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Enough is enough! (1 Viewer)

The OP makes a good point. The last thing this forum needs is another thread with no real content.

Oh wait. :yes:

:shrug:

A thread complaining about why you don't like the threads that have little to offer while you in fact start a thread that offers no relevant info is just becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution.

 
Yeah. Think so. Not always but I was responding to him. :shrug:J
It's something that really bugs me about this place, a guy writes a novel, then you get 15-20 guys quoting it, usually with a :goodposting: or :a :ptts: Scroll, scroll, scroll, grrrrr. :rant: Just quote a word or two, I'm pretty sure we'll understand who you're responding to.
 
Yeah. Think so. Not always but I was responding to him. :shrug:J
It's something that really bugs me about this place, a guy writes a novel, then you get 15-20 guys quoting it, usually with a :goodposting: or :a :ptts: Scroll, scroll, scroll, grrrrr. :rant: Just quote a word or two, I'm pretty sure we'll understand who you're responding to.
Ok. I hope you don't mind but I'll call that not a big problem right now. I do think we do need to address some of what I think are bigger problems in helping us moderate the boards as the original poster said.J
 
Threads like this puzzle me.

I have been here for quite some time and honestly never get upset about posts that should be in the AC forum, or repeat posts, or any posts for that matter.

I view all threads here like I view hotels when I am traveling, If I like what I see I check in for awhile, if I don`t like what I see I drive on by.

 
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How many of these offending threads did you report?I saw just a few. Seriously, if we're going to help cut down on this, you guys have to help and let us know.Thanks.J
If posts/threads are reported and it is responded with inaction, you cannot expect future reports to happen.
 
Limp Ditka said:
LHUCKS said:
:lmao:

That's why the good posters stay away during the season...a bunch of girls butthurt by their home team's loss or because their fantasy teams are losing...all objectivity goes out the window.
Says the guy that still thinks USC is the fourth best team in the nation.
Says the guy WHO still thinks...
 
LHUCKS said:
:goodposting: That's why the good posters stay away during the season...a bunch of girls butthurt by their home team's loss or because their fantasy teams are losing...all objectivity goes out the window.
:goodposting: yup, no point in posting from late August to early January anymore, this place is ridiculous on a daily basis, let alone weekly. have to be more strict on who gets to post and who doesn't. i still like my idea of no posting for 6 months after signup.
Pinda you have the single coolest avatar in the history of ever.
 
Sweeper said:
The OP makes a good point. The last thing this forum needs is another thread with no real content. Oh wait. :mellow: ;) A thread complaining about why you don't like the threads that have little to offer while you in fact start a thread that offers no relevant info is just becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution.
So inaction will do a better job of solving the problem? :lmao:
 
I've only belonged to FBG a few months, and I've been severely criticized for starting too many threads and for angering NE fans with a few of my threads. But i disagree with the complaints. Look, if I were in charge, my rules would be: don't use foul language, no personal attacks, be respectful, stick to the NFL. Other than that, why have restrictions? Let it all fly; if you don't like a thread, respond or don't respond. I don't understand people who protest threads because they're attempts to "rile people up." Of course I'm trying to rile people up! What's the point of posting, if not to do so? Also, there's too many complaints about more than one thread on the same issue. Why complain about it? Eventually, people will post to the thread they want, and the others will fade.

My only complaint with the moderators is that they react too much to complaints by shutting threads down, they have done so to me. If the thread is actually offensive, that's one thing. But if people are just annoyed by the thread because the argument expressed irritates them, then I think the Mods should just ignore their complaints, no matter how many there are. If people want to discuss an issue and it's a clean one, why not let them discuss it? Those that are irritated can just ignore it, and everybody's happy. And if nobody wants to talk about it, it will die a natural death. This is intended as a respectful but firm disagreement with the moderators of this website.

 
My biggest pet peeve on this board is the needless over use of the "embedded quote" function. Unless you are going to take the time to reply to a given paragraph, please do not use this function. At least 5 posters already copied the whole original thread, including Joe B. These things than take on a life of their own as one has to constantly scroll through pages of embedded quotes with no new "content" more than :rolleyes: at the end. I don't mind 2 people debating back and forth but do so without using the embedded quote function which ends up making the overall thread 3x longer than it needs to be.

