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Whether your are a long standing forum member or whether you have just registered today, it's a good idea to read and review the rules below so that you have a very good idea of what to expect when you come to Pacers Digest.

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Why do we do this? So that it's more difficult for spammers (be they human or robot) to post, and so users who are banned cannot immediately re-register and start dousing people with verbal flames.

Below are the rules of Pacers Digest. After you have read them, you will have a very good sense of where we are coming from, what we expect, what we don't want to see, and how we react to things.

Rule #1

Pacers Digest is intended to be a place to discuss basketball without having to deal with the kinds of behaviors or attitudes that distract people from sticking with the discussion of the topics at hand. These unwanted distractions can come in many forms, and admittedly it can sometimes be tricky to pin down each and every kind that can rear its ugly head, but we feel that the following examples and explanations cover at least a good portion of that ground and should at least give people a pretty good idea of the kinds of things we actively discourage:

"Anyone who __________ is a liar / a fool / an idiot / a blind homer / has their head buried in the sand / a blind hater / doesn't know basketball / doesn't watch the games"

"People with intelligence will agree with me when I say that __________"

"Only stupid people think / believe / do ___________"

"I can't wait to hear something from PosterX when he/she sees that **insert a given incident or current event that will have probably upset or disappointed PosterX here**"

"He/she is just delusional"

"This thread is stupid / worthless / embarrassing"

"I'm going to take a moment to point and / laugh at PosterX / GroupOfPeopleY who thought / believed *insert though/belief here*"

"Remember when PosterX said OldCommentY that no longer looks good? "

In general, if a comment goes from purely on topic to something 'ad hominem' (personal jabs, personal shots, attacks, flames, however you want to call it, towards a person, or a group of people, or a given city/state/country of people), those are most likely going to be found intolerable.

We also dissuade passive aggressive behavior. This can be various things, but common examples include statements that are basically meant to imply someone is either stupid or otherwise incapable of holding a rational conversation. This can include (but is not limited to) laughing at someone's conclusions rather than offering an honest rebuttal, asking people what game they were watching, or another common problem is Poster X will say "that player isn't that bad" and then Poster Y will say something akin to "LOL you think that player is good". We're not going to tolerate those kinds of comments out of respect for the community at large and for the sake of trying to just have an honest conversation.

Now, does the above cover absolutely every single kind of distraction that is unwanted? Probably not, but you should by now have a good idea of the general types of things we will be discouraging. The above examples are meant to give you a good feel for / idea of what we're looking for. If something new or different than the above happens to come along and results in the same problem (that being, any other attitude or behavior that ultimately distracts from actually just discussing the topic at hand, or that is otherwise disrespectful to other posters), we can and we will take action to curb this as well, so please don't take this to mean that if you managed to technically avoid saying something exactly like one of the above examples that you are then somehow off the hook.

That all having been said, our goal is to do so in a generally kind and respectful way, and that doesn't mean the moment we see something we don't like that somebody is going to be suspended or banned, either. It just means that at the very least we will probably say something about it, quite possibly snipping out the distracting parts of the post in question while leaving alone the parts that are actually just discussing the topics, and in the event of a repeating or excessive problem, then we will start issuing infractions to try to further discourage further repeat problems, and if it just never seems to improve, then finally suspensions or bans will come into play. We would prefer it never went that far, and most of the time for most of our posters, it won't ever have to.

A slip up every once and a while is pretty normal, but, again, when it becomes repetitive or excessive, something will be done. Something occasional is probably going to be let go (within reason), but when it starts to become habitual or otherwise a pattern, odds are very good that we will step in.

There's always a small minority that like to push people's buttons and/or test their own boundaries with regards to the administrators, and in the case of someone acting like that, please be aware that this is not a court of law, but a private website run by people who are simply trying to do the right thing as they see it. If we feel that you are a special case that needs to be dealt with in an exceptional way because your behavior isn't explicitly mirroring one of our above examples of what we generally discourage, we can and we will take atypical action to prevent this from continuing if you are not cooperative with us.

