On BFM:
Many people behaved badly, but he was not singled out. Nobody else was banned from CBlog, and this is a CBlog based league. I'm not going to grade every infraction on a relative scale or dole out a progressive warning system. Folks who got CBlog warnings or lesser suspensions are simply closer to suffering the same fate, if they get kicked off this site in the future.
I am open to clarifying this in the league constitution, but my stance as commissioner is that getting kicked off of CBlog results in an automatic dismissal from the league. Pitt's infraction pre-dates my involvement, so I'm not going to retroactively remove him.
It takes a lot to get permanently banned from these forums. You should probably expect to not belong to a CelticsBlog league if you manage to do so. Honestly, if we need to keep people that behave that badly, then I'm out.
I'll be starting some new threads to help get things more organized, and updating the trade log. After that, I will look into the new GM candidates and we can start talking draft dates and any other orders of business...
With all due respect, you do not have any authority to change the league constitution without league vote. That is how the league has always worked. The commish is more like the U.S. president working with congress than a czar. I think we need the league constitution changed to be able to enforce such issues, so we should propose some amendments for this. But again, there is no such rule that if you are not on celticsblog you can't be in the league, and you do not have the authority to change that without a vote. You also did this when you allowed trading of draft picks for the following season earlier than the draft, and opening up the offseason early, which I didn't speak up about for selfish reasons, but that is against league policy. We typically had such votes for future rule changes occur a year in advance and take effect the following season, but with enough votes exceptions to that timeline have happened. Not trying to be contradictory , just trying to help out and adhere to the policies we have used for many years.
I don't get what you're saying here at all. You immediately started trading as soon as byennie said we could and now you're saying we shouldn't have done that?
I suppose it's true that the president needs to work with Congress, but every once in a long while some congress member somewhere breaks laws and has to go to jail and when that happens the president doesn't have to deal with that senator any more.
Are you suggesting that BFM's public behavior was somehow within the scope of our constitution? Maybe when he gets out of jail he can run for congress again.
I've never seen behavior similar to that. It's nothing borderline similar to bickering or arguing or disagreeing or even accusing. I was beside myself reading that stuff. It left me speechless and as you all know eja becoming speechless is the 7th sign of the apocalypse.
Come on Eja, you have been in the league long enough to know we don't change rules without league votes. Did I ask fro BFM to be re-instated? No. I asked for clarification of the rules that were used to oust him, and to propose ammedments to stop further such behavior which you and I and others have also participated in during the past, unless you blocked out the memories of the countless yahoo forum flame wars that you participated in which were equally bad to what BFM just got banned for.
Waaaiiittt a second. Do I admit to various flame wars? heck yes. Were they on Yahoo? Heck yes. Is that on some level fundamentally different right there? yes. Was I shocked to see that stuff? Sadly no. Did I think it rose to the level of previous stuff I have observed? No. Do I remember some flat out aggressive discussions? Heck yes. Do I remember exceptional derogatory language like that? No.
Constitutional clarification.....ok....let me clarify this...These are some circumstances under which we/our commissioner don't have to wait a year to ban someone after making a rule.
GM involves self in mass shooting or terrorist attack
GM hacks site and conducts various trades by self
GM breaks into byennies house
GM insists on denying the Holocaust in every post for no real reason
GM threatens to commit suicide if he doesn't get Anthony Davis for a 2nd rounder in a trade
GM declares himself a sovereign nation and that one must refer to him going forward as "Your majesty" or "your royal highness"
GM posts explicit **** on site....although maybe we should take a vote on that just to be sure
GM manages to send our sensitive information to the Russians
GM joins ISIS
GM does what BFM did.