Ak-Bk,
Thank you guys!

Very good AK;

But just to reiterate, the problem seems to be with Internet Explorer and the Digg.com linkages. Which I actually managed to work around by placing Digg.com on IE's “restricted sites” list. And setting the list priority to "high" as one blogger suggested earlier. Safari and Firefox weren’t experiencing any problems to my knowledge though.

Rick Friedman wrote:

>> “…I will say, though, that as a Firefox user, I experienced zero problems. Microsoft IE is a terrible browser, and I encourage anyone who has not yet switched over to Firefox to do so immediately.”

For my family, easier said than done believe it or not. If you’ve never heard of a bunch of people which are seemingly impossible to wean off of Internet Explorer. It would be my siblings and other relatives here unfortunately.

They just have a love affair with that browser. As incredible as that seems.

@ AK/BK
When do you guys think this thing will get fixed?
;) lol

@lovethelakeshow
I'm a FF user and I've been experimenting problems with the blog lately too.

Rick Friedman,

Apparently you haven't figured out that AK/BK are total hypocrites when it comes to the terms of service of the Blog. They pretty much ban/reprimand users based solely on how they feel about it, not based on what the rules dictate.

AK/BK - thank you thank you thank you thank you!!
Much love.
ps - is it done yet?? LOL!

I knew it was that lame Digg function.

GO LAKERS!

Rick Friedman,

I'm almost positive that opening photo on the New York Times articles is of Let's Go C's!

That's EXACTLY how I pictured him.

GO LAKERS!

Andrew and Brian,

I'm not on a personal campaign or anything, but I'm sure it'll be obvious to both of you and everyone else what the truth of certain posters' intentions are when they come here. Maybe there isn't anything you can do about it, and I understand if that's the case, but if you can obviously identify someone who fits the bill and doesn't contribute to this community in any productive way, please block them from using this board.

There are obviously some posters we have trolling this board now whose intentions are to do nothing but antagonize the rest of us. If at all possible, for the rest of us, censor these people when it's plainly obvious.

That article says it all.

Thanks

LGC's: That blogger be me.

Allow me to quote myself:

"Paul Pierce IS NOT your team's #1 guy. You know it. I know it. Stevie Wonder knows it.

If there's ANYBODY on the Celts who you should be trolling us about, it's KG & Ray Allen. THEY ARE THE REASON why you have your ring, bud! Recognize!

Which leads to another interesting discovery. Kobe can't win a ring by himself. Ok. Neither could Paul Pierce.

Paul Pierce needed 2 dudes to help him get his.
Kobe only needed 1 to help him get 3!"

You counterpointed by saying that it was Shaq and a talented supporting cast that got Kobe his 3 (which is STILL 2 more than Paul Pierce) rings. I'll see your counterpoint and raise you with this:

Kobe did get 3 rings with 1 superstar and a talented supporting cast.

Paul Pierce got his with 2 superstars and a talented supporting cast - including one dude who took his ring - and your hopes for a DYNASTY - and ran to the Hornets.

Like I said...Who's the FAKER now?

The Preacherman has spoken. Class dismissed. Again.

Rick Friedman,
Thanks for posting the link to a very interesting article. I don't really understand, however, how that article pertains to Let'sGoC's. Is there something that leads you to believe that LGC's is something more than a Celtics' fan with a warped sense of showing his loyalty to his team, who does the best he can (with the limited intelligence that God gave him) to exhibit his loyalty on the Laker's blog?
From what I have seen of LGC's posts, he seems to be a far cry from the labyrinthine, alienated and somewhat sinister souls discussed in the article.

More news on the Tractor

http://tinyurl.com/6q8aau

You all are soooo shallow and sensitive.

All I've done is expressed an opposing point of view wehn you all were ganging up on my team.

I responded and now you all are whinning and complaining.

Just like you all were complaining about the "refs making" the Lakers lose.

Or "it's somebody fault" my team lost.

Pathic.

Look at yourself? You all remind me of your Starlet Bryant who does nothing but blame others for his failures.

That's right: Lakers failures with Kobe in charge.

Failures!

Let's Go C's wrote:

>>What's with this banning business?
Don't other fans get to express an opinion?

>>You Faker dog on my team and my team's stars and when I recriprocate, it's a problem?

??What's up with that?

>>To the blogger who said that Kobe's won 3 rings with 1 star, I stronlgy disagree. Shaq won 3 rings with a good supporting cast which included Starlet Bryant.

