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Post by titanmike89 on Apr 18, 2022 16:50:04 GMT -5
Just another word. I launched this board 9 years ago because the site of DetroitTitansHoops.com--Titan Mike's board--had been regularly plagued by trolls, spammers, and a group of people that simply wouldn't behave civilly, lacing their remarks with profanity and getting extremely personal in comments at other posters and at Titan players and coaches. For whatever reason Mike, who had done Titan fans a great service by starting and maintaining the board for years, was too busy or unwilling or unable to consistantly police and maintain that board any longer. But in line with that, note what I posted then at the top of this board, that has been there for 9 years--"Positive Titan Talk." I don't think that means no criticism, or keeping on rose tinted glasses, or avoiding inevitable pessimism when the program is losing. But I would encourage people to have fun and try to avoid excessive negativity. If one begins to find that most of one's posts are criticizing something about the team or the program or the university, I would urge that person to consider holding it back, or posting something positive. Just a thought. The trolls who plagued that board are still on this board, some of them have wised up a bit. I was not a technical mastermind of what the other board was capable of and when I couldn't get the help I needed it faltered, I did a good job for a bit keeping up with the hackers, but deleting hackers page by page became cumbersome and overwhelming. Busy yes, unable yes, unwilling, hell no. Passionate debate is good, unabashed anger is unbecoming of a true Titan Fan. Oh and the offer stands to have the DetroitTitanHoops website name. Would of loved to continue, the calls for help were not answered and health issues at the time prevented me from getting it back up and running and seemed like it was under control here. It is of great disappointment to me really, I may have left some of our older Titan fans hanging because they had been so use to the other site. For that I am truly sorry.
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Post by Commissioner on Apr 18, 2022 19:19:09 GMT -5
Just another word. I launched this board 9 years ago because the site of DetroitTitansHoops.com--Titan Mike's board--had been regularly plagued by trolls, spammers, and a group of people that simply wouldn't behave civilly, lacing their remarks with profanity and getting extremely personal in comments at other posters and at Titan players and coaches. For whatever reason Mike, who had done Titan fans a great service by starting and maintaining the board for years, was too busy or unwilling or unable to consistantly police and maintain that board any longer. But in line with that, note what I posted then at the top of this board, that has been there for 9 years--"Positive Titan Talk." I don't think that means no criticism, or keeping on rose tinted glasses, or avoiding inevitable pessimism when the program is losing. But I would encourage people to have fun and try to avoid excessive negativity. If one begins to find that most of one's posts are criticizing something about the team or the program or the university, I would urge that person to consider holding it back, or posting something positive. Just a thought. The trolls who plagued that board are still on this board, some of them have wised up a bit. I was not a technical mastermind of what the other board was capable of and when I couldn't get the help I needed it faltered, I did a good job for a bit keeping up with the hackers, but deleting hackers page by page became cumbersome and overwhelming. Busy yes, unable yes, unwilling, hell no. Passionate debate is good, unabashed anger is unbecoming of a true Titan Fan. Oh and the offer stands to have the DetroitTitanHoops website name. Would of loved to continue, the calls for help were not answered and health issues at the time prevented me from getting it back up and running and seemed like it was under control here. It is of great disappointment to me really, I may have left some of our older Titan fans hanging because they had been so use to the other site. For that I am truly sorry. Mike, we're all indebted to you and I hope you did not take my comments as criticism of you because that was not intended in any way. I remember how pleased I was when I finally found the old board, and as you know I responded to some of your requests for financial assistance with it. Thanks for all your efforts, and I'm glad that you're reading here.
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