Hornets hire Jeff Peterson as Head of Basketball Ops.

[KembaWalker]

the point of the ignore list is to protect yourself from reading posts that upset you and go about your day, not to keep railing on everyone about how you're using it but then obviously manually overriding and reading the posts and upsetting yourself.

[Chapelchilla]

I personally don't have an ignore list because I don't get all up in my fee fees about trolls on the internet.
I do laugh at their need for attention though!

[fatlever]

time to get this back on topic... i think we've all aired our grievances

jeff peterson

[Walt Cronkite]

I personally don't have an ignore list because I don't get all up in my fee fees about trolls on the internet.
I do laugh at their need for attention though!

It's an efficiency thing. When you go into a thread the posts of the posters you will be more rewarded for engaging with are easier to access.

[yosemiteben]

the point of the ignore list is to protect yourself from reading posts that upset you and go about your day, not to keep railing on everyone about how you're using it but then obviously manually overriding and reading the posts and upsetting yourself.

This is accurate. By contrast, mods are responsible for facilitating quality discussion on the board and for moderating discussion that is detrimental to the board.

Mods don't just put people on ignore when they post in ways that are detrimental to discussion.

[JDR720]

It's like Walt and JDR going "yeah I'm not that concerned with the front court". I shouldn't have to defend my negativity towards what they've done. It's not an outlier position. However, it is "tired and stale" to say they've sunk another (third) year in the name of sustainable building and their front court is Plumlee, Moussa, and Kalk. They're two years from being two years away. But I'm the **** if I say it.

What was the new one JDR just dropped? They aren't going to be good anyway so it doesn't matter if the center rotation sucks. This is how apathetic and accepting of **** product some of you have become.

Look at what San Antonio has done over the past two/three years, Houston, Washington, all these other teams. And I'm getting called out for negativity for pointing out that adding Tiddy, Nipples, and Sexton as your marque additions is not needle moving to be kind.

We spent years wanting the MJ-teams to choose a direction. Do a legit tank, or make a legit push for the playoffs. Stop being cheap (on everything), take Summer League seriously, take the Swarm seriously, have a backup PG that is good etc. This new regime, for better or worse, seems to actually have a plan/vision for what they want to do. The Swarm are competent, they seem to actually want to use the Swarm for it's intended purpose. They just won a SL title, a first in our history. We have a lot of draft assets, no bad contracts etc.

And this is only their 2nd season. We're not going from being, probably, the least professional franchise in the league to a playoff contender in 2 years. We didn't get Wemby or Flagg.


But like I said, this team is better positioned to make a move now than it has been in years past. We have assets, on paper we have some talent, it's just a question of how it'll come together. Nobody is being apathetic or "accepting of a **** product" by pointing out those things. Apathetic is "I don't care", not "I see reasons for being optimistic." Whereas you guys seem to ignore those things, or assume whatever we do will fail.


The frontcourt is an issue, but statistically we still have last seasons best center. Whether that is legit or not is debatable, but our center position went down the drain when Mark regressed severely on defense due to his injuries. The needle movers on this team are a healthy Melo and Miller. Talent wise, this team isn't as terrible as you guys think it is. We've just been punched in the face by injury issues (and Miles off-court issues) multiple years in a row. This team, talent wise, is as good or better than our last Borrego team.

As for examples of being overly negative, look at the Kon stuff. He's the #4 pick, helped the team win the SL title and played well, winning the MVP. And yet a lot of you guys seem convinced he's already a bust and will never amount to anything because he is "stubby."

[SWedd523]

Kon and Sexton may actually be needle movers for Charlotte.
Opinions are not facts.

Do I need to start every single post with "It is my personal opinion that..." or can I trust that you understand how discussion forums work?

It would be a lot less argumentative and aggressive to do just that.
Why portray yourself as having some line on the absolute truth?
You don't.

When have I ever stated anything as absolute truth?

I would appreciate a quote on that too

[SWedd523]

I personally don't have an ignore list because I don't get all up in my fee fees about trolls on the internet.
I do laugh at their need for attention though!

@Fats @jdr @ben

This is the **** I'm talking about

Arguing with folks for "posting negative for the sake of posting negative" and then you get stuff like this on the other end of the spectrum. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy here?

[EmpireFalls]

I have a lot of disdain for the following moves

- re-signing domestic abuser and all-around piece of human garbage Miles Bridges. Should need no explanation

-trading for Josh Green. Horrific player

-drafting Tidjane Salaun over Clingan with the knowledge that we would be trading Mark Williams later that season

-trading Mark Williams instead of giving him a chance to get healthy and have a full offseason

-signing Plumlee to legitimately play center minutes

Other than that pretty solid. He is clearly good at gaining assets on the margins and understanding how to act when you’re a bad team. We have picked a direction of openly tanking and that’s OK. The issue is his talent identification. Josh Green and Tidjane Salaun are just unforgivable misses.

[yosemiteben]

I personally don't have an ignore list because I don't get all up in my fee fees about trolls on the internet.
I do laugh at their need for attention though!

@Fats @jdr @ben

This is the **** I'm talking about

Arguing with folks for "posting negative for the sake of posting negative" and then you get stuff like this on the other end of the spectrum. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy here?

I do think that post was out of line. FWIW, I don't see it as spamming positive posts, he just called you a troll, and at the risk of being controversial I would guess even you recognize that you seem to enjoy posting the occasional trolly comment yourself.

But yes, if people have issues with other posters the way to handle is to bring up with mods, and we'll act in whatever way we view to be reasonable in light of the specific situation / issue.

[SWedd523]

The irony is Chapel has become the poster child for abject positivity lately.

Spending most of his posting time arguing with others for "being negative" or only posting for the sake of trolling the negative nancies.

The other side of the non-constructive seesaw

[Liver_Pooty]

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

[fatlever]

time to get this back on topic... i think we've all aired our grievances

jeff peterson

[Chapelchilla]

I personally don't have an ignore list because I don't get all up in my fee fees about trolls on the internet.
I do laugh at their need for attention though!

@Fats @jdr @ben

This is the **** I'm talking about

Arguing with folks for "posting negative for the sake of posting negative" and then you get stuff like this on the other end of the spectrum. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy here?

Replying to Kemba directly not you

[Chapelchilla]

The irony is Chapel has become the poster child for abject positivity lately.

Spending most of his posting time arguing with others for "being negative" or only posting for the sake of trolling the negative nancies.

The other side of the non-constructive seesaw

Your making this uber personal fella

[fatlever]

let it die fellas... points have been made.

[fatlever]

locking for now... we reopen later.