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Originally Posted by ntnBO
I'm torn. It's less than five posters that routinely blather low content tripe in the PGA season threads, the same people that tend to mega post over in SE 100+ times during a single football game. Why people think this is cool I have no idea.
Who wants to be serious during a sporting event? You've got all week to dissect Xs and Os, debate player value, or hypothesize how many 5th graders it would take to beat labron at pick-up. When people are watching live games, they like to post observations about that game and read what others are saying about it. These aren't going to be well-thought out analyses by nature; one of the great things about sports (which the SE mods realize) is the emotions of the fan/viewer during a game. If the stealers are lolstealering, they deserved to get trolled for it, just like if Tiger can't hit a wedge within 25 feet, Phil blames his 6th consecutive over-par round on cell phones, or G-Mac duckhooks one left, giving us the best shot-tracker ever. Obviously golf isn't going to get the volume of SE, so the low-content posting during rounds shouldn't be as intense or devoid of any significance whatsoever.
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So if it wasn't for a few people, it wouldn't be necessary. But then again, if all the crap is contained in one thread, those who take things a bit more seriously don't have to wade through it to read the important stuff.
Okay, but without the lower content posting, this thread (or a separate one) would probably have less than 40 posts. We're already at less than 300 as it is, so again, I'm not sure it's necessarily getting 'lost' as you seem to be fearing. As a general rule of thumb, one shouldn't get into a debate on strokes gained putting when the final group is on 15 neck-and-neck for the win. Also, from my experience, the smaller tournaments don't get the posting levels of Tiger at Torrey, so I feel like it's a non-issue most of the time.
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The only problem is if people post good stuff in the low content thread, it won't be read by all. Also new posters could be confused by the dual threads.
I wouldn't have too many reservations about this; I just don't think the two threads are necessary given this thread is only getting ~75 posts/week.
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I'd just hate to see this good forum turn into a mirror of SE where 95% of the posts are total crap. So I guess do whatever needs to be done not to let that happen.
BO
If all you read are gameday threads, then of course you'll think the posting is horrible. In mega-threads like this, the tech is to respect when there is play going on and wait to engage discussion until after the rounds are over/before the rounds start. This way, people won't be in 'OMG DID YOU SEE THAT SHOT?' mode and more likely to give a serious reply. Even then, you probably don't have to observe this 100% of the time as the smaller tourneys will have lower posts/day counts anyway. If Tiger and Phil are dead even at the turn on a Sunday and you've got something you really want to talk about or a serious point you fear won't get attention, just go ahead and make a thread. If it's something worth discussing, people will post. If not, it will fall to the bottom of the page and life will go on.
These are just my feelings as I've never seen a problem with the LC/content ratio ITT or felt that LC posts were burying good posts.