Charles Fischer

A quarterback must have the same "no-memory" of interceptions that defensive backs have after being burned for a touchdown. You can still come back and win the game...

It has been just about one year since the Rose Bowl win. Justin Herbert, Troy Dye and their compatriots capped off their program-building careers with a conference championship and a win in the most important game to the Pac-12. It was a high point for the back half of a decade that saw Oregon reach new heights and fall right back to ... Read the full article here...

Outstanding thoughts and post; please post more often! Your last suggestion is very intriguing to me, and I appreciate your taking the time.

The pleasant surprise that occurred when I began really being serious with applying the rules, and it was not just the absence of the trolls, but everything you read are now interesting points people are making. I do not have to "filter" and sort out posts as I scan through them as I do at other sites. At FishDuck and now at this forum....I can leisurely enjoy reading one post after another and not have to do any sorting. And that is actually a big deal. It makes it more effective, but it also makes the reading more enjoyable. An ancillary benefit I did not anticipate...

Well, that didn't take long. The forum has been up for only two weeks and someone new to the community thought, "you have rules? We'll see about that..." He did two violations and I did not have to wait to see a third; he is blacklisted/banned from the forum. Newbies? You really better read our rules, as we are very different from any other forum as we have enforced decorum here. Now for the regulars...it is a piece of cake and we have a ball with the most civilized discussion anywhere and our deletion rate is slightly less than half of 1% of all posts/comments written. People want to be protected from the rude and obnoxious people out there as this forum is truly a GREEN REFUGE from the nastiness taking place in the real-world right now. I have sent out a couple of warning emails to those who stepped over the line, and that is routine. We all mess-up once in a while and the good people say, "sorry, my-bad" and we move on and forget about it. But if there is a pattern...I do not want my time wasted babysitting adults. This is a free site where I have spent a couple of hundred hours and a couple of thousand dollars bringing it to fruition. I am not tolerant of violations at all,....because it happens so seldom and the good people here want those with little impulse control to be kept out. Moderation Process: We do not confront anyone on the site or make public at all the editing; we do it by email for your privacy and to prevent it becoming a “buzz-kill” to the rest of posts. Most people want to know what my moderation policy is; we edit the first time as a favor and leave the rest of the post as you wrote it. The second time we delete the post because we are not everyone’s editing-maids, and if things go beyond that we have to consider blacklisting/banning, as we are here to protect everyone from inappropriate content in posts. This topic post is really just to let the newbies to FishDuck and the Our Beloved Ducks Forum know that I mean business about following our rules, and to let the regulars know that ... even though you do not see the moderating taking place--Mr. FishDuck has your back just like over at FishDuck. I have to follow the rules...how does HE get away with it? Because we may not have seen the offending post yet. Click on the three dots in the upper right of a post and you can report inappropriate content to us so we can act on it immediately. Your help is kept private, and we thank you helping us take out the trash! Punctuation? Really? Yes, we require basic sentence structure and normal punctuation on this site. Why? Because making hundreds of people read a sentence three times to figure out where it began or ended because it was a run-on stream of consciousness and had no punctuation is rude to the good people here. We are considerate of others at the Our Beloved Ducks Forum, and make it easy to read our posts! This reminder does not apply to 99% of you, but we have some new people who are not aware of the high-brow discussions that occur here and consequently this audience requires a higher bar than other forums. Be Afraid? Naw. This Oregon Sports Community is so wonderful...I've learned so much and I simply cannot believe how little moderating I've had to do over the last six months. We can have some spicy debates, yet we always stay on subject and never get personal. This group is extraordinary! So please...reply often, post topics often and go up to the directions and spend a few minutes a day learning something new. Adding tweets, pictures, videos and GIFs is super-easy on this forum and it is fun! I am still in a massive stage one process of bringing everything on-line and will be updating you on new features in the future. In the meantime--let's get this forum hopping and have a blast doing what we all enjoy because.... "Oh, how we love to ponder about Our Beloved Ducks!" Charles Fischer (Mr. FishDuck) Eugene, Oregon

Fun, fun fun! These are short one-play videos and do post your thoughts!

And the Coach is getting a 1.5 million dollar raise with the article right here...

I don't like it, but it is his "dream come true" and I cannot fault him for leaving; more in the CBS article right here.

Now that it’s official, and Coach Andy Avalos is set to become the new head coach for the Boise State Broncos, I first want to thank him for his two seasons as the Oregon Ducks defensive coordinator. Coach Avalos took the Oregon defense to heights that it had not seen in quite some time, all within a short amount of ... Read the full article here...

Mudslide! You added your image to your Profile Picture, and now the world seems right. I love so many of the fun pictures and images people use...but I wish everyone would add theirs. Anybody good with photo-image editing and has time to help others post theirs? A retired person who knows how to do this and is willing to help some each week would be nice... Not my best look...

Me too. And David--I agree with your premise, conclusion and yet the loyalty to Cristobal. But the point is that we can be critical about the decisions and tactics by the coaches and yet still cheer for them. (That was not directed at David, but everyone else) We do critical analysis here on FishDuck and this Our Beloved Ducks Forum, and that means we are not suck-ups to the coaches. We give credit when due and grief when deserved as well!

Rosie, I cannot imagine that you were called stupid at FishDuck or this forum because we do not allow that. Was it on another site other than mine? (And Welcome to this one!)

Coach...I would sure love to have your opinions much often...like every day! Thanks for joining and posting from Georgia.