 
Paddy O said:
Limp Ditka said:
LHUCKS said:
:no:

That's why the good posters stay away during the season...a bunch of girls butthurt by their home team's loss or because their fantasy teams are losing...all objectivity goes out the window.
Says the guy that still thinks USC is the fourth best team in the nation.
Says the guy WHO still thinks...
Perhaps Limp Ditka is suggesting LHUCKS is not a person
 
I've only belonged to FBG a few months, and I've been severely criticized for starting too many threads and for angering NE fans with a few of my threads. But i disagree with the complaints. Look, if I were in charge, my rules would be: don't use foul language, no personal attacks, be respectful, stick to the NFL. Other than that, why have restrictions? Let it all fly; if you don't like a thread, respond or don't respond.
Simple. Because 15 threads about the SAME subject bury any threads that may actually be useful. You post to rile. Great. Many (most) of us post to try and garner some useful information about the status of certain players. Sorry, but this forum isn't here solely for your amusement.
 
My biggest pet peeve on this board is the needless over use of the "embedded quote" function. Unless you are going to take the time to reply to a given paragraph, please do not use this function. At least 5 posters already copied the whole original thread, including Joe B. These things than take on a life of their own as one has to constantly scroll through pages of embedded quotes with no new "content" more than :lmao: at the end. I don't mind 2 people debating back and forth but do so without using the embedded quote function which ends up making the overall thread 3x longer than it needs to be.
:unsure: (someone had to do it)(for the record, I think this has actually been the best week in the Shark Pool ever)
 
My biggest pet peeve on this board is the needless over use of the "embedded quote" function. Unless you are going to take the time to reply to a given paragraph, please do not use this function. At least 5 posters already copied the whole original thread, including Joe B. These things than take on a life of their own as one has to constantly scroll through pages of embedded quotes with no new "content" more than :lmao: at the end. I don't mind 2 people debating back and forth but do so without using the embedded quote function which ends up making the overall thread 3x longer than it needs to be.
:unsure: (someone had to do it)(for the record, I think this has actually been the best week in the Shark Pool ever)
 
I've only belonged to FBG a few months, and I've been severely criticized for starting too many threads and for angering NE fans with a few of my threads. But i disagree with the complaints. Look, if I were in charge, my rules would be: don't use foul language, no personal attacks, be respectful, stick to the NFL. Other than that, why have restrictions? Let it all fly; if you don't like a thread, respond or don't respond.
Simple. Because 15 threads about the SAME subject bury any threads that may actually be useful. You post to rile. Great. Many (most) of us post to try and garner some useful information about the status of certain players. Sorry, but this forum isn't here solely for your amusement.
Who said it was? Most of my threads are about players as well, check it out. It's true that several of my previous threads were about New England and different aspects, but so what? I made one thread (ONE) protesting running up the score; it was removed within 30 minutes of it's posting, though I said nothing offensive in it. Since that time, there must be over 20 threads right now on the same subject. I didn't start any of them! But as far as I'm concerned, let them fly! How exactly do they prevent you from reading about your players? It's all still there for you to look at. Use the scroll down button...
 
Threads like this puzzle me.I have been here for quite some time and honestly never get upset about posts that should be in the AC forum, or repeat posts, or any posts for that matter.I view all threads here like I view hotels when I am traveling, If I like what I see I check in for awhile, if I don`t like what I see I drive on by.
Agreed. Seriously, is really that difficult to self edit? I rarely open more than 7 or 8 threads on the first page. Not that difficult IMO. Also, adding threads of compliants and/or posting how much a thread sucks in the thread does not help. If you don't like the quality of threads either don't contribute to the poor ones (letting them go away quicker) or start one with the type of information that you wish to see more.If we are to make this a slight lesson in supply and demand, if a thread on a tired subject has 300 posts in a half a day while a thread on general roster management theory has 38 in a week, the public is speaking about what they really want.
 
I will say this. This tends to happen every year around this time. About week 6-7 we figure out who are going to be the studs and duds. There isn't much more to say on why Holt isn't performing better or why Moss is doing so well. We look for things to bicker about and make our claim on.

