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Post by Panther on Aug 18, 2013 16:41:13 GMT -5
Whatever we decide here will probably be official, so make sure you chime in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 16:59:45 GMT -5
I might get grilled for this, but I think we need to expand BIG TIME and just make it open for anyone. I need to come out of the closest and say why. Last month I stopped coming here for a while and the reason I dont post much now is because I wanted to find another place that has more people. The issue wasnt me wanting to find more topics to talk about, but merely me finding more fellow fans of my team to talk too, which obviously I do not have on here. I currently am a part of these forums right now too, just because I wanted to talk to more fans. www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/Of course upon looking at it, it has TOO MANY from what I see, but I only use that site to talk to bengal fans right now, not to talk about other topics I know in the past I said I only wanted to see it be a private forum, but now I feel different about the situation and it needs to be open to everyone. The biggest risks of course is someone will just come on here to stir up trouble. If it becomes to common, then just consider making it private again for a while till the trolls cool down. I want to see more people on here though. Its great and all to just be with the people you have known for most of the time and all, but I want some new blood. Time to test the waters.
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Post by h24dog on Aug 18, 2013 17:53:52 GMT -5
I might get grilled for this, but I think we need to expand BIG TIME and just make it open for anyone. I need to come out of the closest and say why. Last month I stopped coming here for a while and the reason I dont post much now is because I wanted to find another place that has more people. The issue wasnt me wanting to find more topics to talk about, but merely me finding more fellow fans of my team to talk too, which obviously I do not have on here. I currently am a part of these forums right now too, just because I wanted to talk to more fans. www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/Of course upon looking at it, it has TOO MANY from what I see, but I only use that site to talk to bengal fans right now, not to talk about other topics I know in the past I said I only wanted to see it be a private forum, but now I feel different about the situation and it needs to be open to everyone. The biggest risks of course is someone will just come on here to stir up trouble. If it becomes to common, then just consider making it private again for a while till the trolls cool down. I want to see more people on here though. Its great and all to just be with the people you have known for most of the time and all, but I want some new blood. Time to test the waters. I agree with Bengal here.I know it took a long time for me to get here,and I'm thankful that you guys took me in after 8 months of discussing whether I should be here or not. I think we can fly far and high if we open this to the public,and if people keep causing a problem,we can simply ban them.I think some new blood would be good as well,and I think we could really find some great fans that just never posted on NFL.com
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Post by 101mitch on Aug 18, 2013 18:49:50 GMT -5
I never had a problem with it being private. I could talk NFL in general here, and I had my Chiefs forums over on ESPN. Life was good.
Then the ESPN forums shut down. I feel out of the loop on Chiefs info. I REALLY wish we could get some Chiefs fans over here, because I really don't want to go join a new forum. I don't know of to many Chiefs fans to invite, so the only way we can get some good guys is by opening it up. Why not?
Worst case: Trolls invade. Best case: we get some good posters, and get rid of any and all trolls
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 19:22:32 GMT -5
I have a question. If you open it to everyone, how will they know? Post on other forums?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 19:23:46 GMT -5
And I for one would like it if you do open it to remove any pictures of me. Maybe hide the show your face thread or something.
