Hey man, don't know if you can still read this seeing as all evidence of me ever being here has been wiped out, but I've got to say I'm just bummed out by this; not for being banned per-se but because this is simply an injustice. There are two things that I did that got me banned. One is that I was rude back to people…

Well answer me this then: Why were the comments better in the 2012 edition of Kinja where everyone was allowed to comment on an equal footing and there wasn't even a grey section?

OK, here's my answer. I do like it here. It's just that you people have become insufferable recently, mainly because you are compensating for your of-late lame jokes by laying the blame on everyone else and lamenting the downfall of your precious little comment section and oh-the-drama-so-much-drama-[barf].

To borrow the patented technique of my newly-acquired friend up there: You must be confusing me with somebody else.

It seems I have massively overestimated you.

It is genuinely surprising to me that you are even able to use the linking feature, but never mind that. What is your point, oh one who never actually tries but for some reason feels entitled to lecture other people?

What an admirable and impassioned call for originality. It's a shame you didn't heed your own advice and avoid a joke format you've used several times before.

OMG so clever!!1!

/An hour later, in a nearby elementary school

While it's true that some designs are special to some countries (the diamond in Bundesliga, the vertical oval in Serie A, etc) I don't know that there is an overwhelming theme to any given country. For example, I thought the Panthers badge was inspired by Chelsea but it turns out it's the "Germany style".

With all these layoffs, it was about time John Brenkus started pulling his weight.

Thanks for stopping by.

I don't get it.

Good call keeping this comment. I think I'm starting to get the hang of your appropriateness meter, and a fine job you've done calibrating it might I add.

Jared Odrick's lawyer: [quickly withdraws text from evidence]

Why of course you have Deadspin's blessing to slander this stranger, guy!

As I said in the edit, it's your mockery of others that bothers me.

Mine was not a comment on the comment, but a comment on the reaction.

I'm often completely against stats becoming a thing in football (assoc.) - stats tend to kill off variety in the game because they incentivise players to play a certain way - but I must say this looks like a decent metric, simply because it seems to align with intuition, kind of.

Nothing. Just the clique doing its thing.