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from the Board, at least in mocking/insulting response to fellow members' posts.
Add "prolly" to that listWords I would like to see get eliminated:
aksed
suposebly
flustrated
the phrase “these ones”
and “like” in place of “uh” or the all to over used “yea know”
carry on.
Greetings everyone,
I have been sitting on this for a while now and I even am guilty of using this word and didn't realize how offensive it likely is until more recently in the last couple years. Definitely, 2020 has had an impact on me in so many ways I couldn't begin to list all of them. This particular word just seems wrong and I am going to offer a couple of other suggestions/solutions as I have given it a lot of thought.
The word I think is offensive and one we should strive not to use in here is/are "Owner/Own" when we are talking about human beings. I will not dignify the obvious vertical here, I think most of you understand when I say Own/Owner and we are talking about human beings vs Christmas Trees.
I am not launching an assault on anyone. It's totally OK if you never thought twice about it until right now but I invite you to take a step back like a lot of us did when they outlawed the H2H strikes in the secondary and defenseless receiver and I'm simply asking you to think about it and please join me in using a couple different words that will say the same thing and be a lot less obtuse as a group and please hear me out.
My Suggestions: Managers because that's what we are really doing, acting as GMs, we don't really own these guys. You can abbreviate this with FFM for fantasy football managers and it's only 3 letters long, everyone knows what you mean. My next suggestion is Player because that's what you are doing. You're playing a game, you're gambling, most of us in here. FFP similar to FFM.
-I want to stress, I'm not running for office around here, it's just simply the right thing to do. I try and do my best in the Shark Pool to be as neutral as possible and always treat others the way I want to be treated...sometimes I miss the mark. This season has been a roller coaster and I've already applauded all of you for making this season one of the very best I can ever remember despite the pandemic and I want to give back and do something for ALL of US.
I'll open the floor up and I hope many of you join me. We don't have to discuss why we should do this, I feel it's painfully obvious. If there are some other words people feel should be discussed, please speak up. We had an NFL team renamedIt's just time everyone, you know it and I know it.
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Would it be OK to Crow about my team in the pinned thread or would that be a word that should also be banned around here
I can't believe you just said any of those words, alone or put together in a nicely worded sentence!
MOP with all due respect it seems you are having a difficult time discerning the difference between "fantasy and reality". People are just playing a make believe game for entertainment. Try to be more tolerant and let them use whatever term they want to use in the fake game they/we play.
Yes..I believe it is.
Doubling down? A serious question to ponder for your peace. Why does what someone says in a fantasy football forum affect you so much? Why does what anyone says ever need to affect your peace? I don't know you but I do see that you are frustrated and feeling victimized. You don't have to be either. Maybe your not and this is all schtick. But on the chance this is a legit post maybe ponder this question, for a better existence.
Personally i don't see any reason for the change. No one owns anyone. In FF you are "owning" an image of that player. When you bench a player it doesn't take him out the NFL lineup. And the players DO benefit from FF. Things like Draft Kings and Fanduel pay the NFL directly to be a sponsor from year to year and that goes into the money on how the Salary cap is figured. I don't approve of people tweeting at players for bad games or even good games. They are doing their job to the best of their ability, and people should grow up and not harrass people for their own decisions. And that goes for normal fans that don't play FF. If you don't like a player or a team then watch something else....Greetings everyone,
I have been sitting on this for a while now and I even am guilty of using this word and didn't realize how offensive it likely is until more recently in the last couple years. Definitely, 2020 has had an impact on me in so many ways I couldn't begin to list all of them. This particular word just seems wrong and I am going to offer a couple of other suggestions/solutions as I have given it a lot of thought.
The word I think is offensive and one we should strive not to use in here is/are "Owner/Own" when we are talking about human beings. I will not dignify the obvious vertical here, I think most of you understand when I say Own/Owner and we are talking about human beings vs Christmas Trees.
I am not launching an assault on anyone. It's totally OK if you never thought twice about it until right now but I invite you to take a step back like a lot of us did when they outlawed the H2H strikes in the secondary and defenseless receiver and I'm simply asking you to think about it and please join me in using a couple different words that will say the same thing and be a lot less obtuse as a group and please hear me out.
My Suggestions: Managers because that's what we are really doing, acting as GMs, we don't really own these guys. You can abbreviate this with FFM for fantasy football managers and it's only 3 letters long, everyone knows what you mean. My next suggestion is Player because that's what you are doing. You're playing a game, you're gambling, most of us in here. FFP similar to FFM.
-I want to stress, I'm not running for office around here, it's just simply the right thing to do. I try and do my best in the Shark Pool to be as neutral as possible and always treat others the way I want to be treated...sometimes I miss the mark. This season has been a roller coaster and I've already applauded all of you for making this season one of the very best I can ever remember despite the pandemic and I want to give back and do something for ALL of US.
I'll open the floor up and I hope many of you join me. We don't have to discuss why we should do this, I feel it's painfully obvious. If there are some other words people feel should be discussed, please speak up. We had an NFL team renamed
Great post. We can always have a different view point. I understand how you feel and many others in the same vertical or genre explaining this isn't real, it's fantasy, again to each their own.
What you are referring to is respect for others thoughts and believes. That is something all should do. My parents biggest life lesson : treat people like you want to be treated. That would go along way in this country if people did that.
Why is it “important” to eliminate that word in the context of fantasy football? It just doesn’t make any sense at all. If you’re equivocating it to slave ownership that seems to take a ton of mental gymnastics. It’s like you’re the one creating an issue that just doesn’t exist.
MOP knows that it has nothing to do with slavery.
Can I call up Justin Hebert and ask him to wash my car tomorrow because I own him?
To be fair to MOP, this isn’t the first I’ve heard of this. There have actually been a few pretty big pushes to get rid of the term “owner” in fantasy sports for the exact reason he is citing.