There will be a few break out guys the latter half of the season (Ryan Grant maybe?) and that will be discussed (is Ryan Grant the starter even if everyone is healthy, will he be the starter in 2008, what is his contract status with the Packers, what is the record of the Ryan Grant owners, blah, blah, blah, etc).

It's time to move on over to the FFA and talk about other equally inane crap but at least there is a wider variety of said manure.... See you there. I'm buyin' :blackdot:

 
Joe,

That's the point, singularly I don't think that most of the threads are reportable. If there are 6 guys posting the same thread, which 5 do you report? If the thread is fine, but 10 guys highlight a long diatribe like mine and then put :thumbdown: or :hophead: or something else, is that something I should report? The rest of the thread may have a ton of value. Although probably not this one.

For the guy that posted that the mods don't respond when you use the report function, I believe that Joe himself responded to mine pretty promptly. Joe I honestly think that this board has gotten so popular, that you guys can't physically do more than what your doing. The only other thing you could do is have full time employees moving, locking, merging and editing threads. I'm not sure that you can justify paying full time guys for that when you could be paying more content guys.

Which leads me back my original rant, the only way things can change is if we all take a look at what we post and try to be grown-ups and and police ourselves before we hit the post button. I know that I myself intend to do that more.

I do have a suggestion if you ever think that the shark pool has gotten to the point that it can't be controlled though. A wiki would be the next logical step. It can be moderated easier and user content would be way more organized than it is now. You can then keep the forum a little more open and only moderate posts that blatantly break the rules.

And to the few guys that posted about this being another meaningless thread about meaningless threads, what did your meaningless reply add?

IF anybody else can think of better selections, I'm sure Joe is listening. Sorry for another long post. :2cents:

 
My biggest pet peeve on this board is the needless over use of the "embedded quote" function. Unless you are going to take the time to reply to a given paragraph, please do not use this function. At least 5 posters already copied the whole original thread, including Joe B. These things than take on a life of their own as one has to constantly scroll through pages of embedded quotes with no new "content" more than :rolleyes: at the end. I don't mind 2 people debating back and forth but do so without using the embedded quote function which ends up making the overall thread 3x longer than it needs to be.
:goodposting: (someone had to do it)(for the record, I think this has actually been the best week in the Shark Pool ever)The worst thing is when people who type in their own comments within someone else's quote box...
 
How many of these offending threads did you report?I saw just a few. Seriously, if we're going to help cut down on this, you guys have to help and let us know.Thanks.J
If posts/threads are reported and it is responded with inaction, you cannot expect future reports to happen.
Without question, not every post that is reported is bad. I get reports that we look at and leave alone. Sorry if that was one of yours. J
 
Which leads me back my original rant, the only way things can change is if we all take a look at what we post and try to be grown-ups and and police ourselves before we hit the post button. I know that I myself intend to do that more.
Thanks Chris. That's the best way of all of course. It's just tough as some don't have that ability / discipline.Thanks for the good thoughts - we're always looking at how we can make the board better.J
 
Gotta say I'd love the ability to 'paint' a user. You want to clean up the forum, you have to address the fact that people need to be judicious about their post, not just on the topics of their threads. The report function is an excellent addition, but it usually deals with threads rather than people. A forum for people who are bored and want to talk Fantasy Football issues, and a different forum where you get banned if a single post of yours does not stay on the threads point. That way, everyone has somewhere to go to enjoy this site.

The most telling comments in this particular thread are probably FAR more common than Joe believes; those being about the people who stay away while the forum is overloaded with foolishness and come back around March to begin attempting to improve on concepts like VBD, auction value trends, coach firings impact on positions, IDP VBD interaction, new concepts in evaluating talent and making predictions, and the like.

This thread is a perfect example. The initial post, while a gripe, was obviously created to inspire a certain amount of thought or debate. Remove the posts that don't expand or discuss the topic and the thread shrinks to 7 posts or so - of potentially useful information that the mods could use or be appraised of.

