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I had to develop some thicker skin to survive around here. Once I did, I found myself laughing my ass off quite a bit.The person that left wasn't a big-time poster, but he's been around since the beginning and was absolutely part of the GSMB with us. What I told him was that there's a big chunk of the Gator nation that just got up and left over the past five years. Checked out. Don't even bother to watch the games anymore. And that kind of apathy is far, far worse than any Law or T-REX out there. At least with those guys, you don't question their passion for Gator football. At the end of the day we all want the same thing.
As far as the personal attacks and the banter, I will freely admit that I find most of it extremely amusing and always have. It's great theater. I think fan message boards are more for entertainment than anything. I've had more belly laughs at the creativity of the sarcasm and digs that people come up with than I can count. Is it juvenile? Hell yes. That's what makes it so damn funny. Some people don't find any humor in it, and people like that just don't make it. Guys like sonoma and PatDooleySucks find that their skin is just too thin. I really have no problem with that.
If you really can't stand someone, put them on ignore. Otherwise, laugh at them or give them a little shot. You might be surprised at the likes you get, perhaps even from them.
This board is and always should be open to discussion and differing opinions. It should never become the message board of negativity either. Balance is key. I'll be the first moderator to come out and say I've been trying really hard to restrain myself from trying to censor negative opinions because frankly, our boss makes it perfectly clear he likes it and encourages it. That said, I also feel there are a few posters who constantly go out of their way to slap down anyone who dares try to "pump" or appreciate ANYTHING coach Mac and our staff does. I think this is why people are losing interest in our message board. They're simply tired of being slapped down every time they try to say "yay we got a good one, or at least we got one, where maybe last year we got nobody". We can't even be positive about anything without being labeled a dirty rotten pumper. There's a difference between balance, and allowing the negative people to continuously brow beat anyone who disagrees with them. Balance is key. We really don't have balance. The negative posters are basically put on a pedestal here, and pumpers are shunned and shouted down.
I remember when I first joined the old board after lurking for like a year... I got savaged by a couple of posters who now are some of my favs and ones I feel a personal friendship with. Anyone who thinks that they can't handle the heat and wants to leave should talk to Crete. Noones got anything on him, he got sodomized for at least a full year here by basically everyone, and yet he's still here and now one of the board favs. Let's try and keep things in perspective lol.I had to develop some thicker skin to survive around here. Once I did, I found myself laughing my ass off quite a bit.
As far as the personal attacks and the banter, I will freely admit that I find most of it extremely amusing and always have. It's great theater.
Guys like sonoma and PatDooleySucks find that their skin is just too thin.
I was being ironic, no one thinks it's frosty at all....giggittty
I'm talking about mild personal attacks, like calling someone an asshat.I hope you're acknowledging that there are personal attacks and banter. I absolutely believe that there is banter (good natured ribbing) and personal attacks (disrespect and dislike). I'm fine with banter, but I believe personal attacks, while understandably happen from time to time, create the culture that some or many find repulsive (it pushes them away).
This, too, x 1000This board is and always should be open to discussion and differing opinions. It should never become the message board of negativity either. Balance is key. I'll be the first moderator to come out and say I've been trying really hard to restrain myself from trying to censor negative opinions because frankly, our boss makes it perfectly clear he likes it and encourages it. That said, I also feel there are a few posters who constantly go out of their way to slap down anyone who dares try to "pump" or appreciate ANYTHING coach Mac and our staff does. I think this is why people are losing interest in our message board. They're simply tired of being slapped down every time they try to say "yay we got a good one, or at least we got one, where maybe last year we got nobody". We can't even be positive about anything without being labeled a dirty rotten pumper. There's a difference between balance, and allowing the negative people to continuously brow beat anyone who disagrees with them. Balance is key. We really don't have balance. The negative posters are basically put on a pedestal here, and pumpers are shunned and shouted down.
STFUIf I leave it won't be because I "couldn't take it" or was to weak or thin-skinned, it will be because I'd rather not fill my life with behavior I don't agree with.
Had a long-time member PM me today ....
Discuss.
Or Ignorant racist redneck?I'm talking about mild personal attacks, like calling someone an asshat.
just as often that a thread devolves due to a tangent post, that same tangent ends up leading to some real gold and finds its way into the hall of fame. If you want to have some amazingly great threads you got to allow them to take on a life of their own.One more point. Often things get put into false dichotomies. Here are two of that seem to be often on this board.
You're either a pumper or a dumper.
Mods have to 'censor' or leave everything alone.
As for mods, I would hope they could and would ...moderate the board. I haven't seen much keeping threads on topic. I know there are times when the distractions are the most (or only!) valuable thing in a thread, but there are other (many?) times when a discussion that could be really interesting devolves into Mac / Foley / Driskel / LDR / Nord / etc., etc., suck - I am miserable and I will allow nothing but misery until I get what I want (though none of us has any influence). Perhaps I've missed it, but it seems that the mods don't moderate much - and that's not a knock on them, just an observation and a suggestion of where the board could be improved.
I had to develop some thicker skin to survive around here. Once I did, I found myself laughing my ass off quite a bit.