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- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
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Me too.
Mea culpa time:
I probably got this started off yesterday when OP commented about how Twitter polls were lazy journalism or what have you. He had a point, but me knowing he's a conservative and me not being the biggest fan of Drumpf I decided to poke the bear a little and bring up how the president uses twitter so that must mean Twitter must be a little important. I made no statement at the time my opinion on our current president, just pointing out that he uses it.
I could've found a better way. I poured lighter fluid on a lit match and the rest is history and this thread. I apologize for being snarky and taking it to politics. I did it again this afternoon, and OP complained about me being off-topic when he previously had an off-topic comment deleted. in full transparency I deleted all my off-topic comments w/r/t aforementioned subjects since his was as well. Again, sorry about that one...could've handled it better. I like pushing buttons in real life and on the board. Ask @WCDawg as he's been a target of mine for a while.
I should pick my spots going forward and will do what I can not to bring up politics on this board.
For a few downvotes down, you can rent that space interest free!
@Kasey and everyone on the forum. I got no problem with anything posted here on the forum. It was just a comment for comment sake. Nothing negative behind it at all. You will never hear a complaint from me about the board. It's not place to do so. If I slip, feel free to call my hand on it. Have fun, Go Dawgs
In fact, most of my posts are bs . Take them that way and run with it. I can take alot of ribbing. Believe me I'm used to it
I had one lined up recently that would have been very clever/humorous, not a stretch as to context, and easily interpreted as non-political, but would have not been taken as such by (perhaps) the majority of this forum. So, I didn't launch it.
I often bite my tongue/fingers due to some who are not as judicious and slip a brief political swipe in. Makes me angry that they get away with it. My restraint has limits and I have Report-ed comments as "Politics". Some have been removed to the credit of the mods.
The forum is far better by leaving politics at the archway. The best approach is not to culpa in the first place.
I agree, Twitter is certainly not the most scientific polling structure out there, and so polls done electronically are described as "unscientific." That said, I still find internet polls and Twitter polls interesting, even if we do have to build in a margin for error.
I appreciate this data, Bankwalker -- information is always a good thing!
Nah, man. I was just joking with you about being “off topic”, too. The reason this thread got started is because the one mod felt the need to stand on his soapbox about being “off topic”, which was what he always cried about long before Sentell made his big mistake. The other discussion was just fine and stayed civil. There was no need to close it, so now we have this thread nobody understands because it can’t take place in the thread where it belongs. YAWN
I stated numerous times to stay on topic, you didn't. Other members comments were deleted as well, so you weren't singled out. Also, I stated numerous times that you, or anyone else, are free to start an off-topic political thread. Below is a screenshot, for everyone, of the steps to create a new discussion, hope this helps. Let me know if I can answer any other questions, comments or concerns. Thanks!
Thanks, Barney. Keep guarding that empty parking lot. Never know when someone might show up to commit a crime.
It's good to see Barney keeping an eye on parking lots when we have so many Ernest T. Bass in the neighborhood.
Make sure somebody keeps the rocks picked up
@Teddy You wrote above, "Also, I stated numerous times that you, or anyone else, are free to start an off-topic political thread." I hope 1. you didn't do it, and b. it is against the rules. I tried to find the "be nice" guidelines that used to show up when one logs in. In that I recall it saying that politics and religion are to be avoided, as in, verboten/banned.
I click on Discussions which brings everything over. People do not write an informative title for a key topic, much less will they do so for a political swipe. So how am I to avoid that crap without opening it? Say it ain't true, @JeffSentell ! No politics! Puleeeze!!!
And...
IT’S STILL NOT OK TO TWEET RECRUITS...
(off soapbox)