I lurk here less and less because I want to spend my time coming up with ways to improve my fantasy football performance from week to week and year to year rather than post useless comments in thread after thread after thread. I'm positive that doesn't bother the bulk of you here, but I remember the threads we created years ago that inspired most of the spreadsheets and tools you are all using these days - such as VBD, predictions based on FF trends rather than NFL trends, % auction values based on historical data of winning auction teams over the coarse of years, etc. If Joe wants to keep his site as helpful as cutting edge as it has been, and I'm almost positive he does because he seems to work toward it with his decisions, there has to be a place here devoted to the more serious FFer rather than the entertaining/bored/sarcastic/funning ones.

 
I hear what you are saying. However, it doesn't take a genius to sidestep the garbage. Really, if you can't determine if a thread is not worth your time by either reading the title or reading the first post, then you need to tighten up your thought process. Also, try using the search feature. I rarely just peruse the SP for the sake of looking. I usually always know the question before searching for the answer.

 
The Shark Pool is filled with too many duplicate and garbage posts.

The internet is filled with too much useless information.

There are too many meaningless conversations at work.

The newspaper I read is filled with "fluff pieces."

I was watching congress on C-SPAN and instead of discussing our national issues of importance, they're just talking to hear themselves speak.

Should we all strive to make this message board, and the world we live in, a better and more meaningful place?

Sure.

Should we all gripe, groan and rant that everyone else needs to head our call for excellence?

If it makes you feel better.

My point is that this is life; wading through the garbage, ignoring the crap and finding the kernels that are meaningful to you.

If the small community that is the Shark Pool presents too difficult a challenge to negotiate, than life is going to be a ##### of a time.

 
Mighty, I agree for the most part.

I may be stingy with my time, but even the threads I am rather interested in, such as the updates when Henry's trouble was coming out, or discussions about tactics, just have too much trash in them for me. Yea, it's a personal threshold that I might need to work on. But I guess I'm not willing to scan 36 posts that waste my time to get to the 3 that are chocked full of either timely, well considered, or provoking information.

I do stay out of most of the posts here. I'm just starting to stay out of all of them.

Several have commented about the tapering off we'll see in a week or three. I tend to agree. As a season winds down, the people complaining right now will likely be trying to come up with ways to improve on what happened this year and want a sounding board - while the bulk of the others will just get bored and wander away.

I guess it's unavoidable, but there's no sin in attempting to come up with solutions to an acknowledged problem that might just improve the pool in the meantime, right? Joe, while having my complete respect, has used this forum just like everyone else who comes here - to find ideas that will give people an edge. As the site grows, the ability for the forum to be used in such a fashion shrinks. Any idea that maximizes ideas and edges should get serious review in my book. A cleaner Pool falls into that category.

 
too many funny threads get closed --- like the venting nicknames thread I almost missed.

'gerald fitzlarry'.....hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!

that one made me cry.

 
I hear what you are saying. However, it doesn't take a genius to sidestep the garbage. Really, if you can't determine if a thread is not worth your time by either reading the title or reading the first post, then you need to tighten up your thought process. Also, try using the search feature. I rarely just peruse the SP for the sake of looking. I usually always know the question before searching for the answer.
That's what I used to think! The problem is you get to the point where you do more side-stepping than research. When you open a thread it's usually because the subject line had value and you then read the initial post and decide if you want to read farther. If you do you have to read enough of each corresponding post to see if you should skip to the next one. On the front page right now, there are 7 threads that have over 100 posts and 2 that have over 700 posts. That's a lot of side stepping even with a 60% tool factor and I think it's higher than that in my opinion.Forget the whole paint the user thing, let me just hit the ignore button either per poster or per poster per thread and I would be happy.
 
Joe should be deleting dumb posts.

The waive wire thread is a great example. Usually the first thing I look for. But it was too much hassle to find the good posts.

Keep the threads, just delete posts that aren't on topic. Keep the content readable with less noise. Jokes are funny for 5-6 mins, and then they can be removed. We could probably trim most threads by 50%, without losing any value.

 
I'm done now, and hope that somebody posts a :lock: and somebody else reports me, because this thread doesn't belong in the Shark Pool.
You're wrong, it belongs here but in the venting thread. You make some points but it's also obvious that you're being frustrated by some very little things. Like worrying about who's starting the Week 9 waiver wire thread and when it's started. Seriously, who cares.

