Biggest Problem?

• Curly J

  

  hasbeen;1424222 wrote:I sarcastically called F4F "dad" in a PM. Twice. I hope this doesn't hurt my status.

  This shouldn't hurt your status. If it was said to MB in a PM, then ya never know.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Curly J;1424242 wrote:This shouldn't hurt your status. If it was said to MB in a PM, then ya never know.

  Coward
• like_that

  

  ernest_t_bass;1424244 wrote:Coward

  Harrassment.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  You guys are all cowards. This should be taken to private messages.
• hasbeen

  

  Fly4Fun;1424234 wrote:It's on your transcript. FOREVER!
  
  But seriously, I almost never divulge anything from a private message as there generally is no reason to.

  
  Okay dad.
• Ironman92

  

  Commander of Awesome;1424002 wrote:I mean honestly, do we want this forum to be about the weather in Troy Ohio, where Belly is going to vacation or what 9th grade girls sporting event Ironman is going to, or do we want a fun silly, NOGAF attitude lets have a good time forum?

  
  I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)
• Ironman92

  

  / in before your idiotic failisms and grotesque exaggerations and feelz and whatever else dumb shit you can think up.
• friendfromlowry

  Why not survey the current members? Just have 5-10 questions about what (if any) problems the site has and go from there.
  I don't personally have a problem with the mods, but if they're as much of a problem as some say they are, then can we vote for new ones? Or was that how we originally gained the mods in the first place? I guess I don't remember or pay enough attention.
  
  Thread banning is probably the easiest way to fix problems, and if a member is being banned frequently then send them to the basement for a standard amount of time.
• karen lotz

  

  Ironman92;1424496 wrote:I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)

  
  Did you drop the mic after this post?
• justincredible

  

  karen lotz;1424611 wrote:Did you drop the mic after this post?

  In my head he certainly did. And it was awesome.
• justincredible

  

  friendfromlowry;1424572 wrote:Why not survey the current members? Just have 5-10 questions about what (if any) problems the site has and go from there.
  I don't personally have a problem with the mods, but if they're as much of a problem as some say they are, then can we vote for new ones? Or was that how we originally gained the mods in the first place? I guess I don't remember or pay enough attention.
  
  Thread banning is probably the easiest way to fix problems, and if a member is being banned frequently then send them to the basement for a standard amount of time.

  Yeah, I'll be working over the next week to figure out surveys to send to current and past members. Both will likely be 3 or 4 multiple choice questions. Something that should only take a minute to fill out.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  I envision a "go fuck yourself" from a lot of those members
• justincredible

  

  DeyDurkie5;1424703 wrote:I envision a "go fuck yourself" from a lot of those members

  Probably. It won't be one of the choices so they'd have to write it in. They will be infracted accordingly.
• Crimson streak

  

  justincredible;1424708 wrote:Probably. It won't be one of the choices so they'd have to write it in. They will be infracted accordingly.

  
  But only by f4f
• mcburg93

  

  Ironman92;1424496 wrote:I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)

  reps
• rmolin73

  

  justincredible;1424700 wrote:In my head he certainly did. And it was awesome.

  This!
• Pick6

  

  Ironman92;1424496 wrote:I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)

  boom.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Ironman92;1424496 wrote:I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)

  damn COA/likethat...damn
• Heretic

  

  Ironman92;1424496 wrote:I have 20,000 too many posts on here but when have I ever posted about 9th grade girls? Yeah I'm a middle-class, middle-aged guy with a family and we are very active in local sports. I would say you are the 2nd biggest ass on here but 2nd always goes to your twin like_that....so I guess you are the biggest. Sleeper is harmless...funny guy.
  
  The QQ about moderators is the most annoying thing on here. When you are purposely being an asshole you can't bitch because of what a moderator does. If you aren't being a dick head you'll never ever get infracted or bant to the basement.
  
  "Getting too old for this Riggs"......we've acted the same on these sites since early huddle days.....aren't you too getting too old to be the jacks that stir everything up? You guys bitch about the 5 members who aren't here posting anymore that were "good" posters (they liked the Browns).....how many have you two ran off? Your ridiculous obsession with bandwagon stuff is especially sensible being that you too are so god damn loyal to Ohio that you moved to other states.....and are actually bothered that we like other teams or players (but if we were Browns fans it would be all good)

  Damn! I have to say I feel a lot of chagrin...for never, ever thinking of that way of combating the bandwagon calls. lol, me dumb person! A bunch of real-life Lebrons, they are! Ohio through and through...until that opportunity comes to take their talents to...(insert city/state here)!
  
