I don't see the AIDS there. Was one of the better posts in forum history imo.

'ban me ban me!' always AIDS

legit hom0phobia always AIDS

lots of good there too obv

yeah and it was well deserved too. yankee fans bitch and report posts while trolling relentlessly most of the time themselves.

there's a late round steal for a particular yankee fan who shows up only for the playoffs.

I could have truly made my post tl; dr, but I ended up going for as much brevity as a I could while getting my point across.

That being said, sorry if my post is tl; dr.

- Coach Gaines, Friday Night Lights


Gentleman I would be the first to commend all of the selections so far, and to defend you all in the face of anyone who says you have not begun to prove yourselves experts in the criteria of bad sports posting. You have identified posters with the worst traits of fandom, who have truly made this forum AIDS with their unintelligence, incoherence, homerism, and their general flouting of opinions one would consider themselves unfortunate to encounter on the rail of your local sports bar, never mind in the place we consider home, SE.

However, I would like to raise the bar. And I would like to do so by having you all get philosophical with me for a moment about what it is we do here. As much as anyone in this forum lives for that moment when their favourite team seals a huge win, or when transcendental moment occurs that we can all appreciate, what truly makes SE great is the perspective that it can provide at times when we need it. We get it in small doses on a daily basis in the FAQ thread, where sports fans turn into real people talking about their lives, where stuff like politics occasionally gets discussed at a far more mature level than anywhere I could imagine. We get it like we did recently during the Boston bombing tragedy, where this forum was again great in its understanding of the times when the game must take a backseat to something else. And I believe we got it most clearly during the now infamous Penn State scandal, where SE distinguished itself from the mass media and just about everybody else in its collective empathy, understanding, and prioritization of what this was really about. To all of you responsible, I give my congratulations.


However, there was one who stood out in this mess, who so antithetically opposed the principles I have outlined above, that make SE so great. He was unwavering, relentless and awful in his OVER 500 posts in the Penn State thread, and I will do my best to highlight how badly he should feel about it, as soon as I introduce him.



BDIDD

Let us reminisce on the facts of what happened at Penn State. Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 52 counts of child molestation from 2004-2009, though it is suspected this abuse went back as far as the 1970's. Former FBI director director Louis Freeh put together an independent report that concluded that "senior leaders" at Penn State showed a "total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims" for 14 years and "empowered" Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse. This includes iconic coach Joe Paterno, who was told by Mike McQueary that he witnessed Sandusky molesting a child. Paterno told not the police, but the Athletic Director, and the cover-up ensued. The Penn State student body and community subsequently humiliated themselves with extreme displays of support when action was taken against Paterno for his role in COVERING UP SERIAL CHILD RAPE.

I quote much of the following from wikipedia. To get a true grasp on the impact of child sexual abuse it would be necessary to read countless testimonials on how the victims are never able to trust again, to have proper relationships, to recove from the physical and mental scarring and to overcome the lack of self-worth. Adults with a history of sexual abuse often present for treatment with a secondary mental health issue, which can include substance abuse, eating disorders, personality disorders, depression, and conflict in romantic or interpersonal relationships. Research has shown that traumatic stress, including stress caused by sexual abuse, causes notable changes in brain functioning and development. Various studies have suggested that severe child sexual abuse may have a deleterious effect on brain development.

Now, most of you are familiar to the Penn State thread, it is SE's largest ever non-season thread after all. But for anyone who isn't, or to remind those who were, the feeling in the early pages of that thread before all the information had come to light, was one of instant condemnation of anyone who could be involved, above anything else.

However, on his arrival to the thread, Bdidd introduced himself with his remarkable ability to focus on WHAT DIDN'T MATTER.



On the cover-up itself, Bdidd gave us some more awful posting, looking after his main man, JOEPA:

Yes, Bdidd went balls to the wall for JOEPA until the last possible moment when all doubt about his true scumbag nature was clear.


