1) In a recent post at your own website (a post that I did not have time to copy and paste in this topic), those of us who run this website were accused of being quick to ban those with whom we disagree. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If you took the time to browse through many of the past topics of this forum, you would see that weâ??re actually quite reluctant to ban critics of this website. For example, Polite24 (previously Detroitsportsfan08), SportsGuy92, and Andy -- all of whom were not abusive, but were civil -- were allowed to freely and repeatedly express their views. Each one of them chose to leave on his own without being banned. Two relatively recent examples of abusive posters are the amusing mike_the_pain_train and SPORTS ROCK. Neither of them were banned. The notorious Samdaman
, whose abuse far exceeded that of the two previously named individuals, was banned only after he tried to become a moderator through a false account. So, the charge that we have not allowed or would not allow any of you to present your side is unwarranted and bogus.2) Those among your members who spammed us had no intention of engaging us in serious debate. Their intention clearly was to bring down our website or at least to overload the forum with spam. So, of course, they were banned. Although I initially took them seriously, they themselves were never serious, to begin with.
3) Weâ??re a diverse group. We include females as well as males. Our ages range from 14 years to nearly 60 years old. Politically some of us are conservative or libertarian, some of us are liberal, and at least one of us is apathetic. We range from atheist to Christian. Some of us are sedentary; some of us are physically active. At least one of us works out at a health club.
4) We donâ??t all think alike. Weâ??re not following a party line. We range from moderate to extreme or irrational. Some of us have friends who formerly were athletes. Weâ??re even capable of having a major split. (See the topic entitled â??Here to have a civilized debate.â?) One of us recently was even personally complimented at a football website. Even one of your own members has complimented me. (All compliments are appreciated.
) 5) The post in your sports board called our website hateful. Yes, there is hatred on both sides, which I personally deplore. But there can be no denying that there is plenty of hatred on your side. Do you deny that this is true? Speaking of hatred, several of your members have publicly posted photos, the e-mail address, the residential address, and the phone number of one of our members, who has also received harassing phone calls. Unless I am mistaken, this is against the law. Have any of your fellow members been treated the same way by any of us? If you have no problem with this, then there is nothing I can do to help you. So, whoâ??s more hateful?
6) Since we are so small and actually constitute nothing more than a ranting board, Iâ??m amazed that any of you would go to such lengths to try to shut us down or simply harass us. As so many of you guys like to say, get a life.
If you had half a brain or were in any way observant, you'd realize that each member of this forum speaks for himself. Considering the negative stereotyping Fat Man does (which I don't happen to agree with), you "guise" engage in negative stereotyping of a different sort to the same or even greater degree. The negative stereotypes are flung from one side to the other -- back and forth, back and forth. It's amusing for a while, but then it gets boring. 
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
Hey, wait a minute. 
These aren't regular visitors. They're just those spammers from the 4chan sports board, the courageous /sp/artans. 
