with the declining quality of discourse on this site over about the past two months.

insult the chiefs if you want to; they probably deserve it. insulting other equally as frustrated fans is out of line

The actions icon does not show up unless logged in. That could be the confusion.

so that more people read it.

now if only the Chiefs had a player named Modo … then someone could do a post about him, and then later another sort of partial repeat post that would, of course, be called QuasiModo

(and now I’m sure to be banned)

for?

Some guy used profanity on me and told me to go F#@$ myself and I got the the warning.

The flagging works for those who aren’t a regular. I found that out today.

Somethin has to be done about post-game rants in the FanPosts too…

I am starting to stay away from AP after losses because I can’t go through 12 posts that blame the same (wrong) thing or person in ALL CAPS….

A post-loss freeze? A review of some sort? Personal responsibility? lol

I just saiud being racist is worse then calling someone gay that isnt gay just using it as a way to make fun of someone. Im confused on what people can get away with and cant, I mean ive read the rules but that Charger fans says whatever he wants. Im just wondering if he is like you guys but to the Chargers site?

and I don’t even know what that mean! (-:

Yesterday I admit I flagged a few post/comments, But not as many as I wanted to. I only flagged the most serious offenses because while I do believe in your right to to free speech, I don’t believe it gives you the right to break the rules and to say whatever you want to. A lot including myself were upset with all that came out yesterday and most of us wanted to have our voice heard, unfortunately many of the post went way too far.

I’m not a moderator but I am a Fan of both the Chiefs and of Arrow Head Pride. I don’t like for either one to be trashed and that was yesterdays Perfect storm. Ugly things were said from APer’s to APer’s all brought about by the ugly thought’s of a Chief. Many were upset by the “Poor choice of words” used by LJ, while others saw not problem with the words but more by his stupidity in using them. I myself was upset that to me this has been one long drama with LJ that has been going on since he came to KC.

The thing is We are ArrowHead Pride. others may run it and take care of it but without us there is no AP, We need, no we Have to look out for AP, we have to take care of it as it is ours we have to draw lines as to what is acceptable and what is not. We failed at that yesterday, we allowed the bad feelings to take over. Slights and vague insults were over looked in the heat of the moment and when those seemed to have gotten by, they grew into more and stronger insults and judgements, til they grew to the point of this post.

I’m one of those people that feel we need to vent our frustrations from time to time, and to be honest yesterday if I had been a moderator quiet a few of you would have been given a 24 hour timeout. So I guess what I’m saying is thank the moderators you do have, Take care of this site and flag those comments that upset you rather than just flying off the handle and posting an ugly response. Stop and think by responding to a bad or ugly post you just give it credit and your just fanning the fire. Flag the thing and tell the Moderators about your concerns and move on, don’t let someone bait you into saying something that might get you flagged or banned, because for everyone we lose here on AP we grow weaker until someone comes along to replace them…and you may not like what that replacement has to say at all.

Sorry for the long rant, I stewed on this most of the day yesterday and lost some sleep over it last night, I’m glad I had this opportunity to get it out of my system.

I’m also sure I got grouped there in as well since I called Matt out for his comments.

I assure you all my intentions were not to personally attack one member of AP, but rather show how that even by using “silly jokes” it is still offensive.

Chris/Joel/other mods/respectable members, I apologize to you all. I really like this place but I get fired up when I see a hurtful comment(s) such as were posted in a thread about how someone just got in trouble for doing the same things. I know i dont have great insight on the Chiefs as some of you do but I do like to discuss the Chiefs and football in general with most of you.

Again I apologize since I was the biggest perpetuator of THIS post in the first place.

people may have been a little flag happy… oh well… It’s not like a flag means all that much…

how many flags till you’re banned… I already have 2 I believe in just a couple of months…

I meant warnings… and not flags…

Can this post be moved up to the recommended list, after yesterday I think everyone should read it and it is starting to get buried under the new post of today.

I have only used it a couple of times in the past because I have been hesitant to try and muzzle what people say, but unfortunately the quality of comments on this site have dropped dramatically in the recent months and perhaps it is going to require the participation of everyone here to make an improvement.

Here is hoping people realize that this is the best place on earth to come and get info and talk Chiefs football with Chiefs fans, and that all the other garbage can go somewhere else.

Thanks Chris, Joel, and all other moderators for all he work you guys do.

Slander, insults and verbal assault are replies I have come to see quite regularly on any site that allows comments. It seems that no matter what the subject matter is we have become so polarized that there is no longer the ability to meet in the middle. We are all supposed to be Chiefs fans here. That is the common ground we all stand on and it is from there that our dialogue stems from. I guarantee that there is no one here who is not frustrated with the Chiefs so that is not a viable reason or excuse for the asinine and/or vicious comments posted by some.

It befuddles me when some people claim that they are a fan of such and such team only to see them rip into a fellow fan because of a comment or opinion as opposed to simply debating with them. I am like one fellow commenter (The Truth) that said

…I’ll skip over it and just consider the poster…

because in this medium, writing is basically saying it and what comes out of mouths do affect others. I sense that some folks do not even take into consideration or for that matter care that in this type of forum their level of respect is gauged by others through their words and how they interact with others.