What you need to do then if you're worried about too much "crap" as you call it, start focusing in on posters that you have a certain amount of respect for and zero in on their posts. On many threads that already have A LOT of posts, I go thru those threads and skim through the posters that have earned my respect in terms of valid points and accurate information.
Actually I could care less who posted it or when, but the 50 tools that spammed the thread "Pick up Peyton Manning" because they thought the thread was posted to early that made it unreadable.
So you are saying if your tried hard, you COULD care less...even if only a little less?
 
Joe Bryant said:
How many of these offending threads did you report?I saw just a few. Seriously, if we're going to help cut down on this, you guys have to help and let us know.Thanks.J
If posts/threads are reported and it is responded with inaction, you cannot expect future reports to happen.
Without question, not every post that is reported is bad. I get reports that we look at and leave alone. Sorry if that was one of yours. J
Please don't apologize. I don't think anyone takes it personally. It's just a difference of philosophy, is all. If person A thinks a thread/post is actionable and reports it, which is met with inaction; person A will no longer continue to report those threads because that person knows what will (not) happen.So when you confront people that complain about garbage in the pool with the "You need to use the report function" routine, well maybe not. It's possible that it has been tried already.
 
I'm done now, and hope that somebody posts a :lock: and somebody else reports me, because this thread doesn't belong in the Shark Pool.
You're wrong, it belongs here but in the venting thread. You make some points but it's also obvious that you're being frustrated by some very little things. Like worrying about who's starting the Week 9 waiver wire thread and when it's started. Seriously, who cares.

What you need to do then if you're worried about too much "crap" as you call it, start focusing in on posters that you have a certain amount of respect for and zero in on their posts. On many threads that already have A LOT of posts, I go thru those threads and skim through the posters that have earned my respect in terms of valid points and accurate information.
Actually I could care less who posted it or when, but the 50 tools that spammed the thread "Pick up Peyton Manning" because they thought the thread was posted to early that made it unreadable.
So you are saying if your tried hard, you COULD care less...even if only a little less?
:reported: j/k but I if this post was in another thread, I would have loved a "ignore this poster in this thread" button.
 
My biggest pet peeve on this board is the needless over use of the "embedded quote" function. Unless you are going to take the time to reply to a given paragraph, please do not use this function. At least 5 posters already copied the whole original thread, including Joe B. These things than take on a life of their own as one has to constantly scroll through pages of embedded quotes with no new "content" more than :bag: at the end. I don't mind 2 people debating back and forth but do so without using the embedded quote function which ends up making the overall thread 3x longer than it needs to be.
:hey: :lmao: :bag: This is a much, much bigger problem than the one the OP is talking about, IMO.
 
