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    Brewer Fanatic Comment Policy
    We believe that all people deserve to participate in our conversations. We will be inclusive in our language, our tone, and our actions.
    Inclusiveness is language that is free from words, phrases, or tones that reflect prejudiced, stereotyped, or discriminatory views of particular people or groups. It is also language that does not deliberately or inadvertently exclude people from being seen as part of a group. Inclusive language is sometimes called non-discriminatory language.
    We do not want to stifle conversations around sensitive topics. We do want to remove comments and language that would make anyone feel uncomfortable participating in any conversation on Brewer Fanatic. False assumptions and stereotypes can be difficult to detect, and while it's not a perfect science, try to put yourself in the shoes of another gender/race/background that might be getting discussed, and try to gauge how a particular statement would make you feel. Unfairly grouped? Needlessly generalized? Objectified for the sake of someone's argument? Those are the kinds of comments we will remove.
    Brewer Fanatic prides itself on the community of fans it serves, and understands that the forums, comment sections, and blogs are central to many members’ enjoyment of the site. We strive for civil, insightful, intelligent, and inclusive discourse that welcomes and challenges our passionate readers. Please understand and follow these rules when posting, and consult the more detailed explanations in the comments section below if you require further guidance:
    Respect for others is expected in everything we write, and personal attacks are not allowed. Do not be disruptive through trolling, flame-baiting, and thread-jacking. A minimal level of grammar and spell-checking is required. Avoid inappropriate language. Do not copy entire stories from elsewhere on the internet. Commercial spam will be deleted on sight, and the poster will be banned. The site moderators have the capability and authority to edit or delete offending posts, and/or issue warnings. Additional infractions (including attempts to circumvent a ban, such as alternate accounts and IP proxies) may subject you to further moderator action. We always prefer to work with members to avoid bans, but will act in the best interests of the site. If you see a posting that violates these guidelines, do not attempt to police the thread yourself with a complaint there in the thread, and most definitely do not respond with a post of your own in a similar offensive style. If it is a minor violation, it is usually better to just ignore it. However, if you believe it is a serious violation, flag the offending post to the attention of the moderators by clicking the "Report" link found at the top right of each post (click the ellipsis "..."). Appropriate action by the moderators in response to a flagged post may take some time, so be patient. Multiple user accounts are not allowed. If you are having difficulties accessing your original account (forgotten/lost password, some other issue), don't hesitate to get in touch with an administrator, using the Contact Us link at the bottom of the site's main page. If you have a question or a concern about these policies or moderator actions, feel free to PM a moderator or post in the "Questions About The Site" forum. Thank you for your understanding and commitment to Brewer Fanatic.
    1. Respect for others is expected in everything we write, and personal attacks are not allowed.
    This means respect for fellow Brewer Fanatic members. It means also showing respect for players, team staff and ownership, journalists, the other teams and their players, player agents, players’ wives… everybody!
    It means giving others the benefit of the doubt; it means not being combative, nor looking to take offense at someone else's supposed "tone"; it means not labeling and classifying other posters or groups of people, or applying disdainful nicknames; it means turning the other cheek even when we feel we’re not being treated with respect ourselves. If your purpose in posting is to belittle someone, think twice. If you're trying to express your utter exasperation with another poster, think twice again.
    We talk about what has occurred with our favorite team and players, we debate past moves and speculate on future actions, we dissect ideas, and we sometimes make jokes and kid each other. But it crosses a line when it becomes overly personal, questioning manhood, courage, honesty, or intelligence, or pretending to know how another person’s mind works, or telling somebody to learn baseball. Characterizing others as, for instance, "Negative Nancys" or conversely as "Front Office Apologists" does little but invite bickering. We don't use dehumanizing terms like "garbage", "animal", or "thing" regarding a human being.
