MARIS61

Hap, in addition to your strange take on my recent post in another thread and your immediate deletion of said post, your past PM lambasting me for my previous use of *'s to replace the spelling of a 3 letter version of a mule puzzles me since you regularly resort to said use of *'s to mask "profanity" (see above quote).

Please do not consider this an attack on or a criticism of admins/mods in any way.

It is not meant to be.

I am just having trouble figuring out which rules apply to who and how to post without being threatened with banning every time I attempt to express my opinion.

I will continue to follow your posts for guidance.

GO BLAZESR!

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Dan

do you not know that there is a filter system on bbb.net?

so when you spell out certain words (I think the list is about 10 words), there's *'s in place of the words?

That is allowed. Infact, that is what they want you to do. They don't want you masking swear words (which means, exchanging a letter in a swear word/inappropriate word, with another character on your keyboard.).

It's not me who's "masking" the profanity with *'s, thats the system set in place. And thats not masking them, thats automatically censoring them.

again, me (or anyone else) typing profanity that comes out as "****" is not masked swearing. And you have been told the reasons why you have been edited or censored.

being snide about the situation doesn't help. Reading up on the guidelines and rules does.

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MARIS61

Okay, now my head is spinning.

Not snide. Sincere.

Simply put, it's okay if I swear, (although I never post profanity. Not a prude, it's just not my style), but not okay if I simply imply that I'm swearing (by "masking" the word)?

I'm not interested in the why's and wherefore's, just if that is an accurate interpretation of the rules.

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Ed O

This is accurate. Because people can be creative with their uses of alternate characters (allowing them to fake-spell words that are not allowed) the site has a no-masking policy. This includes inserting alternate keystrokes to leave an otherwise disallowed word relatively intact.

As Hap noted, when the system automatically changes a word to all asterisks, this is not considered masking.

For the three letter word that you mentioned in a previous post: I am not sure why it's in the auto-edit list. The word is a bit crude but considering that it's the name of an animal and not just another term for a backside, it definitely (IMO) should not be.

Ed O.

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MARIS61

Thanks, guys, for clearing that up for me.

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KingSpeed

Yo, the bottom line is that Sheed is a champion, he has been a BIGTIME leader for his team, inspiring them to a Game 2 win vs the Pacers win a GUARANTEE, dominating Game 4 of the Finals (and leading them in blocked shots for the entired FInals), and THEN when they won the title, EVERY SINGLE PLAYER AND THE COACH says that it was "when they got Sheed," that they believed they would win the title. And then, he unselfishly bought them all GOLD CHAMPIONSHIP BELTS, which was a great gift to his teammates and was a FANTASTIC move on his part to promote team unity. He made their championship celebration EXTRA SPECIAL. And THEN.... he went out there and scored 11 of his team high 24 points in the 4th qtr to make sure that the TEAM and the FANS weren't let down as often happens on ring night.

All of this... and he's doing it for 9 million, which is a bargain by today's standards.

If you still hate Sheed, then you hate greatness. If you don't wish that Sheed was buying the BLAZERS championship belts and leading the BLAZERS to victory on ring night, then you have lost sight of the purpose of the game of basketball: to win.

Scout226

Are you SERIOUS? Sheed a leader? Linking Sheed with greatness?

I can understand people liking a lot of the things Sheed does on the court. I also like his raw talent on the court and what he can bring to his team if he wants. But to call Sheed a leader or having greatnes.. Well, that makes me want to...

The one thing Sheed is, is a great role player.

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Ed O

I don't know if Sheed is "great" (I try to use that term sparingly) but he's a heck of a lot more than a great role player.

He's a very, very good defender. He's a good perimeter shooter and excellent on the blocks. He's 100% unselfish. He's supportive of his teammates and is a leader.

Those things, in spite of whatever other failings he might have, add up to a very good player.

He'll probably make the all-star team again this year. He's got a chance to emerge as the Pistons' best player.

How will Rasheed's career of success be written off then?

Ed o.

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jackiejackal

This makes me sick to hear someone wetting themselves over
this guy

"If you still hate Sheed, then you hate greatness. If you don't wish that Sheed was buying the BLAZERS championship belts and leading the BLAZERS to victory on ring night, then you have lost sight of the purpose of the game of basketball: to win."

Really??

Funny,I don't share your thought at all on his greatness.
Hummm,he had 8 years here and I don't remember anyone using
those grandiose words about him.

He just didn't want to waste the time or the energy here in
Portland??

By the way,how did you view his sour attitude at ring night??
The guy was very lucky to go to a team where he was a team
member,and not the saviour you make him out to be.
I would have thought he would have been a bit more gracious.

I wouldn't have even talked of the guy unless I see something like your post.
It gagged me.

Talkhard

This is proof that you do not understand the game of basketball, or even what constitutes "greatness" in the world of sports.

Great players lead by example. They play hard all the time, they keep a cool head under pressure, they come through in the clutch, and they make their teammates better. In short, a great player puts a team on his back and leads it to victory through his talent and determination.

Wallace has never done this. Period.

We can all point to a few games where he hit the winning shot, or had a big fourth quarter, or an important block, but most of the time he was content to coast along and follow other players. He never applied his enormous talent to becoming a great rebounder, and he preferred to throw up 3-pointers rather than battle under the boards. He could go a whole quarter without doing anything, and it didn't bother him at all. That's not greatness.

Wallace only won a title in Detroit because that team already had leaders in place. Wallace simply became a key cog in the machine.

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STOMP

opps

KingSpeed

You haters just don't get it.

EVERY PLAYER ON HIS TEAM said that the moment they believed they would win the title was when they "got Sheed."

Role players don't lead a team in FOUR CRUCIAL CATEGORIES in a pivotal NBA Finals game.

If you think Sheed is great, if you think he's not a leader, if you think he's just a "role player" like Fox or Perdue.....

you are IN DENIAL.

Go Blazers

Talkhard

Okay, HAP, I'll take your word for it. And thank you.

I find it interesting that STOMP worded his accusation against me in such a way that it wouldn't get deleted. He knows that racial accusations against other posters are forbidden, so he made the charge indirectly.

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