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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
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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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Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

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  • #76
    Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

    Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
    An important stat that has been overlooked so far.

    We had 17 turnovers. So, one would expect that the Heat had a lot of fast breaks, right? Right?

    Wrong! They had only had 6 fast break points in the whole game. In comparison, we scored 12 fast break points out of Miami's 11 turnovers.

    That's the difference between this game and the West coast games.

    We had 18 turnovers in Denver. They scored 21 fast break points.

    We had 21 turnovers in Utah. They scored 18 fast break points.

    It's not only the amount of turnovers that matter. It's the type of turnovers that matter the most. Dead ball turnovers are not as costly as stolen passed or picked pockets.
    thing is.. i don t see how it will improve even with granger returning. does it bcome even worse. still Granger is a plus.

    Lance at point certainly will not help turnovers. George Hill although quiet is the Glue for this team in the backcourt.

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    • #77
      Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

      Wow what a game.

      It has been touched on already, but I will add that Lance is the total X factor for this team right now. He apparently knocked Lefraud and Dewanda off their "focus" with his swagger and trash talking, and his ability to back it up. I dont' think Wade's athleticism and strength works against Lance, as he probably has a good 20 lbs on Wade and is every bit as strong as Wade. Lance is just a plain fun to watch, he that killer type of player who is relentless.

      PG had an all around good game, but I wish he was a bit more aggressive against Lebron. Though they were bringing the double team on George above the arc. So he did the right thing most of the night and passed it up.

      We had a handful of possessions where our wings got trapped above the 3pt line and we end up just chucking a terrible shot or getting a shot clock violation. I do not understand this team's inability to drive the ball. Infact I'd garner to say that if we ever need to just get a shot it should be given to West every time. He knows how to make a move to get himself a shot.

      I think there will be another thread about this so I wont' get into it here, but we had probably a 40% Heat crowd on a Friday night sell out game with no other major events going on. Pathetic for this city and it was talked about on the post game radio show.
      Last edited by graphic-er; 02-02-2013, 01:33 AM.
      You can't get champagne from a garden hose.

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      • #78
        Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

        did you all see Gerald Greene late in the 4th. he was cheering so enthusiastically i believe he inspired the team onto victory! great game tonight by Greene

        ** guess i should add this is litterally green

        what a dissappointment.. and we coulda had delfino. OJ has really stepped up
        Last edited by PacersPride; 02-02-2013, 01:45 AM.

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        • #79
          Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

          I don't get to many games, but pizza gal and I were there for this one. First half, I was frustrated by the Heat fans and their noise. But, second half, they shut up, and about halfway through the fourth quarter they started filing out.

          Miami never had any rhythm, while the Pacers were never rattled by anything. Roy maybe didn't have a big stat line, but I thought he made a couple big plays. DWest, obviously, owned this game. PaulStar was tough, impressive as usual.

          Our homecourt advantage is amazing. We own Miami at home. Gotta find a way to continue that on the road.
          It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.

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          • #80
            Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

            As good as lance played he could of had another 4-6 points. Quite a few times he had his guy isolated and you could tell he wanted to take him but played within the offense. Once he gets the green light to start to take his man baseline he is going to really shine.

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            • #81
              Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

              i dont know if it has been touched on but what a very solid game by hansbrough. really good role player off the bench. I would really not like to see us lose him. i dont know what he expects to be paid but the cat is a winner. and gives it all. he played solid tonight.

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              • #82
                Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                I was reading the Heat's game thread in RealGM and here's a post that I loved.

                Originally posted by Heat fan
                On a negative note, people can talk all they want about coasting this or coasting that and wait until the playoffs, but I don't want any part of the Pacers. They've absolutely destroyed us WITHOUT Granger. I don't want to see these guys in the playoffs.
                http://forums.realgm.com/boards/view...9964&start=435

                It's an interesting thread. It's big (49 pages) but it's always nice to see what the opposing fans think of your team
                Originally posted by IrishPacer
                Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                • #83
                  Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                  Originally posted by PacersPride View Post
                  i dont know if it has been touched on but what a very solid game by hansbrough. really good role player off the bench. I would really not like to see us lose him. i dont know what he expects to be paid but the cat is a winner. and gives it all. he played solid tonight.
                  Hansbrough is perplexing. He is a good back up but chances are that he will not develop into a great starter. But he plays with all his heart and you have to love that.

                  He is also an excellent FT shooter for a big. I just wish that he is going to be able to find his jump shot once more
                  Originally posted by IrishPacer
                  Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                  • #84
                    Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                    Random, but I was looking at the Heat RealGM boards and I saw some dude post this:

                    "I keep hearing the Pacer players yell "And 1" on jumpshots..."

                    David West>>
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                    • #85
                      Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                      Originally posted by Pace Maker View Post
                      Random, but I was looking at the Heat RealGM boards and I saw some dude post this:

                      "I keep hearing the Pacer players yell "And 1" on jumpshots..."

                      David West>>
                      Yeah. Well, he's right

                      I think that Lance does it sometimes as well.
                      Last edited by Nuntius; 02-02-2013, 02:32 AM.
                      Originally posted by IrishPacer
                      Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                      • #86
                        Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                        Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
                        Yeah. Well, he's true

                        I think that Lance does it sometimes as well.
                        I think west does it for everyone lmao

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                        • #87
                          Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                          Originally posted by ThA HoyA View Post
                          I think west does it for everyone lmao
                          That could certainly be the case
                          Originally posted by IrishPacer
                          Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                          • #88
                            Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                            Originally posted by docpaul View Post
                            That's another amazing stat:

                            Ray Allen has only had three scoreless games... his entire career.

                            Two of them have been against the Pacers... this year.
                            That's just sweet icing on the cake.....
                            Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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                            • #89
                              Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                              Favorite part of the game....asking the massive douche bag in the heat shirt in front of me to read me the score board to me half way through the fourth 'cause my old eyes couldn't quite make out the numbers.

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                              • #90
                                Re: Pacers/Heat Postgame Thread 2/1/13

                                I brought my friend who's a Bulls fan and he would not stop cheering for the Pacers. Surprisingly he said it had more to do with his love of the way the Pacers play than it was just rooting against the Heat.

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