  Some good points here. I mean, I'm a bit of an asshole, so I get the whole, "Speak blunt and if people get upset, they have 'hurt feelz'" vibe, but in the context of things here, it seems a bit weak. I mean, if someone gets annoyed by repeatedly being insulted and leaves and that's called 'hurt feelz' and no big loss, wouldn't it be the same if someone gets annoyed by moderating and leaves? It's all "hurt feelz" -- which makes it funny to act like one is good and the other's evil.
  
  Down in the basement, I've seen Sleeper make a case about moderation being something that's keeping new members away or hurting traffic. One could also say that members being over-the-top assholes also has something to do about that. Which I should know, since over the years, I've been enough of an over-the-top asshole to drive away a couple. And sometimes, you have a poster who truly offers nothing in any way other than possible unintentional comedy (isadore, mtrulz, ender wiggin), who probably deserves to be culled from the herd. But when it comes down to people regularly getting insulted for a bunch of reasons that all come down to "I don't like the tone you're taking with me/I don't like the team you cheer for/etc.", it seems to defeat the purpose of building/maintaining an internet community. Especially when things take a "well, it's cool WHEN I DO IT!" attitude, which is the only way I can really explain how a couple years ago, the people who made it their goal to completely run Dynasty off the site for being a passive-aggressive troll on Cleveland threads were getting their chuckles by trolling the Penguins thread solely to watch Rock combust.
  
  Just seems to me that's the sort of actions that turn a site like this into about 10-15 full-time members and a few dozen more who pop up every few days to see if there's anything worth responding to and then leave after 5 minutes. In other words, what Yappi's more social boards had become when I stopped posted there. It was a small number of guys who created a bunch of alts and basically took over the place with their in-jokes and stuff. Old-timers hated it because the board was essentially overrun by assholes; while guys like me who weren't part of any group just had no idea what was going on most of the time and just lost interest in trying to figure it out.
• Pick6

  

  Where's COA and like_that at? Got my popcorn ready.
• Heretic

  

  Man, I just went to Yappi, and apparently they got PISSED over a few people taking over the board. I mean JJ-PISSED. Top two stickied threads were:
  
  1. No adult material (apparently their adsense or whatever they used got pissed) or you're banned.
  2. To prevent alts from taking over, an account has to be active for 30 days before it can post in the general board.
  
  Probably a good reason why those sorts of problems need taken care of before they get too out of control. Because they seem to have done the JJesque "go completely no tolerance and delete every single post I deem doesn't add to a discussion" route, which is far more intense than anything Justin's brought up.
  
  EDIT: Oh, and Steel Valley FB's there now. lol
• Laley23

  

  Shit just got real.
• friendfromlowry

  Heretic;1424842 wrote:Man, I just went to Yappi, and apparently they got PISSED over a few people taking over the board. I mean JJ-PISSED. Top two stickied threads were:
  
  1. No adult material (apparently their adsense or whatever they used got pissed) or you're banned.
  2. To prevent alts from taking over, an account has to be active for 30 days before it can post in the general board.
  
  Probably a good reason why those sorts of problems need taken care of before they get too out of control. Because they seem to have done the JJesque "go completely no tolerance and delete every single post I deem doesn't add to a discussion" route, which is far more intense than anything Justin's brought up.
  
  EDIT: Oh, and Steel Valley FB's there now. lol

  That sucks. Justin, when you email your surveys, don't include him.
• Heretic

  

  friendfromlowry;1424850 wrote:That sucks. Justin, when you email your surveys, don't include him.

  But Justin wants to hear his reply.
  
  "Why are you talking to me? I don't take the pot and I thought I told you to stick your website up your ass!"
• Tigerfan00

  

  Heretic;1424842 wrote:Man, I just went to Yappi, and apparently they got PISSED over a few people taking over the board. I mean JJ-PISSED. Top two stickied threads were:
  
  1. No adult material (apparently their adsense or whatever they used got pissed) or you're banned.
  2. To prevent alts from taking over, an account has to be active for 30 days before it can post in the general board.
  
  Probably a good reason why those sorts of problems need taken care of before they get too out of control. Because they seem to have done the JJesque "go completely no tolerance and delete every single post I deem doesn't add to a discussion" route, which is far more intense than anything Justin's brought up.
  
  EDIT: Oh, and Steel Valley FB's there now. lol

  He's at SEohiopreps also when I go to look at NCF's threads that get 0 replies along with Ironman92, that place is mostly a ghost town. The Crynasty and Rock just made it too easy on thereselves to get run off. MB and thavoice make it easy at times also.