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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Some amount of jabbing and fun-making is certainly good and appreciated but there were poisonous, condescending attitudes

I agree with this, but that is not the moderating that I'm talking about. In fact, I don't think there has been any moderating of that type since the "Moderators" thread. Everyone is in favor of a moderator removing insulting or inflaming posts. That's what a moderator is for.

I'm talking about deleting posts because there were "too many" movie quotes. Or locking a thread because there were 3 pictures posted, which related to the post, by the way. There is absolutely no sense of guys/gals getting together and having fun here anymore. I think people are afraid to make "fun" posts that will be squashed. And that was one of the things that I frankly LOVED about this site.

There are plenty of very experienced, knowledgeable, reliable officials where I live to whom I can go with a basketball-related question. But there are very few places I can go anytime I want to have fun with a bunch of refs, who I know and like, and also talk basketball at the same time. And it feels to me like that has been taken away from me on this site.

And I'm not trying to bash Bob, either. Bob and I have communicated via email in the past and I respect the hell out of him. I just think that in this one area (jokes, pictures, FUN), the pendulum has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over-compensated.