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Originally posted by Jersey9er:
Thanks, I gotta say damn brotha (EVIL), ur like an OG of this site with over 10000 posts.

thanks for the info again

Originally posted by Oscar:
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(Updated 8/12/08)

Originally posted by SunnyD1182:

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During games, there will be a Game Day thread where users who do not feel like entering the chat can still post. The thread is for all game day related comments. Please do not start new threads that are just comments as they will be deleted and the user warned. Analysis, though, can be in it's own thread.

This is entirely too vague.

If you're going to make this a warnable offense on top of deleting the post, you need to set forth what exactly constitutes "comment" and what constitutes "analysis."

It is entirely possible for a comment to be analysis and for an analysis to be a comment.

This is exactly the type of thing I was talking about in our huge debate a few days ago. The vaguery is what leads to moderator abuse of power and miscommunication with the members. The mere act of posting the rules, by itself, does not constitute fairness or good policy. The act of setting forth rules that are easily understandable and easily interpreted, as well as easily applied, is good policy.

Originally posted by evil:

Originally posted by kidash98:
signed...

- 98

cosigned.