A Humble Request

that had their team ripped out of their lives by clay bennett homeboy david stern.

But now I’m headed over to check it out. If goons don’t stop blasting you, at least you wrote a good ad for your blog.

I didn’t post on your site or anything (or even visit it for that matter), but I think that Blazer fans take exception to being overlooked and under-rated by national media and bloggers alike. I don’t think it was personal or anything.

On the other hand, this attention and “blog rivalry” could be just what you need, and it could encourage the faithful OKC fans to stand up to the big boys at Blazers Edge and really get behind your site. Here’s hoping.

I’ve checked out some of your writing. While I can’t comment on your skill as a writer, I can say your basketball opinions are critically uninformed for a guy writing for a fairly well-trafficked blog. You previewed the Blazkers-OKC game as if you were completely unaware of the status of the rest of the league except for what you hear in the TNT pregame show.

Readers of this blog can see how hard Dave and Ben (and others) work in staying up to date, knowing the league, etc; it’s the work that has earned them respect here, not just that their blazers fans as well. It appeared to me like you are doing significantly less work, and I think it shows in your writing.

Criticizing someone’s opinion and expressing a different one (politely) is OK. But simply saying “ha-ha, nobody reads you” (if, in fact, that’s what people were doing) is rude. One can point out areas for improvement if one likes, but if anyone thinks a particular site deserves no traffic, the appropriate way to do so is to avoid it.

by blogging at the Oregonian (O-Live) and another friendly blogger told me about B-Edge. The Bloggers on B-Edge are so far superior to that of the newspaper I haven’t gone back. I would think you should try to and attract a blog following by getting the word out somehow. As far as your content, it’s just fine! bloggers will quickly point out to other bloggers on this site when they say something that comes up short and it’s usually lightning quick. Somehow you have to reach out and get a friend of a friend recommending type situation going. Good Luck!!!

I quickly decided to ask myself ,what would Dave do? So I did the obvious and stayed out of the fray, this was not the Rockets site or any other with that sort of following and it just did not seem fair. Good luck with your site I am sure in time the following will grow. Go Blazers!

I hate to see people being negative towards others in any shape or form. I personally have not posted anything on your site, but I will officially be joining it now to spread some positivity. As for blogging in general, I used to NEVER do it simply because it attracts weak minded individuals who could never say half of their trash talk to your face, instead they choose to do it in a highschoolish, childish manner behind a computer screen. And they are ALWAYS looking for some one to unleash their negativity upon. I am bummed that there were several Bedgers who attacked your site, not cool at all. I am also a member of the Dream Shake Rockets website. Anytime, including last night when they played LAL, I visited their site and recieved nothing but nice comments. Ofcourse, I was only giving nice comments and wishing them good luck to beat LAL, but thats all I got back in return. I would hope that the future brings you more amiable bloggers instead of immature trolls who try to bring everybody around them down.

Keep up the good work. Good Luck and see you soon.

But, other than Pscho Seth over at Back Side of the Sun, BEdgers are pretty well regarded by bloggers across SBN. That a few of them acted out, perhaps inappropriately, doesn’t seem like a reason to call out the entire blog.

It probably would have been more appropriate if ZorgonB had messaged the offenders individually, and banned the legitimate trolls. If you got a problem with a few BEdgers, talk to them. Talking to the whole blog makes me think you got a problem with the whole blog, and I got a problem with that.

I posted that first comment thinking perhaps someone would actually write back but all I got was echo00)))))))) until I checked later and saw only other Blazer fans had been writing.
I personally think that up until game time (and I never looked later) nobody wrote anything trashy and that if occupy Loud City did anything, it should be to make it look as though people actually comment on your blog, possibly encouraging people of your own loud city ilk to post a few themselves.
but please, by all means, pull out the pepper spray and tazer and go to town.

I was ashamed of what some of the Blazersedgers were posting on WelcomeToLoudCity. We should cherish the large, vibrant, Blazer-obsessed community we have here on this site, rather than take it for granted and use it to bully other teams’ blogs.

Believe it or not, Blazersedge didn’t have a huge following on day one. It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears by a lot of different people to make it into what it is today. Large internet fan bases don’t happen overnight, I’m sure the Thunder’s will grow with time, just as the Blazers’ has.

and after reading the comments I can certainly see where being flooded with Bedgers would be offensive to someone who has put a lot of effort into getting that blog off the ground.

OKC doesn’t get much sympathy from me. I do not like them. They are the media darlings, the Zombie Sonics, and just plain not very likable when you share the division with them.

However, anything that casts this blog or its community in a bad light is not something that we should want a part of. I respect this guy’s efforts to turn WTLC into a more frequented blog and a larger fan community. We should also want that.

Currently they do not have the numbers to defend themselves from a BEdge invasion, and it turned into Blazer fans commenting on a Thunder blog. That ain’t our house guys. If ANY team did that here at a time when there were much fewer of us, we would be offended, irate, and feel run over. It is bad form for us to occupy their blog. We can go there, comment, engage, postulate, discuss, etc…but we should not be “occupying” any house but Blazersedge.

Lots of rude people on the internet, I was hoping I wouldn’t see the day someone had to ask BEdge to be nice.

Ban the rotten apples if you have to, but don’t scold the entire BEdge community.