New Policy: No More Ailene

the fact that Voisin receives so much attention. What I mean is that Sacramento is a city of half a million people. I know it’s considered a relatively small market in the USA, but we’re talking about half a million people. Here in Athens the population is around 700k (1 mil with the suburbs) and we have more than 20-25 newspapers. 10 of them (maybe more) are purely about sports. The sportswriters are like 1 every 5 people you meet everyday (ok I’m exaggerating but there are A LOT). Why does Ailene have this kind of monopoly on the Kings? Is the Bee the only paper in town?

Just a Kings fan outside US wondering.

A more safe harbor from stupidity.

It’s obvious that STR is the largest and most influential media site for the Kings. Nice move, Ziller. This will all but guarantee that Sacbee Kings coverage spirals down the down in to complete obscurity.

We like to rant against stuff here at StR. At least, I do. You’re taking away an easy target.
So I guess now all the focus will shift to Napear. Is that desirable?

You heard about the soccer game where a bunch of people heckled the opposing coach? One of the opposing fans told them to lay off. “But he’s an asshole,” a guy called. “Yes, he is,” the defending fan replied, “but he is our asshole!”

Our discussion of her articles and linking to them increases her page views. Taking away StR as a source of page views is something The Bee should actually notice.

/no comment

Damn you, you made me feel sorry for HHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!

THANKS TZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND

Good-bye Aileen, no more making me scream.
At this moment, it must be a dream.
We’re purged of your mess, my thoughts I confess
Verge on giddy, ah good-bye Aileen.

What’s next, the Thought Police? Your edict is wholly regrettable. Ailene has her quirks, but I think censorship of any form is bad.

If an official Ailene-Free Zone has to be initiated to keep people from bashing her, then maybe people want to bash her? Most of her writing is garbage and provides no relevant insight at all, and begs for the written bitch-slap responses. However, I find it a little ironic that when she’s actulally provided a little bit of decent writing (the sit-down with the Maloofs most recently) she gets the STR Death Penalty. When the the Kings hit a rough patch and lose 9 of 10, and Ailene recommends the team fire Westphal and hire Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s going to be a lot of itchy typing fingers out there.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764

Although I will miss thee, it was definitely your time to go.

no more trash intermingled with ignorance : )

I’m at work and didn’t have time to look. Sorry.

however, I don’t see it lasting too long before her articles get fan-shot by a casual viewer who doesn’t know about it.

and TZ is the initiator because he is so good at analyzing her articles (and all other NBA topics as well).

Eliminating everything related to her is probably impossible and to be honest, not very desirable because being humorous about her incapability to be a good reporter as well as her being an unlikeable person, gives us joy. Yeah, that sounded malicious but I think you know what I mean.

A solution could be somewhere in the middle. We can comment on her everyone in a while when her articles worth it but let those fanposts/shots remain on the sidebar and never appear in Main Street StR.

Oh Ailene.

ok guys for all of you who think its censorship…IT ISN’T

If Ziller would say we do not talk about Hitler here, and wants no-one to make comments regarding Hitler, and no articles relating to Hitler, It is his site and he chooses what he want’s on here. If you wanna talk about Hitler, go do so on 50million other sites besides here. You have the right to your free speech, IN PUBLIC..this is not public..this is a private site..If you want to so bad talk about Voison, go make a blog for her and have fun all day

Excellent policy. The site already smells sweeter.

… always looked to this site as the voice of sanity and reason by both the writers and members, and this to me is a step in the other direction. Voisin’s articles need to be critiqued. They need to be ridiculed. I know we can always go to the Bee comment section, but that doesn’t nearly carry the weight of a front page critique on this site. I recognize too the need to make it more positive, tone down the endless bashing. But, taking this extreme step seems, I don’t know, rash? Abrupt? Which is not what I would have expected from the folks here. There must be some better way to handle this, no?

I’d like to see at least others have the freedom to post a Fanshot, at the least. I know a lot of people here hate what she writes and like to vent here. If Z says “no more Aileen” ….. fine by me. If I don’t like it, I’ll find another Kings blog to go to (which I wont!)

