membengal Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Hello. You know who you are. I owe you no apology. I am not affiliated with the site. I am not a mod. I don't feel any particular need to protect your feelings, or be temperate to you. You are owed none of those things. This is a free country, but this board has rules. And, at this time, it might be worth all our time to review the unwritten ones.1. You are not God's gift to insight. EVERY single person on this board is well acquainted with the franchise's two decade run of futility. You are not telling us anything new when you recount the Dave Shula years, the Bruce Coslet years, or that Mike Brown is a bad owner. We know, we know, and we know. Nothing can be done to change the past. That said, there is NO reason to wallow in it, particularly in discussing a particular game. Either in the game thread or the aftermath. For better or worse, this year's team stands on its own right now. They make their own history. Either they add to the futility, or they take it a different direction (like the 2005 team did). But there is nothing to be gained from forcing us to eat your s**te when it comes to rolling around in how bad they have been. As our mods have said, clearly, there ARE sites for that. Go there. But don't bring it here. There is a time and a place for such discussion, of course, but what we have seen from a few of you is no appreciation for where that time and place is.2. You one issue trolls. Either accept that there is a complete picture with a particular player, which includes the bad AND the good, or don't expect civility. There IS room to discuss Carson Palmer's entire package of performance. I, in fact, am down with that in particular. He has disappointed me more than not over the last few years. But it is NOT cool to pretend that it is only bad with him. Yesterday, he was all sorts of good while also being all sorts of bad. And the good was good enough to get Cincy its first win at Lambeau, ever. It is not okay to pretend that didn't happen to further an agenda of hatred against a player. No one wants to read it. It is not a reality based attack. And it is improper. I have no issues with having a full discussion of Carson Palmer, but the starting point for a few of you is simply unacceptable. Nuance is a good thing.If you engage in behaviors one or two, as I have just outlined, I am NOT going to be kind to you. You do NOT get my respect, simply by being here. I will call you names. I will point out your intellectual deficiancies. I will enjoy doing so. I will lobby to get you run off the site. NOT because of the content of your statements, but because of your piss poor logic and your bent to ruin discussion. I will be relentless in so advocating. And, just so you know, there are PLENTY of long-standing posters who are relentlessly sharply critical of the Bengals who are NOT trolls. It is possible to be such a critic and have a home here. Shula Steak says "hey". But for some of you, you cannot hold Shula Steak's keyboard jock with your weak efforts to discuss. Why is that? Because Shula will acknowledge good when it occurs. Because he is capable of seeing more of the picture. Because I don't think he comes with an agenda.So there it is. My manifesto, if you will. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupaBran Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Wow! Good Lord, I don’t even know what to say to this! LOLWhat’s a Troll?Is this b/c of JoePong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekshank Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Wow! Good Lord, I don’t even know what to say to this! LOLWhat’s a Troll?Is this b/c of JoePong?Pong has his own little paragraph dedicated to him in that post... but it's not just him. It's been a bad few months for troll talk... and it is getting tiresome.I was promised that once the season started, the troll talk would fade because there would be actual football to discuss. In reality, more trolls have come to site and hijacked otherwise good threads.For whatever reason, this forum has always managed to avoid large quantities of these types, but it seems as if more are added daily. I don't take the same stance as Mem. I do my best to ignore them... but I understand his way of dealing with it. I agree that it is annoying as hell to have to sift through all the s**t they track through the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyline Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 I know where you're coming from, guys. I'm going to be monitoring the troll types more closely, but it's something we need to let the mods/admins handle. Anytime you feel the need to call for someone's head, feel free to drop me a PM. You'll get a sympathetic ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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