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Ilov80s said:
Is their business that keep a permanent public record of the comments a good place for the stuff that often got posted in those threads?
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JFC, what do you think drives this place?  Their crappy ranking?  Without a doubt, in all my years here, I have gave over 100k to other people on this board.  Many have gave more and a ton gave less and that amount has to be over a million.   It's just silly and JB is bored.

 
IC FBGCav said:
JFC, what do you think drives this place?  Their crappy ranking?  Without a doubt, in all my years here, I have gave over 100k to other people on this board.  Many have gave more and a ton gave less and that amount has to be over a million.   It's just silly and JB is bored.
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I don’t know what drives their actual business or how many of us on the message board actually pay for FBG service. I mostly support the decision though.

 
Kind of strange discussion of women isn't allowed but all the absurd nonsense in the PSF is totally okay with what they want to have here.  

 
Capella said:
Yea I mean I don’t really care what Joe does. It’s his site, whatever. But running the whole moral high ground angle while he is profiting off of running a gambling information service seems extremely hypocritical to me. He’s a smart guy. I don’t know how he reconciles that. 
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and check out that gambling thread.  the resident bookie in there has made a serious amount of money from this site.  go post in there a few times and he will start bombarding you with personal messages about how he's the man here and everybody has trusted him for years or some ####.

 
Rodrigo Duterte said:
and check out that gambling thread.  the resident bookie in there has made a serious amount of money from this site.  go post in there a few times and he will start bombarding you with personal messages about how he's the man here and everybody has trusted him for years or some ####.
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You cant disallow gambling talk on a ....gambling website. Can you?

 
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We are all hypocrites. Every single one of us. I draw lines in the sand on issues that would make no sense to anyone else in the world when compared to my thoughts on other issues. So do the rest of you.

The pearl-clutching and "what about.............?"s (which is basically deflection when you're out of ammo) going on in here is both hilarious and sad.

I liked the "WH" threads, but Bryant doesn't. I'll live. 

 
Bad decisions from Footballguys.com.  

  1. Losing the Test Forum
  2. This news
  3. Pushing Isaiah Crowell as a breakout player last season
 
So, as interest in football slowly declines, is this part of a long range pivot to becoming a children's site? There have been a lot of great discussions and memorable posts here over the years and I'm gonna miss this board when the transition becomes final. But I don't think there's a viable place for an adult message board with middle school rules about language and topics.

 
roadkill1292 said:
So, as interest in football slowly declines, is this part of a long range pivot to becoming a children's site? There have been a lot of great discussions and memorable posts here over the years and I'm gonna miss this board when the transition becomes final. But I don't think there's a viable place for an adult message board with middle school rules about language and topics.
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This place has always been a battle between PG and PG-13 level of acceptable material

 
roadkill1292 said:
So, as interest in football slowly declines, is this part of a long range pivot to becoming a children's site? There have been a lot of great discussions and memorable posts here over the years and I'm gonna miss this board when the transition becomes final. But I don't think there's a viable place for an adult message board with middle school rules about language and topics.
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I’m sure there’s an R rated subreddit out there for you somewhere guy

 
I don't care one way or the other.  It is his site and he can make the rules.  I certainly won't leave based on this one decision.

I am more interested in the general hypocrisy though.  This is a business that aligns itself with gambling, tied financially to a league that seems to treat their women employees incredibly bad, all but pimping them out to strangers if recent reports are to believed and has players in it with numerous cases of violence against women.

I am always intrigued when moral standards are only important as long as they don't get in the way of ones business.

I personally prefer some one with lower moral standards that is consistent compared to some one who picks and chooses when to be moral.  There is a hint of being a fraud when that happens, IMO.

 
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NewlyRetired said:
I don't care one way or the other.  It is his site and he can make the rules.  I certainly won't leave based on this one decision.

I am more interested in the general hypocrisy though.  This is a business that aligns itself with gambling, tied financially to a league that seems to treat their women employees incredibly bad, all but pimping them out to strangers if recent reports are to believed and has players in it with numerous cases of violence against women.

I am always intrugued when moral standards are only important as long as they don't get in the way of ones business.

I personally prefer some one with lower moral standards that is consistent compared to some one who picks and chooses when to be moral.  There is a hint of being a fraud when that happens, IMO.
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What do you expect Joe to do about the bolded? I don’t think he’s being a hypocrite because he has no power to control that.

 
NewlyRetired said:
I don't care one way or the other.  It is his site and he can make the rules.  I certainly won't leave based on this one decision.

I am more interested in the general hypocrisy though.  This is a business that aligns itself with gambling, tied financially to a league that seems to treat their women employees incredibly bad, all but pimping them out to strangers if recent reports are to believed and has players in it with numerous cases of violence against women.

