What does the "Red" in Red Reporter really stand for?

We let a lot more shit go there than many (any?) of the other SBN sites. I don’t think that it’s necessarily what you posted that people didn’t agree with as much as the tone that came with it.

We’ve never been a community that’s big on attacking others personally. Taking a post from VEWLB that’s interesting in some way wouldn’t be frowned upon at all, but more often than not, the point of bringing that over is “look at this idiot”. Is that a tone that we want RR to be known for? It’s not something we’ve ever done when we were losing, why start it now? Karma’s a bitch.

So my suggestion is let’s keep the making fun of Cardinals fans to a minimum when they’re not coming over to our house causing trouble. If you have something to say about a post over there, post it over there. We’re just fans, we don’t need bulletin board material. We already know what it’s like rooting for a shitty team, let’s let them wallow in their tears in peace. Unless they come over here (or post shot from our site on theirs), in which case, it’s on bitches.

More-over, This post should be kibosh’d. Just because it’s the internet, doesn’t mean we want to hear your option. And don’t bitch when someone moderates you because you’re trolling around on a site that doesn’t belong to you. If you want an argument, then take this whiny rant to VEB.

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Take it down. It’s your site and you guys obviously are going to run it however you see fit. I read the rules of the site prior to joining and there is nothing in there that I could find regarding the issue everyone is so sensitive to.

But I do want to explain something to everyone. It’s not the posting of stuff from other sites that is the problem. If you see a rumor about someone being available or TLR getting arrested again on another site, post that. What bothers me is the “Hey, look what this moran said!” stuff that has become all too common lately. You may be just having a laugh, but it ends up meaning more work for the mods since now we have to start paying attention for people coming over to fight back. We don’t want to be hunting for people to ban or comments to delete.

We’ve never had a problem with this in the past. Almost every interaction we’ve had with other sites in the past has been in fun. This is why we haven’t had a rule about this. We’ve always been able to maintain civility both on this site and others. Let’s try to keep it that way.

I thought McCarthyism died a LONG damned time ago?

Che Chapman.

Know why? Because we’re winning.

How often did we ever give 2 craps about checking out other teams websites to see what they said about our beloved Reds? I never did…just like I never wanted to watch ESPN’s MLB highlight reels. We weren’t on it, we weren’t good, and I frankly didn’t care to hear what outsiders said about the team that I loved.

This year has been different…pleasantly, surprisingly different. We’re winning, and frankly I often don’t know what to do with myself.

I don’t want to sound like I’ve been here for years because I have not. It’s been nearly 2 years since I started coming over to RR, and the premise of my first visits were to find Reds fans who were likeminded and knowledgable about not just our team, but the game of baseball, so as to try to find good ideas as to how to improve our crappy team.

Flash forward to 2010…we can’t talk about that nearly as in depth anymore. There are limited trade ideas, FA proposals, or butts-in-seats gimmicks to propose these days, as our franchise is winning in bunches, our AAA team is winning in bunches, and our only high paid players are coming off the books (if we “want” them to, does it get better than this??) As a result, the underdog, scrutinize-the-books-and-farm-system mentality more often than usual has ben eschewed for the look-how-good-we-are mindset. That’s hard to argue with, but it can get obnoxious.

The Cards, be they whiney little bitches or kick-our-ass multi timed divisional champions, have whipped our asses a bunch. They’re behind us in the standings this year…I get it. That doesn’t mean I really want to go smear it in their face and then smear their bloggers over here. From the best of my knowledge, they never did it to us.

Essay completed, and apologies for the squinting I’ve forced, but I think what Slyde and the mods (band name…?) are getting at is the “act like you’ve been here before, because we’ll be there again, and again, and again…” mantra. I like that. I don’t want to fuck that up.

Coebra, I loved your poem btw. I just really don’t like the Cardinals to the point where I really couldn’t care if they’d solved world peace on VEWLB…I don’t want to read it.

Keep doin’ what you do, Coebra.

The mods chastised you for posting something ONCE and your FIRST reaction is to exclaim ‘groupthink! censorship! oppression!’, with, of course, an oblique reference to another improper use of the first amendment. This is a “reds” “discussion” “community”. There is absolutely NOTHING crazy in the owner and moderators of a website deciding what the bounds of discussion is going to be.
 
Look, this site is not a free-for-all. Did someone ban you? Did they delete your comments? When someone disagrees with a group, why do they immediately shout ‘groupthink!’ as if there’s no reason whatsoever for multiple people to have a difference of opinion? Yes, it is groupthink. The group thinks you’re wrong. There are definitely people here who do want to dredge up nutty comments from other sites, for criticsm, rebuttal, and general derision; most of the mods don’t want to deal with the crap that stirs up (though with the number they have, it’s pretty hard to establish a quorum), and I don’t like it just because I find it both cruel and boring, which, honestly, is a fairly unique combination.

There’s no reason to mess with individuals and start a fight, nor do I really think there’s much reason to ever post on their blog, but I don’t think some back and forth trash talk is going to do a ton of harm. Don’t go over that and act completely classless and ban the people that post over here from there who do the same and it seems like a pretty easy fix. It’s not like we have raging daily flame wars with them and enjoying the misery of Cardinals fans absolutely should be one of the things Reds fans get to enjoy, and let the discussion of Reds/Cards baseball continue. By and large I think King Coebra is overstating the point, but there have been instances where certain mods get exceptionally overzealous in their moderation of Reds/Cards discussion.

Basically: Don’t go over there, drop the banhammer if any of them come over and start anything, and if you’re sharing moronic comments from them, at least don’t single out the person that said it making them more likely to come over and start shit.