I read everything on this thread and have seen the trend for the last weeks. Some threads are unreadable because of the bickering of the few... some poly forum carcasses have shown up that I didnt see in a long time up here...
All said, censorship blows... I mean, I guess it really gets that annoying but is just a sin of a few, no need to impose forum etiquette on the rest of us, nor that I need to have room to be hostile or insulting, I rarely post, mostly read, but... censorship is wrong and who knows maybe the bickering does attract more posters and readers and that's good... people get off with anything, if you feel insulted or feel the need to discuss the subject in a different matter just open your own thread and empathize what is banned from posting or who... make it interesting not restricted.
All said, censorship blows... I mean, I guess it really gets that annoying but is just a sin of a few, no need to impose forum etiquette on the rest of us, nor that I need to have room to be hostile or insulting, I rarely post, mostly read, but... censorship is wrong and who knows maybe the bickering does attract more posters and readers and that's good... people get off with anything, if you feel insulted or feel the need to discuss the subject in a different matter just open your own thread and empathize what is banned from posting or who... make it interesting not restricted.
Kind of hard to pin the current state of EOG on shrink.
That would be like blaming the 76'ers historically bad basketball season on DR J.
I don't blame you man, I agree some shit and some posters need to chill the fuck down, but looking the bigger picture... censorship is the wrong remedy... maybe people need to be banned once in a while and else, if it gets too out of hand! But this is not new in the forum...
I bet we dislike the same post/posters... many I think are ridiculous and shouldn't really even post but for right or for wrong they add to the variety of the forum. Trolls like gtc did one good thing well at least, they railed everybody against them, for a moment everyone here had one common goal and target...
I too came from another forum recently. In 9 years of posting at sports forums you learn the threads you want to be a part of and others that hold no interest. The two points are some people are never going to get along and if you are offended or hurt by what someone says on an internet forum you shouldn't be posting here. Its not worth it.
Burying threads is not good for business but neither is 3 threads on the same subject with people attacking each other.
I like it here and have felt welcomed. This place is much better than others and it would be a shame to see it go down the wrong road.
Of course...this is all my opinion with much respect to all
Burying threads is not good for business but neither is 3 threads on the same subject with people attacking each other.
I like it here and have felt welcomed. This place is much better than others and it would be a shame to see it go down the wrong road.
Of course...this is all my opinion with much respect to all
Fair enough...
It isn't like this site isn't a business though. It is and it relies on traffic and people clicking on ads, if the threads are brutal to read then people are gonna leave.
There are way better ways to discuss the Sterling situation than what I've seen on this site. I can feel some people frothing at the mouth through their computers. Normal people just don't wanna read that.
If the attitude you speak of spilled over into all the threads I would agree.
But this is not the case.
Let me put it this way.
If you turned the TV onto the Disney channel and you saw to women eating each other out this would be a problem.
If your kid was watching spongebob square pants and then a commercial comes on for Trojan Condoms instead of Captain Crunch this would be a problem.
But all the stuff I am speaking of is compartmentalized to where if you don't want to see that stuff it can be easily avoided.
Yea I agree.
Im sure you can see a thread you would not be interested in before you even click on it.
Its so simple isn't it?
Ehh it does though...
It spills into a lot of threads, I read a lot of senseless shit between two bickering parties that I could careless to read. This board should be about making my reading experience as pleasant as possible and it is failing at that.
I don't think it is nearly as compartmentalized as you do.
I dunno, not really sure what the solution is. This place was dead before Sterling-gate.
There are issues I am interested in commenting on but the thread insta-devolves into 2 people taking the internet and their argument way too seriously so its like why even bother.
It's just not a good analogy Chop, and here's why. In your analogy therx is DirectTV and each thread is a different channel. In my opinion the internet is DirectTV and theRX is just one channel. One of my favorite channels, and I was getting ready to change it because of the trash programming. And so would any sane noobie.
