Blood and free throws

[Rich]

Billy, this is a new day for the OfficialForum. Off topic videos and images (other than an occasional, appropriate use of the squirrel) are likely going to be deleted. Eventually, one of us will get annoyed having to do this repeatedly and will issue a bit of a suspension. Keep that in mind.

While I like fun as much as the next guy, one of the improvements the new moderator team hopes to bring to the site is a bit higher signal-to-noise ratio.

If anyone has any thoughts about that (positive or negative), please feel free to send me or any of the other moderators a private message.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Rich

Off topic videos and images (other than an occasional, appropriate use of the squirrel) are likely going to be deleted. One of the improvements the new moderator team hopes to bring to the site is a bit higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Sounds good to me. I will try to abide by the new rules, but, hopefully the moderators will be patient as I "wind down" over the next few weeks.

The Family Guy "You are outta here" video was well off topic and probably deserved to be deleted, however, the classic baseball umpire "You are gone" video was a video worth keeping on the Forum because it compared the mechanics (signals) of an ejection in a basketball game with the mechanics (signal) of an ejection in a baseball game, which is why I posted it, whereas The Family Guy video was just for laughs.

Also, I certainly hope that exceptions will be made for Mark Padgett once he returns. Even the evening news, with all the bad news, has to have a "feel good" story at the end.

[Adam]

For the record, we're all on the same page.