    Finally, a word about privacy. Brewer Fanatic respects the privacy of its visitors and members. We expect members to be respectful of each other's privacy. In particular, revealing personal information about another poster (beyond which that poster has specifically chosen to disclose here publicly, and regardless of how "easy" it may be to discover via searching) will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. It may result in warning points and/or loss of posting privileges. This extends to behavior found on other Internet sites, tying the identity of a poster to a Brewer Fanatic account. It amounts to stalking and will not be tolerated.
    2. Do not be disruptive through trolling, flame-baiting, and thread-jacking.
    Or, stated even more briefly, don't become a Pest to fellow members.
    A good forum thread often contains digressions - indeed, they may be the most interesting or illuminating parts of a given discussion. And a negative opinion is not necessarily more disruptive than a positive one.
    But...
    inserting a pet idea into thread after thread, or casting in a negative light everything someone says and does, or laughing derisively at a post but providing no counter-argument, or starting "See I Told You So" threads, or accusing another poster of rooting against the team or a player, or making comments destined to revisit standard arguments, or "whataboutism," responding to a question by raising a side issue, or creating a "sockpuppet" account for deceptive purposes or simply to make annoying posts, or inserting politics, religion, etc., where it's not relevant, or with no better purpose than just to stir the pot (including political avatars), or making an extreme case for your side and/or putting up a straw man for the other side, and/or putting words in someone else's mouth, or getting in someone's face about anything, or making it your mission in life to educate your inferiors, or reminding readers that you correctly predicted some outcome, months ago, when others happened to disagree, or bringing up someone’s words from another thread as though a judge and jury were weighing your evidence about the topic or this other poster, ...these do not contribute to a lively discussion and instead cause participants to, at best, tune out or, in many cases, bicker pointlessly, often talking past one another.
    Bickering, in particular, is something the moderators will take action against. If you feel the need to angrily post "you completely misstated my position, if indeed you even bothered to read it", consider that if the other person isn't reading what you wrote, another post won't change matters. Instead, if you think you can clarify what was misunderstood, try re-stating your position one more time, and after that let it go. 
    When in doubt about introducing a tangent, consider instead starting a new blog entry or thread topic, and invite readers of the current thread to discuss your tangent over there. Or, if the topic of the discussion doesn't appeal to you, or you think it is irrelevant until all other larger issues have been resolved - well, life is short! Just move on to a thread you consider more constructive. And injecting the same opinions with marginal relevance into thread after thread, whether it be about the manager, a coach, a highly paid player, a poorly performing player, the general manager, the owner, etc., is not acceptable posting behavior.
    Posts by fans of other teams, done to make derogatory remarks about the brewers or their fans, or excessively touting their own team, obviously will not be tolerated. Less obvious, perhaps, is that when a fan of another team takes part here in good faith, trolling of that person will not be tolerated either. Let's be good hosts to our visitors. And visitors, please remember that at the end of the day, this is a brewers site and not a neutral baseball forum. 
    We remind you to try to ignore what you find distasteful or, if you can't, report it. Please do not try to police offenders yourselves or respond to them publicly. Actions the moderators take in response to reports are sometimes not apparent to the readership at large. 
    Again, feel free to contact any of the moderators if you'd like to have a private conversation.
    3. A minimal level of grammar and spell-checking is required.
    No, we ain't no Grammar Nazis here. And nobody's going to hassle you about a typo (unless it's inadvertently funny). But if it's not worth your time to do at least a proofreading pass of what you're about to submit, it's not worth your readers' time either. If it looks like it was typed on your phone keypad upside-down after one too many adult beverages, or without spacing and paragraph breaks resulting in a wall of text, or with SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS, or with too many abbreviations and overly obscure "text-speak", it stands a chance of being deleted by the moderators, lol;#omg;rofl@u.
