no more bashing and personal attacks
- Thread starter MadJack
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Looks like a month of silence treatment :scared
Hope youu won some cash to buy her off :00hour
Jack,
I have been on this forum for a long time, although we have never met personally as I have only met a few, I feel that any "relationship" or whatever you want to call it that spans 6 or more years has some credibility both ways. I have been bashed and bashed guys like Kosar, who I truly like now, Agent, with the same results, saint, hell the list goes on and on, but never AR182 or ripken. Point is this, there are many strong personalities involved in your business venture, which is exactly what this is for you and a damn fine one at that. You have maintained a fantastic website for as long as I can remember and still do this. Things and postings have changed lately. More specifically the bashings have changed, people now have moved into areas such as FAMILY members, wives, and a number of other areas that I would venture to say that none would have the nuts to say aloud in the presence of each others company. That is not something you can control, lack of personal integrity is not something that you can simply ban. BTJ is an example, while I understand that the entity that is BTJ is completely moronic, childish and downright offensive at times.........I know him, I am used to him and blow him off. Some of the newer members do not know of his past and think shit like that is ok? Agreed it is a personal decision in how you want to carry yourself on a public forum and I have been known to make my "economy of sobriety" rants and posts from time to time but I have never asked for someones head simply because of something they said. I did e-mail admin one time asking a thread I started be closed and transferred to the dumpster because it became hurtful, more specifically it questioned not only my integrity which has never been in question from anybody in my entire life but it also made light and a friggin joke out of family members that I unfortunately lost. That type of thing is never appropriate in any public or private forum. My concerns were summarily dismissed by admin and the thread is still in existence today. That is only my personal experience. Other threads such as what do you think of agent and crap like that is ridiculous and childish while pictures posted of you falliing asleep at the SB party are perfectly fair game and I agree with that. Kosars sleeping habits are rather hysterical at times as well as Kosar himself, but do you not see the difference in a 'Kosar type slam' and one that is driven at anothers personal life that none of us know nothing about? Jay, or Intense Operator, has left. If I recall he was in the top ten to fifteen of popular posters here if we used the rep points as a barometer, hell I was, along with Happy Hippo, yourself and penguinFan, I believe I am not sure, and of course IE were in the top five. I completely realize that they meant absolutely nothing and were meaningless however many of those long time posters are leaving or have left. I would be lying to you if I were to say that I have not been seriously leaning towards leaving myself over the past few months. I know that means nothing to most, I am not trying to make idiotic childish threats or take my ball and go home or whatever. I am simply saying that this has become an unwelcome and entirely exhausting chore to post on here anymore and I don't even use the damn other forums.............. General only for the most part for some time now, and as I am sure many will recall I used to post my picks on here in the Hockey, Baseball, and every other forum in this place. I don't recall having these problems back them. You have a few bad seeds on here that relish in making things miserable for others. Some of those 'others' are your longest tenured posters here my friend and it is my observation that those are the ones leaving. If you are going to toughen your stance now then get smooth after it, I hope that it works out for you and you enjoy continued success, you're a good guy as far as I can tell, but for me, it just doesn't work. I really have had it to be honest with you and that really bothers me because it used to be so friggin funny to visit the general and read some of the incredibly insightful and witty responses that preregrinated the entire forum. Now it is about calling names, which I am most assuredly guilty of, and addressing personal attacks on the other members, Maybe I am getting old, never too old to post and incredibly long winded post obviously, but I just don't need it anymore. Maybe if I had been given even a slight bit of consideration when I expressed my concerns about the death of my family members being made into a joke, I mean any at all, then maybe things would be different. A reply would have at least been something but I didn't even command that apparently. While I know that this post will be higly scrutinized and all that, hell I wouldn't be surprised if someone even goes back and re-quotes the damn thing for chrissakes just to be a miserable person, I dont care. After 7 or 8 years of posting here and making some contribution to it I hope, I have to say that I think this post will be my last. This is not an indictment of you or your website, I will truly miss it and may lurk a bit to wean myself off and to collect just a few e-mail addys of some of those people that I would like to stay in touch with, yourself included and would love to come to your SB party sometime, but it just isn't worth it anymore Jack to be brutally honest. When guys the ilk of our water absorbing friend can go on and on and over the period of just a few short weeks be allowed to make some the absolutely absurd posts that he has to your posters, to sink to the level that he and others have lately is just a bit more playground than I am willing to try to combat anymore. I know that in the grand scheme of things it will mean nothing and am not looking for any replies whatsoever to the contrary or whatever. I more or less wanted, you specifically, as well as some of the people I really enjoy on here, to be clear and remove any speculation that I was run off or made any rash decisions. I have made some fantastic 'Internet buds' on here and hope that we can continue to communicate in the future, but I guess shit just wears you out after a while. Well, at least I haven't changed, my posts are still entirely too long winded and wordy so I will let you go. Take care and good luck to all,
Hope this helps,
FDC
who is this you're referring to? :shrug:
also, all emails get answered around here. all of them. please forward the email that went unanswered.
thanks
jack@madjacksports.com
Fatdaddy ... Hope to hear from you from time to time. Keep in touch w/ Jack and lets try to plan a trip to one of the boats nearby. The Superbowl party is a blast..... try to make it. Good luck with everything my friend and if you reconsider and keep posting well thats even better ! :mj13: :mj13: :walk: :mj23: :toast:
Ravens suck loser....................................
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gl and just busting balls
you sent to me and admin at 356am and i replied at 633am. i know i didn't send a long winded reply but i told you i moved the thread. i was still waking up, i guess, and thought i answered you properly.
water absorbing friend.......usually a sponge absorbs water but that's just my take on it.
no opinion or care.
go dodgers with torre.
I don't want to tell you how to run your operation, but I've been shunned in the past with ideas about a chess handicapping forum, but with Torre the new manager of the dodgers, perhaps a Dodger handicapping forum of which I would of course moderate with a whip.
gl
This is all getting way too serious. I didnt realize this had become such an issue, hell I didnt even realize people were leaving the forum over this stuff.
I have been guilty of getting sucked into some 'personal' battles, just 1 or 2, but I didnt think it was causing such a disturbance.
I agree that a 0 tolerance policy for this stuff in the capping forums is the way to go. As for the general I think it should be somewhat less stringent, but obviously within reason.
Just my 2 cents.
I will do my best to keep it clean! :SIB
I have been guilty of getting sucked into some 'personal' battles, just 1 or 2, but I didnt think it was causing such a disturbance.
I agree that a 0 tolerance policy for this stuff in the capping forums is the way to go. As for the general I think it should be somewhat less stringent, but obviously within reason.
Just my 2 cents.
I will do my best to keep it clean! :SIB
That would be me. That was the purpose of his post. It took a while but i knew my name was coming. So far, under these new rules which i have respected i have gotten slam three times and another guy feels a need to try to break me down by trying to post personal info which is still up. Like usual i let these things roll till about three or four times and then i say something an then all hell breaks lose. Im such a rotten person that i have made a pretty decent amount of friends here in a little over a year. Friends that you Jack have met and are your friends too. Why is it that these friends have no problem with me? I know i have the biggest target on my back and if i cross the line one time i most likely will be made a scapegoat in all of this but that is life. I will leave with this. People who ask you to ban others are not your friend. A friend wouldn't put you in this very uncomfortable position. I think for your sake i will stay out of the discussion thread and just talk sports. If you want me to leave just drop me an email and like the new rules it will be respected.
Who knew a Sponge could act as such a lightening rod.
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Never carry one during a storm. :shocked:
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Never carry one during a storm. :shocked:
