PACKER RATS EXCLUSIVE MAY 9TH

[RashanGary]

What can a person say. That was frikkin awsome.

[No Mo Moss]

Remember when hodge shaved his head that one time. I remember seeing him once with his hair shaved off and then never again. Either he is bald and forgot to wear his hair piece or his publicist told him he looks even nastier bald. Am I the only one who saw that?

[RashanGary]

ha ha....I missed it.

[Deputy Nutz]

No offense but you forgot the most guilty, Micheal Irving.

[Little Whiskey]

Damn, some of you guys sure put together some amazing stuff. It makes my little coments feel inadequate.

All comments have value...I personally love reading the variety of ideas posted here.

even mine??

[No Mo Moss]

No offense but you forgot the most guilty, Micheal Irving.

I am going to change that right now.

[Little Whiskey]

No offense but you forgot the most guilty, Micheal Irving.

I am going to change that right now.

i'd rather listen to the rest of them all day everyday for life then listen to that loud mouth!!

how does he have a job, after his cocain drug bust!!! they fire limbaugh after his mcnabb comment, but this guy goes out and buys up half of columbia and is still working!! he makes my blood boil everytime i here him open his mouth.

i guess the previous post might have been better suited to the rant thread. my appologies.

[RashanGary]

no mo,

I just sent you a pm

[Sparkey]

If the goal of this website is to be considered the place to gather for packer info and discussion, then I have to voice my complaints with this editorial.

The article is as bad as some of the stuff ESPN puts on their website. The obvious personality bashing aside, since when does throwing an f-bomb in an article make it worthy of reading.

For discussion threads, fine, leave it full throttle, wide open talk and back and forth. BUT a so called website exclusive article SHOULD NOT HAVE a comment like "Wow, dude some advice from Fran Foley, fucking lie on your resume." in the article or "Have you ever listened to anyone more convinced that the shit coming out of his or her mouth was correct?"

Unless you want to be labeled another one of those websites that lets any idiot blather on about anything, their should be some modicum of decency in the articles.

[No Mo Moss]

See I'm obviously going to have to disagree with you. One of the reasons we are here is to avoid censorship. If my opinion features a word that offends you I'm sorry, but it is your opinion. If you'd like to write your own opinion piece about it I'll read it.

It is after all just a word, a silly word. I was not taking the lords name in vain, nor was I scraping the bottom of the barrel for some offensive frat house rhetoric. I simply chose to use those words because those words conveyed the emotion of the sentence in the exact way I wanted them to.

At any rate they are simply words. surely if we can endure hundreds of hours of men trying to physically punish and violently batter each other, we can handle anything the written word can dish out.

But what the freak do I know?

(did you see how lame that last sentence was without fuck?)

[jack's smirking revenge]

Well, I'm going to take Sparkey's side on this one. I glazed over the vulgarities in the article, but Spark makes a good point.

My two cents: The forum is a place to voice vulgarities. The home page and the external articles are what we're trying to use to gain a greater audience and shouldn't have such language. I'm not for censorship, but I am for writing content to the level of our competitors. Our competitors wouldn't throw out f'bombs and neither should we in the editorial pieces we choose to publish to the main site.

Think of the Packer Rats site as a house: if it looks appealing and comforting on the outside, people will come in for a visit. The more people we can attract to come in for a visit, the greater our readership will be.

I think the article was great, No Mo. I'm not ripping on the article at all. I'm just suggesting that you could write the same article without the vulgarities and it would be just as effective and would speak to a greater audience.

tyler

[Sparkey]

See I'm obviously going to have to disagree with you. One of the reasons we are here is to avoid censorship. If my opinion features a word that offends you I'm sorry, but it is your opinion. If you'd like to write your own opinion piece about it I'll read it.

It is after all just a word, a silly word. I was not taking the lords name in vain, nor was I scraping the bottom of the barrel for some offensive frat house rhetoric. I simply chose to use those words because those words conveyed the emotion of the sentence in the exact way I wanted them to.

At any rate they are simply words. surely if we can endure hundreds of hours of men trying to physically punish and violently batter each other, we can handle anything the written word can dish out.

But what the freak do I know?

(did you see how lame that last sentence was without fuck?)

Don't confuse the open forum of discussion with editorial articles posted on the front page of a website. Foul mothed language used in an article does not impress anyone or show how free of censorship ones speech is. All it does is show a lack of intelligence and dignity by the writer.

Would I complain of foul language while in a bar ? Hell no, it is considered a part of the social make-up of the crowd. BUT I would expect a bit more restraint exhibited when it comes to articles that are projecting the image of a site.

I, personally find the article to be amusing, funny and even dead-on in some instances (Hodge for instance), however the bad language doesn't impress and makes the article less than it could be, in my eyes.

[jack's smirking revenge]

Let me add that you were gracious enough to let us post your article to the site, so don't take my constructive criticism personally. I just think the external piece of the Packer Rats site should have a standard of creative integrity. This place is still in its infancy, so we have some work to do in that area. Yours is the first article to test those waters.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter what happens "in the house", so long as the party inside doesn't spill out to disturb the neighbors.

tyler

[No Mo Moss]

"All it does is show a lack of intelligence and dignity by the writer."

Yes I am an Indignant Moron because the use of vulgarity doesn't phase me.


As for the other issues I agree. Keep in mind it was written to be in the forum. It was then added to the front page. And Sparkey I was not trying to impress anyone with the use of fuck and shit. That is how real people talk sometimes, I was merely writting how I would have talked about Golic and Salisbury had the reader been sitting in my living room. I will omit the word fuck and replace the word shit with crap. I suppose crap may offend some, but that is the word I will use unless you want me to start a poll.

[swede]

NoMo,

I see the point on profanity and Home Page content.

Your article, though, was funny, biting, and, considering how astute Packer fans have noticed the lack of journalistic integrity at ESPN, it was timely as well. How many stupid rumors--baseless rumors--did they kick around without apology this off-season?


Management needs to kick around some home page pofanity policy on this I suppose.

Anyway, take any criicism as constructive and friendly. I am rather confident that is how it was offered.