The BS on B/R Has to Stop

Two weeks ago, an article of mine got deleted, I've put that behind me.

And yesterday, I received a link about an article written by Mohamed E.M. It was posted by a friend because Mohamed himself can't post on my Bulletin Board. I blocked him two months ago when he first joined the site for reasons he is well aware of, although I'm not sure he realized that I blocked him.

I told myself to give it a try, but as I opened the article I simply became pissed off.

It had NOTHING to do with sports, it was simply an article that had B/R on the headline and thrown in a few times and that's it, I was simply pissed off that it didn't get deleted by the guys on B/R, it didn't have a single player mentioned in it, not even a sport to begin with.

It was an article that, if taken and put in any other site, no one would even know it was supposed to be about sports, it didn't even say the word "Sports" in the article!

I'm not being unfair, and I'm not trying to sound like the bad guy here, but the last time I checked, this was a SPORTS web site.

With all respect to Mohamed, anyone could get on YouTube or Google and type funny pics in the search bar, but then again this is a SPORTS web site!

Today, I opened B/R to check what's new, and by some sick joke, the article won the AOTD.

Why sick joke? Because instead of deleting the article like others' articles were removed, they rewarded it. I beg you to check it out; you'll like it, but it's not sports related in any way.

You can't put the B/R chatter tag on an article and say it's ok, this is simply preposterous.

In my three months on B/R, I have simply witnessed many things and learned many things.

I've seen the two people who were the very main reason that I joined this site in the first place leave it, I've seen a few of the best writers in my life, and some of them go unnoticed, I've seen myself become the Community Leader of one of the biggest sections, the world football section, and I am honored and grateful by what this site has given me.

I love B/R, which makes things harder for me. If I didn't care about this site, I would've moved on a long time ago.

Zander and Co., you guys have made a number of changes since I joined this site, you changed the looks of the site and the design of it, most people complained about the "Like" button, but can't you guys make some fair changes to the site?

I mean, if we're not gonna respect the rules, then what's to stop me from calling my friends, making them sign up on B/R, and tell them to give me POTD votes, by the end of the day I'd have like 50.

We respect the rules, we follow them, but some people not only get away with it, they get rewarded, this isn't just about this article that I'm talking about; it's about the many others that got away with it as well.

I'm just wondering, Mohamed's article which won the AOTD, under which category would you put it in? NFL? FIFA? NASCAR?

I believe that even his friends on the site could agree with me in this point.

Giving that article an AOTD feels like disrespecting everyone on this site who writes with passion about sports, I never complained much about my article getting deleted, but this is, as a man once put it, "Hypocrisy at it's finest."

The sad thing is, this article that you're reading now is the one that might actually get deleted, it might end up with me getting many hate comments from some users and me looking like the bad guy.

Hypocrisy at it's finest.

To all who read this letter,

I thank you all.