zackmills

Should we retire the smoking emoticon in his honor as well?

:Smoker:

Now If Joe Paterno would only follow Matty's lead and start the freshman 5 star recruit behind him to get some experience for next year!!!! sorry being a PSU fan is reallllll frustratingright now.

sorry being a PSU fan is reallllll frustratingright now.

PSUskinsfan, don't be sorry.....being a skins fan is real fustrating right now too. I can't imagine how fustrated you are being a fan of both. ;)

Thanks. I was just trying to see if I could encourage some positive thoughts on the Skins but he seemed to want to continue the insults. Oh well, can't say you gave him a chance. Thanks for keeping the site in line, including me.

He got on a lot of peoples nerves...very disrespectful to Gibbs. His posts were mostly loaded with insults and no substance. Basically it seemed he was here just to piss people off and it worked. Some of us had more patience for him than others ( I was not one of the patient ones). The board started to become all about him for awhile so it was time for him to get booted. Reading most of his posts I ended up doing this :banghead:.

To be honest, I have mixed feelings about ZackMills.

Most of his posts were not constructive criticisms and so I understand the decision to ban him. People like denim monger degrade the quality of the site by sounding like children.

However, I am afraid that banning someone who speaks out against Gibbs or certain decisions the Redskins' front office has made sets a dangerous precedent. Discouraging honest disagreements as to what Gibbs, or anybody else in the Redskins organization, is doing may also degrade the quality of the site by making it a forum for monologues, not dialogues.

I for one am nervous about my own views (which often cut against the grain). Do I have to be careful when evaluating a player or a player personnel decision?

Overall, I understand the decision but with the caveat that I hope that posters are RARELY banned.

I agree with u ramsey fan if u didn't like what he said jus ignore him, this is a forum for opinions not a club where everyone thinks the same. becuase personally I don't agree with Gibbs' approach right now as far as his decisions in the qb position and overplay calling being lackluster. I think he needs a quick young mind to go along with all the old foogies in the offensive coaching aspect of the redskins franchise.

Thanks Matty! :thumb: Bye bye Zackie boy! :tongue

I for one am nervous about my own views......<SNIP>


No one said that the Forum was a Democracy. We'll come for you next :D

great news

thanks

To be honest, I have mixed feelings about ZackMills.

Most of his posts were not constructive criticisms and so I understand the decision to ban him. People like denim monger degrade the quality of the site by sounding like children.

However, I am afraid that banning someone who speaks out against Gibbs or certain decisions the Redskins' front office has made sets a dangerous precedent. Discouraging honest disagreements as to what Gibbs, or anybody else in the Redskins organization, is doing may also degrade the quality of the site by making it a forum for monologues, not dialogues.

I for one am nervous about my own views (which often cut against the grain). Do I have to be careful when evaluating a player or a player personnel decision?

Overall, I understand the decision but with the caveat that I hope that posters are RARELY banned.I respect and understand your concerns, but rest assured his opinions had absolutely NOTHING to do with him being removed from the board.

I'm 110% for people having different opinions, as unpopular as they may be. However, I'm not for people taking over the forum and that's what was happening with zackmills.

Anytime he posted it started trouble. I can't figure out if he was just trying to get a rise out of people or if he really was just a jerk. It's probably a combo of the two. If his posts had a little more 'meat' to them and weren't so negative and disrespectful he would still be here. And I'm not talking about being disrespectful to Gibbs, when I say he was disrespectful I mean to the forum, and that's why he's gone. It had nothing to do with his opinions.

Only a handful of people have been banned, and up until now they were only spammers. So I really wouldn't worry about this being a regular thing. Going back to the Yahoo days of this site, I can probably count on one hand how many people have been banned.

Anybody that's been on the site for a while can tell you I don't run the site with an iron fist where anyone who has a differing opinion is in danger of being booted. That's not what I'm about and it's not what the site is about. However, once in a while a cancer comes along that must be removed for the good of the group.