    4. Avoid inappropriate language.
    This includes swearing, ethnic slurs, lewdness, and crude terms for body parts, bodily functions, and physical acts. This also includes visuals such as avatars and linked images. The posting software automatically removes specific terms (you can probably guess which) - censor-bypass attempts are grounds for moderator action. Please be mindful that comments relating to racial, cultural, religious, national, gender, and sexual identity can be offensive, ditto locker room talk, even when there is no disrespectful intent. Overall, we don’t want content that the FCC wouldn’t approve for broadcast - keep it family-friendly.
    5. Do not copy entire stories from elsewhere on the internet.
    Copyright law gives broad protection to content, and we want to respect that. Be particularly wary of posting more than very short excerpts from pay sites. The author or organization may appreciate the publicity via the URL link. But if you're copying everything because you're too lazy to summarize yourself, then that's not fine.
    In a similar spirit of protecting others' content, discussion of illegal streaming options or how to circumvent paywalls, etc., is not allowed on Brewer Fanatic.
    6. Commercial spam will be deleted on sight, and the poster will be banned.
    We all know what spam is when we see it. The Bad Guys don't care one bit about the purpose of the site. Use the Report button to alert the moderators if you happen to see spam before they do.
    Sometimes posts from legitimate Brewer Fanatic members enter into a gray area. To be clear, cross-promotion of baseball blogs and so forth has always been strongly encouraged at Brewer Fanatic. Just make sure your post contains content of interest to brewers followers, isn't purely commercial ("buy my book") unless authorized, and doesn't consist merely of "click this link to see my site".
    Game Threads
    We believe the daily game threads during the season should be a little more relaxed than the normal thread. Think of sitting in the left-field bleachers with a few friends and acquaintances - people have a tendency to just chat and crack jokes during boring games or down times, and that's okay - we want you to stick around, even if you really have nothing to say. Deep discussions and extended back-and-forths may get made fun of here. Civility is still the rule, but a little more is tolerated. 
    John Bonnes
    Creating an account on Twins Daily is easier than ever but in case you have questions, follow through this tutorial and it may answer some of your questions.
    Depending whether you’re on desktop (usually a desktop computer, laptop, or large tablet) or mobile (smaller tablets and phones), registering will require slightly different approaches.

    Desktop: At the top right of every page, you will see the large green button “Create Account”. Click this button and jump down to the third image in this article.

    Mobile: At the top right of every page, you will see a “hamburger menu” (three stacked horizontal lines). Click the menu and then “Create Account”.

    You’ll be brought to the following screen to create your account. Enter the following information:
    Sign in with Facebook/Twitter: If you already use one of these services, you can use the credentials for one of those sites to quickly create an account on Twins Daily. Click the relevant button and proceed through the steps using your Facebook/Twitter email and password. Twins Daily does not access any of this information, you are using a portal created by Facebook/Twitter and only information you choose to share will be sent to Twins Daily.
    Display Name: This is the name that other Twins Daily users will associate with you so choose wisely!
    Email Address: This will need to be a valid address, as you will need to confirm account creation using this email address in a few minutes.
    Password/Confirm Password: You know the routine, use a password you can remember!
    Question and Answer Challenge: This is a basic anti-spam function and while it asks a question about Joe Nathan in the image, the question and answer changes on a regular basis so be prepared to make a quick Google search if you don’t already know the answer!
    Agree to Terms of Use: You need to check this box or you cannot create an account on Twins Daily.
    John Bonnes
    Brewer Fanatic was founded in early 2022 by the people behind Twins Daily (founded in 2012). We take a bottom-up approach to content with a focus on community participation. We offered curated, professional front page Brewers news and analysis with user-generated content found elsewhere on the site.
    Brewer Fanatic is more than just daily news about the Brewers. It’s a community built on three pillars: read, react and write. You need not participate in all three, but they’re available, and if you’re willing to reach out, you’ll find a far richer experience. So let’s talk about them.

    Read
    Obviously, there are the stories. The site was founded by four bloggers, all of whom understood the value of providing their own unique coverage of the Brewers. Non-traditional voices - whether they are sabermetric, prospect news, mechanical analysis, cynical, hopeful, satirical, whimsical – are the core of what we are. We want to be a place where baseball coverage is expanded in non-traditional ways. And we try to foster that organically by encouraging our readers to….
