Good Bye

[KCattheStripe]

Meh.

[GreenFaith1819]

I don't usually pay much mind to these "goodbye" threads, but Brick?  Wow!!! 

Brick you may not remember this, but you were the first poster I ever interacted with on this blog's forums, back in early 2007.  You were already a legend here back then, this blog will NOT be the same place without you.

Just went and read the first two pages of your "previous posts," it's right there in black & white, you have brought such a great perspective to this blog over the years.  Thank you Brick, very very sorry to see you go...

This is so odd..

Brick was one of the posters that I first interacted with as well..back in Oct09.

I remember it vividly---he was in a heated discussion with a few other posters about an issue dealing with Antoine Walker's Love of Chicken, of all things

Some of the threads lately dealing with politics have certainly been fiery, but these thoughts are just that - thoughts of the community here. I have certainly read them, and even wanted to comment on a few, but chose not to.

The Mods here I think face daily challenges - to provide a community to where we all can voice our opinions, but at the same time keep it sane enough to allow folks here to comment.

The Blog in itself is a reflection of society as a whole, I think, and the rules here present a level playing ground for all I suppose.

I came from 20 + years of rules - the U.S. Navy, so I know all about them. In the service, these rules many times were meant to keep us alive.

In any event, I wish you'd reconsider. But if you don't then God Bless you and I wish you the best.

[incoherent]

many say they are leaving but normally they come back, it's ok if you want to come back too I wont hold it against you

[wdleehi]

Never good to see a long time poster decide to leave, but if that poster feels that way, I don't blame him for leaving.



Of course part of me expects said poster to eventually return.  Most heavy posters do.  

[angryguy77]

I don't usually pay much mind to these "goodbye" threads, but Brick?  Wow!!! 

Brick you may not remember this, but you were the first poster I ever interacted with on this blog's forums, back in early 2007.  You were already a legend here back then, this blog will NOT be the same place without you.

Just went and read the first two pages of your "previous posts," it's right there in black & white, you have brought such a great perspective to this blog over the years.  Thank you Brick, very very sorry to see you go...

This is so odd..

Brick was one of the posters that I first interacted with as well..back in Oct09.

I remember it vividly---he was in a heated discussion with a few other posters about an issue dealing with Antoine Walker's Love of Chicken, of all things

Some of the threads lately dealing with politics have certainly been fiery, but these thoughts are just that - thoughts of the community here. I have certainly read them, and even wanted to comment on a few, but chose not to.

The Mods here I think face daily challenges - to provide a community to where we all can voice our opinions, but at the same time keep it sane enough to allow folks here to comment.

The Blog in itself is a reflection of society as a whole, I think, and the rules here present a level playing ground for all I suppose.

I came from 20 + years of rules - the U.S. Navy, so I know all about them. In the service, these rules many times were meant to keep us alive.

In any event, I wish you'd reconsider. But if you don't then God Bless you and I wish you the best.

I love the fact that they allow for political debates here. It makes the bolg so much more interesting. I don't know of any other sports blog that allows this and I want to say thanks to Jeff and all the others for providing a place were we can have discussions on impotnat matters.


What did you do in the Navy?

[Kwhit10]

Some people take the internet way to seriously.

[mobilija]

Can we establish a rule against threads like this?  They never really have a positive effect on the blog or community.

not a bad idea...

Let people vent and say their last words. Don't fight the anti-censorship crowd by censoring more.

I love this site for the information about the Celtics, contained fairly neatly in one place, but do sometimes feel conflicted about the need the site has to control the flow with ecessive rules.

Whatever, I enjoyed Brick's contrarian stance and thought he knew basketball pretty well, but I'll live...

[stoyko]

Brick, you will be missed. Let's hope you rejoin us for the Celtics' improbable run to Banner 18 .... hopefully in this calendar year!

[ACF]

Some people take the internet way to seriously.

This is what we (yes, I say we, because I take it seriously, too) hear every time. Why can't it be a serious thing?

Another thing: Every time a thread like this comes up, I feel like some people here are stroking the egos of the mods by saying stuff like "If you don't like it here, you can just leave" or whatever. You should be glad that people take CB seriously, it just means it's more than "the Internet".

This is not meant as a criticism towards any of the mods, I respect the job you do and after all it's Jeff's place and his rules. Sometimes I hate the rules but without the rules, this would be a chaotic place.

I hope you will be back, Brick. I didn't always agree with you but I liked most of what you had to say anyway.

[Kiorrik]

I've noticed this a few times now when someone puts up an I'm leaving thread - generally the other posters try to convince the person to reconsider, stay, come back (and sometimes they thankfully do) yet often times the mods say happy trails, come back if you want (not, please reconsider your leaving) it's subtle, but I'm wondering if it's part of policy or more just a personal feeling

Some people have a hard time saying "we'd really love to keep you here". You gotta respect that. Not that I'm saying you don't, but I just think it might be part of being a moderator for some; taking impartiality to the extreme maybe?

Anyway, you got a point, I just think it's a human thing.

Maybe look into it, mods :p

As Redz said, each mod can handle member goodbyes as they see fit.  I appreciate the feedback.  However, my personally philosophy is that I'm not going to ask somebody to come back if I don't mean it.  If I *do* mean it, I will ask members to stay, and I've done that several times.  However, those conversations are generally done via PMs (and most of the members who have left -- either permanently or on short leaves of absence -- have been people who have left without a public goodbye thread).

