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Welcome to the Spladdle.com Forums!

I envision this place to be a spot to catch up on all the happenings in the combat sport’s world, news, results, training advice, drills, thoughts, rants, and anything else. If you fence, box, kickbox, wrestle, do BJJ, MMA or any other combat sport WELCOME!

There are many forums that are inundated with trolls, and this board will be an exception. Racism, bigotry, spamming and trolling will not be tolerated. So if you are fed up with it on the other forums, you will find a refreshing change here. We will be using a customized reputation system: if someone is trolling or spamming, you will be able to warn a moderator or administrator and they can evaluate the post. The lower the reputation, the more restrictions, and eventually a banning.

However, in the spirit of fairness, there will also be a system in place for moderator accountability.

On the opposite side of the coin, everyone will be able to give positive reputation and as reputation increases so will member privileges.

Since the forum is new, there will be inevitable bugs and quirks. Please post them here so we can attend to them immediately. In the future will be adding more forums as the demand grows, so if you don’t see your sport listed or a forum you think should be added, PLEASE advise.

Lastly, TELL us what YOU want. Can you think of a better name for one of the Lounge or the Main Forum? For now we will use the default. What do you think about the reputation system? What can we improve upon? What should we do away with?

Suggestions, advice, and criticism are MUCH appreciated.

In the coming weeks I will be giving away an autographed BJ Penn glove and the UFC 40 Program. The glove I got about 5-6 years ago, and shelved it because BJ wasn’t doing anything spectacular. Now he’s the champ and it makes the glove that much more pertinent. The UFC 40 Program is the guidebook you can purchase when you go to a live event. Though not autographed, it’s a great piece of memorabilia!

Have Fun!

-Joe Silvia