Dearest moderators,

[Versatile]

Social media killed the message board star.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

People who decry what this board has become ... seriously ... wtf did you want it to be?
It's a board. It was never meant to be Hogwarts.

 

[Versatile]

A SportsJournalists.com sorting hat would be fun.

 

[Walter Lippmann]

Many clamoring for a more-professional veneer are also some of the most prolific posters in threads discussing teen girls, teacher-student sex, and porn.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Perhaps. But they don't drip sarcasm with every post, either.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Don't feign surprise that a few ****tards here have tried to get dudes fired.

at the very least, it is tough to forget the firestorm regarding old_tony and cadet years ago.

I would love to be able to discuss journalism and its tenets here, for both personal interest and professional reasons. But due to multiple factors, it is better that i just read this place. And that is very limited now anyway, as a lot of the topics I enjoy regarding journalism and sport seldom gain traction in this particular corner of the internet.

So....... I think my borrowing this old name, and this name itself, has long since run its course.

See you in the (online) funny papers.

And does this sincere, heartfelt farewell count if he pops up again as one of his many sock puppets?

 

[JRoyal]

What made this board great in 2005? Was it the intellectually stimulating posts, camaraderie, or the fact newspapers were still kickin' ass and takin' names?

Newspapers were kicking ass and taking names in 2005?

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Don't feign surprise that a few ****tards here have tried to get dudes fired.

at the very least, it is tough to forget the firestorm regarding old_tony and cadet years ago.

I would love to be able to discuss journalism and its tenets here, for both personal interest and professional reasons. But due to multiple factors, it is better that i just read this place. And that is very limited now anyway, as a lot of the topics I enjoy regarding journalism and sport seldom gain traction in this particular corner of the internet.

So....... I think my borrowing this old name, and this name itself, has long since run its course.

See you in the (online) funny papers.

And does this sincere, heartfelt farewell count if he pops up again as one of his many sock puppets?

Meatie is acting nobly.
He's not starting a thread to announce he's nuking.
Meatie was a leader around here. We need more of it.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Yes. He was a throwback to a kinder, gentler time.

(Damn, I love speaking of him in the past tense.)

 

[Riptide]

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[Versatile]

He didn't say he was leaving. Read closer.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hence the reference to the sock puppet. Read closer.

 

[old_tony]

Don't feign surprise that a few ****tards here have tried to get dudes fired.

at the very least, it is tough to forget the firestorm regarding old_tony and cadet years ago.

I would love to be able to discuss journalism and its tenets here, for both personal interest and professional reasons. But due to multiple factors, it is better that i just read this place. And that is very limited now anyway, as a lot of the topics I enjoy regarding journalism and sport seldom gain traction in this particular corner of the internet.

So....... I think my borrowing this old name, and this name itself, has long since run its course.

See you in the (online) funny papers.

If you're going to bring it up again, I am going to once again say that I didn't have a clue who cadet was then and I still don't now. And I wouldn't give a ****, either, but for the fact that she lied and libeled me. The only thing I ever knew about her was that she was a woman who couldn't stand anyone who was pro-life. The accusation she made was and remains bull****.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

I know nothing of it and am sorry you have carried this yoke if untrue.
That was not the only recorded incident of this.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Yes. He was a throwback to a kinder, gentler time.

(Damn, I love speaking of him in the past tense.)

Maybe you could consider settling a peace with Meatie.
So we can all have fun on this message board.
This is called Fart being a leader.