Can we Ban or Suspend Posters For Calling Fighters "Bums" ?

[Holywarrior]

Wasn't TS all the way green when this thread started?

Yeah haha, oh well.

lol I actually posted a comment along these lines earlier today when somebody called kovalev a bum.

it's pretty pathetic really. Some kid sitting behind a keyboard calling a world champion a bum. I think they should be given a short ban. You even see guys calling Wlad, Haye, GGG, Quillin, Lara, pacquiao, bradley, frigging Rigo 'a bum' it's seriously full
******.

The site is supposed to be about discussion but you can't have a discussion when you start a thread with say...

"Who do you think will win Martinez or Cotto?"

and the first response is...

'Martinez will ktfo that bum Cotto. Why? because Cotto's a m*ther****ing Bum that's why.'

Exactly. Has nothing to do with Martinez being a world class boxer or anything

[Holywarrior]

Yeah it is pretty annoying hearing these e-warriors call professional fighters "bums," "cowards" and "cans." However, it's boxing lingo and terms that are deeply rooted into boxing's history. So, although the terms are thrown around too loosely nowadays by just about anybody, it's would be extreme to ban posters for such words IMO.

How on earth is coward boxing lingo? Forums have been around hardly a decade.

And most in here didn't get started until the Pacquiao/Mayweather era sadly.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Freedom of Speech....


I agree the term gets overused alot, but its easier to type bum, instead of a guy that is a level or 2 below his opponent

[billeau2]

Or "cans?" Or any other type of that stuff?

I see this crap way too much on this site. Kovalev isn't a bum, Stevenson isn't a bum. Froch, Abregu, Garcia, Provodnikov, Pacquiao etc etc are not "BUMS"

It really drags down the quality of posting in here. I've seen other sites hand out suspensions in bannings for that type of nonsense.

Why does the solution to every problem like this have to be Bannings? I think the admin is stoopid enough banning people when they want to censor a topic...and your solution to the problem feeds right into their ignorant butt hurtness.

I agree that the free use of these terms is wrong, and what is wrong with expressing that these terms are wrong? what about a thread like "calling boxers bums is the height of ignorance because_________.

If people ignore the trolls, like this one writing! we tend to go away. That is another solution as well. Banning is just an act of repression if it is because of something like thread making, content, or the use of a particular word. The administrators here are already asswipes on that account, why add to it?

[sugarsmosley]

people calling champions, world class athletes bums are idiots. however that does not deserve a ban.

there are far worse ignorant and insensitive things that can be said, that DO result in bans. this site is decent at that

[_original_]

How on earth is coward boxing lingo? Forums have been around hardly a decade.

And most in here didn't get started until the Pacquiao/Mayweather era sadly.

Has nothing to do with forums. The term "coward" not as much, but for instance, Ali was labeled a coward and draft dodger during his day. As was Duran after the second Leonard bout, along with "quitter", so the word and similar terms have been prevalent throughout boxing's history.

[Holywarrior]

Has nothing to do with forums. The term "coward" not as much, but for instance, Ali was labeled a coward and draft dodger during his day. As was Duran after the second Leonard bout, along with "quitter", so the word and similar terms have been prevalent throughout boxing's history.

Quitter/Bums/Cans/cabbies really shouldn't be tolerated. Especially if the same poster keeps stinking up threads with it.

Prevalent throughout boxing history How many historians we got in here. The only ones I've ever chatted history with are in the history section and frankly that forum is dead.

[Holywarrior]

Freedom of Speech....


I agree the term gets overused alot, but its easier to type bum, instead of a guy that is a level or 2 below his opponent

It should be our job as the biggest boxing site on the planet to not let the fans remain ignorant and get ****** IMO

Its gotten worse every year.

[Jewel]

Mods, we shall start with a ban for HollyWarrior.

Yet you have bum beater finito lopez in your avi lol. When was he ever exciting? his best W was a ****fest vs alvarez.

show me lopez in a fight as good as hopkins pavlik

[Holywarrior]

Mods, we shall start with a ban for HollyWarrior.

A warning you mean?