JoBlo.com offers opinions!

Every
now and again, I guess our site’s readers also need to be
reminded about our site’s STRIKE
BACK RULES & GUIDELINES. Unlike some other movie sites out there,
we DO NOT allow you to insult our writers. It’s about RESPECT
here. Everyone has a right to their opinion and yes, believe it or
not, out of the 35-40 people working across JoBlo.com, we don’t all
agree on the best movies, etc… Pretty crazy, right? That doesn’t
mean that gives you the right to tear them a new asshole. You can
certainly DISAGREE with their opinion, share your own via our STRIKE
BACK or DEBATE them on it, but taking potshots at our writers
because you don’t share their opinion on someone or some film, is
immature and against our rules.

All
such posts have been deleted in the past and members BANNED for
life. This is just a REMINDER because some members seem to be
forgetting the purpose of the STRIKE BACK and that is to offer your
opinion on the NEWS ARTICLE itself, not the person’s writing style or
your insults toward them.

That said, if
you have CONSTRUCTIVE criticism to put forth versus some of
our writers, please email
me about that as I read/respond to every single email that I
receive. Or, you can also visit our SITE
SUGGESTIONS/QUESTIONS forum for complaints about stuff on the
site, etc… There’s a time and place for these things, but that
place is NOT our STRIKE BACK section. We’re not perfect either,
folks.

Furthermore, for anyone who actually
doesn’t think we should offer our opinions, I guess you’re on the
wrong site, because that’s EXACTLY what JoBlo.com is all about. We
offer our opinions and allow YOU to offer yours in return, but it
should all be RESPECTFUL. That should be pretty easy to
handle, right? Otherwise, there are TONS of other vanilla movie
sites out there who simply post press release style news stories, if
you’d rather just have your news, sans opinion.

Do these guys look like CNN journalists to you?!?

And finally,
all future STRIKE BACK comments
that say "How is this news?" or "I can’t believe you
guys consider this news" or "Is this news?" WILL BE
DELETED. Our STRIKE BACKs are for opinions about the topic at
hand and not your opinion on whether or not you think we’re doing
our jobs right. Everyone here has a supervisor and everyone knows
exactly what they’re doing. If you don’t think it’s
"news", guess what….we’re not CNN! We’re a
MOVIE FANSITE and we post COOL SHIT about movies that we enjoy and
that we think you all will enjoy. If you don’t think a few of
our 40 every day articles are considered "news" to your
eyes….LIVE WITH IT…and move to the next article. But let’s drop the WHINING already…

Thanks for
understanding, folks. I think that 95% of you are cool peeps enjoying the site, I don’t want a few “bad apples” ruining the experience for others. The site is gonna be taken to yet another level soon, so stay tuned for that! And now back to your regularly scheduled movie
"news" stories.