Eh, I don't keep all my PMs but there were a bunch who claimed it. You're free to not believe me, but why would I make it up?

This is a great post.

I was clearly referring to the fr forum not se. for an esteemed mod such as urself, u either show really bad reading comprehension or are trolling, both which are obviously very funny for different reasons.

I've contributed fine, i'm not gonna sit here and say i've never trolled because that's obviously a lie. Almost everyone trolls though so whatever, I have plenty of serious discussions.


I've prob used the "u $ad" ke$ha photo like 2-3 times at most and i'm def not one of the leading meme people unless u wanna call being in like the top 30 being one of the leading.

epi might not be one of the meme guys, but the reason why he gets lumped in there is because any time i've read anything by him, he is defending some ridiculous homer point or clearly trolling. that's basically what all the others do.

1. I've thought a lot about it, and considering how you approach posting in general, the fact that you were nearly permabanned, and the obvious issues your posting causes, I'm just not gonna let this slide. I'm going to PM you and we can discuss, but basically, you're gonna have to change your stance if you want to keep posting. Which I hope you do because I think that when you're posting semi-seriously you do a great job of blending context/observation with statistical data.

2. Seth has to deal with the hooligans, so while you are correct, I think he deserves to be cut some slack. That thread may be tougher to mod than NBA (and the only reason NBA is tough right now is being discussed in this thread at the moment).

I'd like to throw something out and see if anyone agrees with me, its possible that I'm very much off base.

Making an outlandish claim designed to provoke a response can still be trolling, even if you are able to show some support for the claim using freely available data.

True or false?

true

Actually, it cut down on that stuff considerably. It's hard to have real discussion when every disagreement is "stop being a moron". That's what it was. Unfortunately, it's backslid a bit, and that causes more angst and honestly I think we need to crack down on it again. I'm guilty of name calling myself so I'm not excusing myself from blame in that regard.

Chicken and egg is irrelevant when the bias is pretty obvious. And you certainly are aware of his issues, so you aren't blind. But definitely biased.


Oh, please, do you seriously think it was meant to be an exhaustive recap of Assani's SE resume?


You've said this before privately as a suspicion, but you severely underestimate the impact that their trolling has on people's perception of them when they are trying to have a legit debate. So you think it's disappointing that when Assani "wants to be taken seriously", he isn't (or it's viewed as a negative), but it's Assani's own fault, not some suboptimal flaw in the forum

Re: the first part. Those types of accusations don't just come out of the blue man.

Re: bolded, the prosecution rests re: bias. I'm flabbergasted at that statement. (and I think Bobbo has by-and-large been outstanding lately)

Nah, it's a negative. When the Asseni gimmick is as successful as it is, it should be obvious there's a problem. Assani has caused multiple threads in the ATF forum of posters who wanted him banned due to his trolling. In what way is that a good thing? It detracts from all of the positive things he does. You blame the forum for not taking him seriously when he wants to be, but how do you not see that it's all Assani's own fault?

truer words were never spoken

N00b question.

How do the symbols beside the threads get there?

Heart/ Thumb etc

Do you have MSPaint?

Thanks guys

The soccer threads are pretty good this season, better than last anyway. Sethy hasn't even been around that much and when he has I don't think he has had that much work to do in them. A few posters don't like him for some reason but all in all Sethy doesn't do anything so bad that warrants the amount of hate he seems to get.

Some people that post in the NBA thread have tried to bring their nonsense over to the soccer threads, thankfully they have been told to take it somewhere else.

meh, now we're going to blame TZ for everything? not really a big deal that C-Vig, or TUt, or whoever burned a few posts trying to troll the footy crowd. sure it's stupid, childish, and annoying, but at the end of the day it's a drop in the bucket.

the biggest problem with the footy threads, when they get bad, is the lack of objectivity among pretty much all of the posters. rampant homerism is like a badge of honour, which leads to many a pointless arguments that would be better served if people would realize that the right answer is somewhere in the massive grey area in the middle.

i just hope you q.ueers don't do anything drastic because this is always the lamest month+ of the sporting calendar

in less than two months boatshoes will yet again be the meme-du-jour, there will be actual meaningful nba'ing, and the WANGZZZZZZZZZZZ bandwagon will be in full effect!

72,

Im not blaming it for everything, other people have said to those that have posted the stupid memes in the soccer threads to take it back to TZ. I don't read that thread at all so I don't really know what goes on in there.

Something I have noticed is that there is a difference in culture between soccer fans which leads to some of the arguments. Some of us are well used to the banter, its what we grew up with. Some clearly have a smaller threshold than others and just lose the plot altogether. Plus you have to remember that soccer is such a passionate sport (probably the most passionate in the world) and tempers run high during and after games, but once the dust settles after a big game it gets back to some kind of normality.

The worst thing about some of the threads is those who come in and just post about how bad the thread is etc... their posts are the worst posts itt.

thread needs more Jetto, ldo.

Jetto is a Serie A fan!

that must have taken a while in paint.