Well, if the ACLU can defend Oliver North, I suppose I can defend Vurbie. Lord knows, I've bashed him enough elsewhere.
I just scanned Vurbano's last month worth of posts, just because I'm a voyeur and wanted to see what I had missed out on, and I was disappointed to not find a single one that I regarded as objectionable.
Admittedly, I have a hide like an elephant. Unlike most people here and in other internet forums who have found their "voice"" in internet era, I come from a world in which people communicate eyeball-to-eyeball, and if anyone says to me, "F-you", I can at least say back to them, "Oh yeah? Well F-YOU!!", without even flinching.
I've seen one discussion forum after another hosted in sites that were primarily profession or trade sites get shut down just because there are a lot more people who can dish it than who can take it. Then they go crying to the moderators who either take sides, which is a losing game, or they just get fed up with wasting time catering to the wants and needs of "contributors" who contribute nothing to mission of the forum, which is to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas of people within the trade ort industry group. Even at this site, the Political Forum has been closed a few times and now is in a restricted area.
I've noticed that the most active participants in this sub-forum migrated here from DBSForums. I've also noticed that none of them post in any other forums here and as far as I can tell, have no ties to the satellite industry. Do any of you understand why Dan Collins didn't lift a finger to facilitate the archiving of The Sports Forum at DBSForums? The Sports Forum traffic at DBSForums didn't mean just very little to him. It meant NOTHING. N-O-T-H-I-N-G. The people actively posting in the Sports Forum were simply squatters.
Scott may not have the exact same perspective on the value of sports-only posters that Dan Collins did, because Scott is running this site as a business and there may be some small benefit he gets from getting more cumulative "clicks" and "visits", but that benefit has to be very, very small. I regard this thread as petty and something that may further sour the administration here regarding maintaining a Sports Forum. Vurbano is the only screen name I see posting regularly here who is actually a contributor to substantive threads pertaining to the satellite broadcasting industry. The rest of you are squatters. That makes him more important to this site than you are.
If it bothers you that Vurbano posted a Patriot-Jets score, then it probably bothered you that I posted daily Manny updates and started a Manny for MVP thread a couple of months ago, too. But the "Ant" in "AntAltMike" is abbreviated from the word, "Antenna" in my company name, so I get to root for whomever I want to, and Vurbie and I will still be here pontificating over Charlie's moves (you do know who Charlie is, don't you? No, not the one in the StarKist commercials) long after many of the rest of you have wandered into another vacant yard.
"Ye doth protest too loudly" here. I think this thread should be either moved to the Operations Center, if that is where complaints are heard here, or just closed and deleted.
