Boilermaker Rick wrote:
The simple answer is yes. See, that board exists to attempt to fracture this community and screw over bigfan. It was made out of spite and that is why they copied this format almost exactly. That is why they don't post here any more and they have convinced others to either post less here or not at all. That board is a detriment to everyone except Keeping Score. If you post over there more than you post here I will consider it a loss for everyone. I enjoy your posts, and I enjoy Hawg Ass's posts, and I enjoy OKC's posts. I expect I'll see much less of them. I don't know why anyone is pretending like it is a good thing that the board is split and people are defecting to there. If that was a different format or even just a basic "Let's be friends" forum it would be different. I post on other forums too. However, I don't post on other sports radio boards. That is the whole point. I know you've laughed condescendingly at me before about it but this is an attempt to fracture the community to spite bigfan. Terry's Peeps basically said so in a few posts though they may have gotten "pruned".
I think it's easy for you to act like this whole thing was no big deal. You clearly weren't targeted for exclusion. I'm not even sure I was targeted for exclusion but I know that others I enjoy and interact with in threads were excluded for things similar to what I do. Oh, but Terry's Peeps said "My bad" in one thread and we should act like it wasn't a big deal. That's why I said that I'd lose some respect for people that post over there a lot. I'm surprised more people aren't offended by it. Now, there are some out there that don't like me, including someone who recently made it clear how much he doesn't like me, and I understand completely why they'd be so willing to jump to a board where my kind can be avoided. Others, who I thought we had a good fake message board friendship not so much.
In reality, I hope that OKC and Terry's Peeps return here one day. I enjoyed their presence before and I hope they don't choose a message board where my style isn't wanted. That would show a lot more than a "my bad we thought your posting style sucked but now we'll let you in and then let Keeping Score ban you in a few weeks".
This is perhaps your best post ever on this board. Well done sir, well done.
It pissed me off to see how all of this went down. I have lost respect for a few people. But I do hope that at some point they can come back and we can put all of this behind us. Neither board will be separate what we could be together.
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