From my perspective, it looks like an uninformed poster trying to stir up trouble because he still holds a grudge. Pretty disappointing, especially when he's so ignorant of the facts.
Correct on all counts except the grudge. Like I said, I've stayed away from these threads, so I'll gladly admit my ignorance. I'm not trying to stir up trouble, it's just disappointing that one player was actually banned from the forums for something in a game...a game...that I thought was a problem, too, the problem being the lack of discussion about the decisions.
I appreciate you telling me a little bit more of the facts. As an ignorant person, I've realized that telling facts helps to reduce ignorance more than just talking down to ignorant people. You said look at the thread, so I looked at the thread. The rule it seemed he was breaking was posting the same thing repeatedly. I only meant to make a connection between the breaking of that rule and the problem I saw. The rest was ranting, there is disappointment on my part, but no grudge. I just would have hoped that something would have been done after my instance and before LarBrd33s to fix the problem.
Sorry for the interruption.
It's the policy of the staff not to publicly discuss the details of members' discipline, which is why I didn't provide a full accounting of the suspension (which was not a "ban"). Those details are between the suspended member and the staff, and we tend to keep them quiet not because we have anything to hide, but out of respect to the suspended (or in some cases, banned) member. I see no reason to deviate from that policy, even though the suspended member has seen fit to misrepresent what happened to others of our members. I would simply caution you that his set of facts is woefully incomplete, and that obviously, not every offending action is still visible in the forums. We tend to delete inappropriate material, and we do much of our communicating via private messages, neither of which are currently visible to the public.
I do want to respond directly to the "it's a game thing". Yes, this draft is a game. It's for fun. Celticsblog, in general, is about a game, and is also for fun. We're not discussing ways to save the world here; this site is designed to be a place where people can come and have fun discussing basketball. It's really all pretty trivial. However, we have rules, and those rules apply to every thread on this website. Members can't violate those rules, simply because they deem one thread to be less serious than others.
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