First let me say that there is a tremendous amount of info in the forum threads, but sorting through it is a job when it's at it's best.This is by far one of the worst weeks I've seen since I've been here and although it's only been about a year and a half, I pretty much lurk here every day. It started with a thread from a guy that got fired from his job and vented about it in here. Then the guys ex-boss came in and vented about it in here. Everything that both people said was under the guise of whether this website was worth spending your money on and that is Shark worthy I think, but instead of giving specifics of why exactly it's a good or bad site, both guys took the low road and aired their dirty laundry in public. This was the first time that I have actually used the report function. Not because this thread was any different from any other week, I've seen just as bad usually once a week. What made me do it this week is that I just got fed up sifting through crap the last couple of weeks. They happened to post that last thread that sent me over the edge. The next thread that got me was a pre-season thread that somebody dug up by LHucks. The guy made a lot of predictions that didn't come true, and some tool dug it up for the sole purpose of telling him that his predictions sucked. I could have overlooked that easily and also could overlook a few :lmao: posts by a few guys, but I had to keep checking that post and wading through the crap of the 50 disciples of captain hindsight, just to see if LHucks posts more info about why he made his choices. You see I looked at his predictions the same way I did before the season started. I really don't care what he predicts. Most people make grandiose posts for emphasis. What I care about is why!!!! That's why most of the FBG content appeals to me. The guys that are paid, post a lot of info about why they think what they think. I pretty much have my own ratings and I'll adjust those depending on a lot of the "why" statements that I hear from other people. If I agree, I'll adjust my perceived rating, but If I disagree, I'll adjust my perceived ADP. I gave up on checking, but I think LHucks was afraid to go back in there and defend himself. I can't blame him, I've got shot down a few times while trying to add content to the sight. After all those attacks, it's probably easier for him to let the thread die then to argue with 50 different guys the next few weeks.The next thing was that somebody posted the week 9 waiver wire thread before the games even started. Enough stooges posted in that thread that after already wading through crap, I decided that I'm not even gonna check the thread this week. It used to be that I was happy to wade through 2/3rds crap to get to 1/3rd insight, but lately it's been 7/8 crap to get to 1/8 insight. The last thing that got me was yesterday's after game threads. The whole first page was either a Patriots thread or a Brown's thread. Don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy to see a bunch of Brown's threads in here. We are finally getting some love in the shark pool, but not only is it the same thread over and over again (What's going on in the QB spot?) but it's about 2 weeks behind what Brown's posters were talking about before. The Pat's 2 threads were ("Are they the greatest ever?" or "Are they the Antichrist?")Listen, I don't mind a joke in a thread, or mind sarcasm, or mind anybody with a different opinion. What I do mind is the guy that posts a useless emoticon, a guy that repeats the last post again or 2 homers that just argue because they are homers. I honestly think the WSIS threads and the WSIPU threads should be in the shark pool because I can skip over those if I want based on thread titles. It's the tools that pad the thread with useless posts that piss me off more than anything. If everybody thought before they hit that reply button about whether they added useful content or added more useless drivel, then the shark pool would be in a better place. Also the guys that correct grammar, semantics, and punctuation can keep those comments to the daily conversations that they have with their cat Mr Peepers, and the guys that post the "You are not an expert!" posts can concentrate on other things, like moving out of their Mom and Dad's basement.The only posts that tend to offend me are the posts from people that are too easily offended.I'm done now, and hope that somebody posts a :lock: and somebody else reports me, because this thread doesn't belong in the Shark Pool.
How many of these offending threads did you report?I saw just a few. Seriously, if we're going to help cut down on this, you guys have to help and let us know.Thanks.J
You guys do a good job actually in moderating actually better than any other free board out there - no clue what this guy is talking about
 
Well Moz, congrats for providing a perfect example of what they were talking about when they said abuse of the embedded quote function.

 
Mighty, I agree for the most part.I may be stingy with my time, but even the threads I am rather interested in, such as the updates when Henry's trouble was coming out, or discussions about tactics, just have too much trash in them for me. Yea, it's a personal threshold that I might need to work on. But I guess I'm not willing to scan 36 posts that waste my time to get to the 3 that are chocked full of either timely, well considered, or provoking information.I do stay out of most of the posts here. I'm just starting to stay out of all of them.Several have commented about the tapering off we'll see in a week or three. I tend to agree. As a season winds down, the people complaining right now will likely be trying to come up with ways to improve on what happened this year and want a sounding board - while the bulk of the others will just get bored and wander away.I guess it's unavoidable, but there's no sin in attempting to come up with solutions to an acknowledged problem that might just improve the pool in the meantime, right? Joe, while having my complete respect, has used this forum just like everyone else who comes here - to find ideas that will give people an edge. As the site grows, the ability for the forum to be used in such a fashion shrinks. Any idea that maximizes ideas and edges should get serious review in my book. A cleaner Pool falls into that category.
:goodposting: Gravedigger. I totally agree. I was chalking it up to something you really can't avoid, and to some degree that's true. However, I read Chris1969's reply and love the idea he's proposing. A Hide/Show Replys By User Name function would be fantastic. Implement it using an Ignore button next to each persons user name. If you think that person's just an absolute tool and you don't want to see anything they have to say, you just hit the button. Their user name is added to the Hide/Show list (which you can view and edit using check boxes in My Controls) and all replys posted by that person will be hidden as if they weren't there at all. Great idea. I know Joe's commitment to not splitting up the SP and I agree with it. However, having very specialized and powerful viewing tools must accompany that commitment. I also would like to see more power in the Search tools.ETA: Sorry Chris, didn't realize you were the OP until just now. Also, I think the Embedded Quote tool could be made more powerful by allowing users to highlight text in the post and then select the Quote button which would enter only the selected text into your reply and not the entire quote. I don't think the users of the Embedded Quote tool are guilty of abuse as there is no better option as yet (short of selecting and deleting text after quoting).
 
