Ladies and Gentlemen,
This site has never been the most endearing to the club or even parts of our own fanbase. A common piece of feedback I receive privately is that some find it too negative or drama-filled, which is why many choose to stay away. At times we clash hard and put each other down, the club, the players, and even Super, who pays for this site out of his own pocket. Some of this could understandably offend players’ families. In conversations I’ve had with people within the club’s hierarchy, the club takes a fairly open-minded view and accepts that it can’t control what others say or think. That’s a mature approach.
That said, I believe the majority of us are good eggs, mean well, even if some are rough around the edges and a small minority hold more extreme views. Over the past decade, I’ve met many wonderful people through this site, some of whom I now count as close friends and have learned a great deal from. You’re a big reason I’m still here and why I care about this community.
If you’re willing, I’d appreciate your thoughts on the direction the site should take. Ultimately, Super will decide, but it’s helpful to understand how people feel, here or privately, on:
- Current affairs and political blogs: Even if personally enjoy them, these often become the most feral and attract extremist views, especially in challenging times. They can flood the site and turn off many who simply want to talk footy, the one thing we all share. Life has enough dramas.
- Moving these blogs to The Cave: Making them members-only may be a win-win, it allows discussions without overwhelming those who’d want to avoid it.
- Any other ideas for improving the site.
Please don’t comment on political, religious or current affairs issues in this blog. This is about improving the site, not saving the world from an apocalypse.
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Wasn't he banned from displaying his flag ? If so he was banned unless he agreed to being discriminated against ?
Chief, Pops, I know you're both not gullible. It's fake news. Frankie is a perennial pot stirrer. It reminds me of a 13yo I know at my daughter’s school. Every classroom has at least one student who tries to hijack the class or get a rise out of others, seeking attention.
1. This had nothing to do with Brett. Fake news. Plenty of people publicly disagreed with Super’s decision to suspend Brett. Were any of them suspended?
2. Super’s “suspension” of Wiz is not a “ban,” despite how it’s been framed. It's misleading for a reason. Calling it a ban is misleading language designed to make it sound harsher than it is. Pushing a narrative.
3. There is no mysterious “they, banned” as Frankie claims. Again more misleading rhetoric, to invent the narrative, a victim versus the Leftie mob storyline, and "perception" that does not exist in reality. He regularly wheelbarrows that narrative. It's nothing new, nor unexpected. It could be a projection.
4. Super is the sole arbitrator of suspensions, bans or deleting of accounts. For the record, I like Wiz and have told Super that directly. In one-on-one conversations, Wiz has always struck me as a good person who can be reasoned with. That said, there are also plenty of people who are unhappy with his carry on privately. What happens next is a matter for Wiz and Super. Spreading false rumours is unlikely to help Wiz’s cause.
5. On Brett, I'm not sure where that is at. It doesn't look hopeful of a resolution. At the end of the day, we're a footy forum, not a political site who promote and advertises politics 24/7, especially in these challenging times. If Brett isn't flexible enough, well, maybe Super is within his rights to run the site as he sees fit.
Super owns this site. He pays for it out of his own pocket. Would Frankie allow a minion to tell him how to run his own business? Glass houses. From what Super told me, the issue was specifically how Wiz was carrying on in the Bondi blog, where he crossed lines. Super does his best, the mods do their best. That is all anyone reasonably minded can expect.
So asking the the question if they banned Wiz because he voiced his disagreement with brett's banning to what Electric eel posted is called Stirring the pot ?
Yes, Frankie, you did pot-stir using "fake news". You have a long history of pot-stirring, belittling others and aggressiveness. If you can't see it, I can't help you.
You didn't ask "why" was Wiz suspended, you said: "So they banned Wiz for because he voiced his disagreement of Brett's banning?🤣🤣🤣🤣 "
The only thing true about your sarcastic mocking "question" is 'Wiz". Everything else is bollocks.
You asserted a false premise wrapped in sarcasm, to push the narrative of a Victim-Blame-Game. Classic Pot Stirring.
Yes in response to electric eel posting that Wiz was banned because he voiced his disagreement to Brett's banning .
Not exactly correct chief, he was banned for displaying the flag and was only allowed back if he removed the flag. This is discrimination and imo appalling behaviour by super.
HFK, are you banned for disagreeing with Super? Is anyone else? Wiz hasn't been suspended for that. It's for other reasons. Pot stirrers are spreading fake news.
I dont know what Wiz did, good bad indifferent, no idea what happened, and i dont know him personally. I do know that i enjoy the site better with Wiz being Wiz and commenting.
If he has overstepped, i'm sure it won't be long before he is back.
I'm talking about Brett Allen not wiz.
It seems only people that disagree with super get banned, randy got quite personal with some of his rants and yet he wasn't banned. No, I am not asking for or suggesting randy should have been banned, I am just pointing out there seems to be a biased based on left or right points of view on who gets banned.
Thanks for the info. Don't know precisely what he said but it was said at an emotionally charged time.
Many of us would strongly object to a long Wiz ban, a time-out would seem to suffice. He has a singular style of posting and when in form he is a force of nature who can pull a good laugh. He skates close to the edge, out on the thin stuff, and sometimes you break the ice. It's your own fault, but when valuable things falll in a hole you don't you don't cover the hole, you pull them out, give em a hot minute to dry off and sharpen their skates, then head off again...together.
He should be told what is happening snd in my opinion.....FREE WIZ
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