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Originally Posted by Triumph36
has kbfc just been ignoring the accusations that he doesn't really know anything about the SE forums besides TZ, or is he just posting in spite of them?
either way, a falling tide lowers all boats. if the 'best' posters start posting like garbage, the rest of the forum will soon follow suit. it is really easy for a sports-based forum to become terrible. it's a credit to both the posters and the mods that this one has not.
I think its cyclical. Right now, because of the forum dynamic, it has become homogenized as posters have been encouraged to adopt certain standards. In return, you get a group of posters that mostly think the same way or, to seek acceptance, post the same way. The only outliers that are accepted are those with spectacular traits of bad, outrageous, controversy, etc.
Therefore, at the moment, the forum lacks grist for the mill; posters want to communicate; but there are few moderate dissenting opinions to drive interesting debate.
For example, it has been made quite clear to me that responding to legal questions from the perspective of a practising lawyer, even in threads where the topic concerns legal issues not raised or solicited by me, is considered "killing a thread." So, you won't see much of that from me and I quite happily crawl back in my hole located in the soccer threads.
So, as a result, in such threads, such issues are discussed superficially among people inclined to agree with each other.