In the present case, I'm just not magnanimous enough to extend any more of an olive branch than the one I gave.  Honestly, after a member tries to paint me with a false brush on his way out the door, there's probably something worse I could have said than that he's a respected member who will be missed, and is welcome to come back.
 

Maybe that's another of the "public relations" things

Fair enough.

[More Banners]

What did you do in the Navy?

What happens in the Navy, stays in the Navy...
 

[Roy Hobbs]

Some people take the internet way to seriously.

This is what we (yes, I say we, because I take it seriously, too) hear every time. Why can't it be a serious thing?

Another thing: Every time a thread like this comes up, I feel like some people here are stroking the egos of the mods by saying stuff like "If you don't like it here, you can just leave" or whatever. You should be glad that people take CB seriously, it just means it's more than "the Internet".

This is not meant as a criticism towards any of the mods, I respect the job you do and after all it's Jeff's place and his rules. Sometimes I hate the rules but without the rules, this would be a chaotic place.

I hope you will be back, Brick. I didn't always agree with you but I liked most of what you had to say anyway.

From my perspective, I don't think people voice their opinion to "stroke the ego of the mods".  Rather, I think they say what they do because it's genuinely their opinion.  Obviously, reasonable minds can have differing opinions; just because somebody agrees with us doesn't mean that folks should doubt their motives.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Another thing: Every time a thread like this comes up, I feel like some people here are stroking the egos of the mods by saying stuff like "If you don't like it here, you can just leave" or whatever.

I don't understand what this has to do with the mods' egos or anything. Some people just simply dislike people who whine about how "unjust" they've been treated, about how everyone is against them, about how they're being censored, etc. And most of the time, they've either been on the wrong or had it coming.

You know, if I'd thought the person complaining had some legitimacy to his claims, etc. I would sympathize with his complaints and on how he was treated. But I've yet to see the case were this is so when grievances are made public like this, and certainly this case is one of those where the member was in the wrong by breaking the rules and not heeding to the continuous warnings he had been given by numerous people.

It's just needless drama, and for those that feel the need to do an "rage exit" type of thing, I really feel no sympathy because it's disruptive and I find that drama as having zero business in a forum. But hey, in the end of the day it's a bit of fun talking trash openly.

If I were the mods of this place, I would've locked, banned the person, and deleted this thread from the get-go, particularly since he was attacking some of the mods personally. But that just me. I think it says something about the mods that they've let it stand as is. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, well each will have their opinions. I think I've mentioned enough times my personal feelings on these types of matters, and they're not in accordance to the feelings of the mods.

So if you can, because I'm curious, what does this have to do with the ego of the mods? Or did I misunderstand?

[KCattheStripe]

Some people take the internet way to seriously.

This is what we (yes, I say we, because I take it seriously, too) hear every time. Why can't it be a serious thing?

Another thing: Every time a thread like this comes up, I feel like some people here are stroking the egos of the mods by saying stuff like "If you don't like it here, you can just leave" or whatever. You should be glad that people take CB seriously, it just means it's more than "the Internet".

This is not meant as a criticism towards any of the mods, I respect the job you do and after all it's Jeff's place and his rules. Sometimes I hate the rules but without the rules, this would be a chaotic place.

I hope you will be back, Brick. I didn't always agree with you but I liked most of what you had to say anyway.

From my perspective, I don't think people voice their opinion to "stroke the ego of the mods".  Rather, I think they say what they do because it's genuinely their opinion.  Obviously, reasonable minds can have differing opinions; just because somebody agrees with us doesn't mean that folks should doubt their motives.

That being said, Roy Hobbs is such a swell guy.

[GreenFaith1819]

I don't usually pay much mind to these "goodbye" threads, but Brick?  Wow!!! 

Brick you may not remember this, but you were the first poster I ever interacted with on this blog's forums, back in early 2007.  You were already a legend here back then, this blog will NOT be the same place without you.

Just went and read the first two pages of your "previous posts," it's right there in black & white, you have brought such a great perspective to this blog over the years.  Thank you Brick, very very sorry to see you go...

This is so odd..

Brick was one of the posters that I first interacted with as well..back in Oct09.

I remember it vividly---he was in a heated discussion with a few other posters about an issue dealing with Antoine Walker's Love of Chicken, of all things

Some of the threads lately dealing with politics have certainly been fiery, but these thoughts are just that - thoughts of the community here. I have certainly read them, and even wanted to comment on a few, but chose not to.

The Mods here I think face daily challenges - to provide a community to where we all can voice our opinions, but at the same time keep it sane enough to allow folks here to comment.

The Blog in itself is a reflection of society as a whole, I think, and the rules here present a level playing ground for all I suppose.

I came from 20 + years of rules - the U.S. Navy, so I know all about them. In the service, these rules many times were meant to keep us alive.

In any event, I wish you'd reconsider. But if you don't then God Bless you and I wish you the best.

I love the fact that they allow for political debates here. It makes the bolg so much more interesting. I don't know of any other sports blog that allows this and I want to say thanks to Jeff and all the others for providing a place were we can have discussions on impotnat matters.


What did you do in the Navy?

My bad wasn't blowing you off, something came up.

Operations Specialist..dealt with monitoring radar, some of us controlled aircraft..some managed data bases in support of exercises.  Official Job description: To collect, process, display, and dissiminate Combat Information.