As far as Voison goes, I think her writing is meant for one thing and one thing only … shock. She does her job well. The last 2 main page posts on her have combined for about 300ish comments. It’s a hot topic. We live now where there’s newspapers, blogs, websites, Twitter, Facebook …. and you can get news everywhere. Therefore, there’s tons of over-reporting, IMO. A 19 year old NBA player busted for going 130 MPH is a bad thing, but he handled it well and has moved on. Of course, someone has to over report it, say that the Kings are “coddling” him, and how bad that will be. That gets picked up by someone (John Hollinger) and he spreads the word on his Twitter. That’s the world we live in now. Positive stuff doesn’t sell, negative stuff does.

I think her article was BS honestly. NBA stars get coddled all the time. It works for some (Kobe, Jordan) and other times not so much (Lebron). I am not worried in the least about him.

I’d like to see at least others have the freedom to post a Fanshot,

I think Fanshots is the one and only place her stuff belongs on this site, and that this site is better served by having her stuff in there rather than a full on, controversial Eileen boycott.

I come to this site for some quality insight on the Kings. I love the posts on here and love the comments even more. Voison’s wreckless typings made me wonder why someone would even bother to link her here.

It’s like walking into a flower shop with all these beautiful flowers displayed wonderfully in shiny vaces, while in the corner is a shameful display of dandelions put together by a 5 year old. It just has no place and brings nothing but negativity.

Thanks for clearing the weeds!

Banning topics seems like a slippery slope. She’s a columnist who writes about the Kings, so her articles (however critiqued) are Kings-related. This IS still a Kings-related message board, right? While THE best Kings information is posted here, so are asinine trade scenarios, posts about nickname suggestions, and haiku submissions. STR might be taking itself a little too seriously and getting a little too big-headed if it’s banning Ailene as a topic to ensure she doesn’t get attention! Yikes.

…..the children will whine and complain and cry.

Well done, sir…I think you’re on the right track here.

Then completely ignored it

as I was hard at work on my Kim Jong-Ziller photoshop

The point of banning her isn’t to deny you the “pleasure” of reading her shyte articles. It’s to get the editors at the Bee to wake up and smell the bullshit that is produced by this so-called sports writer. The fewer people that react to her useless drivel, then the better the chance she gets canned.

Below: Ailene Voisin rallies her supporters — both of them — at the “First Annual Anti-Tyreke/Pro-Hitler/Ricky Rubio-based Chronic Fantasy and Maturbation Convention”

Sactown Royalty in the fourth item that pops up. Seems her life is more than somewhat intertwined with STR at this point no matter the outcome of the ban.

And since when is Doc Evans an expert on sportswriting or journalistic excellence?

Pullllllleeeeeeezzzzz!

is what the player does on the court, or off the court that truly impacts the team. I am a basketball fan and I care about what goes on with the basketball team and its players, primarily while they play.

An isolated incident like Tyreke’s speeding or Nocioni’s DUI doesn’t cross that threshold. I don’t even think some of the issues Ron Artest encountered while in Sac crossed that line. He still brought it every night, and in his absence we lost 21 more games than in his last year.

I did feel Kevin Martin’s negativity drug the team down and impacted the Kings, and it was a breath of fresh air when he was finally dealt.

but her article today on Brian Wilson of the Giants?

‘a commanding presence’
‘charges like a bull’
‘packaged with his muscular, tightly colied 6-fott-1 physique and a withering, unforgiving stare’
‘his jersey opens at the collar and reveals’

Classic Voisin.

Agree with the policy and agree with the ultimate message that’s TZ is trying to send. I fully support it and for that reason will stay out of any discussions from any fanpost or fanshot that comes from any of Ms Voisin’s work.

The day I’m offended or don’t agree with the way this blog is run, is the day I will probably stop commenting. If you don’t like the way things are run in these parts, it is within your right to close the page and take your opinions elsewhere. Otherwise, I think it’s fair to state your opinion, but also understanding this is a private place (as many others have already written) and that TZ (as the head of this space) is also within his right to put in place any rules or policies he sees fit.

I’ve always said and I think it applies here as well, if you don’t like the rules or if the site doesn’t meet your high (or low) standards, the option of leaving and not coming back is always there.