The Evolution of the Planet

[BIG_DADDY]

I think to understand the nature of the problem that exists here today it is important to reflect on how we arrived here. For those that don’t know, ChiefsPlanet was created to get around the vast restrictions placed on posters in KC Star. It was a huge success right off the bat and we were rolling. IMO those first months we ended up with a lot of really great posters and only a couple bad ones. As time went on CP has attracted more and more people who love not having restrictions and unlimited subjects to discuss which was great other than the fact that that many thought those threads were polluting the forum with people arguing all the time over subjects that didn’t even involve football. I posted a poll asking the membership if they wanted another forum for off topics and it passed by a landslide and the people who run this BB were gracious enough to create it and DC was born.

That has worked for a long time now with this almost no holds barred format. Once again this type of forum has been attractive to people who love the open debate that can take place here but unfortunately over many years it has attracted more and more trolls who like using the structure here to do nothing more than try to get under posters skin and will do anything in order to do that. It’s also allowed posters like frazod to thrive here being the poster child of bad psychology. Talk about no boundaries with a strong desire to bust in others and dump. This has attracted more in the like, can anyone say KCN? The trolls have grown as well in this forum in a kind of perfect storm way. What we have today is a forum saturated with trolls and posters with the psychology of a 13 year old psychopathic girl on her first period. IMO this is costing us many potential good posters who would make this a better place to come to and has also seen us lose many quality long term posters. To complicate matters the moderators that reside here are fine with posters posting anything they want about you and your family members short of a racist remark heaven forbid just as long as you don’t do it to them which is now creating two different cultures that exist within the planet. If they think that it is hostile now they haven’t seen anything yet should this persist.

IMO at this point nothing short of a cleansing designed to rid the planet of trolls and bloody vaginas that have no control is exactly what this place needs to regain its former greatness. There was a time when I posted a thread about a family member and their battle with cancer and asked for prayers and support. Today there is no chance of me doing something like that here as I have no desire to see somebody post the nastiest thing they can think of at that point. For the old timers it should be easy to see the huge difference in where we were and where we are now. My 2 cents.

[burt]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I rarely got ugly or get ugly towards someone

I am proud that I received a rare appearance of your ugliness...

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Rudy is a Troll

BIG DADDY was such a great member of the CP "fraternity" when he ridiculed Ultra Peanut for her publicized issues with gender identity. You're a hypocrite, dude.

I agree that 2009 is a remarkable year, no doubt. Despite career day _efense and GoChiefs' Herm Warfare, this board was largely a homer board. CP attached to classic homeresque scapegoats like Eric Hicks, Eric Warfield, Greg Robinson and Gunther Cunningham. The shift to a critical board started in 2009 and was led with much hostility from Dane, Hamas, etc. People alike (sick of losing) and people opposed (hopeful fans) adapted this posting style even if they weren't nearly as skilled to do so. I think guys like OTWP need to take some accountability into their role in this development.

What? Where did you come up with that idea?

I joined here as a total homer the day after the 2004 season ended in a flop.

Unicorns and rainbows is all I knew, and I was led to the education alter fairly quickly.

Its all good, and I am glad it happened that way even though it was a little rough for me to understand at the time.

If anyone would have started a rep whoring thread back then, it would have gotten pretty ugly.

[SuperChief]

Originally Posted by scho63

I'm going to make a great analogy that Big Daddy needs to read and digest:

Roughly 35 years ago I took up golf. I sucked balls when I first played but I practiced and finally started "fitting in" at the closest public golf course with the locals who had been there for years and my closest friends who already played with them and are excellent golfers. I was a Noob

Over the years they accepted me into their group and we all grew close, hung out after the round to drink, went out to dinner together, and also took golf vacations together. There were 24-26 of us each Sat and Sun morning, first 5-6 groups off the tee.

Then time passed.....

Guys gave up golf or played less, some moved, some got married and couldn't play as much, some died, and after a while the dynamics changed and so did the group.

I had a choice-stop playing golf or accept the changes. I choose to keep playing golf and have fun with whoever I played with and avoid playing with someone who was either a pain in the ass or a hot head on the course.

While I would have loved to keep the same 'ol gang, it wasn't meant to be.

The lesson of the story is simple, times change and you can either accept them or move on....

Your choice Big Daddy!

I think where your excellent analogy falls off the tracks is when your 24-26 friends leave (for whatever reasons) and the new crowd of 2983459898 dipshits come through and want to tee off before you, at the same time as you, and right after you, hurrying you along the entire round.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

Not to jump in the middle of this, but you do seem angry.

I could see how you would think that. I'm an abrasive person IRL too. People either love me or they hate me. I'm also fairly aggressive so if someone comes at me then they're going to get both barrels.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Dayze

I'm stealing that one for future use, if you don't mind.

All yours.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

AOL ruined the internet.

I beg to differ...I think it was CompuServe or Net Zero that ruined the internet.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

Yeah, that's the part I was talking about.


There are none so blind as those who will not see.

I see just fine. Feel free to keep cherry picking.

I'm not going to apologize for calling a spade a spade.

If you can't formulate an argument beyond, "do you work in the NFL?" then yeah, I probably called you a dumbshit.

Because people who refuse to back up their positions with stats, facts and evidence and rely on "I think", "do you work in the NFL?" or "PIOLI" are, wait for it:

Dumbshits.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I see just fine. Feel free to keep cherry picking.

I'm not going to apologize for calling a spade a spade.

If you can't formulate an argument beyond, "do you work in the NFL?" then yeah, I probably called you a dumbshit.

Because people who refuse to back up their positions with stats, facts and evidence and rely on "I think", "do you work in the NFL?" or "PIOLI" are, wait for it:

Dumbshits.

You keep making my point. Do continue, please, because it's truly hilarious.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by DaFace

You know, popular music today sucks.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

I beg to differ...I think it was CompuServe or Net Zero that ruined the internet.

Netscape ruined it for me, at least from my own experience....

[burt]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I see just fine. Feel free to keep cherry picking.

I'm not going to apologize for calling a spade a spade.

Just because you see it as a spade, makes it a spade? um....no.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

This is completely untrue. Many people have noticed the change for sometime now and have posted on it. You can just go LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA really loud and call people pussies for noticing it but it doesn't change a thing.

I was a lurker all the way back in 2003 and didn't really start to post until a couple years ago. But Chiefsplanet has always had its bullies. Anyone remember a guy named Voyager? He would get DESTROYED every time he posted, and he only posted about football topics, not politics, just football. The dude got his shit handed to him and he only wanted to talk football, and this was back in the earlier days.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

I see just fine. Feel free to keep cherry picking.

I'm not going to apologize for calling a spade a spade.

If you can't formulate an argument beyond, "do you work in the NFL?" then yeah, I probably called you a dumbshit.

Because people who refuse to back up their positions with stats, facts and evidence and rely on "I think", "do you work in the NFL?" or "PIOLI" are, wait for it:

Dumbshits.

To me there is nothing wrong with "I think" because someone is expressing an opinion at that point. Honestly stats are great, but no different than looking at a companies balance sheet, they can hide some flaws in thinking.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

You keep making my point. Do continue, please, because it's truly hilarious.

You call it a bullshit excuse. I disagree.

Anything else you'd like to argue about?

[Chief Roundup]

There are Lies, there are Damn Lies, and then there are Statistics.
Never did want to believe in the one statistic that proved to be true about USC QBs.