GDT: CARCHI

[Anton Dubinchuk]

You are confused if you don't think one directly impacts the other.

The Athletic actually went out of their way to hire people with established social media presences. Their business model depends on it.

Yep, this. A big part of her job is to develop a following that is in some way related to hockey. Her posting stuff not related to hockey is probably just a strategy to broaden her follower base. We'll see if it works out for her.

I find her sometimes funny and sometimes obnoxious. More the latter than the former lately, she's taken a disproportionate amount of time to just quote tweet trolls and send her followers after them. If they're being overtly sexist or horrible it's surely something they deserve, but it does start to choke out the reason I followed her in the first place. I'd never try to argue she "can't" do that, any more than I'd tell the Fonz he "can't" jump the shark. I mean, he shouldn't, it's bad content, but to say her Twitter account isn't "the place" for it is like saying TV isn't the place for bad TV.

 

[Lempo]

Yep, this. A big part of her job is to develop a following that is in some way related to hockey. Her posting stuff not related to hockey is probably just a strategy to broaden her follower base. We'll see if it works out for her.

I find her sometimes funny and sometimes obnoxious. More the latter than the former lately, she's taken a disproportionate amount of time to just quote tweet trolls and send her followers after them. If they're being overtly sexist or horrible it's surely something they deserve, but it does start to choke out the reason I followed her in the first place. I'd never try to argue she "can't" do that, any more than I'd tell the Fonz he "can't" jump the shark. I mean, he shouldn't, it's bad content, but to say her Twitter account isn't "the place" for it is like saying TV isn't the place for bad TV.

Interesting and somewhat harsh juxtaposition.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Fun word, kuningas. The word king, koning, kung etc. in various Germanic languages all stem from the Proto-Germanic word "kuningaz". Likewise, ring comes from "rengaz".

The Finnish loaned words kuningas and rengas are prime examples of Finnish being a linguistic freezer with very little imagination throughout the years.

AT LEAST THR WORD HAS NORMAL AMOUNT OF VOWELS AND SOUNDS VAGUELY EUROPEAN.

CZECH WORD FOR KING IS “KRÁL” BY THE WAY.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Interesting and somewhat harsh juxtaposition.

While I don’t care enough about Twitter to join in, I do get the anger. If the Canes were to just ruin their gameday experience, I dunno, use the Jumbotron only to show reruns of Mad Money during the game and remove all concessions, it wouldn’t be like “well just stop going to the games then if you don’t like it.” It’d be frustrating because we do want to go to games, and we don’t want them to suck. The psychology is that it’s someone you do want to follow, and that’s why the random stuff that you don’t like is so frustrating. There’s 1000s of millennial girls out there posting the same stuff as Sara, it’s just especially annoying when Sara does it because she’s the one I want to follow for Canes news. It’s more annoying when a show you like jumps the shark and you have to debate whether or not you want to keep watching than it is when 10s of awful TVs show that you don’t care about fail every season.

And again, it’s not about whether Sara is “allowed” to do anything - she’s an adult with a Twitter account she can do what she wants. But the bewilderment on her part that people are mad about what she posts on her “personal Twitter” is like bewilderment that “people were actually mad about the Star Wars prequels being bad?” For better or worse people are invested because they like the Canes and she is someone who brings them tales of the Canes. So if she starts posting bad content there is bound to be a reaction.

 

[Lempo]

AT LEAST THR WORD HAS NORMAL AMOUNT OF VOWELS AND SOUNDS VAGUELY EUROPEAN.

CZECH WORD FOR KING IS “KRÁL” BY THE WAY.

You're better of than the Danes still. I mean, you got Karl, or Charlemagne > Král. They got Cnut...

 

[Lempo]

While I don’t care enough about Twitter to join in, I do get the anger. If the Canes were to just ruin their gameday experience, I dunno, use the Jumbotron only to show reruns of Mad Money during the game and remove all concessions, it wouldn’t be like “well just stop going to the games then if you don’t like it.” It’d be frustrating because we do want to go to games, and we don’t want them to suck. The psychology is that it’s someone you do want to follow, and that’s why the random stuff that you don’t like is so frustrating. There’s 1000s of millennial girls out there posting the same stuff as Sara, it’s just especially annoying when Sara does it because she’s the one I want to follow for Canes news. It’s more annoying when a show you like jumps the shark and you have to debate whether or not you want to keep watching than it is when 10s of awful TVs show that you don’t care about fail every season.

And again, it’s not about whether Sara is “allowed” to do anything - she’s an adult with a Twitter account she can do what she wants. But the bewilderment on her part that people are mad about what she posts on her “personal Twitter” is like bewilderment that “people were actually mad about the Star Wars prequels being bad?” For better or worse people are invested because they like the Canes and she is someone who brings them tales of the Canes. So if she starts posting bad content there is bound to be a reaction.

Awesome elaboration. Thank you for that.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Awesome elaboration. Thank you for that.

