"phatmatt" removed from the website.

[Brian the Automator]

Brewerfan.netis the biggest loser of a website I have ever seen. It is a huge fricken dictatorship. Voice your opinion and get banned. If that's the way it's going to be, you and it can go to hell. I can't believe you, or your mods, ban people for just voicing their opinion.

 

I'm sure there has to be some bigger loser of a website, right?

[giffted1]

Who's going to let us know when the game is over now?

[Brian the Automator]

And if I see any of you posting opinions on this site, yer outta here.

[jason21nl]

And if I see any of you posting opinions on this site, yer outta here.

 

crap, IMO we are all in troulbe....wait, did I just give my opinion...crap, i'm screwed now huh?

[Team Canada]

In my opinion, there are far too many opinions around here.

[logan82]

And if I see any of you posting opinions on this site, yer outta here.

 

What about positive opinions? What's next no questions? http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/smile.gif

[uecker9]

I only come here so people can tell me what my opinion should be.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif

[mothershipconnection]

What brought about the banning/email leading to banning?

[brewers19]

In the IGTs, he felt it necessary to declare the game over each time we were down by two or more runs, regardless of how much time was left; not to mention, most of the time he would continue to posting in the thread. Last night I warned him that I'd revoke his posting privileges in the IGT forum if he ever said it again, which he did and I stayed true to my word. And then he got upset about it and wrote that angry response which got him banned.

[1992casey]

It started out when his access to the In-Game Thread forum was reduced to read-only due to the "non-contributory" nature of his posts. It escalated from there.

[sbrylski]

Why do people out there not understand the difference between "expressing your opinion" and "expressing your opinion in a civil and contrustive manner"? There is a whole subset of our population that just doesn't seem to understand the second part of it.

 

Like that guy who got tased the other day. You didn't get tased for voicing you political views, you got tased for resisting the cops.

[Team Canada]

http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/cad25224c4964d6a657476f40cee60d7011a3a6.jpg

[burniebrewer]

We are not the biggest loser website.

 

http://www.nbc.com/The_Biggest_Loser/

[mothershipconnection]

Like that guy who got tased the other day. You didn't get tased for voicing you political views, you got tased for resisting the cops.

 

The internet is full of idiots. "Ur just mad @ me b-cuz u cant except the obvius fact that [insert name] isnt a good player!!!! That's b-cuz his [insert subjective stat of assessment] is CRAP!!!! He must B like yo byfrend or sumthing hahahahahaha."

Seriously, race and creed are things people actually get persecuted for: opinion on the utility of VORP is not. Rather, people just don't like arrogant jerks who get irate when you won't accept their opinion.

 

 

 

Also, why is it that these people use a ton of unnecessary punctuation, but omit it where it's supposed to be? They'll skip every apostrophe and not capitalize words, but put an exclamation on the end of nearly every sentence. You also see this a lot in letters to the editor of newspapers. Idiots love to finish everything with an exclamation!

[pitchleague]

Thanks for calling me an idiot!

 

sorry, just had to

[iluvlamp]

There is a guy who posts over at bleedcubbieblue.com who also goes by phat and is rather obnoxious. Hmmm.

[hawing]

Well, phatmatt did declare the other night that if Ned weren't removed (in the off-season, at least), he'd drop the Brewers in favor of the cubs.

Based on the responses that post generated, I'd say that didn't win him any fans here.

 

Oh, wait, that was my opinion. Nuts! Oh, no - now I'm an idiot too!

[1992casey]

Here's a prime example of typical phatmatt1215 "discourse". This comes from the September 12 in-game thread:

phatmatt1215 wrote (reply #58):

Why is Dave Bush still in our starting rotation. He is trash/garbage/waste.

 

rluzinski (properly) wrote (reply #73):

And be replaced by whom? Who is better?

 

phatmatt1215 wrote (reply #77):

Anybody in little league.

[Brian the Automator]

I guess the point is that some users come here PURELY to vent. Our venting thread is a "service" in which we provide users to blow off steam. If you're not contributing to the site in a positive way (and by that, I don't necessarily mean that your outlook on the Brewers has to be "positive"), then this just isn't the site for you.

 

There are other sites where people can throw things out there that are just knee-jerk exaggerations and some people find that enjoyable to read. It all depends on what you want from a message board and what provides you with entertainment. There's no wrong or right answer to that, but we are what we are... Baseball geeks who want to dive a little deeper into things than "Player X sucks, they should shoot him in the face".

[Brian the Automator]

I think we've said our peace on the issue, and to stop any further piling on, I'll lock the thread.