On the miscellaneous front, a horrendous grasp of relativity:


Some of the posting is indescribable without the use of gifs:




Perhaps his worst display of posting ever was his liveblog of JOEPA's funeral, who I will again state in all caps is a man who's legacy will forever be of a man WHO COVERED UP FOR A SERIAL CHILD RAPIST.


Bdidd's defense of PSU got more horrible as it went on. When the whole thread were talking of how embarrassing the behaviour of the PSU community was, we got these gems. Another insight into Bdidd's absolute obliviousness to any kind of moral compass.


In fact it's amazing that anyone invested so heavily in the WHOLLY EVIL side of the PSU conflict went this far without a good 'ol spate of victim blaming:


And of course, horrific examples of awareness:


It was all just so AWFUL, over 500 posts worth of this excrement, amorality, cultishness and all around shamefulness and lack of decency.

When he was kindly asked to stop talking about PSU football in the thread, because, tbqh, AINT NOBODY WANNA HEAR THAT ****, Bdidd started a thread in the single season subforum.

He, inexplicably, titled this thread PSU Football: We don't give a **** what you think.

A true window into a soul, I'd say.


Which meant that while others were concerned with the behaviour of the PSU community, their martyrdom of some pretty evil people, and hoping fervently for justice to be dispatched upon the transgressors, Bdidd's thoughts on PSU were occupied in a different way:


Some truly shameful ****.

All in all, Bdidd did what some of the other bad posters on this forum failed to do. He disgraced himself forever on a moral and human level with his continued obvious concern for the institution and even some of the people responsible for one of the most horrific sports-related crimes in history, rather than the victims. He set himself up in opposition to goodness, empathy, justice, all while being so totally blind and oblivious to what really mattered and what was really at stake. So while from time to time I might get rustled @ Ray Horton's inability to select a good gif for a situation, or @ Systolic's loud ignorance of what makes a football team good, or even Andz's horrific communication skills and awful football, basketball and sociopolitical "opinions", none of these posters have, imo, even come close to betraying everything good about SE like Bdidd did with his long, stubborn, horrifically misguided campaign and subsequent fandom of Pedo State. **** You Bdidd.


Bdidd has also been tried and convicted of defending himself and even worse ACCUSING OTHERS of bad posting in the thread that inspired this draft. He has 65 posts in that thread and tbqh it's 65 too many.

One post in the thread sums up the lack of self-awareness Bdidd has about how truly bad he is:

Yes Bdidd, FOR SOME REASON, you really do.

But thankfully in digging up all these examples of awful posting, I did manage to find one example of good posting so that we can all finish this post with a sense of optimism:




For sure.

cdl, you're just wrong. nobody gives a **** about half these bad posters. yeah, they're bad, but who cares? everybody cares about greear

Bdidd elite pick. Wanted him next.

Great pick.

LOL BDIDD

damn, that writeup belongs in the PLAYER HATERS thread. Hate on son, HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

elite elite elite write up

Bdidd beat pick so far

Some older guys getting slept on hard

lol @ GREAAAAAAAR pick.

PBAL: excellent.

very strong

Bdidd very solid pick, so much value still on the board tho

imo Greear is still pretty awesome, it's an elite village idiot who can counterbalance the time spent as a tornado of poo with time spent as an independent non-idiot, it works because it's not a strategy it's who he is. Greear has brought some solid lols into my life, as opposed to bdidd who has brought confusion and dread; when greear is on your side you're happy to have him, when bdidd is on your side you take a shower. OR ON SECOND THOUGHT

bdidd is a fine pick. you know what youre getting and its bad, but I don't see the floor being much lower for him where it definitely could be for some other picks.

I'm here, doing the writeup now

bdidd and grear both fine picks, lol @ anyone who says otherwise

thinking of that massive ****ing link in that thread still makes me lol.

eta: as does grears daddy dick post

the problem is, sometimes I get Bdidd and Bidz temporarily mixed up, even though they are at opposite ends of the posting spectrum. I guess it's kind of like Jerry and Gerry Sandusky

lol @ how dirty this one is, so brutal

bdidd is such a great pick