MLB  > General MLB  > Uncle Walt's Message Board Banned
April 27, 2011, 11:38 AM
I am sorry to see that my Uncle's message board was banned. It was extremely popular and, while edgy in certain ways, was good-hearted, inclusive, life-affirming, and friendly. Perhaps people were confused in the most recent episodes that 'Toastie'. the drunken Tolstoy impersonator, was Tolstoy himself?

Since Uncle Walt's posts were in many ways the bright spot of this board and 'carrying' it, it seems not only unfair but not very bright and self-defeating on the part of the editors to 'ban' it.

For myself, I will not ever post here again unless Uncle Walt's board is 'un-banned'.

Abby

P.S. In the past week or so, my brand posts received about 1,000 views on this board and Uncle Walt's received more than 1,000. It's always amazed me how self-defeating the editorial practices of message boards are -- a few people are offended by (or, really, jealous of) an edgy, extremely 'hot' thread... and there goes the poster... and the board. Meanwhile, the posts blatantly selling athletic apparel remain. Well, this will now return to being a gloomy, nowheres-ville board now with little traffic and interaction. I hope you know what you're doing.
April 27, 2011  02:18 PM ET

come to delphi forums where the censors aren't as trigger happy

Walt, Edna may have to go through age-change operation? (all 400,000 words of Skunkville are here... some day, when Skunkville is the #1 media phenomena in the world, SI will say, 'Maybe we should have let good ol' Walt stay on our MLB Message Board')
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

info on all 27 EOBHR replays as well as complete unexpurgated coverage of the silly experimentations that proceeded Skunkville, featuring Frank Skunkley and other stupid characters intermingled with bsaeball game replay summaries
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/baseballhistory

my articles continue to become more interesting and will revolutionize the world of brands just like Uncle Walt is re-defining fiction and entertainment
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/abbyzynzer

http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

C'mon over to Delphi and make some comments on the Skunkville, EOBHR, or Best Brands in America blogs -- we'll be waiting for ya, good friends!!

April 27, 2011  02:21 PM ET

come to delphi forums where the censors aren't as trigger happy

Walt, Edna may have to go through age-change operation? (all 400,000 words of Skunkville are here... some day, when Skunkville is the #1 media phenomena in the world, SI will say, 'Maybe we should have let good ol' Walt stay on our MLB Message Board')
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

info on all 27 EOBHR replays as well as complete unexpurgated coverage of the silly experimentations that proceeded Skunkville, featuring Frank Skunkley and other stupid characters intermingled with bsaeball game replay summaries
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/baseballhistory

my articles continue to become more interesting and will revolutionize the world of brands just like Uncle Walt is re-defining fiction and entertainment
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/abbyzynzer

http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

C'mon over to Delphi and make some comments on the Skunkville, EOBHR, or Best Brands in America blogs -- we'll be waiting for ya, good friends!!

April 27, 2011  03:12 PM ET

BRING BACK WALT!

This is outrageous.

April 27, 2011  03:15 PM ET

And you're absolutely right about the sports apparel "ads".
The FN Mods seem to turn a blind eye to spam but they arbitrarily delete popular threads and throwdowns.

April 27, 2011  04:07 PM ET

Well, that is sure disappointing. I can't believe all the things that are allowed to remain, but others get whacked. No logic involved at all.

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April 27, 2011  04:39 PM ET

On behalf of Walt, thanks for all the warm comments! He really, really liked you guys.

Fortunately he recently did save all 400,000 words of the saga, i.e., what is on the Delphi Forums blog. Plus, he had copied them into a huge Word file (actually 13 files to contain it all) that he has busily been editing and to which he was adding even more material.

He is a madman, but a sweet madman...a very kind and gentle person.

Abby Z.

April 27, 2011  06:52 PM ET

Walts back, but all his past posts are gone.

 
April 27, 2011  07:11 PM ET

All 400,000 words plus hundreds of pictures and captions of the characters and the action are at http://blogs.delphiforums.com/skunkville

And actually, if you just google skunkville ohio or skunkville walt brown you can get right to it in a click

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