Who thinks I'm the greatest comment poster on this site?

yes

i think you're funny now, but it will probably wear thin pretty quick.

I don't know about "comment posters", but I must say my favorite poster is my late 80s X-Men (X-Factor included) Arthur Adams drawn poster. It is awesome...

you're amusing, but that's about it....

I'm with exliontamer on this one.

I think you're a swell guy.

:::yawn::::

did somebody say something?????

pardon my french, sir, BUT YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE!

(say that like Mr. Peters into the phone)

isn't it peterson ?

yeah, so . . . shut up. what? im drunk.

it most certainly is mr. george peterson. cameron is way cooler than ferris.

My favorite poster is my vintage George Harrison poster (circa "All Things Must Pass).

I was always in love with Matthew Broderick, but Cameron won me over- I was psyched to see him with grayish hair in "Twister"

Well you're the first person to have gotten a topic locked on this board that I've seen. That's gotta count for something.

I was quite surprised to see that topic being locked too. Hell yeah, BrianW. Good way to use the power they have granted you on here.

I debated whether or not to do anything and I'm sorry I fell behind on reading the MISC board for a few days or I might have put a stop to it sooner.

The thing is I know you guys had some fun with it, but really while I (nor the band and management) are against free speech and the right to say you don't like The Features, there's a much better way of going about it. It is after all their space that they pay for. These guys can start their own board advertising their desires for fellatio and what not. It was clearly the act of a few individuals (I saw some common IP addresses) and it could have been a scorned band, I don't know. But hell this place rarely needs moderating so I jumped at the chance to exercise powers!

Those individuals have not only been banned, but their IP addresses have been blocked as well. They might resurface if they switch internet services, but I doubt they'll go through that much trouble. If they do, then they are truly disturbed and/or bored.

(Edited by BrianW at 2:31 pm on Nov. 20, 2002)

I am on a computer at school because someone has decided to block my entire network from the message board - well thanks

so I guess I will really never post again so I guess that means no more b&p offers - now everyone can thank BrianW


maybe some of these post show how most of you take this board way to seriously - so fuck it I'm banned hell yea that makes for the second time

take it sleazy

Is it possible that you were involved in some of the malicious, features-bashing posts? I honestly don't know how this stuff works, but it seems to me like someone who shares your computer or uses one near you may have been one of the users that were banned. Like I said though, I don't get it. Sorry if you were unfairly restricted.

And, because you mentioned it, thanks BrianW! You're doing a tremendous job!

(Edited by carligula at 5:35 pm on Nov. 20, 2002)

Clearly blightman wasn't banned from the board as he was able to post. However, either he, using a different name, decided it would be fun to start threads about blow jobs and personal attacks against The Features and its fans, OR, someone else used his computer and did it without his knowledge. I'm sorry I'm unable to differentiate between the two but that's the both the beauty and the downside of banning an IP address specifically.

And thanks Carligula!

(Edited by BrianW at 5:49 pm on Nov. 20, 2002)

well, i suppose you should have thought about some of the consequences before you or someone who used your computer began making inane posts....

oh well, so long blightman....

and BrianW, i echo everyone's sentiments when i say you're doing a fine job. keep up the good work.

no, blightman wasn't banned, but he can't use his home computer for posting on the board. which sucks even more. i love blightman. i miss him and his groovy chick. please don't leave forever.

Right, and let me explain this again -- the offending posts came from two different IP addresses. Those two IP addresses were banned. So if Blightman cannot log on from his home computer it means he, or someone using his computer, was responsible for some of those posts.

I bet I know who owns the other IP. coughfreezetagcough.

no need to explain. i got it the first time. i am an A+ student. well, almost. but thanks for doing your job. sucks that blightman is so bored he had to kick himself off the board.

Gotcha mindylieu. Congrats on the (almost) A+ grades! A lot better than I ever did.

do i or blightman (who show up to every show we can) look like candidates to jump online and bash the features? do i look like (as a vandy graduate) someone who'd get on and bash vanderbilt students or friends of ours (i.e. keith)? don't group us in on this, please.

as a free speech absolutist, i am greatly disturbed that you'd ban anyone, even though i agree that the person (who happens to be on the same network as blightman, a network that MANY are on with one IP address) and his drunk friends were rather crass. is this the solution we should come to whenever we hear things we don't agree with?

long live the features, may they have every inch of success that the world can grant them. and best to you all. sorry that anything disturbed the message board harmony...

