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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Dino7c also murdered me in another bet but was also a class act about it. When I tried to pay him, he refused and requested I send the money to charity instead. He won't come out and say that's what he did, so looks like I'll have to.
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Yeah, sorry didn't mean to pile on Dino7c (I know he got upset and took a legit break a month ago). I'll just say that I "get him" and honestly wish I could experience sports fandom the way he does. but I also understand the negative reaction to his posting style.
He's a legit homer, and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. He loves the Flames, he supports anything and everything current management/coaches/players do, and trashes any player/coach as soon they leave/get traded, and is honestly probably a better/more happy fan than I am. All of that would be fine, but where he struggles is that he attacks and belittles anyone that criticizes anything the Flames do, including performance on the ice. He tries to control the site into
positive only discussion and all his
literally daily battles come from that, which he doesn't understand.
I get Jiri/Bingo/textcritic etc and try to work with their "let's skew towards positive feelings because this site means something to us in terms of enjoyment in coming here and discussing the Flames". But Dino7c is just too absurd in staunch positivity while attacking anyone outside his definition of a real fan.
He sees sports fandom as - Real fan = support the team/players/management through everything as we're all one team and Crappy fan = being upset at times, voicing displeasure in direction/players/coaches, expressing negativity.
Jiri/Bingo etc have some excellent views on this matter that make me challenge how I follow a sports team as an adult. Dino7c, leaves no room for anything, and i think message board posting just isn't for him in how he follows the Flames.