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Post by mitch9234 on Aug 18, 2013 19:53:10 GMT -5
I'm ok with this being open, although I doubt people will find this forum on their own. I'm curious about the google bots though
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 16:53:22 GMT -5
I might get grilled for this, but I think we need to expand BIG TIME and just make it open for anyone. I need to come out of the closest and say why. Last month I stopped coming here for a while and the reason I dont post much now is because I wanted to find another place that has more people. The issue wasnt me wanting to find more topics to talk about, but merely me finding more fellow fans of my team to talk too, which obviously I do not have on here. I currently am a part of these forums right now too, just because I wanted to talk to more fans. www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/Of course upon looking at it, it has TOO MANY from what I see, but I only use that site to talk to bengal fans right now, not to talk about other topics I know in the past I said I only wanted to see it be a private forum, but now I feel different about the situation and it needs to be open to everyone. The biggest risks of course is someone will just come on here to stir up trouble. If it becomes to common, then just consider making it private again for a while till the trolls cool down. I want to see more people on here though. Its great and all to just be with the people you have known for most of the time and all, but I want some new blood. Time to test the waters. I have to disagree with you on one aspect Bengal. I believe that if you want to talk to fans of your own team, the SBNation fan sites is where you should go. I believe it's called cincyjungle.com. Personally, I really do not like 90% of the fans from my own team (As arrogant as this sounds, they really do not know as much about the Rams as me, yet they argue with me so it just annoys me), so I rarely go over to St. Louis Rams fan sites. I think LAB feels the same way as me. nateball89 too, so maybe I'm not so weird after all in that I don't like many fans from my own team. And you know, we really are elite company here. We are not average mill of the road fans here. We really know our stuff about our teams. That's what I really like about this place, everybody here knows their team like the back of their hand and are either smart, funny, or easy to get along with. I'm sure 95% of us pretty much like everybody here. When we open this to the public, that number is going to severely decline. I'm honestly not worried about the trolls. I'm more worried about too many dumb, annoying, or extremely argumentative people (Some douchebag who just argues to argue) coming in here ruining the friendly atmosphere we have going on.I TOTALLY agree with expanding this forum, like you said meeting new people keeps things fresh. However, we need to agree with a more-concrete system on how people are evaluated here: For example, would Panther be willing to kick somebody if we think they are stupid/annoying but they're not a troll? I know it sounds harsh, but I really like the atmosphere we have right now. I honestly like everybody here. I have never had a problem with anybody here, and that's probably mainly in thanks to Panther and plax selecting each and every one of us, because they knew that we were good people.
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Post by Jancey on Aug 19, 2013 18:26:33 GMT -5
I vote for option 1...as long as we get Chad here. Seriously though, I think we should open it to everyone and just ban if problems arise.
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Post by mitch9234 on Aug 19, 2013 20:06:53 GMT -5
I might get grilled for this, but I think we need to expand BIG TIME and just make it open for anyone. I need to come out of the closest and say why. Last month I stopped coming here for a while and the reason I dont post much now is because I wanted to find another place that has more people. The issue wasnt me wanting to find more topics to talk about, but merely me finding more fellow fans of my team to talk too, which obviously I do not have on here. I currently am a part of these forums right now too, just because I wanted to talk to more fans. www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/Of course upon looking at it, it has TOO MANY from what I see, but I only use that site to talk to bengal fans right now, not to talk about other topics I know in the past I said I only wanted to see it be a private forum, but now I feel different about the situation and it needs to be open to everyone. The biggest risks of course is someone will just come on here to stir up trouble. If it becomes to common, then just consider making it private again for a while till the trolls cool down. I want to see more people on here though. Its great and all to just be with the people you have known for most of the time and all, but I want some new blood. Time to test the waters. I have to disagree with you on one aspect Bengal. I believe that if you want to talk to fans of your own team, the SBNation fan sites is where you should go. I believe it's called cincyjungle.com. Personally, I really do not like 90% of the fans from my own team (As arrogant as this sounds, they really do not know as much about the Rams as me, yet they argue with me so it just annoys me), so I rarely go over to St. Louis Rams fan sites. I think LAB feels the same way as me. nateball89 too, so maybe I'm not so weird after all in that I don't like many fans from my own team. And you know, we really are elite company here. We are not average mill of the road fans here. We really know our stuff about our teams. That's what I really like about this place, everybody here knows their team like the back of their hand and are either smart, funny, or easy to get along with. I'm sure 95% of us pretty much like everybody here. When we open this to the public, that number is going to severely decline. I'm honestly not worried about the trolls. I'm more worried about too many dumb, annoying, or extremely argumentative people (Some douchebag who just argues to argue) coming in here ruining the friendly atmosphere we have going on.I TOTALLY agree with expanding this forum, like you said meeting new people keeps things fresh. However, we need to agree with a more-concrete system on how people are evaluated here: For example, would Panther be willing to kick somebody if we think they are stupid/annoying but they're not a troll? I know it sounds harsh, but I really like the atmosphere we have right now. I honestly like everybody here. I have never had a problem with anybody here, and that's probably mainly in thanks to Panther and plax selecting each and every one of us, because they knew that we were good people. that's where the graveyard comes in. off-topic talk helps earn the respect of members, that's why there isn't a lot of f-bombs in disagreements here. I also have problems with the people on the Colts' SB Nation blog, but I still post there under the name colts4thewin. there isn't a thread where you can talk off-topic things to earn the members' resoect, so the only way you'll earn respect there is if you write extensive comments, which is very hard to do. we have a graveyard here, so writing extensive comments to earn people's respect won't be needed
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