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It's sure to be a blockbuster hit!
It's sure to be a blockbuster hit!
03-07-2011
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03-07-2011
, 10:21 PM
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I concur with this, actually. The image above what Phildo posts is actually ridiculous, specifically because if you WANT to be a casual fan, by all means, BE ONE. If it makes your enjoyment of a sport/game that much greater, well, 
but people here actually spend a lot of time thinking and analyzing etc., so... they by definition are NOT casual fans. So if you're going to walk half the road, you may as well walk the rest and actually understand a little bit of what it is you really like (etc etc)
but people here actually spend a lot of time thinking and analyzing etc., so... they by definition are NOT casual fans. So if you're going to walk half the road, you may as well walk the rest and actually understand a little bit of what it is you really like (etc etc)
Dude, that image wasn't meant to be taken that serious, but the only people who deserve to be patronized are the ones who act really douchey and arrogant about how right they are, when they're horribly wrong. By all means soul crush them.
But don't do it to someone just because they post here a lot, but aren't as knowledgeable because they don't spend quite as much time as you learning about the newest advanced stats. You can educate them without insulting them, otherwise you just end up looking like the fool, and they end up less likely to listen to whatever it is you have to say.
03-08-2011
, 12:33 AM
this is pretty good work to be honest
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The thread-title and subforum stuff was what I was referring to as forum formatting, which I agree are perfectly reasonable mod actions.
As for the name-calling, I think it's a little naive to think that helped anything. I guess a few thin-skinned posters may have liked it better (not that I particularly care to share a forum with them anyway, I'd imagine), but it's generally just a mockery where more time gets wasted debating about what is or isn't over some imaginary line of offensiveness. I don't consider it a win (or a loss for that matter) if name-calling is simply forced to appear worded slightly differently. I will agree, though, that there was a fair amount of entertainment value provided by reading the ban lists, if only because they served as a nice mix-tape of amusing forum moments, but I don't imagine that was the ultimate purpose the rules were created to serve....
Who are these people? They have been referred to abstractly by multiple mods now, but I'm finding it hard to think of any reasonable candidates. I'll admit, though, that not everyone shares the same opinion about what makes a poster a "contributor".
False modesty unbecoming of a poster of your quality!
You've got this completely backwards. I became real-life friends with Assani in the first place 100% because of his posting on here, and the same is true with Bobbo.
Adding the FBG draft template might seem like an obvious negligible contribution now, but nobody else had done it, and I don't see who else would have. The scale of the exercises and the volume and thoroughness of debate they spawned is unrivaled across the entirety of 2+2 afaict, including spreading to multiple other forums, some of which have even banned Assani (or at least had for a time....I don't keep that up-to-date on these things) because they are run by morons.
To sum up his contributions as the FBG draft, biased football analysis (as if any of the rest of the self-aware lot here are above this), and a thread about Denver is silliness, and you're better than that. There is nobody on here, Bobbo excluded, who is willing to explore the depths of an argument anywhere near the level Assani will. That he is sometimes (or often, as happens when you post a lot) wrong is so completely irrelevant that I don't know what else to say. The fact that these aspects are so often seen as a negative on here is simply disappointing. Maybe the forum would be better if instead of worrying about modding meme overuse, our good veteran posters wouldn't stoke the flames with dismissive accusations of "bobbotarding" or "assanitrolling" when these guys go out of their way to post what comprises almost all of what's left of interesting, thought-provoking content in TZ these days.
His artful trolling is just icing.
As for the name-calling, I think it's a little naive to think that helped anything. I guess a few thin-skinned posters may have liked it better (not that I particularly care to share a forum with them anyway, I'd imagine), but it's generally just a mockery where more time gets wasted debating about what is or isn't over some imaginary line of offensiveness. I don't consider it a win (or a loss for that matter) if name-calling is simply forced to appear worded slightly differently. I will agree, though, that there was a fair amount of entertainment value provided by reading the ban lists, if only because they served as a nice mix-tape of amusing forum moments, but I don't imagine that was the ultimate purpose the rules were created to serve....
Who are these people? They have been referred to abstractly by multiple mods now, but I'm finding it hard to think of any reasonable candidates. I'll admit, though, that not everyone shares the same opinion about what makes a poster a "contributor".
False modesty unbecoming of a poster of your quality!
You've got this completely backwards. I became real-life friends with Assani in the first place 100% because of his posting on here, and the same is true with Bobbo.
Adding the FBG draft template might seem like an obvious negligible contribution now, but nobody else had done it, and I don't see who else would have. The scale of the exercises and the volume and thoroughness of debate they spawned is unrivaled across the entirety of 2+2 afaict, including spreading to multiple other forums, some of which have even banned Assani (or at least had for a time....I don't keep that up-to-date on these things) because they are run by morons.
To sum up his contributions as the FBG draft, biased football analysis (as if any of the rest of the self-aware lot here are above this), and a thread about Denver is silliness, and you're better than that. There is nobody on here, Bobbo excluded, who is willing to explore the depths of an argument anywhere near the level Assani will. That he is sometimes (or often, as happens when you post a lot) wrong is so completely irrelevant that I don't know what else to say. The fact that these aspects are so often seen as a negative on here is simply disappointing. Maybe the forum would be better if instead of worrying about modding meme overuse, our good veteran posters wouldn't stoke the flames with dismissive accusations of "bobbotarding" or "assanitrolling" when these guys go out of their way to post what comprises almost all of what's left of interesting, thought-provoking content in TZ these days.
His artful trolling is just icing.
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Dude, that image wasn't meant to be taken that serious, but the only people who deserve to be patronized are the ones who act really douchey and arrogant about how right they are, when they're horribly wrong. By all means soul crush them.
But don't do it to someone just because they post here a lot, but aren't as knowledgeable because they don't spend quite as much time as you learning about the newest advanced stats. You can educate them without insulting them, otherwise you just end up looking like the fool, and they end up less likely to listen to whatever it is you have to say.
But don't do it to someone just because they post here a lot, but aren't as knowledgeable because they don't spend quite as much time as you learning about the newest advanced stats. You can educate them without insulting them, otherwise you just end up looking like the fool, and they end up less likely to listen to whatever it is you have to say.
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