Captain Cranks
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I'm curious how everyone feels about the FFA and whether my own opinion jives with the consensus.
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ChiefD
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Which is odd to me because the organizational format of forums like this is so much better than the Reddit and Discords of the world. As I saw someone describe it last night, Discord "is just an endless stream of text."
Capella
Footballguy
Yea I’ve never been on discord but heard the same thing - just impossible to keep up with.
It seems to me with all the other options and social media available, message boards are going to be a relic of the mid-2000s. Can’t imagine too many young people are participating on them.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
next to e-attrition, #2.6 is the biggest reason for #2.3. if it werent for personal relationships, ida been gone a long time ago. tried to quit again a few wks ago when they zapped the "Rockistan" thread. stifling "dissent" in the name of "decency" is an insult to the clientele who kept FBG a going concern.
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
"Tried to quit again" suggests it's a behavioral addiction, which I can relate to.
rockaction
Footballguy
And here I thought we'd finally done it to you with the music drafts...I QUIT!
I mentioned you when I picked "Hey Ya" over "What's Going On" in the song draft we did. I said you wouldn't understand, but that you would. And you're back. So I guess it wasn't that.
Good to see you.
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
Hands down if we're talking content. It's got anything and everything you can imagine. I just don't like the formatting. Topics get lost. There's no conversational flow. No profile pics to help recognize others.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
I remembered you liked the song, so that's why I brought you up. Also know that you love the Marvin Gaye song. C'mon...who's gonna know that if you leave the board?
I say that in only half-jest.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Agreed. Forums like FFA would be so much better if pics/gifs were allowed and moderation eased up a little in some regard (mostly pertaining to jokes and being to discuss beautiful women).
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
TLEF316
Footballguy
yeah, very little keeping me here in terms of new content. Back in the day, we'd get a classic thread full of laughs at least every couple of weeks. Can't remember the last time this place had a "great thread".
What keeps me here is the long term discussion with people I've been interacting with for years (the USMNT/soccer threads, Survivor, video game threads). Occasionally something will pop up in terms of learning about something new or generally useful group discussion (the DirectTV negotiation thread, for example) but I could almost certainly find that elsewhere if i wanted to.
I HATE the format of Reddit, so going there doesn't interest me at all.
Not hard to see why this happened. Combination of attrition (I'm sure the average age of this place has gone WAY up in the last 20 years. I was 18 when I started posting here. I turn 38 in a couple of weeks.....oof) , the change in moderation and the rise of social media.
It is what it is.
We're all getting old
What keeps me here is the long term discussion with people I've been interacting with for years (the USMNT/soccer threads, Survivor, video game threads). Occasionally something will pop up in terms of learning about something new or generally useful group discussion (the DirectTV negotiation thread, for example) but I could almost certainly find that elsewhere if i wanted to.
I HATE the format of Reddit, so going there doesn't interest me at all.
Not hard to see why this happened. Combination of attrition (I'm sure the average age of this place has gone WAY up in the last 20 years. I was 18 when I started posting here. I turn 38 in a couple of weeks.....oof) , the change in moderation and the rise of social media.
It is what it is.
We're all getting old
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I don’t remember which thread the Rockistan was but the moderation isn’t great. There’s honest posters like Rock who may be controversial at times but is genuine and offers a lot to the board, he should get more of a benefit of a doubt on things. Then there are straight up trolls who keep coming back and offering nothing. They are the ones who need to be moderated. The FFA seems pretty good in terms of quality people, it just needs more of them.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
It also doesn't help the the site seems to constantly crash and that we seem to be stuck with the blinding white background until football season is over.
firstseason1987
Footballguy
Tried to vote "needs fewer topics, fewer participants, and more moderation" but couldn't.
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
Just over 50 people voted and nearly half of them said they'd like to see more topics discussed. Fortunately, unlike the number of participants or moderation level, that's something we can control. Since I also voted for an increased number of topics, I call on my fellow FFAers to help me make this place more interesting. Either post a new topic or even go back in FFA history and bump something you think might breathe some life into this place.
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