What is this, Communist Russia?

What is this, Communist Russia?

Been to Washington, lately?

Huh?

Huh?

Someone bumped an old Nick hot take on Buxton in the main forum and now it's gone. I was just making a little joke.

Someone bumped an old Nick hot take on Buxton in the main forum and now it's gone. I was just making a little joke.

The thread is still there, but without the new comments.

http://twinsdaily.com/topic/23497-article-buxton-stalls-out-again/

 

I, personally, like to look back at threads like that to remind myself how things change in baseball, how players progress or regress, become stars, fizzle out, etc. But with all the current threads ongoing on Buxton, there didn't seem a need to bump that up.

The thread is still there, but without the new comments.

http://twinsdaily.com/topic/23497-article-buxton-stalls-out-again/

 

I, personally, like to look back at threads like that to remind myself how things change in baseball, how players progress or regress, become stars, fizzle out, etc. But with all the current threads ongoing on Buxton, there didn't seem a need to bump that up.

Probably a wise move, and for good reason.

Someone bumped an old Nick hot take on Buxton in the main forum and now it's gone. I was just making a little joke.

I removed a couple of "bump" posts from old "Buxton is a bust" threads. I don't remember them being a Nick thread, so maybe there were three or more. Apparently great minds all think alike.

 

They had the potential of coming across as gloating. "A little joke", at other people's expense unfortunately. In the case of Nick's article, he can take a little heat, as one of the owners of the site, but the posters who piped up in response on one side of the discussion or the other don't deserve it.

 

If someone bumps up one of their own "Buston" posts for a humorous spin, I would probably feel differently.

 

Dredging up old opinions also has the effect of saying "don't bother to listen to this poster, who has been wrong before." People try to do that in threads frequently, basically a lazy form of argument instead of sticking to a present topic and rebutting a mistaken view. All that does is raise tensions. And we all are mistaken now and then, so if unchecked it becomes a scorched earth policy on all sides.

 

Anyway I informed the poster of the first such instance; I may have gotten tired of it and failed to repeat the effort the next time. And I'll be honest, the above rationale is after the fact - when I saw them I just said to myself, "um, no."