(06-20-2021, 12:04 PM)RasheedsBigWhiteSpot Wrote: Then I guess you've clearly forgotten my "good thread. good read." posts for 20+ years on the boards.
The OP was little more than tea leaves reading speculation. It's the type of stuff you get out of Fish -- a guy who presented himself as some all knowing insider, but was just a hack. And I called him out on being a hack for decades. I'm not new to DanSwarzenegger's posts. Sometimes he posts interesting stuff that actually is a good read. But this ain't it.
This board seems content to consolidate all its random ideas to MASSIVE THREADS. There are a lot of great ideas in there by great posters. Nonetheless, that's where they are. But then, on THE BUSIEST MAVS NEWS WEEK IN YEARS where news breaks on the daily, a new thread is stickied amongst all the groundbreaking news. And what is it? Oh, just a thread where a guy postulates an illuminati connect-the-dots thread with zero payoff. So I called him on it.
Honestly though, I think my issue was more with Killer's sudden tendency to beatify certain people as sacred cows. It started with his "Leave Britney Alone!!!!!!!1!!!" tone about "RC is a good man!!!!!!!!1!!!" (which struck a nerve with me). It continued with "These days, we don't question when people like @DanSchwartzgan start new threads. We just read, say "thanks" and go about our days." Oh, well, pardon me, Killer. Please provide me a list of who's above reproach regardless of their performance.
1. RBWS, thanks for sharing your opinions on thread starting. I don't think any of us that are serving the community as mods on our fun little forum care to rigidly define what is deserving of a thread. I think such definition is silly, unless thread starting becomes a problem. Feel free to disagree.
2. I think you're wrong about Dan on a bunch of levels. He's not making money doing this, so the comparison to Fish makes no sense. Can you imagine Dan coming up with some trade ideas and then plugging his own greatness and linking to all his past posts? The comparison is silly. He's contributing to the conversation, and he does a great job of it. You don't have to like his posts, or my posts, or anyone elses. Dan, in my opinion, is one of the more humble postres here, and any promotion of his contributions come from the community that appreciates him.
3. If Killer's love for Rick struck a nerve, then joing the club!!! I think Rick is awesome as well!!! And it appears that I'm in the minority. I'm sure I've struck lots of nerves in claiming that Rick is a great coach over the years!
4. As far as sacred cows, posters are the only sacred cows we have. Our one rule is that we respect each other. As mods, pretty much our only jobs are to delete the spambot junk and step in if folks disrespect each other too much. This forum is so cool that we hardly ever have to do it. If you think we suck at our job, that's fine too. We're doing our best. I do the least as a mod, so if you want to hate on any of us, pick me. Leave Kam and Clutch alone since they somehow, out of the kindness of their hearts, choose to make this place a constant flow of available news. Amazing, those two.
If you want to take me to task for any of this, or anything else, feel free. Let's start another thread for it, or maybe we should just move this topic out of Dan's thread. I'm game. You can tell me all you want about everything we're doing wrong. And who knows, we might even think you have good suggestions.
Can one of the more Tech savy mods move this post, and all the other back forth about what RBWS doesn't like about this thread to another thread, that way Dan's thread can be a basektball one?