Also please be aware that you will not be given a pass simply by claiming that you were 'only joking,' because quite honestly, when someone really is just joking, for one thing most people tend to pick up on the joke, including the person or group that is the target of the joke, and for another thing, in the event where an honest joke gets taken seriously and it upsets or angers someone, the person who is truly 'only joking' will quite commonly go out of his / her way to apologize and will try to mend fences. People who are dishonest about their statements being 'jokes' do not do so, and in turn that becomes a clear sign of what is really going on. It's nothing new.

In any case, quite frankly, the overall quality and health of the entire forum's community is more important than any one troublesome user will ever be, regardless of exactly how a problem is exhibiting itself, and if it comes down to us having to make a choice between you versus the greater health and happiness of the entire community, the community of this forum will win every time.

Lastly, there are also some posters, who are generally great contributors and do not otherwise cause any problems, who sometimes feel it's their place to provoke or to otherwise 'mess with' that small minority of people described in the last paragraph, and while we possibly might understand why you might feel you WANT to do something like that, the truth is we can't actually tolerate that kind of behavior from you any more than we can tolerate the behavior from them. So if we feel that you are trying to provoke those other posters into doing or saying something that will get themselves into trouble, then we will start to view you as a problem as well, because of the same reason as before: The overall health of the forum comes first, and trying to stir the pot with someone like that doesn't help, it just makes it worse. Some will simply disagree with this philosophy, but if so, then so be it because ultimately we have to do what we think is best so long as it's up to us.

If you see a problem that we haven't addressed, the best and most appropriate course for a forum member to take here is to look over to the left of the post in question. See underneath that poster's name, avatar, and other info, down where there's a little triangle with an exclamation point (!) in it? Click that. That allows you to report the post to the admins so we can definitely notice it and give it a look to see what we feel we should do about it. Beyond that, obviously it's human nature sometimes to want to speak up to the poster in question who has bothered you, but we would ask that you try to refrain from doing so because quite often what happens is two or more posters all start going back and forth about the original offending post, and suddenly the entire thread is off topic or otherwise derailed. So while the urge to police it yourself is understandable, it's best to just report it to us and let us handle it. Thank you!

All of the above is going to be subject to a case by case basis, but generally and broadly speaking, this should give everyone a pretty good idea of how things will typically / most often be handled.

Rule #2

If the actions of an administrator inspire you to make a comment, criticism, or express a concern about it, there is a wrong place and a couple of right places to do so.

The wrong place is to do so in the original thread in which the administrator took action. For example, if a post gets an infraction, or a post gets deleted, or a comment within a larger post gets clipped out, in a thread discussing Paul George, the wrong thing to do is to distract from the discussion of Paul George by adding your off topic thoughts on what the administrator did.

The right places to do so are:

A) Start a thread about the specific incident you want to talk about on the Feedback board. This way you are able to express yourself in an area that doesn't throw another thread off topic, and this way others can add their two cents as well if they wish, and additionally if there's something that needs to be said by the administrators, that is where they will respond to it.

B) Send a private message to the administrators, and they can respond to you that way.

If this is done the wrong way, those comments will be deleted, and if it's a repeating problem then it may also receive an infraction as well.

Rule #3

If a poster is bothering you, and an administrator has not or will not deal with that poster to the extent that you would prefer, you have a powerful tool at your disposal, one that has recently been upgraded and is now better than ever: The ability to ignore a user.

When you ignore a user, you will unfortunately still see some hints of their existence (nothing we can do about that), however, it does the following key things:

A) Any post they make will be completely invisible as you scroll through a thread.

B) The new addition to this feature: If someone QUOTES a user you are ignoring, you do not have to read who it was, or what that poster said, unless you go out of your way to click on a link to find out who it is and what they said.

To utilize this feature, from any page on Pacers Digest, scroll to the top of the page, look to the top right where it says 'Settings' and click that. From the settings page, look to the left side of the page where it says 'My Settings', and look down from there until you see 'Edit Ignore List' and click that. From here, it will say 'Add a Member to Your List...' Beneath that, click in the text box to the right of 'User Name', type in or copy & paste the username of the poster you are ignoring, and once their name is in the box, look over to the far right and click the 'Okay' button. All done!

Rule #4

Regarding infractions, currently they carry a value of one point each, and that point will expire in 31 days. If at any point a poster is carrying three points at the same time, that poster will be suspended until the oldest of the three points expires.

