Re: My Useless Thread.
Originally posted by ::Jason::
I've been an active member at SG-forums for quite a while and have realised which way this whole thing seems to be heading to.
Especially on 'Players Lounge' quite an amount of the new posts seem to be participating in a fight or atleast are offensive to someone. It wasn't like that before, or there was some cases (Hrvoje&co) but the fights almost always were for a proper reason.
Internet forums are mostly meant for people enjoying their free-time by talking with other people sharing the same interests.
It is a good thing to have the unique yellow/red card -system (it's not really unique tho ), but at times it seems to lead into situations where people well may be carded for just supporting the wrong team too loudly.
It's also very common to see a moderator going as low as the person insulting or just annoying him , with striking back in the hardest ways there is. It's partially understandable, since the mods are often the most active people around the forums too. Why would they want their forum to be spoiled?
I've also noticed that the users of Soccergaming.tv mostly act like a herd, lead by the influental people. There's nothing wrong with that, but it can get quite awkward. Even when a supermod (and a superposter) like Yash says something poor, or atleast something way lower than he usually is, there's still often a bunch of randoms coming out of nowhere, just to go for the attention and acceptance of the moderator. Some people also tend to just repeat what the previous posts have been, with almost the same words.
Then there's the postboosting thing. I think that even if someone clearly postboosts, he propably shouldn't get his post-count sliced. It's up to everyone's own point of view in my opinion, the post count doesn't make a big difference. If someone like hanek goes all over the place making a big amount of threads, and then adds propably the poorest ever sentence to his sig, after the post-count cut, everyone can see what he's about.
I dunno why I started this thread in the first place, maybe it will raise some conversation leading SG-forums to a better direction. Me getting heavily flamed certainly boosted me to this, but it ain't the sole reason.
Ewan, Yash, Luis, Ben & co, please don't get mad because of this, I just wrote my mind. You (the SG legends) propably are the main-reason why these boards are so popular. SG wouldn't be anything if there wasn't good posts in the mix.
completly agree mate, ive been here since early 2002, and to be quite honest i dont post regularly here in the playground, but because of this reason i have an unbiased view, as ive not got used and accustomed to the sheer postboosting crap that goes on here, so i can see better than most how the forum has slipped into mindless bitching, a few years ago this would never have happened, we wouldnt see threads open up with just a funny website followed by a few 'lol''s or 'yeah's. Its silly.
Im sorry to be stating the obvious here, cos thats pretty much what it is but this is how i feel, it just pisses me off and depresses me so much to see forums descend into this, effectivly just to up the post count and therfore gain respect from older users.
Im a mod myself over on the CM forum, sometimes i think to myself, 'hmm, this is off topic i think ill close it to prevent postboosting', but in all honestly, why should I? i mean, i close threads there yet those people are getting twice as many posts over here posting about how they like a certain song or summet.
This is what pisses me off about soccergaming, there seems to be some kind of double-standards thing going on, while im over in the cm forum trying to keep postboosting down, over here its pretty much encouraged. Now, dont get me wrong, im not abusing the mods because to be quite honest it would be a terribly daunting task to try and rid this forum of postboosting.
But lets be honest, this whole forum relies on postboosting, without it less people would come here and post as they wouldnt be able to gain 'respect' quick enough leading to its slow and painful demise. So lets get this right... am i discouraging or encouraging postboosting?
(:/)
Dont mind me though, im just an old poster stuck in my ways, ill waddle on doing the same crap and avoiding this peice of **** forum
TROD.