What are you getting at? What the hell does this have to do with Kimbo?

Make sense man.

Then, you get to this situation where people don’t care what he has to say or outright dismisses his opinion because he’s just saying the same things over and over again.

Everyone’s opinions are based on their own identity processing the fats that’re available to them. If we don’t believe he has certain facts, then tht’s what the hyper in hypertext is for. If we believe his perspective on those facts is altering his opinion in some way, then please expound upon that. What I found disruptive to the candor here, insulting, and just plain unnecessary was the desire to insult someone you don’t agree with when all that was needed was to close the browser window or move to the next comment. Granted, he didn’t suggest Smoog shoot himself in the face and then die, or anything that extreme. I just felt the need to ask that it not go further or continue, or that anyone here should feel marginalized or outcast because they had perspectives or ideas that went against the general consensus.

I don’t hang around MMA forums because they’re often used to express every infantile and malicious emotion people have, but don’t want to bother to process with their minds. I know it takes energy and emotional effort to process the thoughts of people you don’t agree with, and I’m not actually comparing him or you to Sherdoggers in this situation. I know how you feel, and I personally don’t agree with Smoogy in the least on this, no matter his skills with a Graphic Interleave. But I felt he could have left it at not agreeing, and stated why. The End.

This whole situation stirs up considerable emotion in all of us, but I still feel Bloodyelbow was always a place our humble editors tried to provide where we could love, hate, discuss, and disagree about the greatest sport without having to explain why insults aren’t a debate tool amongst people who respect one another and are willing to take the time to read and share each others opinions.

Personally, when I want to mock and be mean to the sport and the people who follow it, I read FL.

Sorry, didn’t mean to ignore this part, man.

And what’s the popular line that people are towing in this case? I don’t understand that. We shouldn’t criticize EliteXc because they’re not the UFC?

Well, he seemed to think that the NSAC vote allegations were more important than this and “Who knows where Seth got the idea they were doing them like that,” Whereas most of us seem to think (A) this is considerably more important than Frank either torpedoing the competition so he could buy all their assets for himself or thinking poorly of the sport and then finding out more and changing his mind and (B) Seth was told this by EliteXC officials right before the fight as he himself said in the radio show.

Also:

I agree with you to a point, but when you’re formulating an opinion, you should remain objective and try to gather the facts.

I wholeheartedly agree. It felt like “let’s ignore Smoogy” was not an researched opinion being brought to the discussion,. but a statement made in public to insult someone who simply could have been ignored, y’know? And hey, I know it just happens sometimes. We get frustrated with the crazy ish in this sport and other peoples opinions just seem so out there that you just have to let out that feeling. I’m not against MTB, I just wish we could keep that stuff to a minimum. But we’re not always gonna agree on everything, are we?

:)