The Hypocrisy of Talking Chop

The behavior of some of the posters is unnecessary and discourages fan posts for fear of ridicule. I don’t particularly care about the rantings of these folks but if you want real content from fans this has to stop. I am surprised the moderators not only complicit, but also often jump into the fray.

I’d prefer to see all the posters jumping on a kid’s post to use that creative energy to create their own post.

And Justin, these are not humorous posts or even witty.

For I have no problem with your astute observations and opinons in this matter.

However, this is a fan site, which is supposed to be about the fans, right? When did it change?

It has never changed. When baseball fan A decides to make a fanpost, he/she is exercising their inherent right to express their opinions, thoughts, and writing. But they have to realize that they are opening the floor to baseball fans B-Z, AA-ZZ, and so forth. I do not feel that it is any one particular party’s fault if the rest of the community of baseball fans have take it upon themselves to self-police the rest of the site and express their opinions, thoughts, and words in contradiction, disagreement, or disparaging of another baseball fan’s posted opinions, thoughts, and words. At this point, baseball fan A has three choices:

1. Flex those literary muscles, and do their best to engage in a debate, stand their ground, and debate, not argue.
2. Take their beatings, realize what brought the criticism upon them, and either choose to avoid such battles in the future, or realize that their case needs to be strengthened. Regardless, to learn.
3. Tuck tail between legs, and delete post
okay, 4. Troll

From what I observe, a lot of the remarks are oozing with sarcasm, and the rampant jokes that have taken somewhat of a life of their own throughout the seasons of this site. That’s somewhat of a sign of a community, and obviously, not everyone is comfortable and/or capable of getting off the bat. Excessive suppression of remarks from baseball fan QQ and R, because it would hurt A’s feelings, would be no different than taking shots.

What I suggest is simple – ignore those users who don’t care to read their posts. Some people may only pop up to make sarcastic or disparaging rebuttals, but never actually put themselves out there. Some people only choose to make educated posts, and are ready to defend them tooth and nail against all comers. It’s a diverse community full of a variety approaches, and you don’t have to like or dislike everything that is said by fellow fans, but it has never been, not about the fans.

I will disclaim this by saying that if I issue anyone warnings or delete their posts, I will identify myself as having done such. Otherwise, I typically let most things slide, because either things work themselves out on their own ultimately, or as is often times, I’m busy.

is a right and we all are blessed to have it. As a military member, I love what I do because I know that I am used to defend and protect those freedoms. For those who follow this blog daily, weekly, monthly or really at all… it is easy to see how one should break themselves into commenting. My first time, I was a little apprehensive (bring on the virgin jokes) and I finally opened myself up to the good natured comments that are bound to come to a new guy. If you’re not picked on in this blog, you’ve not arrived. I’ve gotten smarter with how I post and hopefully, the entertainment value on my posts is higher than boring. :-)

Regardless, moderators are out there to… moderate and it’s ok to be told not to go trolling. It’s their right… just as it is our right to troll, ridicule each other (hopefully good naturedly) and speak our minds.

Hopefully, y’all didn’t break out your American Flags and singing America the Beautiful or the Star Spangled Banner… :-)

I guess it had been about three months since somebody made a fanpost about how mean we are. It was about that time…

We should NEVER bash fellow Braves fans just because we disagree with their thoughts.

UNLESS…they post in a manner that “asks for it” by supporting their idea by attacking someone else’s.

But just because someone wants Fredi to bat McCann leadoff and our pitcher in the second spot does NOT give us the right to “attack” them for being stupid.

Please just point out (in what is normally some WONDERFUL statistical method on this site) why they are wrong.

Thanks!

I’m all for decency and all that, but like everyone else said this is the internet and it is basically hazing, nobody hates anyone here, and nobody is intentionally trying to make people cry in the basement.

good work!!

It’s bullshit. If I want to go to the Good Phight I am going to go there. Just because some people are asshats (for lack of a better word), that shouldn’t mean I will be banned because I go to another blog.

Some of you are naturally trolls and want to go to the Good Phight to pick a fight, because you have nothing better in life to do, and you should be banned for starting shit on another blog. But if I want to go to the Phillies fans and inquire about the progress Domonic Brown is making or some insight into Jonathan SIngleton, or any other number of things that a Phillies blog would be much more knowledgeable.

There is absolutely no justification for banning members of TC for commenting on the Good Phight if they are mature enough to conduct themselves like an adult. ANd if you can’t conduct yourself as such then you should be banned anyways.

and I don’t think anyone will ban you for it. Yet I think you overlooked what Justin said when you thought of what to say. Though it goes one step further than that. It’s not just a rite of passage to get ridiculed here, its a constant thing. Even regulars and well respected members of the community, who have been here for a long time get “dissed” and they could very easily whine and make a fuss, but they know its in good fun so they don’t take offense. For example:
How many times has someone called royhobbs any variety of 400 lbs/fat/etc?
How many times has royhobbs called cbwilk “cbtits”?
Over the past two days, how many times has TL2 heard “Posey was out”, even when it got in the way of an argument.

Just because someone new throws their hands up and whines to basically innocuous “disses” does not mean, at least imo, that we should change the way we act towards them.

One question: If I go to the post and edit it to say, “JUST KIDDING!” will you guys quit bitching about it? I’m being completely serious here.