>>Back to the banning business. You foos are a bunch of whinners. Yoos whine about losing, you wine about others who have differents point of views.

>>What's up with that?
ahahhaahahha

Let’s Go C’s;

Once again it's spelled "fools," not "foos"

And though I loathe censorship and bans, I am nevertheless another one who tends to agree with Rick Friedman about individuals such as your and others persistently irritable trolling. And feel that Andrew and Brian should give serious consideration to having posts like yours banned if you don’t shape up.

I mean, if you never have anything truly constructive or intelligent to contribute here outside of your repeated grade school playground type taunting. I really see no reason for the moderators to continue and allow you to post here any longer.

Really, what is the point of permitting such constant insults and stupid accusations from those like you? Lakers fans (at least the intelligent ones) have long conceded defeat to the Boston Celtics, put it behind them, and look forward to next season. My only regret being we were not able to combat the Celtics with a fully loaded gun due to the huge loss of our starting center and other injuries.

But that’s all ancient history now. And I and others here have moved on with life.

Perhaps it would do you well to try the same and quit all this never-ending anti-Lakers harangue. ...

guity,

He fits the description more along the lines of the original definition of the word from the article. The bottom line here is that LGC could be one of those people simply looking to disrupt our community for his own amusement, and as long as we continue to respond he will be winning. It's like when a child refuses to do something, and the parent relents by doing it his or herself.

LGC isn't contributing anything here other than repeating the same thing over and over in order to make people respond. Negative opinions are one thing. Intentionally attempting to get a rise out of people is quite another.

"Pig" Miller,

Dude, Let's Go C's! says he's not a troll! Isn't that fricken hilarious?

I say we vote him in to exile.

Exile him from Laker Nation!

GO LAKERS!

Jon,

Every time he finishes a post with some line about Fakers fans and Starlet Bryant he reinforces that notion. I'll talk to anybody that can carry on a conversation without trying to insult me.

It's amazing how brave the computer has made such people.

"You all are soooo shallow and sensitive.

All I've done is expressed an opposing point of view wehn you all were ganging up on my team."

Yeah...but the rest of your Celtic crew taunted us for a week or 2 and then had the good sense to let us "losers" be. NOT YOU! Almost 2 months later, you are still here wasting your own precious time and energy teasing us "losers."

If we're whiners, losers, FAKERZ or whatever, why waste your time with us? Do you secretly admire us? Do you envy us deep down inside? Do you wish to know the secrets of how TRUE FANS stay united in spite of 1st Round Playoff Exits AND NBA Finals losses? Are you looking for tips on how to avoid another 21 year layoff from an NBA Finals game? Were you one of the fans who cheered for Kobe as MVP during the 2006-07 season?

If we suck so badly, why are you still here? Maybe you are the real FAKER after all.

"That's right: Lakers failures with Kobe in charge.

Failures"

If by "failure" you mean a team who went from waiting for it's star player to be traded and every pundit had us not even making the playoffs; to eventually becoming the #1 seed in the Western Conference, breezing past the initial playoff rounds in 6 games or less, with the same star player becoming league MVP and coming within 2 games of winning the NBA Championship; then, yep. That be us.

See you next June when we define SUCCESS! :o)

Th is is so Lord of the Flies...'who's got the conch? Puddles got the conch!'

The conch. Heh.

Personally, I find let's go cs to be one of the more insightful and eloquent bloggers, you see, it's a matter of style and according to Strunk and Wagner's Elements of Style, "Writing style varies from person to person. Depending on the audience that one is writing for, it is possible to write at a very basic level and still be considered understandable"

What we have hear is a failure to recognize his audience. You see, Let's Go Cs is used to dealing with the neanderthal, post Cretaceous environment that si Boston. Examine, if you will, the average Boston fan. Every third word is a soft and indechiperable vowel sound, along the lines of Ahh, Ohh, Ehh, etc.

Let's Go Cs is inundated with this type of language and so we must help lift him/her/it up from their morass of mumbling bufoonery and to the elevated platform that is Los Angelian.

I have posted that Let's Go Cs is a closet Laker fan, because, like the small boy taunting the girl he fancies from afar, LGCs is trying to 'catch our eye' so to speak. Honestly, if you had to watch Paul Pierce for the last four years, wouldn't you develop a secret love affair that you would keep with your buddies?

