Additional information regarding the actions taken

[Tiberius]

Oh, Teddy, can you explain why? 

[Westside]

37 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

I’m not sure at all why Billstime got 30 days. Did he do something, or were his scathing and creative posts too much for people? 

Tibs, come on man. You expect me to believe that? LOL!!!

[keepthefaith]

6 hours ago, SDS said:

I realized in my long rambling post that I did make it easy for people like I requested others make it easy for me/us. So, let me expand upon the recent events, that came after the "post in this topic to ***** on X", a 30 day suspension, multiple attempts to bypass it, and an ensuing PM pissing match upon return. This is what I was told to look at:

 

(My interpretation is that The Frankish Reich is being accused of making a duplicate topic. The response below.)

 

"

You know how you can tell an asshat from a good poster? "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758287
Thumbs up: Buffalo Gal, carpet crawler, dub, Dragoon

 

"

Liars gonna lie." Posted ####### meme
Link deleted

 

"

It's a special: "LOOK AT ME! I NEED ATTENTION" post by the board's newest chief Asshat.  It's fun to watch such a dumb man go through such lengths  to prove how incalculably dumb he truly is."

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758300

Thumbs up: dubs, Laughed: cinga

"

You could have put this in any number of threads. It would be just as forgettable and stupid in those threads as it would be on its own. But, the asshat would rather ***** up the board like a pelican because he's in desperate need for attention. It's funny to witness a grown man continually make an ass out of himself in public.  "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758321

 

"

You're so full of shite you can't even keep up with your own bullshite positions. Carry on being a dishonest asshat.  "
https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758354

 

"

That's unfair to ask. He's not even smart enough to realize the sky is blue. "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758385

 

Upon further investigation, I read this (In response to TFR's request to stop the name calling):

"

Nope. Don't think I will. I gave you weeks of civility, you wanted none of it. Now you just get the horns. Your choice, Frank. "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/191395-the-deep-state-war-heats-up-ph34r/?do=findComment&comment=6752991

 

 

 

I have looked over pages and pages and pages of posts by TFR and other than pushing back on positions, conspiracy theories and sometimes the general bent of PPP, I see absolutely nothing outside the normal back and forth of political talk that justified any of this on the heels on that suspension.

 

TFR's posting history (I apologize for pulling you into this):

 

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/profile/24239-the-frankish-reich/content/?type=forums_topic_post&change_section=1

 

Maybe I missed something. 🤷‍♂️

 

I also want to make it clear that TFR did not report anything. Another member did. So I ask:

 

1. What do I tell the member who reported the above and expresses to us that another member is facing unwarranted, repetitive abuse?

2. What am I supposed to do after reading the above after just going through this scenario with the reported member?

3. As this country becomes more polarized and as our discourse increasingly gets more extreme, why would I want this Buffalo Bills Community associated with the above (among other things)? A lot of people post anonymously here. I, however, am not (or at least it is the worst secret ever).

 

I want to note that, unless I missed it, friends of DR didn't exactly call for him to relax. Posters have responded that people here handle it themselves. So far I have failed to see where TFR needed to be handled like this. I do see DR needing to take a step back (IMO), but no advice was offered (unless it was done privately and he ignored it).

 

Edit: 

Oh, and one last thing… The PM ***** storm that I got pulled into had to do with DR continually accusing another member of child abuse, which DR continued to assert in PM.

 

Just additional information from my point of view.

 

 

I've never manged an online community as you've been doing for years, so I can't say I've walked in your shoes.  I've looked at all of your linked posts and would say that if you wanted to review months and years of posts here, you'd find a lot of personal attacks of varying degrees of distaste posted by a number of people.  I've dished out a few myself and have taken some too.  That's not a complaint, just an observation.  You likely have no interest in devoting the time look further, nor should you but IMO the linked posts are not more egregious than so many others.  Maybe the frequency of attacks from a single poster that had been warned previously is the difference. 

 

What makes this forum great to me is also what makes it a management challenge.  It's a wild west wide open spaces not too many rules environment.  Where to draw the line between acceptable freedom of expression and what's over the line is not an exact science.  People that post here come from a variety of backgrounds and professions and life experiences (often with Buffalo origin in common) which makes for interesting exchanges.   More is better IMO.  More posters that is.  More points of view.

 

As for problem resolution and disciplinary action, If 2 people in particular are having a spat in PPP, maybe it would be best to simply tell them "you two work it out or I will."  Let them have that chance.   That can result in a better outcome than sending one or both packing.  Maybe you did that.  On the other hand if a single poster is mucking things up on a broader basis, that may have to be dealt with differently.  Quite possibly with everything else going on in your life you simply don't need the headaches that come with refereeing this.  Understandable.

 

Hopefully there will be a little more civility and substance within PPP going forward but fewer posters is not a plus in my view. 

