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This forum is really going downhill...

1K views 17 replies 13 participants last post by  Robb2140 
#1 ·
I'm not taking shots at anyone here and this could very well be my last post beacause I could get banned for it. I have been coming here to see what everyone thinks about mma since around the anderson silva and franklin fight. Back then was the golden age here it seemed like intelligent posters,bungles crazy avatars, and every thread had an intelligent discussion with no fighting...well most of them. Lately it has been people who hardly know anything about mma wich nothing is wrong with that you have to learn somewhere, but that is not the big problem. The problem is the mods now, not all of them but some. Lately there have been so many threads with nothing but country bashing and it comes up half the time now in every discussion. The mods are not doing a thing about that and huge arguments are breaking out but nobody gets punished, at least not as soon as they should.
Also people are now getting warnings for crap that is not against the rules at all. I remember that started with Bungle. Some of the stuff he got warnings and temp bans for were against the rules but many other people would not get a warning for exactly the same stuff. Now wl2fu got a warning for telling a guy to fight somebody again...wtf. I believe he is banned now wich brings up my next point. Why is it that all of the intelligent dedicated posters seem to get a warning or a temp ban way quick when you have guys like mmabot and simon phoenix who obviously try and piss people off can do it for such a long time and nothing happens to them. I think they got a temp ban now but it took way to long. My point is if this keeps up this forum will be sherdog jr and I will probably get a ban now wich will just prove my point. Well if this is my last post, see you guys later I guess. Although nobody really new me.
Once again if I made some of you mad im sorry but I had to say it.
 
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#5 ·
We(moderators) cannot be everywhere at once. If you see somthing you don't like or someone breaking rules, then report the post. When you do that, it sends an email to all mods, and one of us will take care of it.

As for giving warnings for useless situations, we as mods try to follow the rules and guidlines that are set forth here:

http://www.mmaforum.com/mmaforum-general-discussion/announcements.html

Trust me we could definatly give out more warnings if we were to follow the rules to a "T". I for one have no problem with being a Nazi Mod. I can see in your sig JawS that you are breaking one of the rules. :D
 
#6 ·
even so it is RIDICULOUS to ban a thoughtful and insightful poster like WLTFU. I have seen idiotic, back-and-forth jabs on a couple of threads, just people here and there pointlessly taking shots at each other. I got on this forum because I had a fair knowledge of martial arts and boxing thru my own training, but I wanted to learn more about mma. So far I have learned quite a bit and laughed like hell many many times (i showed my husband some of the cro cop pictures and we laughed guiltily). I'd rather not have to wade through post after post of people picking at each other, while members who contribute information that is on point and intelligent get banned for telling someone to fight someone else. It's incredibly frustrating. I'd use stronger language but I'd hate to get banned, or sent to bed without my milk, or something.
 
#8 ·
i don't know....wherever he suggested that someone fight someone they'd already fought a 2nd time or something,

I probably saw it, and continued on, because there was nothing in the post that caught my eye as being inflammatory in any way, shape, or form.

anyone who remembers more clearly than me, don't hesitate to jump in.
 
#13 · (Edited)
A few bad threads are not going to bring a forum of this calibre down.

I followed the threads on country bashing and was as surprised as the next guy that it went on for so long without being locked.

My point is, a country bashing thread - or one that turns into country bashing - will happen anywhere. Whether it is an MMA forum, a baseball forum, a gaming forum or what have you.

There are too many good posters here (WL2FU included) for this place to dip. Good posters, who move the topic at hand forward, or raise interest to the users in a positive way, although you don't necessarily mean you always agree them. Mature debates are part of what makes this place breathe.

The weak and feeble posters shouldn't be able to tar a reputation of good standard that this forum has accomplished. They shouldn't and they won't.
 
#14 ·
swpthleg said:
i don't know....wherever he suggested that someone fight someone they'd already fought a 2nd time or something,

I probably saw it, and continued on, because there was nothing in the post that caught my eye as being inflammatory in any way, shape, or form.

anyone who remembers more clearly than me, don't hesitate to jump in.
Sorry, I hope I didn't mislead you guys. I got a warning for that post on my other backup s/n (besides this one now), I was confused at first, but I'm guessing they did it cuz they knew it was me and wanted to ban all my accounts. :dunno:

Anyway, I had a rant in another thread in this forum about my banning and just realized it says I'm unbanned when I see my posts in threads. Although I tried to sign on this morning and last night and both times it gave me the temp ban screen. So I'm gonna try again soon when I restart my computer.
 
#16 ·
ruban said:
A few bad threads are not going to bring a forum of this calibre down.

I followed the threads on country bashing and was as surprised as the next guy that it went on for so long without being locked.

My point is, a country bashing thread - or one that turns into country bashing - will happen anywhere. Whether it is an MMA forum, a baseball forum, a gaming forum or what have you.

There are too many good posters here (WL2FU included) for this place to dip. Good posters don't necessarily mean you always agree them, with since debates are part of what makes this place breathe, but one's that move the topic at hand forward, or raise interest to the users in a positive way.

The weak and feeble posters shouldn't be able to tar a reputation of good standard that this forum has accomplished. They shouldn't and they won't.


We have 3 admins? i think its was just adminmma and rsvsn or what ever.
 
#17 ·
dopesmoker said:
the country bashing is all in good fun, dont take it to heart.
It's not in good fun, and you are one of the main ones who are guilty of Country bashing. the only time I will rip on Canadians or other foriegners is if I am provoked first. If you rag on my country and expect me or 90% of the other American's to just sit back and take it, then u don't know us as well as you think.

Some of it was very hateful as well (laughing at 9/11 and wishing death on our troops). This was actually said on this site.

If you hate the U.S.A. so much and u wanna talk about it, then go to a Jihadi message board or someother type of anti-U.S. group's website. If you wanna discuss MMA, training or even have a CIVILIZED political debate, or whatever else that pertain's to this message board, than that is fine. But I don't come here to have my country dragged through the dirt by people that I can't evan look in the eye, and I don't think anybody else doese either.
 
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