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So I was probably right about the serial killer thing.

Huh?

I was just joking. Sorry if I hit a nerve somehow. That certainly won't stop Mr. Self Promotion himself from trying.

Just my take: 1. You're the boss and that's that. Nobody has the right to carte blanche or anything else. You seem interested in listening to the rest of the story so I'll proceed. 2. DR lashed out at TFR and I don't think TFR was the right recipient even though I happen to disagree with most of what he posts and don't find him particularly well informed. Unlike others I haven't noticed him being purposefully deceitful. I didn't take him for someone who would complain and find it sad that someone would feel the need to step in and complain on his behalf. 3. Friends of DR may not have called for DR to relax nor did they call for anyone on the "other side" to be banned as far as I'm aware. There are absolutely posters that have come to this forum fairly recently with nothing to offer and simply to agitate. There are at least a few of those that I have never seen post on the football board even once. I'm not naming names but one in particular is an obvious case and a search of his posting history would instantly reveal this without any shadow of a doubt. There are some others that "argue" with inane crap constantly but have been around for a while and a third group who disagree with what might be seen as substance by some and idiocy by others. DR made the mistake of lashing out at all, maybe more importantly at a poster from the third category. Personally I don't care about any of the above three categories....let them all stay...but category one has unquestionably been hounding DR for a long time and contributing nothing at all. 4. Whoever complained ....not hard to figure out IMO....to whom.....also not hard to figure out.....did so from their own point of view which ignored all the crap DR has been taking and focused on TFR, where DR was at least partially misdirecting his ire. If the complaint was about DR's response to a different poster your search would have led you to a far different conclusion. Why did this person not also complain about the people badgering DR which is undeniable? My guess is politics, which is the whole point of this board. Now there is a spotlight instead a floodlight. Within either a spotlight or a floodlight DR acted improperly to TFR. Using the floodlight there is more context. To me it should be either leave it all alone or look using the floodlight. The spotlight approach is dangerous. It lets whiny people decide what is civil and what is over the line. They inevitably view civility through the lens of their own political beliefs....everyone does to an extent. To me it is ok to be uncivil in here. It is preferable to stick to substance, politeness or poking fun than to be rude but I don't get to decide how other people act and I'm fine with that. 5. When in doubt see rule 1. Nobody is forced to be here if they don't like how things are handled. Edit:. I just saw the banned usernames thread and although I still don't want to name names, at least part of point 3 above is covered by that thread.

Butker missed a XP and then almost missed another. After each he drilled the ensuing kickoff 75 yards through the middle of the uprights.

Just spitballing here. Is it possible that he was acting like a douche bag within the building?

I think Marv was more succinct when he said: Overofficious jerk

To be extra safe the masks should also cover their eyes.

1 team having issues for multiple weeks sure makes things very tough. They can't let the Titans get multiple games played behind the rest of the league.

That could actually happen.

4-12 might do it.

McD's mask was upside down in the second half. I hope he isn't suspended too.

Just MO but I understand the rationale of the first parts of your post. I also agree that in a vacuum, or through a soda straw DR's posts were caustic. I feel like there are two things that didn't make there way through the soda straw: 1. DR has been constantly baited by a series of new posters that offer no content whatsoever. They seem to have literally created IDs just to badger primarily him and by extension anyone that agrees with any political opinions they don't share. That is what is different than it was in the years you weren't on here. There used to be lefties on here that put in well reasoned thoughts like Kelly and even Pasta. There are still a few but they are harder to find. Kelly, Pasta, etc. and some conservatives as well have been replaced by posters who I won't name but whose histories are searchable and clearly not meant to contribute to any conversation. "Back in the day" discussions got heated and there was name calling. There really weren't a lot of people randomly posting nonsensical gifs meant solely to disrupt. I find the banishing of DR understandable in a soda straw, but not really if its isolated to just him when others are far worse. Basically he snapped. It's like the guy drawing a 5 minute major because the ref didn't see the opponent continually slashing. I'm not saying TFR was the slashing offender necessarily but there are several. I don't know from whom the 5-6 reports complaining about DR came from but I'd guess that there is a good chance that they came from people that have either baited him in the past or simply don't agree with him politically and who would not lodge a similar complaint about an offender with whom they agree politically. 2. I think that the existence of PPP has likely saved you a lot of headaches over the years because there is an outlet to remove political talk from the main board or have it not show up in the first place. I think you'd agree that most political threads started over the last several years on the main board were by people unaware of PPP. Posters here, left or right, don't really do that as near as I can tell. There is a big difference in moving a thread or comment to PPP versus just deleting it. Not all of the stuff would make its way from PPP to the main board, but some would. And it would be a giant unsolvable pain. I'm not saying you deserve that because you don't. But it would be inevitable. I'll summarize by saying that none of this is your fault and I'm guessing that everyone understands that. I think that a quick fix through one soda straw, in any situation, is not commonly going to make the problems go away even though that is unfortunate. At the end of the day though it is your board. There is no question about that nor should there be.

