Commenting Constitution
To Mark, Devin, Dennis and I, the main purpose of the blog is to share opinions and foster discussions. As the site continues to grow, there will be more and more discussions on the site involving commentors. With that being said, we feel like it is important to have a commenting constitution to let you guys know what is and isn’t acceptable on the site. If you break any of these rules, you comment is subject to deletion. Continue breaking rules, we are going to keep you from commenting.
1. No cursing. We do this blog for all Nets fans, not just fans 18 and older. Here’s a good trick, if you won’t say it in front of your kids, don’t say it here (For those without kids just replace the word kids with grandmother). If you feel the need to let everyone know you want to curse, ##@$ is acceptable.
2. No attacks on race, gender, orientation, or religion. I know it is hard, especially with the Brooklyn situation, but please limit the politic discussions on here to that situation. Remember this is a blog about men playing a game.
3. No personal attacks on commentors or the bloggers here. We are all about opinions here. Mark and I give our opinions, and we like to hear yours in response. “That’s wrong you stupidface” isn’t a opinion. It is fine to disagree with us or other commentors, but explain why, it makes for better discussions.
4. No links. The theme that we use allows you to list your site and when you do that, your name becomes a clickable links. Posting your link and not adding to the discussion will not be tolerated. Links to articles/quotes referred to are excluded.
5. Don’t be what Dave from the Blazers’ Edge calls THAT GUY. Allow him to explain:
* He posts something and then responds to every…single…comment with an overly-defensive comment of his own, not letting people have real conversation about his points. It’s fine for people to disagree. In fact debate makes the best conversations. If you don’t want anybody to disagree with what you’ve written, go to Hallmark, buy a journal, and write your thoughts there. If you write them here, give people some space to reply with good, solid points of their own.
* He talks about the person posting instead of the post and its points/ideas. This is completely unnecessary. Hint: Limit the use of the word “you” in your posts. “You’re an idiot if you think LeBron will be traded. Cleveland values him too much…” should be just “Cleveland values LeBron too much to trade him.”
* He begins posts with phrases like, “If you had actually watched the game…” or “If you knew anything about basketball…” These are inflammatory and again unnecessary. It’s possible that people actually did watch the game and simply saw something different than you did.
* He makes comparisons between basketball matters and things FAR beyond their scope, things in such poor taste that the mere mention of them obliterates any valid basketball-related conversation. (“The refs were the Nazis and we were the Jews tonight!”)
-Sebastian