Am I the only one not glad to be having people banned? I understand that this message board is not a democracy, but it seems to me that most of the conflicts with the annoying post-ers had been resolved through thoughtful discussion. To think that that dialogue would not have taken place if BrianW had been paying closer attention & taken action earlier & to think that people would apparently be happy about that makes me sad. Are we so convinced of our own correctness and, as blightman said, do we take ourselves so seriously that we can't tolerate a little bit of banter? Are people only welcome on this board if they make positive statements that jive with everyone else's opinions? Will blightman be banned now because he's expressed anger at being falsely accused?

A message board of constant positivity and quick squashing of dissident opinions or criticism would be a boring place. My interest in these forums (and others' interest, judging by the activity this week) has only been increased by having assholes to debate with. I think it will go away entirely if criticism, or even just being an asshole, becomes "illegal".

Right on, freezetag- we must've been venting simultaneously : )

Freezetag, I take it this is a wireless network of some type? Shared by many in an apartment complex or house via a router? Look, as I said multiple times I did not ban blightman nor you. I banned an IP address and I was weary of doing so because of the possiblity you raise.

Look, this is what I'll do. I'll remove the address from the ban filter. The names I banned will remain in the list. I'm sorry to Blightman if he truly was unfairly kept from posting on this board from his home network. He should now be able to resume that, if he wishes.

Lauren, you aren't the only person who's not glad people were banned. I'm not happy that I had to! But you know what I don't get? What it is in someone that makes them happy, or as it seems to be, makes them any less bored by posting bullshit like that on message boards.

It's one thing to say, and I've been waiting to see someone to do it, believe me, "that the Features sucked tonight." Or, "you know I don't like that new song." I won't ban that. You or anybody else has the right to have criticism against the band. And as we've seen I have not put a stop to criticism of other musicians (I think Ryan Adams and a good handful of opening bands have seen the brunt of some folks here).

But if you say, "You know So-and-So in the band looks like he'd suck some good cock" and say it repeatedly, then I'd say this is exactly why you have a moderator/administrator for, to limit such things. I was slow to respond, but it doesn't make it right for it to be there in the first place.

And you know, I'll talk to the management and the band about this. If they want this place to be a free for all where any and everybody can just say whatever the hell they want to, meaning, as vulgar as they want to be, then I'll stand by their wishes and allow that to happen.

I hope freezetag and blightman haven't taken offense to my comments. you should know me well enough to realize that I am only teasing. coughhahahacough. enough of this crappy banning talk, i'm going back to the real world. tv and video games.

I also apologize. The last thing I want to do is piss off one of my most favorite features fans. I assumed that blightman's random appearance was his way of saying "hey I did it, haha sorry to piss anyone off." It is hard to ignore mighty elliot. Again, I am very sorry if I offended you two. I love you both and miss you and wish you would post more.

im confused. granted, i don't know blihgtman but i mean does he have multiple personalities or something? why is he pretending to hate the features? im drunk.

Blightman and Freezetag weren't directly involved with the malicious posts. It was their roommate, Andy, who is from Columbia, and who loves jambands and doesn't like indie kids. If it wasn't him, then it was someone pretending to be him. What doesn't make sense is how the hell Andy found out about the Features message board? Why did he all of the sudden decide to post here?

that explains so much.

well....the past few days on the message board have indeed been interesting. if this andy character was indeed the cause of all of this nonsense, then i apologize to blightman and whoever was inadvertantly involved. but i dont think that everyone has the right to jump all over BrianW like that. he's just doing his job. he's trying to keep the message board as wholesome and relevant as possible. i for one do not want this message board to end up like some other message boards where all of the topics revolve around penises, the size of penises, anal sex, and other bits of irrelevance, definitely topics that do not involve the band in any way.

thank you. i completely agree. well said.

I have no idea & I think it's kind of pathetic too. My response wasn't meant as an attack directed at you, BrianW- more a general commentary on the attitude of the whole "community". The situation just brought up a lot of questions in my head that I didn't think had been addressed. Plus, I had been awake for 36 hours delivering babies prior to my post, so I probably was a little less diplomatic than I usually would've been. Thanks for unblocking blightman & for your work on thefeatures.com

Lauren,

Delivering babies huh??? Pretty amazing work right there. No problem, didn't take it as a direct attack but you also brought out some thoughts that I had that I thought should have been addressed, so mine was less directed soley at you but to everyone in general as well.

And thanks again Ray, though I'm not looking to make this place "wholesome"! Now, if this was Sesame Street Lovers board that would be a different story, heh...

sesame street? more like friggin' melrose place. sheesh.