Thoughts about the forum for next season

[cto]

A "Day One" thread yesterday would have been ridiculous. There were 12 great games -- several happening at once. You had to have individual threads for each game (at a minimum).

 

[SUMBA]

(once we finish dealing with the issue of naked-women pictures).

Are the mods of the opinion that there are too many or too few?

 

[MSOrange]

Just don't get rid of the Ignore feature and I'm good.

 

[cusetown1]

Just don't get rid of the Ignore feature and I'm good.

Testing..

 

[CusefanATL]

We (admins/mods) This may be something for the admins/mods to discuss (once we finish dealing with the issue of naked-women pictures).

tell me more

 

[MSOrange]

Testing..

Well done cusetown1 That cracked me up.

 

[tee1222]

I understand. But at the same time many of those participating in the banter are responsible for a ton of great Bball info.

My mind races

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Let the Cooney haters start their own web site altogether.

TrevorCooneyisanabsolutemagician.com?

 

[dasher]

We (admins/mods) actually combine more threads than you realize (perhaps because it's done so quickly and smoothly). We also delete the start of more duplicate threads than you probably realize.

The single-thread idea works well on the recruiting boards (one thread per recruit) because it is an easy concept to get across to people. Here, the problem frequently pops up because a poster either 1) has not read what's here before posting; or 2) believes a thought is so unique that he/she does not want to see it buried in another thread.

Having said that, I certainly got a bit frustrated every time I saw another "Trevor Cooney" thread this season. Maybe threads about individual players might be a place to start. This may be something for the admins/mods to discuss (once we finish dealing with the issue of naked-women pictures).

I am in favor of naked woman. I just want that on the record.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

A "Day One" thread yesterday would have been ridiculous. There were 12 great games -- several happening at once. You had to have individual threads for each game (at a minimum).

The Kansas-NMState game today was a blowout. The thread had three posts in it... all from the same guy.

 

[jncuse]

A "Day One" thread yesterday would have been ridiculous. There were 12 great games -- several happening at once. You had to have individual threads for each game (at a minimum).

You would think. One game thread that would have quickly move down the thread if the game was uninteresting would have not caused a problem. After all there was about 15 threads started yesterday afternoon that were all over the place.

But let's appease the sensitive Jekelish and others so they are not offended by a Kansas - New Mexico St game thread. I was trying to keep things structured so they did not take off all over the place like they did yesterday.
Of all the problems on this board, my attempt and keeping things organized gets called out.

 

[jncuse]

The Kansas-NMState game today was a blowout. The thread had three posts in it... all from the same guy.

And it would have quickly move down the board and not disturbed anybody like the many other threads that are posted here with little response. The thing is the thread had potential to explode like any game thread from today.

Did you not notice the cluster that was the board yesterday afternoon. More than 8 threads were started... disjointed at that. Just don't understand why starting a game thread that will move down is a problem after what happened yesterday.

 

[jncuse]

Apologies to those who put time and effort into the Buffalo thread and probably still had things they wanted to discuss.

While I started the thread, its not "my" thread. I was temporarily upset and being a baby. It was unfair to take down other's contributions.

 

[Shark58]

i like eggs

 

[IthacaMatt]

The recruiting forum looks great, that's how I'd assume the player threads would look like. Wouldn't it look much better to see a Trevor Cooney thread rather than 45 topics with the same heading defending and bashing him? As fun as it is to come on the board when he has a 6-24 shooting game it is annoying to sift through the topics to find a non Cooney thread.

My one complaint about the recruiting forum is that by doing individual players, some of these threads are 2 years old or more. Yes, stuff pops to the top that's most active, but sometimes things pop to top just because people are talking to each other on a thread. Hard to know when there's really "new news".

 

[cuseattle]

i like eggs

I like eggs and friendly banter.

 

[Chip]

Can we have one thread for crazy people?

Those that know it will just keep posting there. Those that don't, the admins will move it there. Consider it a much needed intervention.

That should keep everything on one page.

 

[Shawn91111]

I used to run a popular Yankees fan forum between 2006-2011, we did both of those things and it was very very smooth and the board was very clean. I support both of these ideas.

What Yankee forum did you run. Curious

 

[Madbiker]

IMO it works fine the way it is. If you group everything under a player heading there are 100 different aspects that people are talking about and who wants to weed through all of them to get to the one particular aspect you care about reading. It makes it tedious. The way we have it is more specific.

 

[Shark58]

I like eggs and friendly banter.

deep fried banter, mmmmmmm

 

[skurey]

jncuse don't take this so personally. It happened all the time during the regular season too. 5 threads would go up pointing out that X game was close with 2 minutes left. I don't think one thread for each day of the tournament would be difficult to follow at all. But the multiple threads aren't really a big deal I think because we are already done playing for the year. If this was a normal March we'd have tons of other topics going and it might be harder to keep track of every game thread.

I don't really understand the arguments for not having a single thread for each player. All of the threads seemed to turn into the same discussions just arguing over a new single game sample size. Why do we need multiple people making a thread saying X had a great game. We know this, we watched.

Also I think we often have too many stickies but I think I'm fighting a few too many losing battles as is.

 

[two3zone]

What Yankee forum did you run. Curious

nyyankeefans.com