SB Nation User Blog: raoulduke

Trade Forum

raoulduke — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:16:45 -0000

Trade Forum

Celtics Blog has a trade forum, seperate from the discussion forums for trade proposals. It looks like the feature is supported by SB Nation. Something to consider.

Let's Get Real

raoulduke — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:57:21 -0000

Roy = two years of NBA play, 1st year, missed about a third of the season due to injury

LMA = rookie year surgery, mop up minutes behind Zach, so he's got 1 + full year of NBA experience

Sergio = nice rookie year, spot minutes his second year, 2 - years NBA experience

Oden = rookie, coming off major surgery

Batum = rookie

Fernandez = rookie

Webster = starting SF, injured not playing

How good should this team be? How deep do you think they should be going in the playoffs

In the entire recorded history of man has a team this young done this well? Seriously. I'd like to see another NBA example of a team like this, doing as well or better than this team.

OT - Civility & Typos...

raoulduke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:21:52 -0000

My first fanpost and I doubt that I'll actually make it to 300 words.

Here we go. I've hung around BE for about a year, have been posting a couple of months. I'm actually not new to online communities, just new to this one. I've seen several succeed and even more fail. The first sure sign of failure is when civility begins to lapse.

Dave has done a great job of creating an interesting, upbeat site where reasonable standards of civility are upheld. I moderate a couple of online conversation forums on politics and social issues and I steer folks to BE as an example of how you can have high standards and still be interesting.

We have it all here: in depth discussion about something we're passionate about, good hosting, and a slew of really witty, well honed writers making comments.

One of the maxims I've always held to is that it is the conversation that matters. I'd rather see posts come freely and expressively than have writers hold back or wordsmith the thing to death. To me that means, just write. Don't worry about the spelling or the grammar overly much. Read for content, not to nit pick the writer.

There's been a lot of that lately, some of it in good humor, some I'm not so sure of. But it represents a step backwards from civility and being welcoming to many points of view. So, IMHO, as a relative new member and without standing, really, to chastize anyone, I'd appreciate it if we'd knock it off.