on the dollar in large part because Bosh signed with the team. Seems to me it would be fair to debate the point though, not crush a poster like bug just because their opinion don't jive.
I suppose I'm used to the Wiz Board where we kinda welcome trolls (not kinda, we actually had a 'Welcome, trolls' thread for a while, just so we could get a good debate going) but it seems to me that a little back-and-forth on a topic is what keeps these boards from being a self-flogging circle-jerk and instead become a FORUM for conversation and discourse and even a bit of well-reasoned debate, Heck, even jibes and jeering among friends, so long as the thread is not derailed and the topic is germane.
ji does not to appear to be the only casualty of what must have been a trying night for moderator patience or something. Looks like a few posters got caught in some sort of toxic fallout. I'd just feel a little better about the deal if there were some sort of star chamber to review whether the execution of a fellow was warranted, or perhaps admittedly a bit hasty, to be commuted to time served after the fact..
