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  • countryboy
    Growing pains
    • Sep 2003
    • 52895
    #31
    Re: Just a Thought

    at the time of the infraction...no it wasn't.
    I can't shave with my eyes closed, meaning each day I have to look at myself in the mirror and respect who I see.

    I miss the old days of Operation Sports :(


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      • Pokes
        Bearer of the curse
        • Jul 2002
        • 4538
        #32
        Re: Just a Thought

        Originally posted by countryboy
        at the time of the infraction...no it wasn't.
        I remember looking at that link.
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          • Cusefan
            Earlwolfx on XBL
            • Oct 2003
            • 9820
            #33
            Re: Just a Thought

            Originally posted by TexanWolverine
            I remember looking at that link.
            Dont look at it! it will corrupt your soul with evil marmalade.
            My dog's butt smells like cookies

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              • CMH
                Making you famous
                • Oct 2002
                • 26203
                #34
                Re: Just a Thought

                Originally posted by wwharton

                I guess my thought is, in addition to locking for the reasons described above, the posters should still get carded... red or yellow, whatever. I think everyone knows the type of threads that have the potential to get ugly and should be working harder to keep it open by staying on topic and within the TOS.
                Some new guys won't know, however.

                The TOS specifically says not to talk about politics or religion, but there are topics that bleed into the gray. You can start a thread about the oil spill and it's not necessarily political. But, we all know it will turn out that way. A new guy might not understand that about forums, so I'm not sure I would feel comfortable handing out an infraction because they started that thread.

                Now, if the person starts an offensive thread with intent to cause an issue, that thread gets closed (deleted if it shouldn't be seen at all) and the individual is carded. So it does happen if it should.
                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                  • wwharton
                    *ll St*r
                    • Aug 2002
                    • 26949
                    #35
                    Re: Just a Thought

                    Originally posted by YankeePride
                    Some new guys won't know, however.

                    The TOS specifically says not to talk about politics or religion, but there are topics that bleed into the gray. You can start a thread about the oil spill and it's not necessarily political. But, we all know it will turn out that way. A new guy might not understand that about forums, so I'm not sure I would feel comfortable handing out an infraction because they started that thread.

                    Now, if the person starts an offensive thread with intent to cause an issue, that thread gets closed (deleted if it shouldn't be seen at all) and the individual is carded. So it does happen if it should.
                    I don't really mean starting threads so much as making a post that turns one of those threads into a problem. I'm also not concerned with new people not knowing. I know it's common not to read things like the TOS when registering but that doesn't make it acceptable. I don't think people should get banned, but they should learn that the behavior is unacceptable. Locking threads they didn't create and not punishing them for actually causing the thread to get locked doesn't really teach them not to continue doing it. It just punishes everyone else who has been following the TOS in those threads.

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                      • CMH
                        Making you famous
                        • Oct 2002
                        • 26203
                        #36
                        Re: Just a Thought

                        Ah, we're talking about two different things then. Yes, I get what you're saying.
                        "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                        "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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