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I am relatively new here. So I will just post a short observation: Since I joined a few months ago, I have noticed a significant improvement in the quality of the debate. I have seen a lot of "I respectfully disagree" posts, which tend to improve the tenor and substance of debate.

 

When I started posting here, I was afraid it was just the second coming of the BYTO site, from which I got banned for simply because I respectfully disagreed with the moderators, who routinely bullied people who disagreed with them. This time, it wasn't the moderators, but self-appointed experts who rejected opinions out of hand if they didn't agree with their own. I haven't seen that kind of behavior in weeks.

Yeah..I'm going to call b.s. on that one At BYTO we banned very few people and it certainly was never because someone who "respectfully disagreed" with anyone. Not that it really matters though and you are getting off topic...anyways back to epic meltdowns in message board history, who is next? Granny Baseball? Yarny?

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Please just drop this discussion about someone who is now a member of TD. We don't want to repeat history here.

He's not a member here....and if he is I suggest banning him on site, just ask Brock.

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It would be a fine and dandy thing if the folks here who can't let go of the past would create a site of their own where they can relive it ad infinitum. The rest of us who weren't involved with it thank you profusely.

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It would be a fine and dandy thing if the folks here who can't let go of the past would create a site of their own where they can relive it ad infinitum. The rest of us who weren't involved with it thank you profusely.

Yeah, shame on us for posting memories of an epic meltdown thread, I totally forgot that we were talking about it on every other thread besides this one...

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I personally wasn't a part of BYTO but reading that thread and seeing some of the characters... honestly that was pretty damn funny. My favorite part was that the guy claimed to call homeland security and the FBI :roll:

 

edit: also the sheer fact that some dude lost it over another guy commenting on a beatles' tribute band experience :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Yeah, shame on us for posting memories of an epic meltdown thread, I totally forgot that we were talking about it on every other thread besides this one...

 

 

The confusion is my fault. Somebody asked what happened and who got banned. I answered "Fro".... And made up a crazy story to be funny. Glunn misunderstood and thought Fro was really "itstimetotakeit". Moderated my joke right out of here, and posted the warning. Sorry guys, didn't mean to draw the attention of the authorities....

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This site is owned and moderated by some cool folks. Their standards for commenting are pretty, pretty lax. Everyone is free to disagree, snark is fine. Anybody that's been banned has been overwhelmingly negative or combative. They all seem to get warnings first. Usually a ban is for three freakin days.

 

How is this a problem? Our first-amendment rights are not being infringed upon, guys.

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The confusion is my fault. Somebody asked what happened and who got banned. I answered "Fro".... And made up a crazy story to be funny. Glunn misunderstood and thought Fro was really "itstimetotakeit". Moderated my joke right out of here, and posted the warning. Sorry guys, didn't mean to draw the attention of the authorities....

 

Oh ok, yeah when posts get deleted it ends up a bit confusing.

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I personally wasn't a part of BYTO but reading that thread and seeing some of the characters... honestly that was pretty damn funny. My favorite part was that the guy claimed to call homeland security and the FBI :roll:

 

edit: also the sheer fact that some dude lost it over another guy commenting on a beatles' tribute band experience :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

Oh man it only got better, he did a countdown of the 10 posters he "hated" the most and people got really excited/interested if they would be in the top 3 or not.

 

He then came back as a different name/new persona but everyone knew it was him but let it play out, sure enough about a month later he had another meltdown. It sounds childish but it was some of the most hilarious stuff I had ever read, and made "long days" just a little bit better.

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Yeah..I'm going to call b.s. on that one At BYTO we banned very few people and it certainly was never because someone who "respectfully disagreed" with anyone. Not that it really matters though and you are getting off topic...anyways back to epic meltdowns in message board history, who is next? Granny Baseball? Yarny?

 

Sorry, I got the acronyms mixed up. I was thinking about the DTFC. That was the one I was banned from.

 

FWIW, I did not write anything in that forum involving ad hominem arguments. My comments were purely about players. In particular, I got into a strong disagreement with a well-known troll over the Castro/Bartlett incident. It lasted for several months. At one point, I publicly walked away from the forum because I got tired of the moderators curbing my comments and supporting the troll.

