Re: Brown - Oops! They did it again.
At first it was kind of cute how you guys always stick up for each other, but now it's just getting annoying.
If you want people to stop assuming notfromaround here is digit then say who it is. If you don't want to say who it is then let people assume its whoever. No one cares who it actually is. People are just getting fed up with someone calling out everyone who they think has some fake identity, when all we know is nfah is some imaginary person with all the answers but no where to be found.
OK, you can stop with the "it" pronoun. I have an x an y chromosome. I'm pretty sure that Digit doesn't fit that description.
And fan007 seems to have spent his (or hers, I'm not sure yet) entire afternoon researching my posting history to try to figure out who I am, although I'm not really sure why.
It is people like fan007 that give me very good reason why I don't leave public comments as to who I am. Quite frankly, I don't want my daughter's picture on a milk carton.
And yes, there are other several members here who do know who I am, have met me in person, and know my daughter, several of whom haven't even participated in this thread.
And as to "sticking up for each other", it would seem that there are two bunches of us here. The ones calling for Digit's head seem to be fairly new members (all have joined within a month or so of the various Brown threads being started) and for the most part over 90% of their posts are on the Brown threads. The rest of us are pretty much members who have been around a few years, have interests (as expressed in other threads) that go far beyond Brown hockey, but pretty much share the notion that new members advertising themselves as parents of current players (cookie)shouldn't call for the coach's head on a public forum. Yeah, others, yourself included have joined in the fray, and if not for cookie's stoking this (and the other) Brown thread, I and most of the rest of us wouldn't be here.
In other threads, the rest of us often disagree with each other, but it doesn't get nearly as heated as this thread has become. And at the end of the day, we all like to set back with a whoopie pie and appreciate what a great forum this is.
None of us oldtimers are "single issue" posters and would love it if the rest of you could chill out, join a few other discussions (the olympic thread has been quite good at times) and find something else to hunt rather than the coach's head.
As to the issue of people calling out others who may be faking their identity (I assume here you are talking about me here), yes, I do question cookie's identity. She came on this forum with a single purpose which many of us found objecionable because of her stated role. I participate on a variety of forums of different interests (Brown Hockey is not a significant factor in my life). One thing they all have in common is something call a troll. A troll, is a new member who comes on and immediately starts making posts that are intentionally inflammatory to the norms of the forum community. Cookie, and several others here happen to fall into this category of troll.
This forum is rather unusual in that many ban trolls when they see them. The moderators here don't ban trolls that I've seen, although they occasionally do ban members. I know because I have had a hand in one particular member being banned. This particular member went to great lenghts to not only insult womens hockey, but also made a pattern of sexist posts about various female members in the womens forum. And yes, I did turn that member in. I have not reported cookie, as what she is doing (at least if she is who she says she is) is not in violation of forum rules. While she doesn't seem to have violated stated forum rules, her whole agenda is objectionable to me and several others here.
If I do find that she is other than she says she is, that I think would be grounds for the moderator to review. I do question how a mother can so recklessly risk her daughter's reputation by posting what she does, hence my questioning her true identity. And so far, nobody here has actually said that they have indeed met cookie and she really is who she says she is. Very strange because she seems to say that she always seems to be around the Brown parents in the stands, but nobody recognizes her. Perhaps she is who she says she is and knows what she is doing would not be looked favorably by other Brown parents. However, it is also likely that she is not a parent.
Sorry about the long rant, but I thought I might clear the air about some issues here.
