Should anyone who posts a Hoopsworld article as news be tossed?

a warning first, then a suspension ( maybe one or two months) and then ban him.

 

I said no because, as others have said, I wouldn't want a first timer to come in here, post one, and get booted. Maybe if they have been members for a year or two, or they continually post them after they've been told not to.

Pugs

 

I love 'em...

Someone throws out a stupid trade idea and others pile on. One person defends the thread starter saying there is a "deal in the works" and suppose said claim with a HW article and THAT is when the fun ensues.

The thread is immediately derailed - first with 15 posts trashing the person who linked the article (intermixed with at least 4 people asking "why is the link '*********' ?")

then the whole thread become a public flogging of the "rocket guy" by fellow Rocket fans...and the person who started the stupid trade idea gets off the hook and lives to post again

it reminds me of Ben Wallace - giving Artest the original shove and starting the fight, then walking away with only a light suspension, while the entire Pacer team was banned for the season

 

Why not just prevent any post that contains "hoopsworld" in it? Then you could display an error message stating that ClutchFans does not permit HoopsWorld links or articles to be posted. If they choose to do so, then they will be tossed.

And if others are referencing the name of the site, they can just say "hoopswrld stinks" or something like that.

 

it already does filter out the name of the site in urls.

try typing a url with hoopsworld in it...it will be replaced by astericks.

http://www.***************


same with the old yao mingmania site.
http://www.************.com

there are a couple of others iirc...

but yet, when someone posts a link to those...and it doesnt show right...they still keep tryin to post it with similar results...it always amuses me.

 

Yes, you are right, it does filter... But I'm talking about preventing the post from submitting... Instead of actually submitting the post, the page would return an error message saying that it cannot submit the post, and would then explain the reasoning why Hoopsworld articles are not allowed, and further explain the consequences for posting such articles if they misspell hoops-world on purpose and make the post anyway.

Here's an example: Hit reply and type in less than 5 characters. See the error message it returns? Something like that.

Does that make more sense? I hope I explained myself better...

btw, thanks again for the vids... I seem to recall the '95 Finals being on the schedule for this summer, but I never caught them when they were released, did I just miss it?

 

nope...you havent missed them.

It turns out that several of the video files are giving me CRC errors, and Im going to have to get those specific ones recaptured.

Smeg...the only email I can find for you is the old one from the uni...shoot me a mail from your current one re: the 95 game tapes.

 

I am guilty of a crime worse then posting an article from them....I wrote articles for them before, but that was 5 years ago. Looks like a different site now...

 

since you don't believe in email , Smeg and I apparently don't have a valid email for you to send Smeg's new email addy to.

drop me an msg to my regular email, and I'll send you Smeg's new one.

 

thats right...rag on the dude that doesnt check his email every single day why dontcha.

and hell...I long ago got confused IRT your regular email account when faced with your never ending series of different email accounts.

besides...Smeg already sent it last week.

 

oh, and btw, i forgot to tell you...i'm really impressed with the length of your sig. makes me wonder if vb has put out a hack to block sigs over a certain length.

 

you need to get out more padner....my sig aint got sh*t on some of the ones I've seen in GARM lately...oh the colors and the fonts...they hurts my eyes.