squirtyflower
Well-Known Member
Wits the use of words like homo...homo...homo..boiling up milk to kill the germs that are killing the traditional football rivalries
Wits the use of words like homo...homo...homo..boiling up milk to kill the germs that are killing the traditional football rivalries
Try telling that to the kids today.Wits the use of words like homo...homo...homo..boiling up milk to kill the germs that are killing the traditional football rivalries
I started a thread the other day about the derby. It was shut down after about 8 replies because "we have another game before that one". I'm not sure of the motivation behind the way the main forum is run these days, but this kind of moderation will force people to go elsewhere eventually - the Derby is less than a week away & people want to talk about it.
Similarly the constant merging of threads into loose player/topic categories means that many angles on certain events are lost into the ether.
This thread will probably be shut down, but this is not meant to criticise, just wanted to start a meaningful discussion about it.
Very good post (as a moderator, I would say that though wouldn't I).I like the 'referee' analogy. A moderators job is one of those where you're expected to make sensible choices (or decisions) in good time, however you will never be able to please everyone all of the time. Somebody has to take the bull by the horns, and that is what the mods do. We contribute idly without having that burden placed upon us. One thing that makes the moderator's task easier is for people to put forward suggestions in the right way and in good time. This forum hasn't been kept alive and grown by things being done the wrong way. Long may it continue. It's up to us to make it better so it will progress.
Don't use 'New posts', click on the blue dot on threads you're interested in.I really don't know what the answer is but whatever we do will find fault with some.
But most people are happy with the way it is, we started merging threads and having club and player threads because one of the biggest causes of complaint was the amount of threads, go to any other large forum and you will see it's the same set up, otherwise it just becomes chaoticI couldn't agree more with that. I think so many things are missed these days. An example of the top of my head I can give is that Klopp referred to James Milner as the 'complete player' the other today. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned on this forum? If people didn't know klopp had said that would they think to click on the 'Liverpool FC' thread just in case they'd missed something? Now if there was a thread on it's own saying 'Klopp says "James Milner is the complete player" it would have gone off, we could have had great fun. As it is has that even been mentioned!? I know that isn't the most mature example but it's all i can be arsed to think of currently.
I just think thing the merging into the single threads looks very neat and tidy but it's all very sterile and so many things are missed. As you say there are so many angles on events and even on a single player or person, but if people try to make a decent point in a single thread there are other people debating different angles of it and it's so easily missed. I just feel a lot of the debates have been taken away these days. There's no real focal point to a lot of them and they just drift along a lot of the time
Take the pre match threads for example - they drift along a bit. Any proper debate is just going to get lost in people regurgitating starting line ups, but if someone comes on and starts a thread and says "we need to play 3 in central midfield vs united" then that gives you a focal point and sparks debate. As it i that isn't possible because it will be merged into the pre match thread and lost within a page or 2. And if someone starts a thread whcih is clealry bullshit i.e "we should play 1 at the back against united" there will be a bit of piss taking before the thread is left to drop down the pages, whilst the better one about a particular, reasonable/arguable view on tactics will gather the pages because it gives people something to debate.
Has the amount of posts made on the forum decreased in recent times since so many threads are merged!? To me it feels as though it has considerably, but maybe that's just my own personal perspective. I am not talking about users on the forum here but actual posts