Whitney Houston’s tragic death last weekend drove the final nails in Bobby Brown’s coffin too. His career as a has-been celebrity is now just as dead. Poor Bobby got stiffed in her will and can’t even expect to get booked on Celebrity Apprentice anymore. But Whitney’s passing, like a pebble thrown into a pond, had unexpected and even more far reaching implications. Her death also was responsible for Brithai’s demise as a poster on SGT this week.
When Da Boss took over the reigns at SGT last year, after a foolish and hastily reconsidered attempt at merging interests with Jabba the Butt’s board, things started looking up. It appeared Da Boss understood his board’s success relied on the involvement of posters. One of his more intelligent moves was to decree that when a moderator deletes a post he would note which rule the post violated. A simple requirement that acknowledged the value of anyone’s efforts at posting, simple politeness in recognizing if a post was to be deleted the poster should be told why. That idea has since been scrapped.
Da Boss recently posted that jinx, who tends to hit the delete button based on nothing more than which pant leg gave him the most trouble that morning, told him at the time he came up with that new policy it would never work. I’m not sure why if you have a set of rules it would be so impossible to note which was being invoked to justify deleting a post, but that bit of logic evidently is too much for SGT’s moderators to handle. So the board is back to arbitrarily hitting the delete button based on a whim. And not bothering to explain their actions.
There are no rules about protecting the sensibilities of the owner or moderators, but one member was recently scolded and sent to his room for 30 days for having done so. And our recently deceased Brithai had a snarky post about Whitney’s death deleted too. For no better reason than a moderator thought it was not in good taste. Because the board’s membership is not composed of adults who can not manage to read or not read posts on their own.
No one, Brithai included, would argue Whitney’s passing was tragic. But let’s be honest, she’s been a caricature of herself for years now. Watching her drugged-out crack whore act when she was ambulant enough to appear on camera was certainly more horrifying than anything Brithai could have come up with. Claiming a moderator was justified in deleting his post because he was protecting her memory is a joke. Evidently when it comes to dead celebrities, on SGT only a group hug is allowed.
Da Boss is put out, upset over having to justify arbitrary moderation decisions on his board. Sticking to using the posted rules to justify deletions would solve that; problem gone. Whitney was ultimately her own worse enemy, her death the result of bad decisions she made. It looks like SGT is going to honor her memory by doing the same. Perhaps Da Boss should go with the flow and change his avatar back to the grim reaper.
SGT has been losing many longtime and avid posters this year. Lately, they’re dropping like flies surpassing even the death toll of drugged out singers. The board is becoming a Pattaya-centric forum, as if there were not already too many of those around. With less posters its value is ebbing. While it becomes more and more like Jabba’s little world. One poster to the thread about Whitney noted that the policies and practices at SGT had nothing to do with free speech, its owner could decide what he does or does not want posted on his board. True. But then he also gets credit for the board becoming but a shade of what it once was. Jabba’s attempt at a board has never really taken off for that very reason. A message board should be driven by its posters, not the owner’s personality, likes, and dislikes.
And you can’t help but notice Da Boss’s final post on the Whitney thread sounded eerily familiar to those who have experienced Jabba’s iron fist. But then you wouldn’t know that. Evidently the entire matter over Brithai leaving offended one of the moderator’s sensibilities too. That series of posts has now been deleted.
Brithai, you’ll be missed. You may, however, want to change you mind and continue posting (even though you only had a 60% success rate at being funny). Standing on your principles can be satisfying; sticking around and being a pain in the butt can be even more enjoyable. So I’ll leave you with the words of the late, great Whitney Houston (slightly paraphrased):
If you
Should stay
You’ll only be in their way
So don’t go
‘Cuz ya know
It will bug jinx every step of
the way.
And I…
Will always love you
I…
Will always love you
You, ooh
(Cough, hack)
Bobby baby, give me another hit of that shit.
(Cough)
tim said:
60 %?? cheeky fucker !!!
i could post again, but then i’d have to face your ridicule on here …
and to tell you the truth i like neal … but i think 4 months of reading the same stuff gets pretty boring pretty quick.. well about 4 months i guess …
how many times does one need to read about dave man club ?
or a wombat cut and paste …
as for whitney .. give me the ant anyday .. if you read my post you’ll know what that means 🙂
Bangkokbois said:
Hey, I was being generous!
🙂
Unfortunately I didn’t catch your post that got the powers who be’s panties in a twist. So who knows, maybe it was extremely offensive. Might have even notched your funny ratio up a point or two. And I like Neal, too. I just disagree with his current love affair with his delete key. Personally, I’m bored with the posts filled with minutia about small clubs in Pattaya myself, but any forum will be what it posters want it to be. Provided the moderators leave folk to play in the manner they wish. If things turn around again and you decide to start posting again, you’ll get a pass from me. I’ll no doubt always have a ready supply of posters to ridicule regardless.
tim said:
to tell the truth it would probably bring my points down a bit …
he said being as she was a hero !?!?!?!?!? in this life . and was the *victim* so she deserves to be in the next .. and hero that is not a victim .. i pointed out as you have here it was her own choice to kill herself .. and an ant deserved a better next life that she did … now i know daboss left my post there before jinks deleted it because he thought people should see for themselves how disgusting what id said was and he would await the outpouring of grief at my lack of humanity to a junkie bitch .. and a total of none one did complain … oh well .. poor old shitney … still looks like the familys doing their best to cash in … its all about the money .
tim said:
excuse the spelling i know its no worse than nomal but im a bit pissed .. thats what 24 hours travel time for BKK to LHR does to one .. plus the fact its back to long pants and a coat .. brrrrr . p.s. just read about the death of a diva … not seen beachy about for a while ??
Bangkokbois said:
Mmmmm, Beachball has been awol for a while now.
Sorry to hear about the being in Britain thingy. That’s gotta suck. I’m suffering through winter too. It barely got up to 70 today.
Bangkokbois said:
But tell us how you really feel Tim.
🙂
Geeze, and I thought I was harsh! I didn’t know about da Boss’ original post saying she was a hero. That too got deleted when your’s went MIA. I’d probably have blown a gasket too. She lived her life the way she chose to live it. Period. I’ve heard her mom tried interventions a few times, but there are a lot of people who you can’t help. They have to want to help themselves first. Yes, her death was a tragedy; so was most of her life. Playing the victim card only dishonors true victims.
ChristianPFC said:
All I know about her was that she is (was) a black US-American singer. Due to lack of interest, I didn’t even read the threads about her death. Thanks for posting about all the stuff I missed. I was not aware what what going on. I always miss the interesting parts!
Sorry for Brithai for being banned.
A hero? Absolutely not. By my standards, a hero is someone who faces death, like a fireman who goes into a burning building to rescue someone and knows that he might die.
Bangkokbois said:
Kind of a shame that thread was washed so no one would know what transpired – and for the record, Brithai quit, he wasn’t banned, just silenced by deletion. But that seems par for the course at SGT these days. As for the hero thingy Christian, I’d agree with you. I think the media started using that term too loosely to add significance to a story, now school crossing guards are being called heroes . . . I just don’t get it.