patriotspride
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.New information on spygate came out. Why not have a new thread?
If the thread says "Spygate" in its title, then avoid it.
I do agree a sticky would be helpful with just a brief outlining of the facts and a set of easily understood conclusions. That way we can refer the trolls to that sticky whenever they post.
Mack Herron said:If you don't like it, don't read it. Don't force others to adopt your standards of what can be said..
No new information came out. Just more spin on what those of us who fully grasped what happend last September already understood. Specter has been bloviating for two full weeks now and nothing he said is new or news to anyone but him. It's being spun as news doesn't make it so.
This is about managing the board as FA approaches. The volume of threads on this topic, many of which are redundant, pushes other threads off the front page sometimes before people even get to see them...which often leads to duplication on multiple topics.
Nobody is trying to deny free speech here Mack, just suggesting that it be managed in a way that doesn't ruin the board for the majority of Pats fans whose interest range well beyond spygate. Add to the discourse as much or as often as you choose, just don't start a new thread for every thought that enters your mind or every snipet you hear that you think is news or worthy of comment. And if you must then accept it will eventually get merged into the thread dedicated to the topic...
Spygate is just one topic for the offseason and should be treated as such until or unless something substantive comes of it. To date it's really nothing more than a bunch of crap that was already dealt with that some senator and ESPN are determined to poke sticks at to see if they can will it to be more.
Some new information did come out. I never knew half the stuff in the latest release. I never knew that NFL lawyers destroyed the evidence in Foxboro. I never knew that Goodell assumed Belichick has been doing this since the Cleveland days. I learned that Leahy authorized a funded investigation. I learned that the NFL is investigating Walsh's past, and that Walsh is "scared." There's a lot more new stuff out there.
How about setting up a temporary Spygate Sub-Forum? At present it is kind of difficult to wade past the noise to find some actual discussion of football.
Just my $.02
My opinion is that we should let them go until FA and the draft heat up. Maybe they will burn themselves out. If not we might want to take a look as to what to do. But they are all being started and kept up by posters on this board.
If you don't want them , don't post on them and see if they drop off the front page.
Also, threads can be started about a number of issues. Rosy Colvin, what will happen? Moss, what will happen? Stallworth, what will happen? Samuel, what will happen? Who will be asked to restructure?
I'd start one myself but I'm trying to get a cheerleader tourney set up to go on the Ladies Lounge.
Self policing doesn't work here anymore, nut. You know that. It works on the Planet, and you know that too. But the planet is more community than football forum. This forum has grown exponentially over the last two seasons. I know that benefits Ian on some level, but it has caused the intelligence level plummet and there is no longer any sense of community here. I recall when Miguel and others used to make an effort to explain that to newcomers, how a board is what it is and not what it's most recent additions necessarily want it to be. We have a lot of posters here who apparently are more inclined to rant and rave and fight as if on a generic board like ESPN. And they will tell you while they came here because this board had a longstanding reputation for intelligence, they now want that freedom to spew atmosphere here they enjoyed at other venues too. And they are winning.
The longer you "let them go" the more they come to believe that they are entitled to do whatever they choose. Same goes for the trolls they are again attracting. And we've seen that mentality cause nothing but ugliness here until it comes time for Ian to wade in and do something he doesn't apparently want or like to do, which is reassert control of a site that at the end of the day content wise only really reflects well or badly on him.
Hands up who clicked on the link?