AND ANOTHER THING...

jk

 

[Negan4Coach]

While I don’t care enough about Twitter to join in, I do get the anger. If the Canes were to just ruin their gameday experience, I dunno, use the Jumbotron only to show reruns of Mad Money during the game and remove all concessions, it wouldn’t be like “well just stop going to the games then if you don’t like it.” It’d be frustrating because we do want to go to games, and we don’t want them to suck. The psychology is that it’s someone you do want to follow, and that’s why the random stuff that you don’t like is so frustrating. There’s 1000s of millennial girls out there posting the same stuff as Sara, it’s just especially annoying when Sara does it because she’s the one I want to follow for Canes news. It’s more annoying when a show you like jumps the shark and you have to debate whether or not you want to keep watching than it is when 10s of awful TVs show that you don’t care about fail every season.

And again, it’s not about whether Sara is “allowed” to do anything - she’s an adult with a Twitter account she can do what she wants. But the bewilderment on her part that people are mad about what she posts on her “personal Twitter” is like bewilderment that “people were actually mad about the Star Wars prequels being bad?” For better or worse people are invested because they like the Canes and she is someone who brings them tales of the Canes. So if she starts posting bad content there is bound to be a reaction.

Agree. Her posts are quintessential annoying Millennial garbage, but I appreciate her enthusiasm for the Canes and am glad at least somebody is out there trying to whip up support.

 

[Lempo]

Also, holy ****, it's been almost as long from Phantom Menace to this day as it was from A New Hope to Phantom Menace.

 

[Lempo]

AND ANOTHER THING...

jk

One harsh DM coming up, mister!

 

[vorbis]

not sure this has been remotely as productive a conversation about social media and being a woman online and Canes coverage as those involved would like to think it is. so it goes. if you want Sara to come and have fun with us on f26, discussions like this aren't a good start to accomplishing that. just saying.

 

[Lempo]

not sure this has been remotely as productive a conversation about social media and being a woman online and Canes coverage as those involved would like to think it is. so it goes. if you want Sara to come and have fun with us on f26, discussions like this aren't a good start to accomplishing that. just saying.

So are you saying that baiting is not an effective social media strategy?

 

[vorbis]

So are you saying that baiting is not an effective social media strategy?

one person's "baiting" is another person's "stating their opinion while having a large social media following" so until that term is defined pretty specifically there's not much to discuss without stepping on a whole bunch of rakes that have already been stepped on in this thread.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

You're better of than the Danes still. I mean, you got Karl, or Charlemagne > Král. They got Cnut...

WE GOT COOLER ETYMOLOGY IN TERMS OF THE WORD DUKE.

THERE ARE TWO TRANSLATIONS.

“VÉVODA” AND “KNÍŽE”

FIRST COMES FROM VOJVODA. VOJ IS AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A SMALLER WAR HOST, “-VODA” IN THIS ONCE AGAIN ARCHAIC CONTEXT COMES FROM “VÉST”. ( JUST VODA IS ALSO WATER).

*clears throat*

MEANWHILE KNÍŽE HAS SIMILAR ORIGIN TO ALL THOSE KING WORDS, MEANING SON OF THE KING (YES I KNOW PRINCE IS A WORDS), BUT LATER ON IT CHANGED MEANING IN MOST MEANINGS TO WORDS DESCRIBING PRIESTS AND CLERICS - KNĚZ.

 

[Ole Gil]

The only bummer about the twitter thing, is that's where I usually see that she posted a new article. She also does a nice job aggregating Canes news with her retweets. But if you subject yourself to the retweets, you have to put up with the endless war of words with the likes of bigdickleaf55, who has 6 followers, 5 of which are pornbots, and the other being Zach Boychuk.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

quintessential annoying Millennial garbage

IT’S SOCIAL MEDIA AND AS SUCH IT HAS TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC.

HAD YOU SAID THAT ON TWITTER YOU WOULD HAVE AT LEAST TEN REPLIES

“Ok, boomer”

 

[Lempo]

Have the boomers already started using "Ok, bum" for the millennials who promote for socialist platform?

 

[Negan4Coach]

IT’S SOCIAL MEDIA AND AS SUCH IT HAS TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC.

HAD YOU SAID THAT ON TWITTER YOU WOULD HAVE AT LEAST TEN REPLIES

“Ok, boomer”

AND YES THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY POINT FOR ME ONE OF THE REASONS YOU MILLENNIALS ARE SO ANNOYING IS BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BOOMER AND A GEN-X'R

THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, ALL CAPS WEIRDO

 

[Chrispy]

Have the boomers already started using "Ok, bum" for the millennials who promote for socialist platform?

No, but millenials did decide upon "OK, Karen" for GenX. Which makes no sense at all.

Karen peaked in 1960 as a name, definitely not a GenX thing.
You're looking for something that peaked in the late 70s to early 80s. Like Jennifer. Or a name that epitomizes everything they want to mock about that generation.

