Post by Booker Thee on Nov 27, 2004 19:00:06 GMT -5
The point of this board was to provide a place for workers and fans involved in the local scene to discuss wrestling and other subjects in an enviroment free of censorship and politics.
Moondog Manson's board became a place where his friends controlled what happened. If you wanted to post under an alias (which I found totally acceptable), there was no telling when you might be exposed, even if you were not doing anything wrong. Simply not being a friend of Manson's meant you were likely to be attacked in some way at some point.
Whereas, if you're a friend of Manson's (like Marty and Tidwell etc), you could happily attack people all day long.
Your posts may even be altered.
That was unacceptable.
Some people probably disagreed with my posting of Manson Worker's Forum posts here. I openly admitted I was doing it because Manson banished me from his board for no other reason then I was not his buddy. He later gave at least three different reasons for the banning and made some unacceptable comments concerning me after the banning.
If workers or promoters want to act like ***holes, what's wrong with the public seeing that? That's not exposing the business unless you believe that being an ***hole is a pre-requisite to being in the business in the first place (that may seem so to some people, but there are some very nice people in this business).
There will always be people shooting on each other and that is fine. I openly state my opinion whenever I want to and happily sign my name to it. And anyone who wants to criticise or debate me in wrestling is welcome to do so.
But certain people (who I dubbed the Old Boys Network earlier) were unable to debate me in wrestling so they crossed the line to personal. Attack me personally, attack my family, attack my girlfriend. They even called my home and threatened me. All because they could not win an arguement in wrestling. It was very sad.
As a result, I responded with similar lowly tactics. Not acceptable.
The reason this board (and it's two previous incarnations) were so successful so quickly were because people wanted an alternative to Manson's board. One of his responses was to refuse to book any PCW talent on PWC shows if they 'posted on this board'. Thats childish.
Two mods from the Manson board were dismissed because Manson thought there was a leak. Why? Because when personal attacks were being made on this board, I connected the IP's to the right person. They were busted and they were embarrassed and angry.
In fact, this entire thing is childish. As a result of several ridiculously terrible posts being deleted on the Manson board, I have deleted several inflamatory posts on this board as well.
Chris Tidwell, Wavell Starr and Marty are all welcome to re-register and debate and discuss wrestling. Marty and Tidwell are cancers on this business. Marty, i will eventually see around. Tidwell, I likely won't, unfortunately. But post if you'd like.
I made Dave Pinski a global mod on this board whether he likes it or not. He has full power to delete posts, ban users etc. I hope that move brings back a level of respect that Tidwell, Wavell and Marty took away from here.
Alias's are fine. Shooting is fine in the confines of wrestling. Using other people's names is not fine.
Hopefully, Tidwell and Marty and Manson can look at themselves in the mirror, consider their age and look at their actions and realise that they did themselves and the business absolutely no favours with their recent behaviour. The business is supposed to be fun. Guys like that take the fun out of it by subjecting the resot of us to their bitterness.
Grow up.
And to everyone else, welcome to the Manitoba Wrestling Board. Let's try to get the fun back into it.
Moondog Manson's board became a place where his friends controlled what happened. If you wanted to post under an alias (which I found totally acceptable), there was no telling when you might be exposed, even if you were not doing anything wrong. Simply not being a friend of Manson's meant you were likely to be attacked in some way at some point.
Whereas, if you're a friend of Manson's (like Marty and Tidwell etc), you could happily attack people all day long.
Your posts may even be altered.
That was unacceptable.
Some people probably disagreed with my posting of Manson Worker's Forum posts here. I openly admitted I was doing it because Manson banished me from his board for no other reason then I was not his buddy. He later gave at least three different reasons for the banning and made some unacceptable comments concerning me after the banning.
If workers or promoters want to act like ***holes, what's wrong with the public seeing that? That's not exposing the business unless you believe that being an ***hole is a pre-requisite to being in the business in the first place (that may seem so to some people, but there are some very nice people in this business).
There will always be people shooting on each other and that is fine. I openly state my opinion whenever I want to and happily sign my name to it. And anyone who wants to criticise or debate me in wrestling is welcome to do so.
But certain people (who I dubbed the Old Boys Network earlier) were unable to debate me in wrestling so they crossed the line to personal. Attack me personally, attack my family, attack my girlfriend. They even called my home and threatened me. All because they could not win an arguement in wrestling. It was very sad.
As a result, I responded with similar lowly tactics. Not acceptable.
The reason this board (and it's two previous incarnations) were so successful so quickly were because people wanted an alternative to Manson's board. One of his responses was to refuse to book any PCW talent on PWC shows if they 'posted on this board'. Thats childish.
Two mods from the Manson board were dismissed because Manson thought there was a leak. Why? Because when personal attacks were being made on this board, I connected the IP's to the right person. They were busted and they were embarrassed and angry.
In fact, this entire thing is childish. As a result of several ridiculously terrible posts being deleted on the Manson board, I have deleted several inflamatory posts on this board as well.
Chris Tidwell, Wavell Starr and Marty are all welcome to re-register and debate and discuss wrestling. Marty and Tidwell are cancers on this business. Marty, i will eventually see around. Tidwell, I likely won't, unfortunately. But post if you'd like.
I made Dave Pinski a global mod on this board whether he likes it or not. He has full power to delete posts, ban users etc. I hope that move brings back a level of respect that Tidwell, Wavell and Marty took away from here.
Alias's are fine. Shooting is fine in the confines of wrestling. Using other people's names is not fine.
Hopefully, Tidwell and Marty and Manson can look at themselves in the mirror, consider their age and look at their actions and realise that they did themselves and the business absolutely no favours with their recent behaviour. The business is supposed to be fun. Guys like that take the fun out of it by subjecting the resot of us to their bitterness.
Grow up.
And to everyone else, welcome to the Manitoba Wrestling Board. Let's try to get the fun back into it.