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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

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  • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

    Originally posted by Johanvil View Post
    And to top it off you also had to to see Jennings signing for the Vikings... I feel you, man.
    Oh man, don't even get me started...

    Such a crappy sports day.

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    • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

      Originally posted by Pacergeek View Post
      You guys can fool yourself into thinking 30-9 is a well officiated game, I'm not buying it for one second
      The refs were incompetent, yes. But as much as I hate to say it, it was very equal opportunity incompetence.

      The Lakers got just as many dumb calls against them as we did.

      Now, the fact that Roy and Ian got saddled with so many early fouls DID have a huge impact, but whether those calls were legitimate or questionable, I cannot answer right at this moment.

      But both teams had the right to be upset about calls tonight, and THANK GOODNESS none of them were late in the game. I don't know how many more times I can do that whole song and dance.

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      • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

        Originally posted by Justin Tyme View Post
        TROLLING??

        They are expressing an opinion that has some validity to it. Since when is that trolling? Or is the word trolling used like the word hate where anything deemed negative is trolling or hate?
        It just kinda comes off as trolling when he says things like "You can't win with George Hill as your starting PG" and then goes on to say we need someone like Monta to create his own shot when George was the ONLY person creating his own shot.

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        • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

          Im ****ing disgusted with my hometown and the bandwagoners infesting it tonight.
          "Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

          "And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

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          • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

            Long time observer, first time poster... I say let's not overreact. Yes it's a tough loss to swallow. But it's a long season, with up's and down's. I try not to get too high after a win, or too low after a loss. We're still in second place in the east. And in great position to get to the ecf this year.

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            • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

              Indy fans are the worst. Might as well rename this place Lakersdigest
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              • Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
                George Hill is absolutely right. Want to whine about the performance?

                Then SHOW UP in the damn game. It's as simple as that.

                It was embarrasing seeing so many Lakers fans at the Fieldhouse.
                I don't mind not having sell outs during the week in a long 82 game season. But how is it that the 14th largest city in the country doesn't have consistent sell outs on Friday nights and the weekends! Especially with a quality team and very affordable ticket prices!

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                • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                  More people were rooting for Metta Word Douchebag than the Pacers tonight. Pathetic.
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                  • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                    Originally posted by 2minutes twoa View Post
                    I don't mind not having sell outs during the week in a long 82 game season. But how is it that the 14th largest city in the country doesn't have consistent sell outs on Friday nights and the weekends! Especially with a quality team and very affordable ticket prices!
                    I don't care about sell outs or overall attendance either. But protect your damn home court, Indy fans. You let the Laker fans take over. Sandman21 is 10000% right. It was embarrasing.

                    PS: That "you" is not aimed to you, 2minutes twoa.
                    Originally posted by IrishPacer
                    Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                    • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                      Go Metta World Peace said Indianapolis
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                      • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                        http://blogs.indystar.com/pacersinsi...ll-transcript/

                        here are times where coaches, players, front officials purposely say things when the media is in the area so that we’ll ask about it.

                        Pacers coach Frank Vogel did that last season in the playoffs when he blew his whistle during practice and pointed out that the Miami Heat like to flop on defense. Vogel could have pointed that out earlier in practice before the media was permitted in. Of course, that was the first thing we asked Vogel when he addressed the media after practice.

                        Former president Larry Bird walked by me in the hallway outside the Pacers locker room in Miami following their blowout loss to the Heat in Game 5 and mentioned about how bad his team was beaten as I was talking to Michael Wallace from ESPN.com. Bird and I spoke on the phone about two hours later where he gave me the great “S-O-F-T” quote.

                        Fast forward to Friday night. Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Pacers. Los Angeles Lakers. Lots of purple and gold in the stands.

                        As we interviewed David West following their bad loss to the Lakers, George Hill was a few feet away talking (pretty loud) to Roy Hibbert about the lack of Pacers fans in the building.
                        Scott Agness (or Young Fella as I call him) from Pacers.com and I asked Hill about all the (Lakers) fans in the building.

                        Hill didn’t back down what he was saying to Hibbert.

                        I’ve decided to post the full transcript of what Hill said.

                        Post your thoughts in the comment section.

                        “It sucks. It was 70 (Lakers fans) – 30 (Pacers fans) out there. These are the same people that wants autographs after the game. We’re out there in the community. We’re doing our job, doing what we’re supposed to do on and off the court. Something has to change. I tip my hat to this team. We’ve been trouble free. Been out in the community shaking hands, we’re winning. It shouldn’t feel like an away game, especially with an important like this. Tonight, that’s what it felt like.”

                        “They always say your fans are your sixth man and you feed off that energy. Energy is down and we turn the ball over and we’re hearing cheers. We’re missing shots and we’re hearing cheers. That kind of brings your head down cause you know you’re at home. It shouldn’t be like that. Now we see how it is. We have to move forward, don’t worry about. Stay focus on what’s in this locker room and don’t worry about the rest.”

                        “(We’re) not a team that’s in the bottom in the East. We’re one of the top three teams in the East. We’re winning the Central Division and it should show. Right now it’s not and it’s been all season long where it’s not showing and I don’t think there’s nothing else we can do as an organization and as players. Now it’s up to the community.”

                        Your thoughts?
                        Brandon Bisker ‏@BadBisky

                        Hill's comments made SportsCenter. The pathetic Indy fans getting clowned for how bad they suck.
                        Last edited by Sandman21; 03-16-2013, 01:49 AM.
                        "Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

                        "And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

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                        • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                          Where are those people saying they wouldn't take Dwight Howard for Roy Hibbert at? I would have done it for the rental even to get out of Roy's money owed, maybe make a run with Dwight and convince him to stay.
                          "It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."

                          ----------------- Reggie Miller

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                          • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                            After tonight I'm thinking we don't get out of the second round.

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                            • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                              Can we talk about Paul George specifically? The rest of the guys...they are what they are. But I'm starting to get really disappointed in PG24, even considering I know it's very much a timeline of "getting it" that may not come into full effect for another few years. I get that, but still, this has been a month of him just playing so damn lackadaisically. It's almost infectious, and it's taking over almost every aspect of his game. It's not like "he looks like he doesn't wanna be out there" ... that's freaking dumb. But it just looks like "well...I guess I'll do this and...no, that didn't work....well, shucks, maybe next time!"

                              It's 3am so none of that makes sense, I'm sure, but the way he's playing is just really grating to me right now.

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                              • Re: Pacers/Lakers Postgame Thread 3/15/13

                                Originally posted by Dr. Hibbert View Post
                                Can we talk about Paul George specifically? The rest of the guys...they are what they are. But I'm starting to get really disappointed in PG24, even considering I know it's very much a timeline of "getting it" that may not come into full effect for another few years. I get that, but still, this has been a month of him just playing so damn lackadaisically. It's almost infectious, and it's taking over almost every aspect of his game. It's not like "he looks like he doesn't wanna be out there" ... that's freaking dumb. But it just looks like "well...I guess I'll do this and...no, that didn't work....well, shucks, maybe next time!"

                                It's 3am so none of that makes sense, I'm sure, but the way he's playing is just really grating to me right now.
                                I've been working so much that I haven't been able to see many games lately, but that was my concern early in the year. I really hope he hasn't gone back to this. This team has not been playing well lately though, I have been expecting losses.

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