DrunkUncleDenis
Condra Fan
- Mar 27, 2012
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I feel like this thread is therapeutic. Everyone is airing out their laundry list of gripes. I like it.
That is an interesting opinion, because I'd argue that 95% of posters use great spelling and grammar. Obviously none of us care about some misspellings and whatnot if English is not your first language, and I've noticed that the people who come in here and act childish (crazy emotional, bad/lazy spelling and grammar) tend to flame out rather quickly.
It took me a year or two of lurking before finally beginning to post on this board. I never played competitive hockey, and HF in general can be a very intimidating place when you don't think you know all the intricacies of the game. I found it to be even more intimidating at team-specific boards than on the main boards (where it appears the crazies hang out), because it's a more intimate community and all these know-it-all veteran posters can slap down your opinion or say stuff like "did you even watch the game?" As a newbie poster, that's tough to face, even through the anonymity of the internet. It's not an easy place in integrate into. For example, there are 8 unregistered lurkers in this thread as I type this, and this thread isn't even about hockey. That said, now that I'm part of the community, I really like it, and I've learned a ton about the game itself based on some very informed opinions and great posts.
Now you can't shut me up
That is an interesting opinion, because I'd argue that 95% of posters use great spelling and grammar. Obviously none of us care about some misspellings and whatnot if English is not your first language, and I've noticed that the people who come in here and act childish (crazy emotional, bad/lazy spelling and grammar) tend to flame out rather quickly.
Also, to speak on a couple points:
1) The reason for sometimes trying to moderate discussions from one thread to another is that way we can actually try to encourage discussion on a specific topic. Sometimes if a topic gets too broad in scope, the argument becomes cyclical because you get away from the topic at hand and then eventually it comes back around to what was first discussed... but nothing new is generated... yet the discussion continues because it feels new again. So it just prolongs a dead discussion.
2) You should never fear having an opinion. While we don't typically discuss the how's or why's that certain posters are no long with us, let's just say that the ones I know of were not for hockey related opinions.
3) The rules are something we can't do much about it's set down from above and we try to work within them to encourage the discussion as best we can. You have to remember as well, for some reason this particular board goes through mods I think faster than most, and so most of us are still getting the hang of our newfound abilities and trying not to go mad with power.
4) I do think recently we've had a bit of an improvement in discussions, though the GDTs themselves have been a bit slow. I'm also wondering if the slowness of GDTs isn't because of the increased reliance on streams and how out of sync everyone is. When I'm moderating a GDT for example, I end up finding out what's about to happen before it comes through on GCL all the time since that's the only way I can watch games. So then I have to decide whether I just do cleanup every 5 or 10 minutes, or just end up having the game spoiled on me for every major eventIf it wasn't for the fact I'm moderating I'd likely stay out of the GDT and pop in only on period breaks. Nothing to do with the board itself, just the fact I want to enjoy the game first and foremost.
It took me a year or two of lurking before finally beginning to post on this board. I never played competitive hockey, and HF in general can be a very intimidating place when you don't think you know all the intricacies of the game. I found it to be even more intimidating at team-specific boards than on the main boards (where it appears the crazies hang out), because it's a more intimate community and all these know-it-all veteran posters can slap down your opinion or say stuff like "did you even watch the game?" As a newbie poster, that's tough to face, even through the anonymity of the internet. It's not an easy place in integrate into. For example, there are 8 unregistered lurkers in this thread as I type this, and this thread isn't even about hockey. That said, now that I'm part of the community, I really like it, and I've learned a ton about the game itself based on some very informed opinions and great posts.
Now you can't shut me up
