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Originally Posted by kipperfan
To expand on my orginal point....My oppinion is that the wack jobs who come into a reasonable discussion weather it be a GT, PGT, GDT or any other thread and start wishing the Flames lose because they "dont deserve it" or because it will "teach them a lesson" should be called out and using terms such as bandwagon or fair weather fan may be applicable.
But those were not the people I was talking about in my orginal post. I am talking about the fact any person who shines any sort of a negative light on the Flames, their play, their players or their coaches, regardless of how well thought out or put together the thought may be, is pounced on and eventually called bandwagon fan or some derivative of such. To me that is an issue worth addressing, but I see from some of the responses I have recieved so far my oppinion isnt widely shared...which is fine...this is just my 2 cents.
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If anything, a message board is like hockey. You need enforcers to keep behavior civil and reasonable. Instituting a blanket negative rep ban on certain responses or words is like putting in the instigator penalty in CP and leads to too much referring (moderation).
Therefore, the bigger issue to me is the potential chill effect that results from people desiring to call these people out, but choosing not to in fear of rep reprocussions.