 

I was also disgusted by a moderator who threatening to burn down Seth's house. When I briefly returned to make one comment, I was unceremoniously banned. I was perversely pleased when they shut the board down.

 

I am so glad we now have a forum that walks the fine line between letting discussions go and curbing ad hominem attacks.

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I am relatively new here. So I will just post a short observation: Since I joined a few months ago, I have noticed a significant improvement in the quality of the debate. I have seen a lot of "I respectfully disagree" posts, which tend to improve the tenor and substance of debate.

 

When I started posting here, I was afraid it was just the second coming of the BYTO site, from which I got banned for simply because I respectfully disagreed with the moderators, who routinely bullied people who disagreed with them. This time, it wasn't the moderators, but self-appointed experts who rejected opinions out of hand if they didn't agree with their own. I haven't seen that kind of behavior in weeks.

 

What is DTFC?

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Sorry, I got the acronyms mixed up. I was thinking about the DTFC. That was the one I was banned from.

 

FWIW, I did not write anything in that forum involving ad hominem arguments. My comments were purely about players. In particular, I got into a strong disagreement with a well-known troll over the Castro/Bartlett incident. It lasted for several months. At one point, I publicly walked away from the forum because I got tired of the moderators curbing my comments and supporting the troll.

 

I was also disgusted by a moderator who threatening to burn down Seth's house. When I briefly returned to make one comment, I was unceremoniously banned. I was perversely pleased when they shut the board down.

 

I am so glad we now have a forum that walks the fine line between letting discussions go and curbing ad hominem attacks.

 

That makes way more sense. A poster really had to go above and beyond to get the ban on BYTO. In six years, maybe ~15 people were banned from that site and I think I only banned 3-4 of them.

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It would be a fine and dandy thing if the folks here who can't let go of the past would create a site of their own where they can relive it ad infinitum. The rest of us who weren't involved with it thank you profusely.

 

What is the name of the person who forced you to read this thread?

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What is the name of the person who forced you to read this thread?

 

Oh, sorry, did I forget to ask permission first before expressing a thought? Excuuuuse me.

 

One thing the other two sites mentioned above have in common is that they're both gone now. I support and applaud the desire of the founders of this site to avoid the same fate.

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Oh, sorry, did I forget to ask permission first before expressing a thought? Excuuuuse me.

 

One thing the other two sites mentioned above have in common is that they're both gone now. I support and applaud the desire of the founders of this site to avoid the same fate.

 

Yeah, that's what I said. That you needed permission to post a thought. You know what's going on in here. If you're not interested, that's fine. There are dozens of other topics to read and post on.

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Yeah, that's what I said. That you needed permission to post a thought. You know what's going on in here. If you're not interested, that's fine. There are dozens of other topics to read and post on.

 

Yes, it's a thread about the moderation of this site.

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One thing the other two sites mentioned above have in common is that they're both gone now. I support and applaud the desire of the founders of this site to avoid the same fate.

 

Except that BYTO is "gone" in the same sense that Twins Geek, Seth Speaks, Nick's Twins Blog, and Over The Baggy is gone... Really, it just changed domains.

 

Whereas DTFC is gone, period.

 

Anyway, this isn't worth arguing about.

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Except that BYTO is "gone" in the same sense that Twins Geek, Seth Speaks, Nick's Twins Blog, and Over The Baggy is gone... Really, it just changed domains.

 

 

Whereas DTFC is gone, period.

 

 

Anyway, this isn't worth arguing about.

 

 

If anything has been proven to me during my short time so far on this board, it's that everything, EVERYTHING, is worth arguing about....

 

 

Which brings me to my thread about #24....

 

http://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-talk/5679-should-plouffe-give-bruno-24-a.html

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That thread is not very interesting, I would not recommend clicking on it.

Does anyone else still type in battleyourtailloff.com when they log onto TD? I can't quit you

 

Wow. Didn't even say it was interesting. Just that it's something very tame that is still likely to be argued about. I look forward to characterizing how interesting your posts are, however, and tip my cap to you for finding something else to argue about.

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