Re: Boston.com shutting down the message boards?

by **RosalieTCeltics** Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:48 pm

To be honest I do not know. I came across it today when I went on to see if anything was happening with IT. Actually I was checking to see if possibly Bradley was going to try and play. He did not travel with the team yesterday, so I thought maybe they were giving him a lot of therapy to get him back.

Anyway, I noticed there were 650 posts

by **dboss** Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:30 am

[quote="bobheckler"]

Ram wrote:I'm here from the BDC forums

Welcome to the board, Ram!

A quick primer:

We live and thrive on conviviality. You can insult players and GMs but you cannot insult board members. You can disagree with them on points of basketball, but you cannot call them names or disparage them personally. In fact, a board that has no differing opinions would be one boring board, but you cannot make it personal.

We have a group of moderators here, but this is a pretty democratic (small "d") board. The role of the mods is to maintain the board from a technical perspective and keep any out-of-control explosions of testosterone on a leash. None of us are paid to do this. Anybody can create threads, and you are encouraged to do so. You can join on the Game On threads (go to the home page to find them) and of course offer your thoughts on any existing thread.

One of the positive products of this conviviality is that many of us have become friends off the board as well. It's like family here. In fact, you'll see one of our members, beat, posting updates about his son whom many of us have met in person when we all met up to go to a Celtic game. Over the years we have seen him go from a big kid to a mature-for-his-age young man. Other people talk about their family and some of our board members are fathers and their sons.

We pride ourselves on generating more light than heat. That, I believe, separates us from BDC and is why many of us fled from there. I look forward to reading your opinions.

Welcome!

bob
P.S. "skillful and surgical rants" sounds oxymoronic to me. If it was a rant, then how skillful and surgical could I have been?

Welcome Ram

Most of us posted on the BDC. We look forward to you participation

dboss

by **beat** Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:39 am

" In fact, you'll see one of our members, beat, posting updates about his son whom many of us have met in person when we all met up to go to a Celtic game. Over the years we have seen him go from a big kid to a mature-for-his-age young man. "

Yep that young man will be heading to Chicago in a little over a week. He will have just completed his Jr year at Syracuse U where he was a student assistant on the Women's final 4 basketball team as a video coordinator and with a lot of assistance by Coach Q (Quinton Hillsman) he has an internship working with the Chicago Sky of the WNBA thru the summer. Working with their video dept.

Gonna miss him this summer and a couple trips out to Chicago are already in the works!

beat

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