Rule #5

When you share or paste content or articles from another website, you must include the URL/link back to where you found it, who wrote it, and what website it's from. Said content will be removed if this doesn't happen.

An example:

If I copy and paste an article from the Indianapolis Star website, I would post something like this:

http://www.linktothearticlegoeshere.com/article
Title of the Article
Author's Name
Indianapolis Star

Rule #6

We cannot tolerate illegal videos on Pacers Digest. This means do not share any links to them, do not mention any websites that host them or link to them, do not describe how to find them in any way, and do not ask about them. Posts doing anything of the sort will be removed, the offenders will be contacted privately, and if the problem becomes habitual, you will be suspended, and if it still persists, you will probably be banned.

The legal means of watching or listening to NBA games are NBA League Pass Broadband (for US, or for International; both cost money) and NBA Audio League Pass (which is free). Look for them on NBA.com.

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Provocative statements in a signature, or as an avatar, or as the 'tagline' beneath a poster's username (where it says 'Member' or 'Administrator' by default, if it is not altered) are an unwanted distraction that will more than likely be removed on sight. There can be shades of gray to this, but in general this could be something political or religious that is likely going to provoke or upset people, or otherwise something that is mean-spirited at the expense of a poster, a group of people, or a population.

It may or may not go without saying, but this goes for threads and posts as well, particularly when it's not made on the off-topic board (Market Square).

We do make exceptions if we feel the content is both innocuous and unlikely to cause social problems on the forum (such as wishing someone a Merry Christmas or a Happy Easter), and we also also make exceptions if such topics come up with regards to a sports figure (such as the Lance Stephenson situation bringing up discussions of domestic abuse and the law, or when Jason Collins came out as gay and how that lead to some discussion about gay rights).

However, once the discussion seems to be more/mostly about the political issues instead of the sports figure or his specific situation, the thread is usually closed.

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We prefer self-restraint and/or modesty when making jokes or off topic comments in a sports discussion thread. They can be fun, but sometimes they derail or distract from a topic, and we don't want to see that happen. If we feel it is a problem, we will either delete or move those posts from the thread.

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We like small signatures, not big signatures. The bigger the signature, the more likely it is an annoying or distracting signature.

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Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

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    Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

    Eric Gordon may be coming back to play for the Hornets soon :: Ball Don't Lie :: Yahoo! Sports

    Originally posted by Dan Devine
    For the New Orleans Hornets, there's nothing but pride left to play for this season. Coach Monty Williams' team stands at 12-37, the second-worst record in the NBA, having lost seven of its last 10 and 14 of its last 20 with a 29th-ranked offense that has averaged less than a point per possession on the year. With a month left in the regular season and no chance at a playoff berth, it would be perfectly understandable if the Hornets just closed up shop, played out the string and rolled up as many losses as possible to keep their ping-pong-ball count high.

    So, naturally, they're expected to bring back long-lost guard Eric Gordon, who was expected to be the team's offensive centerpiece before missing all but two games with a right knee injury, to give the team a shot in the arm for the stretch run. Wait, what?

    Word of Gordon's possible return started to spread Monday after Monty Williams said the injured shooting guard "could be back on the floor in 'five days to a week,'" according to Hornets.com's Jim Eichenhofer. The talk solidified Tuesday, when Gordon was slated to go through a full practice that Jimmy Smith of the New Orleans Times-Picayune called the "final step in [Gordon's] rehabilitation process" after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery on Valentine's Day:
    "I didn't do anything for about 2 1/2, almost three weeks," Gordon said. "Next thing you know, I started lifting on it, and then started running [...] I've had no problems cutting, jumping, and now it's just all about having that comfort level and being ready for contact."
    I'm sure Hornets fans would have liked to see Gordon back on the floor a lot sooner, especially as they've watched the team sink to the very bottom of the Western Conference and struggle mightily to score points, but you can't really blame Gordon for wanting to feel as comfortable as possible and get as close as he can to certainty that he's ready for contact. Remember, back when this injury-plagued season started, Gordon's right knee issues were characterized as soreness; later, after missing four of the Hornets' first five games and aggravating the injury in a Jan. 4, 2012, affair against the Philadelphia 76ers, it was said that he had a "bone bruise."

