The House of Blue

**Standing ovation**

By and large, Joker Phillips and his staff recruited and signed kids that simply weren't good enough to win games in the SEC. His classes have been ranked at the bottom of the league since he's been at UK. Yup, I've had no problem calling that out and maintaining that if UK is ever going to turn the corner, they need a staff in place that can sign considerably highler caliber players that the current staff has proven they can do. If not, they need a staff that can coach kids up better than their peers. This staff could do neither. It was obvious, and I had no problem pointing it out. Sorry that the truth was/is so hurtful.

I love when u drop by pure greatness +1

Too personal and too much language. Edited the original a bit and edited those that quoted original.

The language used certainly mattered. Look, you can attack arguments and posts, but not people. It's that simple.

If you want to get into a back-and-forth with someone that gets personal, you can do it via private message and save the rest of the board from having to deal with it.

If you want to pick apart someone's argument and tell them why they're wrong - that's fine. Just don't call them names while doing it.

We don't let anyone post unchecked - that's the whole point ... and it's why so many people are leaving other boards and joining ours.

Do we want paying customers, sure. Yes. 100%. Absolutely. But if those paying customers attack other posters they'll be gone - addition by subtraction. If there is one particular poster you don't like, all you have to do is hit the ignore button and you won't have to read any of their posts.

There are "Negative Nancies" on every site. The best way to get rid of them is have all the positive posters drown (type) them out. Don't feed the trolls. Don't reply to their posts, etc. Start a positive thread for each of their negative threads. Lots of ways to do it without calling someone a

Kevin, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but this little pissing contest (won by our boy Eric btw) brought a bunch of people over to watch. Former posters. Good posters. I think maybe it behooves tcp to let us use minter as our little whipping boy. It will drive traffic. Lol

Look, this is your community. If you want the community to have a certain tone and tenor then I say help set it. And it isn't dying, either. It's growing. Much more quickly now that it has in the last year - and faster than any of our competitors.

If you want it to be more positive, then be more positive. We're here to moderate for language, attacks, etc., but we would love for you guys to set the tone.

The poster you guys complain about has lots of negative things to say about the football program, the AD, etc. That said, I haven't seen him attack a poster or call anyone a name. If he does that, I'll take appropriate action. If he did that and I missed it, I'm sorry. It wasn't intentional. I don't know the guy from Adam and couldn't pick him out of a lineup. And if he posts what warmother posts - especially AFTER folks were asked to tone it down - then he'll get banned, too.

BTW, warmother isn't a paying customer - not that that matters. He canceled over a year ago.

If the tone isn't going the way you want to, be a part of the solution. If there is a poster that pushes your buttons, use the ignore feature. Start new topics.

Some did a nice job using said posters own words to make a great point. Just didn't need to call him a while doing it. That's all.

Best way to stop posters you don't like from ruling the roost is ruling it yourself and encouraging others to do the same - which is what we're trying to do here.

This is gonna be a crazy time with hoops starting and a coaching search. SHould be lots of excitement, anticipation and positive buzz around the programs. Should be a great run. I hope you'll continue to be part of it.

Would you like a cookie for being right?

Yeah, my bad. and thanks for the edit, Board Police.

Livin' in a MinterFantasyland.