Trader Ed

As much as I read and sometmes post on this board... this had caught me a bit off guard. I have read all your posts in this thread and can see I must have missed a vital thread and occurance with it. It must have been simmering for a while now, and I was just to blind to see it.

I want you all to know I enjoy you. I believe we have quite a cast of people here, and have believed in life that a team is well run when all the parts come together and function independantly, knowing their role. A team model suits well for many things in life. A forum really is no different. We need to follow a structure and be consistant in it. Why? Well peopel are just people, and when 2 or more gather... there is a potential for a difference in opinion.



I would miss any of you leaving our little community for any length of time. Those of you who post more and are more frequently seen and read would be missed more since your a bigger contributor to our every day life on here. But I also appreciate those who participate when time allows or they see fit. We all have our opinions and likes and dislikes. Talking about them gives us a chance to learn and understand and to grow. Talking over time gives us an opportunity to remember others views, those discussions and respect them.



My hope is that we can overcome this. And let the Admin's take care of the guildelines. If we post at this site, we need to follow their rules and guidelines. One of the very reasons I am on this site and the other one is that the discussions are far more civil than on RealGM. I challenge you to go to that site for a couple of hours and work in an intelligent conversation. The language is terrible and it reminds me of the old OLive. This site is many moons above it due to the fact standards are in place and its expected to be kept clean. I applaud that standing up.

Keep up the good work on the site, and keep up the good discussions. I also hope we ALL will remain here. We can not achieve any understanding or continuity by moving from site to site every few months. Ther simply is not enough of them anyway...

Time is a wonderful allie,

Remember the first time you sank your first basket?
Remember when your team won the world championship for the first time?
Remember when you first struck out.... tried harder, improved, and then hit the game winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs in the all-star game?

Let loose...... be free..... smile be happy......

Let the bananas dance again!

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Terrible

Bonzi and L4L both need to go back to the House of Pain!

s a b a s 11

Yow.

Whats going on people!?

I am with Trader Bob, I must have missed a thread or two, I thought we were one big happy family especially after the Blazer party. I guess not so much.

Urgh... I hope y'all don't leave... Schilly, BO, HAP... although I don't post as much as others, it pains me to know that the best Blazer fans aren't all collected posting their thoughts in one forum.

Why such the drama over the last half-year? I remember posting happily on Fanhome for a very long time without any problems... we were consistently the most mature, considerate and intelligent board out there IMO. So what happened? Why the move? Why have people left BBB?

I think I am beginning to see the bigger picture over whats happened the last 6 months or so.

STuart

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Blazer Outsider, Schilly, and Hap.......I REALLY hope you don't leave. You're FAMILY, now, guys - not just some monikers on my pc!!!

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blazerfan4life

when i started at another site...(i know this isn't really about that)
alot of people were sayingcome here..it is a great site...and i said hey i am going to go where the BLAZERS fans are...so i came here
now if everyones is leaving then what...how am i going to pick the
brains of other blazers fan...not many here in WASH...(seems they like the SONICS...whatever)...lol...i know aga doesn't matter when it comes to things but having anyone less then 18 with the power to delete...move. (or whatever else MODS do)...thats wrong..(my thought only)....thats like have a 30 year old man and his dad is 15....(makes no sense)...i still go over to "the other site"
to do the prediction game that RIP startes(where is he BTW)...and to mess with the LAKER fans..(that has sense blew up in my face...now that they will go to the playoff...lol)...and anything else that makes me want to give me 2 cents...when i come here..i am at almost every posts...i read and if i am moved to i will say what i think...(like now).....the one thing i didn't and still don't like about the other site is they would just delete a post...(i started one...about basketball..and 2 days later it was gone..no explaining...nothing...that pissed me off)...if you don't like my post...tell me what i did wrong....don't treat me like a little kid...heck i am almost 34....so fix here what needs to be fixed...i don't want to go anywhere else.....


and sorry this was so long winded...not normally like that...just say my peace and then send....

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Crazy Fan From Idaho

1. I love this site and the posters.

2. I dislike the technical slowness of the other site, but love the posters.

3. I will continue to be at both sites, but likely will spend more time here just as I have already been doing. In other words nothing will change as far as my involvement.

4. I do not think minors should be mods. We are a community. As such, our community leaders should be adults.

5. I count Loyalty4Life as a friend. I hope he can be mature enough to see that the right thing to do here is to voluntarily step down as a mod (or accept that decision from the admins, if that is the case) for a couple of years, learn from this experience, and continue to contribute his unique views and optimistic perspective on the Blazers with no hard feelings.

I think he can.

6. I hope Outsider, Schilly, and Hap (and anyone else contemplating leaving) will stay here and continue contributing. This board and all of its remaining posters will be the losers if you decide to leave.

7. Our strength is in the number of highly insightful posters that call this board "home". Let's all show our maturity as a community in getting past this.

I know we can do that.

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CFFI:

I don't think I've ever read a more insightful, well put post that I've agreed more with. Thanks.

mook

I don't think age has much to do with it. You are either a good mod or you are not. There are plenty of good mods under 18.

I've been happy with what L4L has done, but then I don't generally get edited much so I don't know how he's handled it. I appreciate the job he does in making game threads and his willingness to do the contest.

Hopefully, he still feels welcome here whether a mod or not. He brings a lot of effort to this board.

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