(10-08-2015 06:16 PM)Georgia_Power_Company Wrote: (10-08-2015 05:45 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote: Louisiana, Ragin Cajuns, Cajuns, ULL are all acceptable on this site.
ULaLa, ULLOL, etc constitute trolling in my opinion and I'll take a dim view of such usage.
Just for the record, our athletic department has branded the team as the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns. We are.
Carry on.
Seems a bit thin skinned to me (even though I try to use abbreviations acceptable to most) I don't see were a little good natured ribbing hurts anything. I have certainly seen plenty of other schools names twisted on this site (including mine) but always felt it was all in fun.
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Call it what you wish, but that's the way it's going to be here. In the past, too many threads that otherwise could have been interesting and informative derailed and became name debate arguments.
As I've said previously, when App State first joined I called them Appy a time or two, not trying to cause any problems, but because it seemed like a reasonable abbreviation to me. A couple of App State fans wrote and said that that abbreviation was offensive to them, that it was something Marshall fans called them and they didn't like it. So, I never used it again.
The Cajun program has plenty of warts if you wish to lay on some good-natured ribbing on it, and that's absolutely your right. Have it at it. But the name issue is obviously something most Cajun fans (myself included) feel very deeply about because we all know we were robbed in 1984 by LSU after legally petitioning and being granted the designation by our board of regeants. Our oposition can point to "the law" all they want, but they all know it was one that was passed retro-actively to undo what we had done by simply following the rules at the time.
The same effort that goes into typing ULALA or ULlol can just as easily be used to type ULL, or Cajuns, or Louisiana. The former I consider trolling, the latter being offensive to no one.
This site lost a lot of Cajun posters for a variety of reasons, the name debate crapola being just one. I acknowledge that some of those who left were over-bearing on the issue and if they return, they'll play by the same rules as everyone else. I'm just hoping to entice more of them to post here because our site is more interesting when there is a wide variety of views and opinions expressed.