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lunker punker wrote:Hopefully so Mike. When your business is impacted by public slander it makes it hard to keep truckin'. Hopefully Hippie Chang will start thinking before he posts retarded comments.

CN wrote:

lunker punker wrote:Hopefully so Mike. When your business is impacted by public slander it makes it hard to keep truckin'. Hopefully Hippie Chang will start thinking before he posts retarded comments.

I doubt it.

Gator wrote:Hippie has been placed on indefinite and hopefully permanent timeout.......I apologize to everyone, especially Dan, for not finding and nuking the post earlier.......I searched for over two hours then found out it had been deleted and had a friend point me at the thread - none of us are on here 24/7 but I sure wish I would have found it sooner.

kb wrote:I have been watching this post all day and I have to say it really saddens me that our sport could be losing a guy the caliber of Dan. He has always been a supporter, fan and genuine guy, quick with a smile and a handshake and helped out more people than you could count.

Now I am sure Hippie (Jason Chang) is going to say I was just joking etc etc.... Funny how a guy like Jason when you do a search on his name you find less than a handful of tournaments fished as a co-angler, one good finish on the Delta on the co-angler side, a regional qualifier with CBC but they only had 10 guys fish the event he fished, and a few teams here and there...I point that out only that his strong opinions and go for the throat postings here on WB have almost made him some kind of feared legend....at least in his own mind!!! Just earlier this month he was questioning if I even fished......really Jason you need to back off some dude.

You take a cheap shot at a guy I am sure you have never met, run down circuits, companies, anglers, td's etc..... Put a few more miles under your ***, a few more days on the pointy end of the boat, wear out the hinge on your livewell lid and let your fishing do the talking instead of your internet image and maybe you will have some respect.

I don't really know you Jason but I have to tell you that from what I see you post I am not a fan.....that's ok you don't have to be a kb fan either I will survive. Dan is a friend of mine, and many others and an honorable guy that has never done anything to hurt anyone in this sport.......maybe someday you will have the same thing said about you Jason.....but I doubt it!!!

I am sure your account has been put on time out.....C'mon Tony and crew make an example out of this guy and make him go away! We don't need his crap!!!

and Jason if I was you I would save your apology to Dan.....he is a big enough guy to probably accept it but I hope he doesn't......you haven't earned that!!

Dan I hope it all blows over, you come back stronger than ever and you see just how many friends and customers you have out here.....you can always count me as one buddy!

kb

Brian Linehan wrote:Well, here's the real deal Kent and everyone else who have never met Jason. Jason is a funny guy. Does he make some posts that are crazy? Absolutely. Does he piss people off? Absolutely. Does he tell it the way it is? Absolutely. Is he sometime off-base? Absolutely. Is he sometimes right on? Totally.

He obviously doesn't take any of this serious. In this case in particular, he just made a comment about the guy making too much money if he had a bunch of those new Loomis rods. That's it. Not a big deal. If you told me you'd rather buy one of them new rods for the price of two Dobyns Rods, I'd tell you the same probably. lol

Everyone needs to relax and chill. If any of you ever got the opportunity to talk to Jason face to face, you'd quickly realize that he's a good guy and actually pretty damn funny. Sounds like this gentleman was getting out of the biz anyways and perhaps Jason's comment set him off.

Like most of you who don't know Jason, I don't know the gentleman who's closing shop. As everyone has mentioned, he sounds like a great guy and apparently offered a great service. However, I find it questionable that a business owner would close shop because someone on a public forum hurt his feelings.

Best of luck to Dan though. I know Jason didn't intend to piss him off.

Rod Wynn wrote:

Brian Linehan wrote:Well, here's the real deal Kent and everyone else who have never met Jason. Jason is a funny guy. Does he make some posts that are crazy? Absolutely. Does he piss people off? Absolutely. Does he tell it the way it is? Absolutely. Is he sometime off-base? Absolutely. Is he sometimes right on? Totally.

