Matt, I don't think that anyone was bothered with you having an opinion or defending it (I don't think you really did trash talk). I'll try to help clarify the spamming thing.
1) You came to this board and asked people to go to a different site to vote in a poll that could just as easily been posted on Allbuffs.
2) In itself, that's no big deal. But it was your site you were pimping and, presumably, you earn some cheddar off the advertising you get... which is bolstered by the amount of traffic you get.
3) You asked people to go to your site and do this for you, but you didn't scratch our backs first or attempt to build a relationship. By not paying for a club membership or starting out by participating on this site in other ways, you sent the message that you didn't care about Allbuffs... you were just here to drive traffic to your site.
4) Then, when people questioned what was going on, you played the "we're all Buffs fans and you owe me some loyalty" card. Not well played. As was pointed out to you, many other sites ban posters when they do what you did.
All that said, I'm willing to start over and forget all of this. I honestly want the Buffs site to be one of the stronger ones on your network. But if you don't "get it", it's hard to start over. Hopefully this post helped.:smile: