Enter Villy- Candidate for Demotion

not suicide attempts and drunk bastards.

By only posting fanposts and not participating in the ensuing conversation, you’re using the site as a ready-made vehicle for yourself rather than creating your own blog where you wouldn’t have the same amount of readers as here (at least at first). In short, you’re not being a member of the community.

But isn’t it understandable? I mean, evidently there’s a significant number of “losers” here who lack “common sense” and fail to give TWreck the “respect” he so amply “deserves” for his highly insightful fanposts (this one being the most shining example of them all, in my humble opinion). Clearly BCB should be happy to at least be deigned worthy of usage as a post dump, if we’re going to mistreat a valuable asset like that.

Kyle should really just turn over the keys to the blog to TWreck now, it’s the only appropriate solution.

I, too, would qualify myself as a diehard Brewers fan, and I probably know more about the team (and its farm system) than any of my friends knows about theirs. But that still means I know far less than most of the regular commenters here, let alone the folks who write posts.

If you feel you have extensive knowledge that demands to be heard and respected, then start your own blog – ain’t no thang. (If you write well and make good points, you might eventually even get semi-regular Frosty Mug links.)

But in my experience, Brew Crew Ball is not for people who feel that way, even if they do have that level of knowledge and passion. It’s for people who are willing to listen to others, have conversations, and learn from their fellow fans.

Just participate in the mug and game threads we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

my first problem is an unwillingness to participate in existing conversations.
Secondly is not posting where relevant. you want to post about how villy sucks, try a post-game thread where he blew the game, or the next day’s frosty mug, where it will no doubt be a major topic of conversation.
But one of my main problems is the lack of thought he puts into his posts. He mostly “thinks out loud” posting stream-of-consciousness type posts. I feel these are fine for comments in other threads (“I haven’t done the research, but…”) but not appropriate for the keynote post

also, someone pointed out that he doesn’t clutter the sidebar: there was one time that I recall that he had 3 posts up there. I’m sure no one else had 2 (and if there was someone, it was probably TheJay or null who put in effort)

I blocked brewcrewball.com from my work computer via my HOSTS list.

so, I’m definitely not a good enough person to just shut up.

P.S. I take from any recs of this post that you all think I should just go away:P

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People don’t like what he writes, they know they don’t like what he writes. Yet they read them anyway. Then they go out of their way to tell him they don’t like it. It would be one thing to comment on the content of the article, which some of you have done. My post was not directed at those people. It was intended for those who seem to have made some sort of crusade against the author of this post. At your suggestion, I have gone back and read a lot of TWreck’s posts. Yes his writing style is hard to read and his thoughts are often unfinished, welcome to communicating in the 21st century. At the same time, he is obviously passionate about the Brewers and seems to have been a fan for a long time. It seems to me that someone like that should be welcome here and constructive criticism should be offered to help him improve his writing style and complete his thoughts. Instead they focused on the tools he uses to put forth his opinions.

As for your point that he doesn’t participate in the discussion, I don’t understand why that bothers you so much. He posts his thoughts, you say your piece, why do you need him to respond to your points? Is there a rule somewhere in this blog that states one must make a minimum number of comments to be able to post? If not, then he has done nothing wrong.

I see this website as a place where everyone, from the die-hard fans that remember the early days, to the casual fan that stumbles in. Some on these threads, especially the past couple days, have been attempting to limit who is allowed to say what. I think that is wrong.

My point about the people that run the site, should have been written differently. In stead “done nothing wrong” I should have said “broken no rules”. The point I was trying to express was that if the moderators determine that he is doing something wrong, then they will ban him or remove his posts. But they have not done that at this point in time. So they have, by their inaction, validated that he has broken no rules.

fair for the most part, I sincerely hope this place does not become anything like LL.