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[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

Of coursei, you were an angel. Was that the ddsam stuff...?

With Sultan? I'm pretty sure not. Sultan wasn't a premium member at all, as I recall, certainly not during the ddsam stuff. Sultan and Dodds had a disagreement over a topic and Dodds essentially told Sultan his opinion wasn't going to be allowed. It escalated, I remember voicing my opinion that the discussion should be an open forum. Despite me saying multiple times that I agreed with Dodds' side of the argument, I felt that Sultan's points were valid and deserved to be heard. Both Sultan and I were banned for the trouble.

What you have to understand is that there are some back stories to all of those relationships that you are suggesting, so to think he just isn't open to that is wrong.

There wasn't a backstory with me, and I was the one trying to open the dialogue. Honestly, I'm not sure it's worth continuing. I'm happy to discuss things via PM if anyone wants my perspective on the matter, but as I said, I think Dodds has done a lot of good work that helped facilitate all of these sites. Regardless of my personal feelings of him as a moderator or his current role among Marquette basketball websites, I'm glad for the positive things he provided. I'll leave it at that.

[Nukem2]

No I wasn't. But I was completely fed up with him shutting down threads when he was pretty much proven wrong. By the time I said what I said, I resigned myself to leaving the place anyway. I mean, I have been posting crap on the internet way back to the old rec.sport.basketball.college USENET days. I have never seen a site run like that.

Was responding to Brew

[Alan Bykowski, "brewcity77"]

Was responding to Brew

I'll PM you.

[Halo]

No I wasn't. But I was completely fed up with him shutting down threads when he was pretty much proven wrong. By the time I said what I said, I resigned myself to leaving the place anyway. I mean, I have been posting crap on the internet way back to the old rec.sport.basketball.college USENET days. I have never seen a site run like that.

So your solution was to start a thread with the title "You are a ***** Dodds"? Are you in a professional business? How old are you? It's a message board and you are anonymous poster. I disagree with many things he or others say, but would never put something like that out there. To each his own.

[MUAlphaBangura]

So your solution was to start a thread with the title "You are a ***** Dodds"? Are you in a professional business? How old are you? It's a message board and you are anonymous poster. I disagree with many things he or others say, but would never put something like that out there. To each his own.

+1 Halo. That was some of the most immature stuff I've ever seen on a message board. Quite frankly Sultan, that was not your finest moment. You seem to have grown from that episode with JD as far as your contributions here(which I have enjoyed), but I wonder when you might go off here, like you did on JD's board. Hope it doesn't happen.

[dubs98]

sorry, I didn't intend this thread to turn into another argument over those who agree/disagree with Dodds. Simply wanted to get some information on the scout site and what is happening with it. Again, I appreciate IWB allowing me to ask these questions on his forum. As Brew mentioned, not everyone agrees with Dodds approach with moderating, but many others do enjoy it's more tame nature relative to scoop. And as Brew said, no one can deny the fact that he has invested a lot of time over the years to provide an outlet for our MU hoops itch.

I check all three boards daily and enjoy ea for diff reasons. Unfortunately there seems to be an incredible divide among scout/scoop with brewcityball being the new independent party. In the end that is unfortunate as we are all MU hoops junkies just looking for some good discussion and a bit of info on the team we passionately root for. Hopefully everyone can keep that in the back of their mind.

[TheSultan]

+1 Halo. That was some of the most immature stuff I've ever seen on a message board. Quite frankly Sultan, that was not your finest moment. You seem to have grown from that episode with JD as far as your contributions here(which I have enjoyed), but I wonder when you might go off here, like you did on JD's board. Hope it doesn't happen.

Oh I've had worse moments...believe me. And I should have undoubtedly handled it differently, but the exasperation of how that board was moderated was too much. Don't worry. We all learn and move on.

[TheSultan]

+1 Halo. That was some of the most immature stuff I've ever seen on a message board. Quite frankly Sultan, that was not your finest moment. You seem to have grown from that episode with JD as far as your contributions here(which I have enjoyed), but I wonder when you might go off here, like you did on JD's board. Hope it doesn't happen.

Oh I've had worse moments...believe me. And I should have undoubtedly handled it differently, but the exasperation of how that board was moderated was too much. Don't worry. We all learn and move on.

And I did send him a PM with an apology the next day. Not sure he got it though because I never got any sort of response.

[Nukem2]

I check all three boards daily and enjoy ea for diff reasons. Unfortunately there seems to be an incredible divide among scout/scoop with brewcityball being the new independent party. In the end that is unfortunate as we are all MU hoops junkies just looking for some good discussion and a bit of info on the team we passionately root for. Hopefully everyone can keep that in the back of their mind.

Agreed. Sometimes folks need to take things off-line. As with you, I'm also looking for information and good discussion. Go Marquette...!

[ziggysfryboy]

Oh I've had worse moments...believe me. And I should have undoubtedly handled it differently, but the exasperation of how that board was moderated was too much. Don't worry. We all learn and move on.

And I did send him a PM with an apology the next day. Not sure he got it though because I never got any sort of response.

Yet you immediately put the banning in your scoop signature like a badge of honor.