Other People's Opinions and You: A guide to surviving the trauma of opposing Views

[Dutchmaster617]

Re: Other People's Opinions and You: A guide to surviving the trauma of opposing View

Hey guys, a Jets fan doesn't like something about their rival Patriots, lets discuss it for 6 pages while insulting him and his team the same way!

 

[tobias funke]

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I think there is definitely way too much anger and spitefulness on the part of a number of posters here, usually starting the instant someone disagrees with them.

Then again, you can switch out 'a number of posters here' with 'the internet'.

At the end of the day I think you have to accept that a huge number of people are ****heads, and some of them root for the same football team you do.

 

[Vataha]

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Could someone do a poll on this post to see how many people actually read the whole thing.

I can't, I only have 42 posts

 

[Coach42]

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Read it, didn't comprehend much. JETS SUCK!!!

 

[fnordcircle]

Re: Other People's Opinions and You: A guide to surviving the trauma of opposing View

I think there is definitely way too much anger and spitefulness on the part of a number of posters here, usually starting the instant someone disagrees with them.

Then again, you can switch out 'a number of posters here' with 'the internet'.

At the end of the day I think you have to accept that a huge number of people are ****heads, and some of them root for the same football team you do.

Fair or not, one of the reasons why I have yet to donate to this forum is I can't take too much of it. My posting here comes and goes in waves because, invariably, I get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of threads about what someone at some other forum says or thinks because it's so irrelevant to the actual meaty football discussion I'd love to get more of.

Too many times I begin to feel like I'm reading the equivalent of transcripts of WEEI callers and my eyes roll into the back of my head.

All of the tongue-in-cheek from my other posts in this thread aside, I have to wonder if I'm the only person who gets sick of how annoying it is to see threads about 'What so and so said' push other, more worthy threads to the bottom of the page.

If it's just me who has a problem with it then I guess I should either shutup and deal or shutup and move on.

But if there are others who don't like it maybe the mods would consider a stickied megathread for all the posts about how someone on the internet insulted our football team.

 

[Destroyer]

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Fair or not, one of the reasons why I have yet to donate to this forum is I can't take too much of it. My posting here comes and goes in waves because, invariably, I get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of threads about what someone at some other forum says or thinks because it's so irrelevant to the actual meaty football discussion I'd love to get more of.

Too many times I begin to feel like I'm reading the equivalent of transcripts of WEEI callers and my eyes roll into the back of my head.

All of the tongue-in-cheek from my other posts in this thread aside, I have to wonder if I'm the only person who gets sick of how annoying it is to see threads about 'What so and so said' push other, more worthy threads to the bottom of the page.

If it's just me who has a problem with it then I guess I should either shutup and deal or shutup and move on.

But if there are others who don't like it maybe the mods would consider a stickied megathread for all the posts about how someone on the internet insulted our football team.

You do have a point. It does get rather annoying when a bunch of people make threads on a story such "so and so said Brady isn't having a great year" or "so and so picked the Pats to lose!" and then it turns into 50 straight posts of "**** him" or "he's an idiot"

The majority of us are here to talk Patriots football, meaning tactics, players, weakness', match-ups, draft, etc. Something like a "Negative Patriots Press" thread sticky or something would more than likely alleviate that problem instead of flooding the boards with stuff like that if it gets out of hand in the future.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

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Fair or not, one of the reasons why I have yet to donate to this forum i

I say we cut the crap of criticizing posters based on whether they do or don't donate to the forum. There are lots of good uses for one's money. That's a personal and private decision. Back to satire & football.

 

[Ring 6]

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Fair or not, one of the reasons why I have yet to donate to this forum is I can't take too much of it. My posting here comes and goes in waves because, invariably, I get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of threads about what someone at some other forum says or thinks because it's so irrelevant to the actual meaty football discussion I'd love to get more of.

Too many times I begin to feel like I'm reading the equivalent of transcripts of WEEI callers and my eyes roll into the back of my head.

Why would you expect the posters on this board and the WEEI callers to be dissimilar?

All of the tongue-in-cheek from my other posts in this thread aside, I have to wonder if I'm the only person who gets sick of how annoying it is to see threads about 'What so and so said' push other, more worthy threads to the bottom of the page.

If it's just me who has a problem with it then I guess I should either shutup and deal or shutup and move on.

Why read them? I find a decent percentage of the threads on this board of no interest to me, and it is not at all difficult to determine which ones and skip them.

But if there are others who don't like it maybe the mods would consider a stickied megathread for all the posts about how someone on the internet insulted our football team.

I think what you are missing here is that there are some posters who enjoy those threads. Just like there are posters who want to be positive, negative, analytical, starstruck, etc, etc.
The real point of the forum is for all Patsfans who want to be here to use it to their enjoyment.
If as you suggest, the mods and Ian decided that there were some topics which some people want to discuss that should be considered unworthy then we are driving away people who simply want to post about their version of fandom. I think that is much worse than asking you to only read the posts that interest you. Do you feel you are better than the people who's version of fandom is to get defensive about what the media posts?
This is a forum for everyone who wants to join and follow the rules. Those with intelligent, valid points of discussion that are interesting to others will get a lot of attention. Those that are not interesting will get none, and those that are interesting to a specific audience will get attention from that audience. I don't understand what is wrong with that.

 

[Ring 6]

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You do have a point. It does get rather annoying when a bunch of people make threads on a story such "so and so said Brady isn't having a great year" or "so and so picked the Pats to lose!" and then it turns into 50 straight posts of "**** him" or "he's an idiot"

The majority of us are here to talk Patriots football, meaning tactics, players, weakness', match-ups, draft, etc. Something like a "Negative Patriots Press" thread sticky or something would more than likely alleviate that problem instead of flooding the boards with stuff like that if it gets out of hand in the future.

Shouldn't the minority be allowed to use the forum the way they enjoy?
The type of thread you are talking about is easily avoidable, if it does not interest you. Its not hard to figure out the topic BEFORE reading 50 straight posts that don't interest you.
In all seriousness if you want them eliminated why would you read 50 posts deep?

 

[RJB87]

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I will literally fist fight anyone who doesn't read all of this and comment.

Bring it on.

 

[fnordcircle]

Re: Other People's Opinions and You: A guide to surviving the trauma of opposing View

Why would you expect the posters on this board and the WEEI callers to be dissimilar?

Because part of me hopes that the stupidity of the callers on WEEI has prevented them from acquiring the regular employment that is necessary to acquire a computer and an internet connection.

I guess they could be hobos posting from the free internet at the local library, though.

Why read them? I find a decent percentage of the threads on this board of no interest to me, and it is not at all difficult to determine which ones and skip them.

I don't.

I also don't read this forum on a 1/2 hour basis like you guys in the 5 digit post club do. When I come here it'd be ideal to have filtered out a lot of the unnecessary crap threads which push other more worthy threads off of the front page and into posting oblivion.

Nobody's forcing me to read this ****, but there's only so many of those threads I will scroll past before my internal editor kicks in and says 'patsfans.com has nothing worth reading today apparently' and I move on. I doubt I'm the only one.