    For the next six weeks, he sat with that "bone bruise," which wound up being a phenomenal misdiagnosis of a more significant knee problem requiring a procedure to remove cartilage and clean out debris that would necessitate nearly two months of rehab. So, yeah — taking your time and doing it right this time around makes an awful lot of sense, especially when you're a 23-year-old who's just undergone his first surgery and is staring down restricted free agency this summer.

    Of course, he didn't have to have that last bit of uncertainty hanging over his head. Gordon's facing RFA status because he declined to sign a four-year, $50 million extension with New Orleans back in January, thinking he could find something more lucrative and more in line with the big-money deals fellow 2008 draftees Russell Westbrook and Kevin Love got from the Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves, respectively, earlier this season.

    Hindsight being 20/20, it's easy now to view at Gordon's decision as pound-foolish, especially after he's missed 47 games and fans seem to have no recollection of how good he actually is — as proof, check out the baffled public reaction to his new Champs Sports/adidas commercial. He actually is really good, though; now, he's got to prove it.

    Coming off the first serious knee injury of his career, Gordon must show that he can still be the same explosive scorer who averaged 21.3 points per 36 minutes as a 22-year-old. He has to show that he can still space defenses with a sharp 3-point stroke and take advantage of reckless closeouts to make bowling-ball drives to the rim, and that he remains the kind of in-traffic finisher who can give good bigs fits by both taking and delivering punishment at the basket.

    He's got to get out on the floor if he wants to spark bidding interest for his services this offseason — not only from the 29 other teams in the NBA, but from the Hornets themselves; as coach Williams told the Times-Picayune's Smith the team would "need more than 10 or 12 games to get a good look at somebody" who'd require "the kind of investment [the Hornets are] talking about making" in Gordon. (Including Wednesday night's meeting with the Golden State Warriors, the Hornets have 17 games left on the schedule.)

    So it's a pretty big month for Eric Gordon. Given how precarious the team's roster situation looks for 2012-13 and beyond (which we looked at before the trade deadline), and how important it is for Williams and GM Dell Demps to decide whether they think Gordon's a legitimate building block moving forward, it's a pretty big month for the Hornets, too. The real winners here, at long last, look to be Hornets fans — at least they'll have something worth keeping an eye on.
    More reading: New Orleans Hornets guard Eric Gordon looking to make return - Nola.com
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    Re: Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

    I'm very Leary of Eric Gordon and his balky knee. I think the Pacers should just stick with Paul George and look for an upgrade at PG. Even if they have to make due with Hill and Collison, I'm fine with that because I have serious doubts about EJ's ability to stay healthy.

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      Re: Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

      I love EJ as much as anyone but he is too risky health and money wise. If everyone was well aware (like Oden) I'd say go for it. Not the case, though.
      Senior at the University of Louisville.
      Greenfield ---> The Ville

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        Re: Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

        I've liked EJ since I saw him at IU. I'm not from Indiana so I don't have any 'attachment' like some around here do to him. He is a damn good player. I went to a Clippers vs Kings game last year and EJ was on fire, I think he hit like 6 of 7 from 3.

        But the kid clearly has injury problems, going back to IU even. Way too risky to sign him to the money he is gonna get. And I really like the Granger/George combo at the wings. If we signed Gordon either PG gets moved to the bench or Granger gets traded. I don't see a George/Gordon duo being better than George/Granger honestly.

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          Re: Report: Eric Gordon Close to Return

          Originally posted by ilive4sports View Post
          I've liked EJ since I saw him at IU. I'm not from Indiana so I don't have any 'attachment' like some around here do to him. He is a damn good player. I went to a Clippers vs Kings game last year and EJ was on fire, I think he hit like 6 of 7 from 3.

          But the kid clearly has injury problems, going back to IU even. Way too risky to sign him to the money he is gonna get. And I really like the Granger/George combo at the wings. If we signed Gordon either PG gets moved to the bench or Granger gets traded. I don't see a George/Gordon duo being better than George/Granger honestly.
          I'd rather way and try for James Harden next year.

          Not like it matters, the owner doesn't like going after RFA.
          First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.

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