 

Overall you should know that your contribution to the Bills community providing the entire TBD platform (including PPP and other subforums) is greatly appreciated by many many people and I hope at the very least in return you get a great deal of enjoyment and satisfaction for your time and effort and same for any others that contribute to administering this. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Teddy KGB]

36 minutes ago, shoshin said:

Dingdingding. He posted a bazillion times a day and was a relentless board bully and name caller. I’m sure in person he’s a good person but his internet persona was a firehouse of insults and he flipped off the site owner, a plan with predictable consequences. 

are you ever going to shut up or is this gonna be a thing ? 
 

you’re the billions are gonna die corona guy,  just stick with that 

Edited October 6, 2020 by Teddy KGB

[SDS]

3 minutes ago, westside2 said:

Tibs, come on man. You expect me to believe that? LOL!!!

I didn’t look at anything other than accounts that had the same origin. That was reason enough, so I stopped. 

[Westside]

2 minutes ago, SDS said:

I didn’t look at anything other than accounts that had the same origin. That was reason enough, so I stopped. 

I was just busting Tibs chops. lol

[shoshin]

4 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

 

you’re the billions are gonna die corona guy,  just stick with that 

Nope. I’ve been saying that we should never have shut down, except maybe NYC in the beginning. If you’re going to be strike out though, good to swing for the fences! 
 

[meazza]

52 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

And meazza vouched tibs wasn’t 1000% a troll 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

I didn’t say he wasn’t a troll I said he’s been here since the forever.  To quote dc tom, he may be an idiot but he’s our idiot.

[Teddy KGB]

1 hour ago, shoshin said:

Nope. I’ve been saying that we should never have shut down, except maybe NYC in the beginning. If you’re going to be strike out though, good to swing for the fences! 
 

Wow a liar too ? 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️
 

Blocked.   

56 minutes ago, meazza said:

I didn’t say he wasn’t a troll I said he’s been here since the forever.  To quote dc tom, he may be an idiot but he’s our idiot.

Whats the difference between him and Billstime ?   
 

 

Edited October 6, 2020 by Teddy KGB

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

What an interesting couple of days it’s been here.  First, my acknowledgement—I’m a fan of DRs, I read many of his posts and my instinct is to come to his defense.  I’ve never met him (nor anyone else unless one of you sick *&$#s knocked my books out of my hands and stepped on my hand with your stupid clogs in junior high 1975ish), agree with many of the things  he has posted about and have told him when I did not.  His response has typically been a thumbs up, or perhaps another post for clarity or consideration.  I’ve seen him repeat that pattern over and over and over with others.  
 

There has been a coordinated campaign to dig at the guy.  The cycle has been punch, swing, mock, mock, and repeat.  The stupidity meter spins constantly, with malice imo, and there are times he certainly responds forcefully and aggressively.  I personally think he should swing back less, not because he’s wrong about what he believes, but because when you care enough do the things he does, some folks will target you for some f’d up version of fun.  I don’t understand that mindset, seems like a waste of good human interaction, but people are who they are.  
 

I can’t speak to SDS’ reconnoiter of activity and back and forth but most certainly take him at his word.  For my friends here wondering about political nudging and targeting—I’m one of a handful of posters here (as I recall) who has acknowledged a life long affiliation with the R party, who acknowledged voting for DJT without having to come around to it from a liberal or even D leaning point of view, and have referred to DJT as a National Treasure on more than one occasion, only sometimes in jest.  
 

After taking a day or two to thin’ about it, I don’t see it.  I mean, I thought I did when Greg was suspended the first time, mostly because people take shots at him all the time.  Literally every damn post.  It seemed capricious and arbitrary to me. @Hedge with the longest joke in history as well (though I was thinking about banning you because I was getting vertigo scrolling through that post on my ipad).
 

On the whole, however, most all of us sling mud, most of my favorite posters certainly lean proTrump and we’re all still standing.  
 

I’ll leave others to debate “bullying” like it’s a middle school gym class, I’ll respect the position that SDS has outlined and the action taken up to this point.   That said, I’m a believer in compassionate justice.  I recognize from SDS point of view that I’m not lobbying for a second chance, in his mind it might be chance 3, 4 or 5.  Be that as it may, that’s my feedback—I’d like to see him back for all the reasons outlined previously.   
 

Hope you’re feeling better soon, Creator. 
 

In the meantime:

 

@Deranged Rhino

You’re my boy Blue. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2020 by leh-nerd skin-erd

[meazza]

13 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

Wow a liar too ? 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️
 

Blocked.   

Whats the difference between him and Billstime ?   
 

 

Billstime is more hateful than tibs.  

[Chef Jim]

9 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

 I’ve never met him (nor anyone else unless one of you sick *&$#s knocked my books out of my hands and stepped on my hand with your stupid clogs in junior high 1975ish),  

 

That was you?  Sorry man. 
 

Oh wait I started HS in 1975. That must have been some other dork.  Carry on. 

[BullBuchanan]

6 minutes ago, meazza said:

Billstime is more hateful than tibs.  

Every time someone from the alt-right calls another person hateful with a straight face, they should immediately win an academy award.

Here's yours ol' sport:

 

[Chef Jim]

8 minutes ago, meazza said:

Billstime is more hateful than tibs.  