Time flies. I sure miss you Eugene.

Not sure who it is but 100% sure it's a past or future serial killer.

Have you seen any libs saying identical things to righties? Hint:. You won't have to scroll back very far.

Dude

On the weekend do you drive down to your local cesspool to take in the smells? If not, could you apply the same actions to this site? Would it be difficult? It is my guess that if PPP were deleted that politics from both sides would leak into the main board far more frequently and make the mods jobs there harder than they are now.

If it were up to you, would you apply this same standard to someone who has declared police all to be cogs in a terrorist organization?

That's clearly written through your prism.

I don't think you should be banned for that but I'm wondering if you can explain the difference between that and what DR's ban was based upon.

Agreed on the owner's rights. He can ban someone for being bald if he wants. Geno disappears for long stretches at times. Dude, you're a lefty. That's cool. But what you just posted above is something written through your prism. I don't agree with everything DR has posted but that isn't what's been cited as the reason he's been banned. A lot of what DR posts is controversial but the Deep State stuff has come with a lot of documentation and a lot of predictions that have come true and some that are waiting for the 12th. Meanwhile there is a thread about how cops across the US are an organized terrorist threat. That thread is left alone and apparently hasn't caught your attention at all. I support leaving the the police thread alone, along with DR's because I think people should make their own judgements. For you to decide what is crazed and what should be left alone is contrary to the whole point of having a board to begin with, especially regarding politics. And if you can't see in 5 minutes which posters are bots I don't know what to say about that.

This is what I don't understand. Any research at all would show that. It's here every day. I'm not sure why these rules are applied selectively. It's either a moderated board or it's not. I support the largely unmonitored concept but whatever the rules are, they should be applied equally.

I'll agree with you on two small parts of this otherwise seemingly purposely deceptive post. 1. It is a private site and its owner has full rights to do what he wants. 2. DR flew off the handle verbally and taken in isolation the post to TFR looked bad. The rest of your post is trash and if you were banned for something similar, you wouldn't be happy. The main board has different rules than this side and that is how it's designed. With that said, 1000 threads in here would have been "merged" under the rules of the main board. 950 of them are from lefty trolls. That was DR's main complaint in the offended NYG thread. He was right about that but could have handled it differently. The thread topic itself, given its content, was either designed to troll, or completely inane.....your pick. Just about every poster on here has said something impolite. If you look at DR's post in a vacuum it seems more than impolite. If you look at it in context, all it does is expose the whiny nature of the lefties holding their breath until they get their way. He has had hundreds of posts targeting either him or his content in very sophomoric fashion....well sophomore is 10th grade so I'm being kind there. Maybe he shouldn't have snapped back but he did. Sorry buttercup. I support the largely unmonitored nature of this board. That even extends to people making threads about police being a terrorist group based on their own hatred. All threads like that one do are help expose the truth about the topic and the OP. If we're going to support crap like that thread we ought to be able to tolerate someone flying off the handle after being baited continuously. But congrats to you and the other lefties for whining enough to get DR banned. You can take your fingers out of your ears and stop singing la la la now.

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