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Now her's an example of the complaint I made earlier on this thread: because i could not believe how many "Patriots are running up the score" threads there were, I wrote up a thread called "Minnesota Vikings are running up the Score!" It was supposed to be funny and to make an obvious point, as well. It did not come off a funny as I hoped, to be honest. But it was not crude, not offensive in any way whatsoever. Yet somebody reported it to the moderators, who promptly canceled any responses.

And again, I have to ask, why? If it was unfunny, then let it die a sad death! There are plenty of serious threads out there. There's no way this thread could have offended anyone, so why bother to close it?

Respectfully asked.

 
Now her's an example of the complaint I made earlier on this thread: because i could not believe how many "Patriots are running up the score" threads there were, I wrote up a thread called "Minnesota Vikings are running up the Score!" It was supposed to be funny and to make an obvious point, as well. It did not come off a funny as I hoped, to be honest. But it was not crude, not offensive in any way whatsoever. Yet somebody reported it to the moderators, who promptly canceled any responses. And again, I have to ask, why? If it was unfunny, then let it die a sad death! There are plenty of serious threads out there. There's no way this thread could have offended anyone, so why bother to close it?Respectfully asked.
That was a terrible thread. If the mods any sense of compassion they would delete your excuse of a thread to save you the shame.
 
What I love about this forum is that there are some people that really know what the heck they're talking about, and fully explain their thought processes. Guys like Bloom, Chaos Commish, Maurile, Lammey and many more are excellent posters. They actually give reasons for their claims. I really don't care about WHAT poster XYZ thinks. I care about WHY poster XYZ thinks the way he does. Most people just post a simple "I think x is better than y" statement. That's just noise to me.

And the snobbishness of some really turns me off. "Oh, so you're telling me the guy that averages 3.8 ypc is better than the guy that averages 4.6 ypc [insert snotty icon here]." Very, very few on this board (and I am not of the few) really understand football. The game entails much more than reading a box score and watching highlights. People that think they can truly judge players from box scores and highlights drive me crazy.

There's no one specific type of garbage posting that bothers me. There are crappy posts of every size, shape and color (and hell, this is probably one of them). There's a million different ways to make a terrible post, and I think this forum is up to #783,102. And I know that the high number of horrible posts is due to the number of outstanding posts. This is the best forum, and it attracts the most people. It goes with the territory. I just dislike having to wade through so much sewage to get to the gems. And the gems are out there. They're just getting harder and harder to find.

Okay, I'll stop whining. I figured this thread was as good as any to let it all out.

 
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What I love about this forum is that there are some people that really know what the heck they're talking about, and fully explain their thought processes. Guys like Bloom, Chaos Commish, Maurile, Lammey and many more are excellent posters. They actually give reasons for their claims. I really don't care about WHAT poster XYZ thinks. I care about WHY poster XYZ thinks the way he does. Most people just post a simple "I think x is better than y" statement. That's just noise to me.

And the snobbishness of some really turns me off. "Oh, so you're telling me the guy that averages 3.8 ypc is better than the guy that averages 4.6 ypc [insert snotty icon here]." Very, very few on this board (and I am not of the few) really understand football. The game entails much more than reading a box score and watching highlights. People that think they can truly judge players from box scores and highlights drive me crazy.

There's no one specific type of garbage posting that bothers me. There are crappy posts of every size, shape and color (and hell, this is probably one of them). There's a million different ways to make a terrible post, and I think this forum is up to #783,102. And I know that the high number of horrible posts is due to the number of outstanding posts. This is the best forum, and it attracts the most people. It goes with the territory. I just dislike having to wade through so much sewage to get to the gems. And the gems are out there. They're just getting harder and harder to find.

Okay, I'll stop whining. I figured this thread was as good as any to let it all out.
Wow! That's a great post! your speaking to the choir brother!
 

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