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Date Posted: 10:06:09 09/06/02 Fri
Author: John Doe, John Deere. John Holmes....who cares
Subject: What the hell does it matter who I am?
In reply to: Pablo 's message, "And as a sign of mercy - I deleted the post from Gary Griffin talking about how X-Band needs a hobby or need to get laid b/c Gary emailed me and said he did not post it," on 09:50:58 09/06/02 Fri

Does that change the message at all? It shouldn't. It doesn't matter if I'm Bob Huggins or Bob Hope. The message is clear: Grow up. And people shouldn't be hypocritical and tell X-Band to get a life while posting stupid drivel about getting a life when they themselves should take their own advice. I don't have a beef with you Pablo. At least you have a sense of humor and are fairly intelligent. You also know when to let up and stop being an ass. But guys like BP and Snipe just pile on people and it gets really old. 99% of the people on these boards think Snipe is a dick. Hmmm...wonder why. Anyway, I'm not trying to "light people up." Have fun with these boards. No problem. Just chill a bit that's all.

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[> [> [> [> Point well taken - this is also the offseason and for the first time in a couple years - there isn't a board war - so this year it is a Poster war - last year there was back and forth about Me Vs Gary - people took sides - shit was talked about both of us - and then the season started and all was forgotten. We need the season to start and all this will be over. -- Pablo, 10:42:42 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> Yes. This will all soon be over as the Army of Porn will rule the world and crush the French. -- NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE!, 11:25:14 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> It does matter who you are, and if you are a part of the active community. Having a worthwhile message board does not just happen. The board needs to draw people in, keep their attention, and encourage people to post in order to keep it alive. If 95 percent of the active contributors are turned off by an individual and stop posting, but 100 percent of the 'lurkers' enjoy that persons post, what you are left with is nothing. (cont.) -- BP, 11:23:39 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> (cont) See X-band's failed board (you can't anymore, he finally shut it down) as an example. Only X-band was posting there, and nobody cared. People with true insight and connections to info didn't want to read it because it was boring, so they stopped going. Then, there was no new info, so everyone else stopped going. You can kill a message board, and the Band Boy has already done it once, singlehandedly. The point of the "ban the bland band boy" is to try to bring to his attention that his shit is getting real tired to a lot of the active contributors. -- BP, 11:29:15 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> So the reason it matters who you are is this: If you are NCH, or LH or any number of contributors, then your opinion carries heavy weight, and should be considered. If you are X-band, X-band's mom, or any lurker who "reads the board but never posts", then I don't give a shit what you think, because it won't make a diffference if you're gone. Experience would say that since you don't identify yourself, you're in the latter group. I have been a somewhat active participant since the original grandstand board on AOL. I don't think that means my opinion counts more, but I do know of what I speak. -- BP, 11:41:39 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Acually I am a long-time, active poster. The reason I did not identify myself is b/c the attacks would start on me, and that's just plain stupid. And don't say it wouldn't happen, b/c we all know it would. My point I was trying to get across has nothing to do with the messenger. (Cont) -- Me again, 12:19:46 09/06/02 Fri

