I would like a vote

[gomezcat]

The status quo will just result in a very argumentative off-season.

"No it won't"
"Yes it will"
"won't"...

 

[goldenaleus]

Locking down a thread seems like a good start but does it really solve anything. We need to take it to a higher level and treat the negativity with harsher consequences to keep the overall quality of the board in check.

In Fanball, a lot of these threads would have been locked and/or removed. Also, people would be banned without a second thought but it really has to be overboard and outside of the board rules.

Have some threads reached, yes, but is the moderating tolerating the threads then the mods think that no harm no foul.

People feed the threads, if you can't ignore it, then you need move on or use the ignore list.

One suggestion that I liked is: Can the quoted threads from an ignored user be part of the ignore profile so we can filter thru the repeating of the ignored user since the person quoting the ignored user is still bantering back at that person.

 

[PatsMyBoyz!]

"No it won't"
"Yes it will"
"won't"...

Will too....

 

[Deus Irae]

I haven't been following football, or this blog, since the Patriots lost. Having seen bad pass interference calls and non-calls cost the team games in the playoffs 2 seasons in a row, I knew that I would only get in trouble if I posted when I was still that angry. So, as a result, I've apparently missed the NEM vs. the world stuff starting up again.

So, let me put it in generic terms: If NEM has gone back on his promise, he should be banned immediately and never allowed back. If he hasn't gone back on his promise, and the threads are people attacking him personally without cause, the threads should be locked. If the threads are attacking, but are about comments rather than personal issues, they should be allowed to continue.


That's my 2¢

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Will too....

This isn't an argument, it's just a contradiction.

"is not..."

 

[PatsMyBoyz!]

This isn't an argument, it's just a contradiction.

"is not..."

"Tastes Great".

 

[PatsFanSince74]

It seems that every time I sign into this board, it is filled with non-football threads, that are just about people whining about each other, usually NEM vs the world.
My inclination as moderator is to just delete or lock those threads, but they get an awful lot of posts, so there may be people here who enjoy them.
I'd like everyones opinion. Should those type of threads live on as part of what the board is about, or should they be deleted?

I'm impressed by the many serious and thoughtful responses to your question.

Without naming any names, this board seems to be saving a few of its posters a lot of money in therapist and psychiatrist bills. They come out here and fly into rages, saying mostly whatever they want without having to fear any significant consequences as they vent the demons in their chests. More often than not, they find another person, also in need of professional help, who plays into the rant, escalates it and pretty soon they're both off to the races in an insane pas de deux. Every now and then they find a naieve newbie who actually takes them seriously and gets in the middle of the asylum foodfight. Big mistake. Did this myself when I was new.

I let this bother me a lot when I first came out here, but I came to accept it as part of the neighborhood. However, I live in New York City and have grown accustomed to ignoring all sorts of aberrant and crazy behavior.

Bottom line? If the moderators want to respond to the wishes of the majority and shut down a particularly whacko or offensive thread every now and then, it wouldn't bother me. Otherwise, I'll just keep avoiding the crazy people on the street and talk to the people who make sense--the vast majority of the fans on this great board.

 

[Patters]

People come to the board for different reasons or for multiple reasons. We have the same dynamic in the political forum. What I find is that it satisfies several of my moods. If I feel like talking intelligently, there are always people to talk with. If I feel simply like learning, there are always a few interesting links or comments by people who are more knowledgeable than I am on an issue. If I feel like just releasing some rage, there's always someone who's inviting that. If I feel like competing, I can always find someone to disagree with. I say, keep the board as open as possible, but close down threads that just become tit-for-tat insults or are better suited to PMs, which many of the threads about NEM are.

 

[shmessy]

AJ, shmessy, and Mods:

Is it possible for you to just freeze a user's account until Ian has had a chance to review the matter? For example: NEM posts another rant about Patriots' Planet and I speak to his congress with small animals and ancestry derived from tape worms. You lock the thread and freeze our accounts until Ian has time to deal with us. As long as NEM persists in his attempts to create bad blood, I will be irritating a lot of people by not cowering in a corner.

Actually, Box, Ian told me a few weeks ago that he was looking into that very method becoming available to us. I had PM'ed him re: trolls invading to dance on our graves at the end of the Colts game and that we were chasing each post down individually. He understands our frustration with the lack of real-time freezing and he told us he would look into it.

 

[gomezcat]

This isn't an argument, it's just a contradiction.

"is not..."

LMAO! Good to see a Python fan out there.

 

[PATRIOTS-80]

Truly incredible.
I ask people to respond to whether they agree with locking threads that are filled with childish argument, and it takes me half an hour to read through the real responses, because it is filled with childish argument.

Thank you to those that gave their input, it was greatly appreciated, and thank you also to those 'leopards' who showed their spots. The responses in this thread were very informative for both reasons.

yeah, the "should we solve the problem of threads going to h@ll" thread has gone to h@ll. LOL

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

So, you do agree with what I just said, that the majority of this has beenperpertrated by someone other than myself. Not absolving myself of any blame, but you do see the fact that someone else is equally, if not even moreso, responsible. That is what yuo just suggested by telling me to rise above the fray, which I did, for a month, and then was hunted down again, by someone who , if you noticed, seemed to make one little snide remark in almost every thread i initiated, and then seemed todisappear to let his covert attaCK WORK ..and it did.

I wont take it any more, period. Not from fellow Pats fans, who I care about and are my life. And with that, I am finished with this thread, because it, in itself, has singled me out and there is no justification to single me out without naming the real perpertrator (s)

And with that, I am finished with this thread, because it, in itself,

 

[PATRIOTS-80]

And with that, I am finished with this thread, because it, in itself,

NEM likes to have the last word.

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

NEM likes to have the last word.

We've all seen that....for say a million times.

 

[PatsMyBoyz!]

yeah, the "should we solve the problem of threads going to h@ll" thread has gone to h@ll. LOL

LOL I was thinking the same thing.

 

[PATRIOTS-80]

Now it's 1,000,001

ya can't help yourself, can ya? LOL

 

[MrBigglesWorth]

Now it's 1,000,001

Cheap way to get another post to your count. All about the stats.

 

[PATRIOTS-80]

Fortunately, Andy I'm sure will link this thread and the other "NEM threads" to Ian, who hopefully can address this issue so that the whole freakin' off-season doesn't become NEM vs. everyone else.

 

[PATSNUTme]

Andy, I have just issued a proposal to NEM on the "Ban NEM" thread. Hopefully he will accept and we can bring peace to the site. Or, have one less guy, who has had it with him.

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

Actually, Box, Ian told me a few weeks ago that he was looking into that very method becoming available to us. I had PM'ed him re: trolls invading to dance on our graves at the end of the Colts game and that we were chasing each post down individually. He understands our frustration with the lack of real-time freezing and he told us he would look into it.

Thanks shmessy, hopefully Ian can work this out.