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Two things:
1) Every year about this time, the volume of posts increases. In the past, this has meant that I'd get messages from "esteemed members" asking that much of the off-topic crap (although that might be my word) be stopped so that the time spent on this site can be more productive and focused on basketball officiating. This year, I've tried to be more proactive in that moderating, in the hopes that certain offenders would get the hint. So far, it doesn't seem to be working (I'll refrain from saying that those posters are dense). So, here's a direct plea: STFU.
2) Sometimes stuff gets missed (especially when I spend my time on item 1 above and on the spam in the general thread). Sometimes it's hard to tell who fired the first shot. Sometimes I read stuff on one thread that pushes the envelope, but doesn't cross the line (how's that for mixing metaphors?), but then I read a "retaliation" on another thread that gets dealt with but I don't go back to the first thread. Sometimes a poster's "attitude" seems (to me) to change, and maybe the poster doesn't realize it. Sometimes a spat between two posters makes me more senstive to a discussion between two other posters and I "over moderate." Sometimes I want to respond to what I view as moronic posts, or whining responses, or sophomoric attempts at humor with a jab of my own. Sometimes I do.
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