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3 pinkings and a 1 week ban. All over some dumb shit. Look everyone, ya'll know that I try to give everyone as much leash as possible & I like to locker room banter as much as anyone...but the past couple of days has really frustrated me. Splint and I have invested a lot of time & money to try and provide you all a cool place to unwind, get away from the stresses of real life, and have some fun. When I hear people have left or aren't signing up because they feel the forums culture has declined, then I can no longer sit by idly and hope people will suddenly start to follow the TOS.
All we ask is, stop the name calling, racist remarks, or fighter bashing. That's really the only few rules that we have here. Please respect them.
Thanks
Good looking out. The main goal is just to not be malicious...don't be a dick. If you'd get your ass kicked for it in real life, don't do it here.
Even the fighter bashing thing isn't really about a protected class. I'm not going after anyone for saying war machine is a rapist piece of shit instead of "a rapist. "
It's more to steer as much toward a friendly objective interaction as possible so we can all disagree without telling each other to fuck off. By limiting the personal attacks it should encourage people to have difference of opinion without the fear of reprisal.
I've mentioned before, and I'm just way too busy for the next month to really focus on it, but I am down for the users to review the site rules and Constitution as wanted. We can always use an admendment to clarify things or change things.
At the end of the day the only thing I really want is for the users of this website to be happy with what has been created. If things are going the wrong direction, then we need some help pointing the right direction. Same goes for the need for clarifying things. If it's not clear, then we need to have a pow-wow and figure it out.
Don't be an asshole. Beyond that, I'm 100% flexible On anything and I think that @Wild and @BirdWatcher are of the same mindset.
You guys are awesome, thanks for all you do.... I understand and respect your feelings on this a bunch (one of the reasons why I took a little pause on the action here), I also know that others who were great posters here felt the same way (why they don't post here anymore), and I know pro fighters who were/are leery of joining because of possibly being harassed (I've tried to get some big BJJ and MMA names to join... BIG names). People will be people, but at the end of the day, this place is one of the better forums out there for MMA.... Keep up the phenomenal work.
Oh and you also may want to give people what they want and make me that MoD