Piston Fan shows up before the series and talks a lot of smack. Then starts edging towards the door after Game 1, bolts out the door after Game 2, and then barges back in after Game 3.
Weak.
What's weak is making a mass generalization that is WRONG. For every Piston fan that started to disappear after Game 2, there's a Spur fan that is calling for someone's head, jumping off the bandwagon, and turning their back on the team.
THAT is weak.
I think Sparky is talking about "Piston Fan" the poster, not any Pistons Fan.
Oh.
Well, damn.
Excellent post except for the "if I want I can ban the whole state of Michigan" A rather childish threat and IMO a knee-jerk response to the Spurs being dominated in game 3. If the post are way out of line ban those that initiated them, don't threaten all Pistons fans (by the way, I live in Ohio and I'm sure there are Piston fans in every state).
2 thumbs up to all of the board members who can trade barbs in a good natured way and carry on intelligent conversation about basketball and laugh at themselves when their teams lose. (the majority of posters)
2 thumbs down to members whose posts ar laced with vulgar, racist, demeaning profanity laced diatribes, that have no redeeming value whatsoever (a few losers)
Not really. Kori is nothing but objective. She has the right to run her board her way and she does a good job. Another board (which shall remain nameless but its a Spurs board and they Report anyone they don't like) would have banned all the Pistons fans just because they were Pistons fans. The only thing that is childish is you calling the owner of the board out for wanting to run her site the way she sees fit.A rather childish threat and IMO a knee-jerk response to the Spurs being dominated in game 3.
Sam, I see your point, but I also see his point.
It's one thing to run a board, and it's another to talk trash. There's a fine line between both. I don't think that she meant the original post to be a threat, but it did kind of come off that way.
I'm from the line of thinking of 'whoever pays makes the rules', so I'm in total agreement with that. But in the same vein, if you're willing to make a post challenging Piston fans from a 'fans' perspective, the other fans should have the same right to rebutt, regardless of ownership of the boards.
I think she got her point across. None of us Piston fans are debating that there are trolls among us, and we're just as willing to see them go away as you.
I agree but my point was that if she wants to post threats of banning, she has that right.It's one thing to run a board, and it's another to talk trash. There's a fine line between both. I don't think that she meant the original post to be a threat, but it did kind of come off that way.
When 80 of you show up before the series and 2 were left after Game 2 it is quite appropriate to call out Piston Fan in here for that.
Of course there was some venting by Spurs fans in this, a Spurs fan forum, after last night's game. It's our house. Don't tell us what we can and cannot do.
Agreed, but it was followed with a 'bring it', which implied challening the Piston fan. I don't want to debate it though, because it seems we're on the same page here.
The only person I would say this applies to is the person who pays for the website.
The moment you put your opinion on a website that is made for the public, you lose that right of 'don't tell me what to do'. That's a very childish approach.
This isn't your 'home'. I'm as much a member to the site as you are. I'm sure you've got a stronger case than that.
Show me someone that is totally objective and I'll show you someone that is totally boring.
Kori wasn't called childish, just that particular sentence. If you can bring yourself to read my entire post I started it out by saying "an excellent post"
What's childish/shortsighted, is commenting on one portion of someones post while ignoring it's overall intent.
I totally agreed with Kori's main point and I'm guessing that she wouldn't be troubled by me giving an "IMO".
Actually, this is our house. Don't tell us what we can and cannot do.
I don't think it's possible for you to be more mistaken.
Ok, you win. Superior argument.
At my house, I'm in charge and I have my wife's permission to say so.
LOL, as being someone who has been married just over 6 weeks, I had to laugh at this. So true, so true...
Maybe you should read my entire post. I didn't say YOU were childish, I just thought the idea of calling her out was.Kori wasn't called childish, just that particular sentence. If you can bring yourself to read my entire post I started it out by saying "an excellent post"
You were giving your opinion, and I was responding with mine....or is just your opinion the one that matters.
I don't think it's possible for you to be more mistaken.
How's this one: 'being anal retentive about smack on a fan forum discussion forum is lame.'
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Yep, just mine
I will go this far...all opinions are...opinions.
Same in my house, nobody tell me when to do the dishes, I do 'em when I'm good and ready.
I agree w/you on that other SPURS board. They REPORT you for any little thing. They should put Homers Only in their agreement.
stonic youth - Thiis thread wasn't addressed to you. It was addressed to the PISTONS TROLLS that were on the board last night -- not every Pistons fan who has ever posted here. If you ask your fellow Pistons fans, I've been nothing but cool to them.
So just check yourself. You made yourself look like a total ass by your post. So maybe you do belong in the troll category, I don't know.
Last edited by Kori Ellis; 06-15-2005 at 12:06 PM.
It shouldn't have even come off that way. It should have come off that if I didn't want you guys here, I would have just banned each of you as you showed up. But I don't play that way.I don't think that she meant the original post to be a threat, but it did kind of come off that way.
It wasn't a threat of banning. It was saying that I don't ban people very often. This board is probably the most liberally moderated busy basketball board on the net.
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