Allow me to interject here.
While I had nothing to do with shooting cincypalmer down, I don\'t think it had anything to do with the Hemsky thread.
If you look in the same forum, there\'s a thread about Tuomo Ruutu where cincypalmer states that Ruutu is a ***** and will always be a *****. And I noticed last night that after he posted that comment that his karma decreased steadily and quickly. I was not in possession of a karma shot at the time, and my first inclination when reading his comment was to shoot him down one. And I haven\'t done that before to anyone, even people who I significantly disagree with on some issues.
I believe most of us have been, or are, members of other boards where the discourse is considerately more juvenile than this one. I\'ve been a member of a certain other hockey message board for a long time and I have maybe a couple of hundred posts. Look how many I have here already.
And while good/bad karma can be a double-edged sword, I think it can be a way to try and keep really stupid things from happening.
Obviously I wouldn\'t want to be getting negative karma because I disagree with people, and I don\'t give it to people that I disagree with, however I don\'t think in this case that cincypalmer\'s negative karma is unwarranted.
If anything, it should show him that perhaps instead of saying things such as \"Tuomo Ruutu is a *****\" that he should say \"Tuomo Ruutu is injured entirely too often for me to think he is a viable long-term keeper pool candidate\".
Then maybe he will put a stopgap between his brain and his mouth, and try and contribute a little more, or at least think somewhat before he types. And I bet most here would be proud of him for that, and he\'d end up with pretty good karma, and a lot better reputation in the long run, and maybe he\'d grow up a little bit, or a lot.
It takes a village, or, at the very least, an internet hockey message board.
Call me old, call me cranky, call me both. But that\'s my opinion. And I don\'t think it has anything to do with censorship.<br><br>Post edited by: blindedbyfear, at: 2007/07/13 10:28