The Impossibility Of A Political Subforum (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

My prediction is that most of the topics in the FFA will turn political anyway, but it's nice to have this feature.  

At least it's a weird change on a Wednesday.  

 

[adonis]

Not so weird when you realize what's going on nationally and it's only going to get worse.  Probably the best time to do this. 

I am curious to know whether Joe or David have colluded with any Russians on FBG rankings.  What did they know and when did they know it?  Are they over-estimating Russian players in the rankings?

Our investigative reporters will take a look.

 

[Arodin]

Not so weird when you realize what's going on nationally and it's only going to get worse.  Probably the best time to do this. 

I am curious to know whether Joe or David have colluded with any Russians on FBG rankings.  What did they know and when did they know it?  Are they over-estimating Russian players in the rankings?

Our investigative reporters will take a look.

I think it's really an anti-russian bias, left over from their youth during the Cold War.  As evidence, not a single one of these Russians is listed in their supposedly comprehensive rankings:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_players_of_American_football

 

[Clayton Gray]

My prediction is that most of the topics in the FFA will turn political anyway, but it's nice to have this feature.  

At least it's a weird change on a Wednesday.  

Thanks for your support!

 

[squistion]

My prediction is that most of the topics in the FFA will turn political anyway, but it's nice to have this feature.  

At least it's a weird change on a Wednesday.  

It is amazing to me that three or four people who have no interest in politics and were unable to scroll past a couple of threads on the FFA main page, get all political discussion banned from a forum that was specifically set up to discuss non-football topics, which included politics.

The Assistant Coach forum was not improved by shutting it down and making it a subset of the Shark Pool and people are still starting threads asking for team advice in the SP while the new AC forum gets less traffic.

This was a solution to a problem that didn't exist IMO. Maybe it will ultimately improve things, but I doubt it.

 

[joffer]

Vaccines?

FFS

 

[The General]

The FFA will be all diet and how hot poles in a few weeks.

 

[Clayton Gray]

Vaccines?

FFS

I screwed up there. Sorry

 

[joffer]

I screwed up there. Sorry

thank you

 

[roadkill1292]

The FFA will be all diet and how hot poles in a few weeks.

Even the main weed thread got moved here. Maybe weed should be the next sub-forum, after footy (where we'll get Cletius to mod and ban all the Liverpool guys).

 

[adonis]

Not so weird when you realize what's going on nationally and it's only going to get worse.  Probably the best time to do this. 

I am curious to know whether Joe or David have colluded with any Russians on FBG rankings.  What did they know and when did they know it?  Are they over-estimating Russian players in the rankings?

Our investigative reporters will take a look.

I think it's really an anti-russian bias, left over from their youth during the Cold War.  As evidence, not a single one of these Russians is listed in their supposedly comprehensive rankings:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_players_of_American_football

So it appears the conspiracy goes deeper than we thought...

Good work here.  We'll have to keep digging until we uncover the truth.  I hear Alex Jones knows things that the powers that be don't want to be made known...

 

[Don Quixote]

If the David Foster Wallace thread is in here, I have no idea what qualifies for the FFA besides babe brackets now.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

This is just going to intensify the discussion. 

 

[The Future Champs]

The FFA will be all diet and how hot poles in a few weeks.

A few more "how hawt" poles wouldn't be a bad thing, gb.

 

[ren hoek]

It is amazing to me that three or four people who have no interest in politics and were unable to scroll past a couple of threads on the FFA main page, get all political discussion banned from a forum that was specifically set up to discuss non-football topics, which included politics.

The Assistant Coach forum was not improved by shutting it down and making it a subset of the Shark Pool and people are still starting threads asking for team advice in the SP while the new AC forum gets less traffic.

This was a solution to a problem that didn't exist IMO. Maybe it will ultimately improve things, but I doubt it.

It's fascinating isn't it?  How such a small minority can get so many things banned?  

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

If the David Foster Wallace thread is in here, I have no idea what qualifies for the FFA besides babe brackets now.

Amoeba art

.h

 

[HellToupee]

My prediction is that most of the topics in the FFA will turn political anyway, but it's nice to have this feature.  

At least it's a weird change on a Wednesday.  

@Oldtakesexposed

 

[beef]

@Oldtakesexposed

Yes, old people taking sex poses would be weird to see too.

 

[rockaction]

@Oldtakesexposed

Oh man, you diggin' dirt? That doesn't seem very prescient, does it? I think the threat of getting a thread removed to the PSF has kept a lot of the politics out of the FFA. As somebody said to me a week ago: Think of these things as filters to keep politics and general discussion out of the SP. 

 

[HellToupee]

Yes, old people taking sex poses would be weird to see too.

 

[HellToupee]

Oh man, you diggin' dirt? That doesn't seem very prescient, does it? I think the threat of getting a thread removed to the PSF has kept a lot of the politics out of the FFA. As somebody said to me a week ago: Think of these things as filters to keep politics and general discussion out of the SP. 

Came across this by accident 

 

[sho nuff]

Yes, old people taking sex poses would be weird to see too.

I read this in a Sean Connery accent.

 

[ShamrockPride]

It’s a good thing we quarantined politics discussion from the FFA when we did. Otherwise, here we’d be sitting, 2 years later, with Joe threatening to shut down the FFA.