Like Heather.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

AND YES THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY POINT FOR ME ONE OF THE REASONS YOU MILLENNIALS ARE SO ANNOYING IS BECAUSE YOU DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BOOMER AND A GEN-X'R

THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, ALL CAPS WEIRDO

A) IT’S A MEME. THEY DON’T MAKE SENSE.

B)THIS GENERATIONAL NONSENSE...

Doesn’t apply to me. I am from the former eastern bloc. There are stark differences between my generation in the West and my generation in the countries where it is the first one to be born into democracy.

C) I AM NOT EVEN MILLENIAL ACCORDING TO SOME DEFINITIONS.

BESIDES, I WAS MAKING A POINT THAT TWITTER SUCKS BALLS.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I can't be the only one that is slightly amused by the people that just want to follow her on Twitter for hockey stuff and not the other stuff that are on a message board that is for hockey and yet currently and often don't talk about hockey.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Have the boomers already started using "Ok, bum" for the millennials who promote for socialist platform?

LOT OF CZECH BOOMERS WOULD HAPPILY EMBRACE SOCIALISM AGAIN.

WE ARE JUST NOW GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE NEOMARXISTS HAVE STARTED TO SHOW UP.

 

[saraciv420]

Hi it's me lol.

I do lurk every so often but was informed about this and I wanted to join because I appreciated the attitude one of you had that I would enjoy this discussion because I have thick skin and I'm a smartass.

I would like to think that is true.

I thought this was overall an interesting discussion and valid points were made on both sides.

The truth is for me, I joined The Athletic when I had 7,000 followers and a year later I have 40.5. The social media manager told me no one in the history of the company has had a social media account grow that fast. On top of learning how to do the traveling beat job in general, I've been learning in real time in front of everyone how to handle having this influx of a social presence so fast. I have certainly tweeted things or picked fights that I wish I could take back. Last week someone I quote tweeted in mild disagreement with told me they got a ton of DMs from people -- I had no idea about that, I guess that's what really hit home for me that a following can be weaponized. I hate that.

I feel like there's sometimes a disconnect between what I intend to be lighthearted. I don't want anyone to go after anyone. It has just been a weird thing to get used to and can feel isolating sometimes.

On top of that, I understand it's annoying to see this stuff in your twitter feed constantly. It annoys me when I do it. I do feel like it's all finally coming towards a state of normalcy for me, though, where I accept that this is the following I have and it doesn't have to ruin my day. And when it does, i dont have to ruin everyone else's day.

But there isn't some conspiracy to do certain tweets or anything.

As for the point about Boston -- there are SO many people either in the Bruins market or trying to break in. Here I've noticed a difference where you can't really pick and choose your favorite personalities. But I like it here and I'm staying and every day I'm just trying to learn how to handle some of the new things I've had to learn on the fly, in front of everyone.

As for the pics, I don't feel the need to explain that it's nice to feel hot, but I tried to get professional headshots done and it just didn't feel like me. If you're distracted by a pixelated mirror selfie I feel like that's a you problem.

 

[raynman]

IT’S SOCIAL MEDIA AND AS SUCH IT HAS TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC.

HAD YOU SAID THAT ON TWITTER YOU WOULD HAVE AT LEAST TEN REPLIES

“Ok, boomer”

I tried using ok boomer in a previous reply on this board and my post was deleted. Freakin boomers

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Hi it's me lol.

I do lurk every so often but was informed about this and I wanted to join because I appreciated the attitude one of you had that I would enjoy this discussion because I have thick skin and I'm a smartass.

I would like to think that is true.

I thought this was overall an interesting discussion and valid points were made on both sides.

The truth is for me, I joined The Athletic when I had 7,000 followers and a year later I have 40.5. The social media manager told me no one in the history of the company has had a social media account grow that fast. On top of learning how to do the traveling beat job in general, I've been learning in real time in front of everyone how to handle having this influx of a social presence so fast. I have certainly tweeted things or picked fights that I wish I could take back. Last week someone I quote tweeted in mild disagreement with told me they got a ton of DMs from people -- I had no idea about that, I guess that's what really hit home for me that a following can be weaponized. I hate that.

I feel like there's sometimes a disconnect between what I intend to be lighthearted. I don't want anyone to go after anyone. It has just been a weird thing to get used to and can feel isolating sometimes.

On top of that, I understand it's annoying to see this stuff in your twitter feed constantly. It annoys me when I do it. I do feel like it's all finally coming towards a state of normalcy for me, though, where I accept that this is the following I have and it doesn't have to ruin my day. And when it does, i dont have to ruin everyone else's day.

But there isn't some conspiracy to do certain tweets or anything.

As for the point about Boston -- there are SO many people either in the Bruins market or trying to break in. Here I've noticed a difference where you can't really pick and choose your favorite personalities. But I like it here and I'm staying and every day I'm just trying to learn how to handle some of the new things I've had to learn on the fly, in front of everyone.

As for the pics, I don't feel the need to explain that it's nice to feel hot, but I tried to get professional headshots done and it just didn't feel like me. If you're distracted by a pixelated mirror selfie I feel like that's a you problem.

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