[chimera]

So you write a post that calls other posters "Tara worshippers" and "a cult," say posters are "lost in worship" and wonder why your posts are not well received?  If your post last year was similar I have no doubt you got some heated responses.  Takes work to get people mad enough to call you an a-hole.  Nice going!  I do not remember it because you know, this is just a silly message board, nothing very important, and our opinions affect nothing, mean nothing outside this small group.
[hr' Wrote:  

And, for all those who claim Tara does not take responsibility, she does. 

"This last month has been really hard.  We tried to rest our team as much as possible.  We needed to be playing better than we are right now.  I think our offense really struggled, and when that happens people try to do it by themselves, and I saw that throughout the whole game.  Both Haley and Cam felt like they needed to do it by themselves and that's on me.  We worked really hard every day to run offense, move the ball, set screens, and we struggled with it."

I am not enjoying all the silly stuff about people "getting run off the board" and all that.  If you state an opinion and others disagree, that is not getting run off, that is a discussion board.  It's cool if people take positions that are not popular, but they have to also take the pushback from opposing opinions.  

I disagree.  Last season if I posted the slightest bit of criticism I was attacked.  I was insulted.  Your post is a little ironic.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Last season you threatened to permanently leave the board because you didn't want to read criticism about WBB play.

I find it hard to believe the slightest bit of criticism caused you to be attacked. and insulted, unless you and I differ as to what attacked means.  I have no memory of your posts at all so I don't know what happened.  We have mods so can't be all that terrible. Getting strong rebuttals by multiple posters is not an attack.  There are numerous posts all over the board right now that are critical.  Nobody is getting attacked.  This is a discussion or a debate.  You can make a point strongly or disagree strongly without it being an attack.  You just disagreed with me.  Should I be insulted or feel attacked?  If one poster calls you an insulting name or whatever, they shouldn't do that, but one poster doing a bad thing doesn't mean you run off the board.  That would be the majority of posters calling you names.  

You are wrong.  I was thinking hard about leaving not because I don't want to read any criticism.  A fair bit of what is on here is critical to some degree.  If you read anything I've written on here recently you would see I post some criticisms myself.  I was thinking hard about leaving due to the tone, which was ugly and seemed to come more from a place of hunting for reasons to be ultra-negative too often.  It was not fun, got really boring, and did not allow for nuanced discussion.  I may have left for a while.  I don't even remember.  This just a message board.  This is not serious.

Pretty legit post prior.  People on this board don't like criticism of Tara, plain and simple.  Open your eyes a bit.  That's all that's being asked. And it's coming from people who watch just as much basketball as the next.

I watch the majority of the games of those teams in the top 15 all year long.  Yet, I refrain from posting much here because of the responses people have to opinions that aren't hoorah Stanford.  And I am a diehard Stanford fan and alum; and I donate plenty.

So what if people don't like like criticism of Tara?  And what should be done about it?  If you post that you think Tara is an over-rated coach or whatever, and someone responds by saying that's wrong, she has done this, that and the other so well, what just happened?  You posted your opinion and someone responded with theirs.  If few posts agree with you and many disagree, what does that mean?  Not that you are attacked.  Not that you will be stopped from posting your opinion the future.  No, it means that most people disagreed with you, that's all.  If you don't like being in a minority opinion and wish to stop posting, that is up to you.  So what should happen?  Should people not be allowed to disagree?  Should only the first two disagreeing posts be allowed, none after?  

If you post unpopular opinion, especially if you post them in an extremely negative way, you will find that people who disagree will post and some will post strongly worded disagreements.  Such is life on a message board.  Say what you want.  Take the heat if you get any, as long as it is done civilly.  How did this devolve into posting about previous posts?  This is sorta why I sometimes hate message boards.

[chimera]

So you write a post that calls other posters "Tara worshippers" and "a cult," say posters are "lost in worship" and wonder why your posts are not well received?  If your post last year was similar I have no doubt you got some heated responses.  Takes work to get people mad enough to call you an a-hole.  Nice going!  I do not remember it because you know, this is just a silly message board, nothing very important, and our opinions affect nothing, mean nothing outside this small group.
[hr' Wrote:  

And, for all those who claim Tara does not take responsibility, she does. 

"This last month has been really hard.  We tried to rest our team as much as possible.  We needed to be playing better than we are right now.  I think our offense really struggled, and when that happens people try to do it by themselves, and I saw that throughout the whole game.  Both Haley and Cam felt like they needed to do it by themselves and that's on me.  We worked really hard every day to run offense, move the ball, set screens, and we struggled with it."

I am not enjoying all the silly stuff about people "getting run off the board" and all that.  If you state an opinion and others disagree, that is not getting run off, that is a discussion board.  It's cool if people take positions that are not popular, but they have to also take the pushback from opposing opinions.  

I disagree.  Last season if I posted the slightest bit of criticism I was attacked.  I was insulted.  Your post is a little ironic.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Last season you threatened to permanently leave the board because you didn't want to read criticism about WBB play.

I find it hard to believe the slightest bit of criticism caused you to be attacked. and insulted, unless you and I differ as to what attacked means.  I have no memory of your posts at all so I don't know what happened.  We have mods so can't be all that terrible. Getting strong rebuttals by multiple posters is not an attack.  There are numerous posts all over the board right now that are critical.  Nobody is getting attacked.  This is a discussion or a debate.  You can make a point strongly or disagree strongly without it being an attack.  You just disagreed with me.  Should I be insulted or feel attacked?  If one poster calls you an insulting name or whatever, they shouldn't do that, but one poster doing a bad thing doesn't mean you run off the board.  That would be the majority of posters calling you names.  

You are wrong.  I was thinking hard about leaving not because I don't want to read any criticism.  A fair bit of what is on here is critical to some degree.  If you read anything I've written on here recently you would see I post some criticisms myself.  I was thinking hard about leaving due to the tone, which was ugly and seemed to come more from a place of hunting for reasons to be ultra-negative too often.  It was not fun, got really boring, and did not allow for nuanced discussion.  I may have left for a while.  I don't even remember.  This just a message board.  This is not serious.

Pretty legit post prior.  People on this board don't like criticism of Tara, plain and simple.  Open your eyes a bit.  That's all that's being asked. And it's coming from people who watch just as much basketball as the next.

I watch the majority of the games of those teams in the top 15 all year long.  Yet, I refrain from posting much here because of the responses people have to opinions that aren't hoorah Stanford.  And I am a diehard Stanford fan and alum; and I donate plenty.

So what if people don't like like criticism of Tara?  And what should be done about it?  If you post that you think Tara is an over-rated coach or whatever, and someone responds by saying that's wrong, she has done this, that and the other so well, what just happened?  You posted your opinion and someone responded with theirs.  If few posts agree with you and many disagree, what does that mean?  Not that you are attacked.  Not that you will be stopped from posting your opinion the future.  No, it means that most people disagreed with you, that's all.  If you don't like being in a minority opinion and wish to stop posting, that is up to you.  So what should happen?  Should people not be allowed to disagree?  Should only the first two disagreeing posts be allowed, none after?  

If you post unpopular opinion, especially if you post them in an extremely negative way, you will find that people who disagree will post and some will post strongly worded disagreements.  Such is life on a message board.  Say what you want.  Take the heat if you get any, as long as it is done civilly.  How did this devolve into posting about previous posts?  This is sorta why I sometimes hate message boards.