This is further demonstrated in your insistence that I identify myself and that my opinion "doesn't mean shit" if I don't. You're dying to know who I am. Why? What does it matter. It doesn't. But if you and Snipe knew, well, then it's just more ammo for your stupid little reindeer games. Like I said, I have no problem with Pablo. He calls a spade a spade and moves on. He has a little bit of fun and that's fine. You and Snipe bore everyone to death with your grandstanding and arrogance and run everything in to the ground. You want to know who I am so you can have a new target and I'm sorry, but that's not the damn point. Why did X-Band's board die? B/c the majority of "serioud" posters post on the new and much improved MM board while this board is used for fun and lightening the mood. There is absolutely no comparison between X-Band's board and the MM board. Then there is this board apart from the "mainstream." I love this board. I think we need a diversion from the norm. No problem. But to sit here and rip X-Band and tell him to get a life is pretty hypocritical and childish. Like I said in the original post, I'm not coming to his defense. I don't know who the hell the guy is. More than anything I'm just sick of the Snipe/BP/Jesus Christ syndicate who thinks they'r ethe end all be all and everyone else is plain shit. Guys like Pablo, NJNP, Truth and skillet are funny and get their points across without getting on their high horses and acting like everyone is beneath them. And by the way, "BP" doesn't exactly "identify" yourself either. Don't worry about the messenger, just pay attention to the message. But you can't do that b/c your M.O. is all about bashing people.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> One more thing- Help me to understand why you rip people like X-Band for posting too much, but then you turn around and say those who lurk and don't ever post don't have an opinion that counts. You say you count b/c you have been an "active participant" but X-Band doesn't even though he is just as active. You catch my drift? You make no sense. The fact is, X-Band disagrees with you more often than not and you simply can't handle that. Your ego has to be fed and you have to always be right. Hence, X-Band becomes a target. Very cool. -- Snipe, BP, GMG, Muskieman, X-Man, UC Kevin, whatever, 12:32:26 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Actually, superfly weenie, I posted a brief defense of the band boy, although it was not particularly glowing, in an earlier thread, and I used my common moniker. I don't care if these guys rip me if I don't think the band boy should be banned. If you are not willing to get ripped, then you shouldn't post your opinion at all. You don't have to use your "real" name, but if you are a consistent poster, we pwople can at least gauge your opinion against a history of posts. For the record, I think the band boy is a moron, but I don't think he should be banned. -- Homeskillet, 13:11:16 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Voice of reason, it looks like you are taking some jabs at people yourself. Go figure. Why don't you take your own advice and grow up? You come here, drop your regular moniker, and adopt a new one just to slam people without recourse, all the while claiming to be the mature "voice of reason". Well, VOR, I don't care who you are. The band boy made his bed, and he will lay in it. Where were you when he called me an asshole unprovoked on the A-10 board? He really hurt my feelings that time. I really wish you were there to hold everyone's hand and think happy thoughts. Blow me. -- Snipe, 14:31:16 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> For some reason, this didn't post earlier, but the fact is, I have no problem with the quantity of X-bands posts. It's the quality. Or total lack thereof. You say that I don't like him because we disagree. You couldn't be farther from the truth. X-band doesn't have the cojones to disagree. In a discussion that debated wether college athelets should be paid, X-band took the highly controversial position that the state of Ohio's system of funding elementary schools was unconstitutional. -- BP, 16:44:26 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Wow, that was some piss poor spelling on my part. My point is that I would rather disagree with someone who wants to discuss the issue at hand (X-man, for instance) than have to read off track trivia from some insecure 22 year old virgin who feels he needs to validate his worth by posting his vast knowledge of unrelated and distracting factiods. My ego has nothing to do with it. If people don't want to hear what I have to say, I don't need to say it. -- BP, 16:49:22 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Case in point. Go to the MM board and check out X-Bland's NIT preview shit. It's good. He breaks down the teams in quick capsules, strengths, weaknesses, etc. Informative, and he obviously spent some time on them. Nobody is reading them. Nobody is responding to them. I can only assume it is because I am not the only one who is so sick of reading his shit that I skip over it. There were more responses to Snipes LC/LB comparison on this board than to X-band exhaustive work on the PNIT on the other board. But does that stop him? Oh no.... he just keeps plugging away. -- BP, 17:04:54 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> But frankly, if all of X-Blands 800 posts were as good as the PNIT ones, I would never give him shit, but the majority of his posts are not only inane and uninformative, like our friend homeskillets, but they lack any originality, humor, insight or controversial position. They suck in 3 dimensions. They are so alive with suckness that they actually distort the monitor with their suckittude. The previous barometer of suckcisity, measured in units of Anna Nicole Smithness, has been replaced by the Stalicameter. Brace yourselves, and get ready for some innovations in the world of suck. -- BP, 17:11:19 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> You've taken up half this board with innane, worthless drivel. How is that any different? Actually, the differenc eis X-Band's drivel is at least hoops related on a hoops message board. Yours and Snipe's (if you too are in fact two people) is just drivel about other people and your self-inflated ego. The only reason people respomd to yours and not X-Band's is b/c his makes sense and yours makes people mad. Period. -- Fat Bastard, 17:51:47 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> And your response was different how, exactly? I was responding to earlier attacks aimed directly at me. Unless you're X-band, I'm not sure why you're responding to my last post at all. But if it is just to insult me, then please don't talk about my worthless drivel, when you are only piling it on top. -- BP, 18:12:11 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> So now you don't like "piling on." What have you been doing to X-Band? That's right, piling on. You see what I've been getting at? You get pissed about everything you do- bland, pointless posts, piling on, and people who need to get a life. Sound familiar? -- Snipe, 20:50:11 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Why don't you go back to "voice of reason"? And why do you have to use my moniker? Everyone loves to use my moniker. I am a popular guy. I am sorry, but you will never really be me. -- It is great to be me!, 21:17:24 09/06/02 Fri

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Why not use your name? You have no good name. You and BP (if you aren't one and the same) are a bunch of childish bullies. You should be ashamed for yourself. Stop acting like pricks. X-band is one of the biggest Xavier fans around. Everyone likes him, and very few people like Snipe/BP. -- Voice of Reason, 17:05:00 09/08/02 Sun

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> BP described my posts as "inane and uninformative" and he is right. I am now starting the movement for a homeskillet free zone. -- Homeskillet, 13:05:39 09/09/02 Mon

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> I will not stand for a homeskillet free zone! I want all homeskillet all the time. -- Fat Girl Who Cleans Apartments, 18:38:43 09/09/02 Mon

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Ok, voice. I understand that you don't approve of the approach I'm taking with the Bland Boy. Here's a news flash. I don't give a shit what you think. I can call X-bland whatever I want, and you can call me whatever you want, but you lose some credibility when you try to trash me for exactly the same kind of posts you are putting up. It's also pretty pathetic that X-Bland has to give his mommy his internet password so you can come on here and defend him. -- BP, 11:37:14 09/09/02 Mon

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