He obviously doesn't take any of this serious. In this case in particular, he just made a comment about the guy making too much money if he had a bunch of those new Loomis rods. That's it. Not a big deal. If you told me you'd rather buy one of them new rods for the price of two Dobyns Rods, I'd tell you the same probably. lol

Everyone needs to relax and chill. If any of you ever got the opportunity to talk to Jason face to face, you'd quickly realize that he's a good guy and actually pretty damn funny. Sounds like this gentleman was getting out of the biz anyways and perhaps Jason's comment set him off.

Like most of you who don't know Jason, I don't know the gentleman who's closing shop. As everyone has mentioned, he sounds like a great guy and apparently offered a great service. However, I find it questionable that a business owner would close shop because someone on a public forum hurt his feelings.

Best of luck to Dan though. I know Jason didn't intend to piss him off.

I agree with this post 100%

Brian Linehan wrote:Well, here's the real deal Kent and everyone else who have never met Jason. Jason is a funny guy. Does he make some posts that are crazy? Absolutely. Does he piss people off? Absolutely. Does he tell it the way it is? Absolutely. Is he sometime off-base? Absolutely. Is he sometimes right on? Totally.

He obviously doesn't take any of this serious. In this case in particular, he just made a comment about the guy making too much money if he had a bunch of those new Loomis rods. That's it. Not a big deal. If you told me you'd rather buy one of them new rods for the price of two Dobyns Rods, I'd tell you the same probably. lol

Everyone needs to relax and chill. If any of you ever got the opportunity to talk to Jason face to face, you'd quickly realize that he's a good guy and actually pretty damn funny. Sounds like this gentleman was getting out of the biz anyways and perhaps Jason's comment set him off.

Like most of you who don't know Jason, I don't know the gentleman who's closing shop. As everyone has mentioned, he sounds like a great guy and apparently offered a great service. However, I find it questionable that a business owner would close shop because someone on a public forum hurt his feelings.

Best of luck to Dan though. I know Jason didn't intend to piss him off.

I'm pissed. BIG DIFFERENCE

lunker punker wrote: How is Dan supposed to know the "humor" of hippie Chang? Based off of his other posts? I get it, Dan didnt. Hippie is a comical prik. Some of his crap made me laugh too. The religous deal and this just piss me off though. Dan did not deserve that accusation. This website should have moderated that comment a lot quiker in my opinion. I have seen lesser comments deleted much faster previously. You shouldnt blindly post BS aimed at people you dont know. I t was beyond rough around the edges.

ash wrote:

lunker punker wrote: How is Dan supposed to know the "humor" of hippie Chang? Based off of his other posts? I get it, Dan didnt. Hippie is a comical prik. Some of his crap made me laugh too. The religous deal and this just piss me off though. Dan did not deserve that accusation. This website should have moderated that comment a lot quiker in my opinion. I have seen lesser comments deleted much faster previously. You shouldnt blindly post BS aimed at people you dont know. I t was beyond rough around the edges.

Punker, I wish I would have been made aware of the post sooner as well, unfortunately my 6-5 job that pays the bills is my #1 concern in the day time. I didnt know there was an issue until I read Dan's post and by then damage done.

It may be easy to say the mods need to look at every remark in every thread, in all of the seperate forums of WB but it just isnt realistic. The truth is I hardly ever visit the Shimano Rod and Reels area unless I have a question or am looking for information on product lines, this forum has been the most tame forums on Westernbass.

This is not meant as a hi-jack but we are a community, as dysfunctional as can be and just as in tournaments we need to self police, self censor and notify one of the mods or call Tony when there is something going down sideways on these boards so we can address it quickly.

Dan, my regret for you is that this post wasn't cought sooner or brought to my attention to take action on. The bass fishing community will suffer a loss of your service and representation of our sport. I also hope that cooler heads will prevail and that you reconsider closing down for good.

Ash