I wouldn’t call him hateful as much as pathetically immature with all those repetitive childish memes. Have some creativity for God’s sake. 

Just now, BullBuchanan said:

Every time someone from the alt-right calls another person hateful with a straight face, they should immediately win an academy award.

Here's yours ol' sport:

 

@meazza alt-right??

 

😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣

[Teddy KGB]

Just now, BullBuchanan said:

Every time someone from the alt-right calls another person hateful with a straight face, they should immediately win an academy award.

Here's yours ol' sport:

 

can you name one “alt-righter” ? 
 

can you name one “racist, white supremacist” while you’re at it ? 
 

can you make one post that isn’t ooozing with horse ***** ? 

[Rob's House]

9 hours ago, SDS said:

I realized in my long rambling post that I did make it easy for people like I requested others make it easy for me/us. So, let me expand upon the recent events, that came after the "post in this topic to ***** on X", a 30 day suspension, multiple attempts to bypass it, and an ensuing PM pissing match upon return. This is what I was told to look at:

 

(My interpretation is that The Frankish Reich is being accused of making a duplicate topic. The response below.)

 

"

You know how you can tell an asshat from a good poster? "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758287
Thumbs up: Buffalo Gal, carpet crawler, dub, Dragoon

 

"

Liars gonna lie." Posted ####### meme
Link deleted

 

"

It's a special: "LOOK AT ME! I NEED ATTENTION" post by the board's newest chief Asshat.  It's fun to watch such a dumb man go through such lengths  to prove how incalculably dumb he truly is."

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758300

Thumbs up: dubs, Laughed: cinga

"

You could have put this in any number of threads. It would be just as forgettable and stupid in those threads as it would be on its own. But, the asshat would rather ***** up the board like a pelican because he's in desperate need for attention. It's funny to witness a grown man continually make an ass out of himself in public.  "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758321

 

"

You're so full of shite you can't even keep up with your own bullshite positions. Carry on being a dishonest asshat.  "
https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758354

 

"

That's unfair to ask. He's not even smart enough to realize the sky is blue. "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/227311-will-trump-be-healthy-enough-to-run-and-serve/?do=findComment&comment=6758385

 

Upon further investigation, I read this (In response to TFR's request to stop the name calling):

"

Nope. Don't think I will. I gave you weeks of civility, you wanted none of it. Now you just get the horns. Your choice, Frank. "

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/topic/191395-the-deep-state-war-heats-up-ph34r/?do=findComment&comment=6752991

 

 

 

I have looked over pages and pages and pages of posts by TFR and other than pushing back on positions, conspiracy theories and sometimes the general bent of PPP, I see absolutely nothing outside the normal back and forth of political talk that justified any of this on the heels on that suspension.

 

TFR's posting history (I apologize for pulling you into this):

 

https://www.twobillsdrive.com/community/profile/24239-the-frankish-reich/content/?type=forums_topic_post&change_section=1

 

Maybe I missed something. 🤷‍♂️

 

I also want to make it clear that TFR did not report anything. Another member did. So I ask:

 

1. What do I tell the member who reported the above and expresses to us that another member is facing unwarranted, repetitive abuse?

2. What am I supposed to do after reading the above after just going through this scenario with the reported member?

3. As this country becomes more polarized and as our discourse increasingly gets more extreme, why would I want this Buffalo Bills Community associated with the above (among other things)? A lot of people post anonymously here. I, however, am not (or at least it is the worst secret ever).

 

I want to note that, unless I missed it, friends of DR didn't exactly call for him to relax. Posters have responded that people here handle it themselves. So far I have failed to see where TFR needed to be handled like this. I do see DR needing to take a step back (IMO), but no advice was offered (unless it was done privately and he ignored it).

 

Edit: 

Oh, and one last thing… The PM ***** storm that I got pulled into had to do with DR continually accusing another member of child abuse, which DR continued to assert in PM.

 

Just additional information from my point of view.

 

 

I know we're beating this thing to death, but fwiw I would never have thought this was prohibited content in PPP.

 

I don't know about the child abuse part, but if it was toward Gary/Zebra it was probably warranted for the reasons stated previously.

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

6 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

That was you?  Sorry man. 
 

Oh wait I started HS in 1975. That must have been some other dork.  Carry on. 

Isn’t junior high part of the high school experience?  Jesus, maybe my parents held me back. 
 

It was 9th grade and come to think of it, the guy smelled like capers. 

[BullBuchanan]

5 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

can you name one “alt-righter” ? 
 

can you name one “racist, white supremacist” while you’re at it ? 
 

can you make one post that isn’t ooozing with horse ***** ? 

One?

This thread is a great place to start: 

 

[Teddy KGB]

Just now, BullBuchanan said:

One?

This thread is a great place to start: 

 

Names a hole.    Give me names. 

[TBBills]

Just now, Teddy KGB said:

Names a hole.    Give me names. 

See he not smart enough to see you gave him a list of names.

 

Click the link Teddy! Don't make yourself look foolish by asking again.