In defense of BBS

Taking an extreme position in response to someone else’s extreme position is not balance. But I don’t think that’s what happened in the Reggie story. I think BBS just staked out his own extreme position and then came down hard on the opposing extreme position.

It was another highly emotional opinion piece ending with schoolyard insults and thinly-veiled profanity (“sh*t”?? what could that possibly mean???). And yet DZ got banned even though his comments weren’t much different in tone, not even after BBS poked him with a sarcastic reply.

This is not a good start to the “community guidelines” era, with the site admin cracking down on someone he was directly arguing against.

BBS is trying, I believe that. But his Wayne article was inflammatory, his first comments were confrontational, and his shutdown of the topic was an over-reaction. I think he’s over-correcting the policing of other people’s words while under-correcting the moderating of his own.

These are growing pains that lots of communities go through. BBS isn’t a bad person and Stampede Blue is not going to hell in a handcart. But yeah, more work is needed.

It’s the same thing except one is complimentary and the other is disagreeing (without any personal attacks)…Just my opinion.

There was nothing in the other article that warranted a thread closure or warning, or whatever else may come from it. There seems to be a bit of a censorship problem going on here. “Agree with my opinion or GTFO” and I don’t agree with that one bit. If we are trying to build this blog and make it a fun environment for talk about our beloved Colts then EVERYONE needs to have an opinion. Not just the ones we pick and chose to agree with. As long as there is no personal attacks then why can’t we have different opinions? A sign of a health blog is debates. If we all agreed on ever single freaking issue, this place would be a total snooze fest.

I find it sad that the people being run off the regulars. People who spend A LOT of freaking time on this website. Some of which have been here since the beginning of this blog. I have not, been here but a little over a year, but I have enough comments, and spend enough time here to consider myself a regular. And quite honestly it’s getting ridiculous around here.

For the most part I agree with the things BBS says. But not every time. And I expect to be able to voice my opinion without fear of being warned or banned for having a different opinion than BBS or even a different opinion than the majority. NYK’s post followed the new “Community Guidelines” he didn’t take personal shots at anyone. He simply pointed out opinions of others and countered them with his own.

If you want a blog full of noob zombies who agree with every single thing said on the front page, so be it. Just keep doing what you your doing and you’ll have it in no time. But if you want a blog with healthy debate and discussion, then people need to be able to voice their uniquely different opinoins. Just my 2 cents….do with me what you will.

I’ll repeat this again, because some of you just aren’t listening:

When comments are locked on another thread, taking the same argument to a new thread or creating a FanPost specifically to continue said argument is akin to trolling. Once an article or FanPost’s comments are locked, discussion terminates.

If you have a comment on what Horseshoe_Tsunami wrote here, by all means comment. Discussion on NYKing’s thread is closed. In fact, the reason it was closed was because of some of the very things Horseshoe_Tsunami wrote.