[Meta]: Can we consider having a stickied 'outrage' thread?

[dannydyn]

only if you title the sticky: ASSHOLES' OPINIONS

 

[PatriotsReign]

I'm serious posting you guys.

Can we consider having a stickied thread for people who enjoy digging up slights (real or perceived) against our team and posting about them? On any given day it feels like half of the threads posted here are about some insult or another. I don't want to censor anyone but I also don't want to see a thread every time Steven A. Smith, Mike Silver, Woody Paige, Felger et al posts something outrageous or upsetting.

Yes I can just scroll past and if this idea isn't considered a good one that's what I'll do.
Yes I'm backseat modding and that's bad form.

But man I'd like to see more thread space devoted to football talk and less devoted to outrage.

It's the trend nowadays. Whether it's politics or sports, people seem to get riled up so easily and you can almost hear the "OMG, he did-int!"

Other people can never control how we feel

Unless it's an ex-wife, husband girlfriend or boyfriend! There's always an exception

 

[Bourne Patriot]

I think we need a brand new dedicated forum for all the hate that the Pats receive, complete with sub forums with titles such as: ESPN hate, NFL network hate, and She said He Said b*llsht.

 

[nabwong]

If the packers win, I think we need a whole subforum and a Dyson to vacuum up all the balls on the floor.

 

[fnordcircle]

Why not just use the "ignore thread" feature that's available to everyone?

It's a fair point but after 11 years here I think about all the threads I would have had to ignore and I realize I would probably have developed arthritis.

Eventually I think the reason why this idea has merit is because you see the same threads about the same talking heads saying the same ridiculous 'LOOK AT ME' stuff and it seems like this forum, as a collective whole, will never get the fact that they're being played for clicks.

Plus, sometimes, when nobody is looking, I click on those links and give the media person who said what they said the pageviews they were going for.

In the immortal words of Goldmember: Shave me from myshelf.

 

[oldrover]

You might want to retest your 'ignore' button. It doesn't seem to be working very well. LOL

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

I'm serious posting you guys.

Can we consider having a stickied thread for people who enjoy digging up slights (real or perceived) against our team and posting about them? On any given day it feels like half of the threads posted here are about some insult or another. I don't want to censor anyone but I also don't want to see a thread every time Steven A. Smith, Mike Silver, Woody Paige, Felger et al posts something outrageous or upsetting.

Yes I can just scroll past and if this idea isn't considered a good one that's what I'll do.
Yes I'm backseat modding and that's bad form.

But man I'd like to see more thread space devoted to football talk and less devoted to outrage.

Woody Paige is alive?!


I like this idea in theory. However, I doubt that people will abide by it in practicality. Hot take culture of sports media is to take one thing a person writes or says and expound upon it to the Nth degree. Hence, when someone says Brady is not elite or whatever, someone invariably gets the itch to post a new thread about said bad take.