Let's propose an armistice. If LGCs buys a # 24 Kobe Bryant jersey and posts a short video of him wearing it on Youtube and adds a link to it on this blog...I say he stays for as long as he harbors secret admiration for the Lakers.

I feel for this troubled soul, imagine seeing Kobe Bryant cheered and hearing the MVP chants at the Garden two years ago. He must have yearned to join that brave, trail blazing crowd for just a year later, their wish was granted. KB 24 IS the MVP and IS acknowledged as the best player on the planet by everyone else.

He doesn't go around saying it, he just goes out and proves it. Night in. Night out.

One and done, homie, 1 & dun.

ahhaahahhahahahahahaha

a little variation an the manialcal laughter would also improve your chances, what about the occaisional, bwah-hah-hah-hah.
Or Hm...heh...heh, heh, he he he he he.

Or even (evil laughter)

persoanlly, I like to bust a link to the Youtube universe, something along these lines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7edeOEuXdMU

There are so many creative ways to contribute, we just have to help the helpless.

Or we could vote him off, whatever the K brothers decide.

Ooooooh mighty brothers of K, grant us wisdom to see the silver lining in the clouds of blogdom.

Andrew and Brian Kamenetsky,

I am placing my official vote to vote Let's Go C's! off this blog never to return.

I think there should be strict limits on this kind of thing because we don't want to become fascist and all, but sometimes this kind of thing is necessary.

Gunner and KLBeast should not be taken off this blog, jerks that they are.

Let's Go C's! should be taken off this blog. He has not contributed anything to this blog for months and everyone wants him gone.

I am requesting an official vote as to whether or not Let's Go C's! should be voted off this blog.

My vote: Permenant exile.

GO LAKERS!

I appreciate all of the feedback.

Why am I still here?

I'm here because you foos are really funny. All of the whinning and complaing during the playoffs. All of the excuses for your team and your "star" All of the crap coming from your star player.

"I can get off at anytime"?

What the hell kind of statement is that? Team Celtic showed Lakernation how it's really done.

Paul Pierce showed Lakernation and Kobe poopers how to do it.

Lakernation has the guts to talk bad about Paul Pierce?

Pathetic.

KG and Ray Allen are teh class acts of the NBA and Starlet Bryant is what not to be in teh NBA.

It's no coincidence that no good NBA free agents has join this Laker team with Starlet as teh #1 guy.

Yoos keeep making excuses. LGC's not the reason for you problems.

"I can get off at anytime" Kobe

First of all I would like to thank YOU (AK/BK) for addressing the techno glitches. For the information of everyone, we have now both 2 browsers, this is like if I want to visit traditional website I go to a general practitioner like IE and when I want to blog I've to open FF. Security is a loose word in the cyberspace nowadays, you just don't know the objectives of those planting adwares and cultivating spywares, it is either for cyber crime or for commercial use or for justification of an IT job.

With regards to the request of Rick F in banning LGC, the latter may be a troll who have annoyed some posters but he never get into swearing or personally assaulted anyone. Trolls are revered in distant places like Norway, they are scary but they have been part of the customs and traditions. I consider LGC another delinquent juvenile or adult who is still searching for his maturity and enjoys every moment of annoying the patience of laker fans. I hope nobody is expelled here just because they are anti-Lakers or anti Kobe like Gunner or anti Pau like Troy, or anti Luke like Chuck23, Pfunk or Kwame admirer like Mike T anybody that blog dictators don't want to post. I never had problem with LGC b/c I do not read his post, I never replied to his post and his words will not kill me so he is not a threat to one's life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. I'm more threatened by Digg.com. At a certain point in time, blogging turns into an educational process, People become responsible for their posts b/c it reflects what kind of person they are. If there are sick people who continue to abuse their privileges in blogging, it only bounds back to their character in the real world. The bad vibes fondly spread or applied would turn into habits they'd sow when dealing with their loved ones.

Just one more thing -- one or more bloggers have used SonnyBelfast as evidence of the blog's tolerance for differing opinions. I don't think though, that any of these bloggers have been posting long enough to know that when Sonny first started posting, just about everybody at one time or another screamed to have his butt kicked off this blog as well...

Ex,

If we felt like Let's Go C's was being disrespectful to other readers on a personal level that had nothing to do with the Lakers or leaving posts with inappropriate material, that would be a problem. That's what got another reader kicked out. We warned him about both matters repeatedly and he didn't listen.

AK