    React
    At the end of every story, you’ll find a comment area where you can react to our stories, provided you register. But we want you to be in the driver’s seat, too, so we also have our forums, where you can ask your own questions, post your own opinions, and explore your own topics. The rules are pretty simple: don’t be an ass. Our moderators work hard to keep it civil, and our community works hard to keep them welcoming. We want you to find your voice because we want some of you to…
    Write
    Our blog area provides a place for those called to write to further develop their writing style. Any member can start their own blogs and post when and how they want. It’s a little like playing in the minors – the crowds are smaller, but that also means it’s an excellent place to make mistakes or try a writing style that might be out of your comfort zone. The comments are generally encouraging, and when we think you’re ready, you’ll be invited to contribute regularly to the front page, where we pay for your work.
    Brewer Fanatic goes beyond the traditional publish-only model that corporate media embraces because we’re trying to do something different. We’re trying to develop a community that can gather, share and ultimately support itself. You, just by reading this, are already part of that community. We hope you’ll continue exploring and reaching out to other Minnesota baseball fans. We’re glad you’ve joined us.
    Brock Beauchamp
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    Brewer Fanatic is proud to announce the release of the Milwaukee Brewers Players Project!
    This project is an endeavor to collect as much information about past and present Brewers as possible, giving fans a repository of high-quality data about their favorite players.
    This is a public, community-driven project… that means everyone is encouraged to participate!
    Like any public project, there are some ground rules to follow to ensure the Players Project remains accurate with quality information. Let’s run through the basics:
    You must have a Brewer Fanatic account to participate in the Players Project. Before you create a new player, please hit our Players Project index page, search for the player in question, and make sure he doesn’t already exist in the database. Any duplicate entries will be automatically deleted. Sorry, this project is first come, first serve. To edit an existing player, to the right of the player's name on the player page there is a button "Edit Player". Click that it brings you to the edit screen. While we encourage everyone to add unique information to existing players, do not delete others’ work. Feel free to add to their work, move elements of the content around if you add information, but refrain from deleting previous work unless it is inaccurate. If you see something that violates our guidelines below, scroll below the player’s information and look for a small grey “Report Player” button. Click that and let our moderation team know about the issue, we’ll take it from there. If you upload images, please limit yourself to only high-quality imagery. Any uploaded photo should be at least 600 pixels wide. When adding personal experiences, please keep them short. Write no more than one paragraph and after the paragraph, hit return and add your name (real name or screen name, whatever you’re comfortable sharing). We are not averse to sharing negative information on a player but we reserve the right to curate any content that is inappropriate or unsubstantiated. Please be as accurate as possible and cite references where possible. When adding to a bio, please use the hyperlink tool to insert your reference links into the biography. If you have any questions about what to enter in a field, there is small grey text under each field that explains how to use each field and what to add to it. Unless you are a Players Project moderator, you do not have the option to upload the primary player image. If you create a new player, feel free to add any relevant information and a moderator will loop back and add the featured player image for you. Moderators: when uploading a featured player image, the format MUST be 1:1 (square) and a minimum of 800 by 800 pixels. Please choose the highest-quality image of the player you can find. Sponsorships: Every player is available to be sponsored by a Brewer Fanatic user for $10/year. With the sponsorship, you can add a customized message that will appear at the top of the player's page while your sponsorship is active. 100% of the proceeds from sponsorship will go into the team of moderators and contributors in the Players Project. 
    That’s everything you need to know! If you have questions about the project, feel free to private message me anytime!
    Players Project Moderators: if your account has access to moderating the Players Project, you can view all recent revisions created by users using the ModeratorCP, accessed by clicking your name at the top of every page. On the left, you will see Database Revisions, which brings you to the Players Project recent revisions. Or click here.
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