I am always intrugued when moral standards are only important as long as they don't get in the way of ones business.

I personally prefer some one with lower moral standards that is consistent compared to some one who picks and chooses when to be moral.  There is a hint of being a fraud when that happens, IMO.
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Ouch

 
NewlyRetired said:
I don't care one way or the other.  It is his site and he can make the rules.  I certainly won't leave based on this one decision.

I am more interested in the general hypocrisy though.  This is a business that aligns itself with gambling, tied financially to a league that seems to treat their women employees incredibly bad, all but pimping them out to strangers if recent reports are to believed and has players in it with numerous cases of violence against women.

I am always intrugued when moral standards are only important as long as they don't get in the way of ones business.

I personally prefer some one with lower moral standards that is consistent compared to some one who picks and chooses when to be moral.  There is a hint of being a fraud when that happens, IMO.
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Hi @NewlyRetired

Is gambling something to be careful with? Absolutely. I consider that to be in a similar category as alcohol. It'll become even more important to be careful in the future as sports betting becomes legalized in more states. 

I think most everyone was disgusted by the recent news with the Cheerleaders in Washington. And I'm sure management there will pay the price. While that may make me not want to cheer for Washington, I don't think condemning the entire league is appropriate. No more than I'd stop using ridesharing completely because Uber did awful stuff. 

Sorry to hear you think it's hinting at being a fraud. For me, I was as open as I could be in the original post. Not allowing the who's hottest type threads and the comments that ensued is something I feel is simply the right thing to do. It's likely not good for business as clearly there are people unhappy. I'm sure people will leave over it. And that's a price we pay. And are willing to pay. 

 
It's ok because gambling brings countable income to the site. They can be all in on daily fantasy sports despite the shady and predatory practices of the industry.

But talking about how a woman looks in tight pants is out of bounds. 

 
TLEF316 said:
It's ok because gambling brings countable income to the site. They can be all in on daily fantasy sports despite the shady and predatory practices of the industry.

But talking about how a woman looks in tight pants is out of bounds. 
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Sorry but no. Working with companies like DRAFT, FanDuel, DraftKings and others that go through extensive regulations and monitoring to offer legal products is something we're ok with. Allowing our message board members to post pictures of women, often without their consent and then objectify them with crude comments we have to delete is something we're not ok with. 

I fully understand other people might have a different way of deciding what is ok and what is not ok. But that's how I see it and that's how we're going to proceed here. 

 
comfortably numb said:
This place has always been a battle between PG and PG-13 level of acceptable material
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I could indeed be wrong about the PG viability part. I've become accustomed to other boards where the use of profanity is not the automatic equivalency of juvenality. And I live and work in a part of the country where f-bombs are pretty routine in the company of those with whom one is comfortable. That all probably skews my perspective.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
We are all hypocrites. Every single one of us. I draw lines in the sand on issues that would make no sense to anyone else in the world when compared to my thoughts on other issues. So do the rest of you.

The pearl-clutching and "what about.............?"s (which is basically deflection when you're out of ammo) going on in here is both hilarious and sad.

I liked the "WH" threads, but Bryant doesn't. I'll live. 
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"pearl-clutching" is a nice touch UH  :D

 
roadkill1292 said:
I could indeed be wrong about the PG viability part. I've become accustomed to other boards where the use of profanity is not the automatic equivalency of juvenality. And I live and work in a part of the country where f-bombs are pretty routine in the company of those with whom one is comfortable. That all probably skews my perspective.
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Fuggetaboutit

 
Joe Bryant said:
Sorry but no. Working with companies like DRAFT, FanDuel, DraftKings and others that go through extensive regulations and monitoring to offer legal products is something we're ok with. Allowing our message board members to post pictures of women, often without their consent and then objectify them with crude comments we have to delete is something we're not ok with. 

I fully understand other people might have a different way of deciding what is ok and what is not ok. But that's how I see it and that's how we're going to proceed here. 
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I"d almost prefer a "sorry guys but the wife has my balls in her purse" response than this cockamamie hypocrasy

 
Joe Bryant said:
Sorry but no. Working with companies like DRAFT, FanDuel, DraftKings and others that go through extensive regulations and monitoring to offer legal products is something we're ok with. Allowing our message board members to post pictures of women, often without their consent and then objectify them with crude comments we have to delete is something we're not ok with. 

I fully understand other people might have a different way of deciding what is ok and what is not ok. But that's how I see it and that's how we're going to proceed here. 
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Focusing on just the yoga pants thread, most of the pics in that thread were of women posing in ways that demonstrated that they want people to look.  And there is nothing wrong with that.  If you look that good, be proud of it, and if someone looks that good, what's wrong with saying so? 

 
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