Accepting people's opinions -Message to everyone-

[amat]

Don't think we would have much of a problem if people just learned to accept my opinion and let that be the end of it.

[Youngblood]

I think it's funny when people get so pissed off disagreeing they end up resorting to name calling.

This is what I see...

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/funny/noob.jpg

[El Kabong]

Don't think we would have much of a problem if people just learned to accept my opinion and let that be the end of it.

You're not abrasive enough for anyone to really have that much of an issue with you. You can try to be mean but it won't work

[Spicoli]

After the Marquez/Pac rematch and To a lesser degree Hopkins/Calzaghe ...It was just foul.It was for the most part just new flamers coming in and tossing Maltovs Everywhere.Once you start with the Pussies,coward,and overrated baby killer talk etc.etc. your credibility is nixed..... It is really pointless to even attempt a conversation.This is no tea party,there will be headbutts but respect at the end of the day should remain intact.

[amat]

Don't think we would have much of a problem if people just learned to accept my opinion and let that be the end of it.

You're not abrasive enough for anyone to really have that much of an issue with you. You can try to be mean but it won't work

We had a member here a while back, I wish I still had the PMs because I forget his name. It was before that board crash we had. Anyways, he made a few threads on his first day, didn't seem like that bad of a guy, made a "I'm new here" thread and then a couple others. Anyways, I gave him the customary CC or whatever then went on to reply to his threads. One of them was about Cotto and this was 140 Cotto and he didn't realize it but I was agreeing with him. Then in a couple other threads I didn't.

I logged on the next time and I had like 10 PMs with this guy literally exploding over himself cussing me out thinking I was mocking him, accusing me of stalking, ignoring the whole bit. It was pretty funny as I've never had that happen to me on a message board where a guy was genuinely upset.

I try not to be abrasive just because...well I typically don't get into that. But that was great because of funny those PMs were. I always wonder what those people are like in real life when they get that mad. If they are screaming at their keyboard or getting all red. Or even funnier if they are just completely straight faced spewing these hateful things.

Just saw a De La Hoya - Forbes ad

[El Kabong]

Well I've had a number of posters flushed because they couldn't handle arguing with me....and realize that I am not and have never have been a Mod at any point in time.

Jax - he more or less quit
raleights - as best I recall we fought...but I could be mistaken
landmine950
Wasp - the most recent casualty

I don't know if there are any others


Then there are guys that stay and eventually we develop a good solid friendly rivalry

bigragu and kirklandlaing

[brucelee]

I've been noticing as i've been going around the forums, that this crap is really starting to get out of hand and turn this forum into flame warfare that isn't what saddoboxing should be known as.

You got trolls, biased fans making statements out there, and you got people that immediately mark someone with a differing opinion as someone who doesn't know jack about boxing.

So I decided to make this post and hopefully it will be made a sticky.

But we as boxing fans need to realize that it isn't all about us. That our opinion isn't the be all and end all of an argument. And just because a few people agree with what we say doesn't give us the right to shoot down someone else with a differing opinion.

This has never been more evident then with the recent calzaghe hopkins threads I see around here.

You got people making threads against Joe and threads against Hopkins. You got people saying Hopkins was exposed and Joe was exposed.

PEOPLE, it was a fight. and it's over now. Why are we still living in saturday? We have to move on.

Neither fighter's career is tarnished by that performance, let it go. Personally, I felt Hopkins won, but I'm fine with Calzaghe having the victory because they both fought their butts off and deserve to be respected and both fought the fight they wanted to fight at different times of the fight. You saw the brilliance of Hopkins and the adaptation skills of Calzaghe and they both stepped their games up given the circumstances, respect it and move on.

Now with all the threads going around, we have trolls going around saying all this ridiculous stuff and you got threads being made by people which turn into flame wars or seem just like a garner for attention.

Yet if someone challenges them on the spot for their opinion, do we get a good debate on both sides trying to make an argument? No, we get "Just because you picked Hopkins shows you know f*ck all about boxing."

If you are brave and courteous enough to put your own opinion out there, you should also be willing to accept other's on the case as well. They don't have your eyes, your head and in some ways your bias, so they have the right to see a fight how they want to see it as long as they are being honest about it and aren't just saying something with the intention of pissing you off.

If you say an opinion be prepared to deal with someone disagreeing, and when someone disagrees don't respond by flaming and crap like that, at least back up your case and allow them to back up there's, because you lose all legitimacy by stooping to a lower level and it makes it appear like it's all you were there for, and then what could have been a good post, turns into a flame war post and you know what, those are the posts that seem to be viewed the most and thats why it has to come to a stop.

The whole internet sports community, boxing in one side, is seen as just a bunch of biased fools who toot their horn about their fighters and can't take a loss and other's who throw down on another fighter's loss for the chance to say they were "exposed" ultimately taking credit away from the fighter they want to build up for beating him, and it has to stop.

Case in point, if you put your opinion out there, accept the fact that people are gonna disagree. If you're just putting it out there to flame people who disagree with you, then whats the point of putting it there? It doesn't help you, and it doesn't help the community in this site as a whole.

So as a message to all you boxing fans. Learn to accept other people's opinions and hopefully, ultimately we'll clean up this site to the way it used to be.

I'm Majesty, and thats my opinion.


Jay

I have learned to avoid useless debates in here coz I have learned to respect the opinion of others.

The important thing we should learn here is RESPECT.

[Kev]

Am I the only one who notices the irony in that this is yet another thread moaning about other people's opinions?

[Fenster]

What else is ironic is certain posters in this very thread advocating NON trashtalk are the biggest hissyfit throwing thrashtalkers on the site

[brucelee]

What else is ironic is certain posters in this very thread advocating NON trashtalk are the biggest hissyfit throwing thrashtalkers on the site

[Puya]

Don't think we would have much of a problem if people just learned to accept my opinion and let that be the end of it.

LOL good one

[Puya]

Want to prove Majesty wrong?

Say something really bad about Floyd.
Maybe B-Hop I bet Majesty will be more dramatic than
DS1 on a side you can argue with great points

HEy Danny post in here JC doing the macarena dance on B-Hop's behind

[Cortez The Killer]

From now on we shall all agree on everything. Because we are all in agreement on everything then we wont even have to come to saddos anymore because we already know that we all agree. Then we can sit around twiddling our thumbs all day humming "la dee daaa"


If everyone accepted what everyone else had to say then this site would be boring as fuck!

Half the reason of having a forum is the clash of opinions. It makes it fun and exciting. It is also worthwhile when people disrespect someone else's opinion, it is all part of the natural cycle of the forum.


Sometimes arguments turn into very entertaining free-for-all fuckfests and someone will eventually make a fool of themselves by threatening to kick someones ass (ala leftylee) and hilarity ensues

[Majesty]

From now on we shall all agree on everything. Because we are all in agreement on everything then we wont even have to come to saddos anymore because we already know that we all agree. Then we can sit around twiddling our thumbs all day humming "la dee daaa"


If everyone accepted what everyone else had to say then this site would be boring as fuck!

Half the reason of having a forum is the clash of opinions. It makes it fun and exciting. It is also worthwhile when people disrespect someone else's opinion, it is all part of the natural cycle of the forum.


Sometimes arguments turn into very entertaining free-for-all fuckfests and someone will eventually make a fool of themselves by threatening to kick someones ass (ala leftylee) and hilarity ensues

I didnt say agree. I said accept