Fanpost Rules and Regulations
by WyoRanger on Dec 11, 2008 3:45 PM CST
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PrintIt seems that we're getting a rash of fanposts that don't lend much, if anything, to the general discourse here. Hell, this Fanpost might violate the protocol. But here are my suggestions (please add your own).
1. No former Rangers performance crap. Chris Young had 10Ks today? No one cares. And if they did, they'd already know that fact.
2. Not every trade rumor deserves it's own fanpost. That's why they're "rumors."
3. "What could we get in a trade for player X?" It's one thing to do a fanpost about some idiot writer's speculation, it's even worse to create your own.
All of this stuff can be a comment in a post. Normally, it's already there but people haven't taken the time to check. I know things are slow around here, but that isn't an excuse to fill the right side of the screen with your personal musings. This isn't to discourage fanposts, but put more thought into them. If you can't pen 75 useful words to a page, then it isn't worth it. People really do check out fanshots. When in doubt, it's either a comment or a fanshot.
I'm not trying to call anyone out (although the whole "should the Rangers build a new stadium in Dallas or FW" springs to mind). Every commenter here is a valuable part of LSB (yes everyone - especially you Sharky). But it's one thing to throw out a crap comment and quite another to clutter up the front page. Very few have the status required to bitch about airlines.
One more thing - you can delete your own fanpost. I'm pondering that right now.
Addendum:
After reading the comments here, I think I should clarify. I'm not trying to discourage new readers from posting fanposts. Quite the opposite. I thought we long-time LSBers could help them out on what we'd like to see. This would seem more polite than commenting "this fanpost sucks."
Nor am I talking about someone else deleting/unrecommending fanposts. What I would like is for us to police ourselves better. Not everyone can be Spur Die Nasty but if you have some tidbit, add your own views to it because that might generate more interest.
As far as OT, I'm a huge fan. There's only so much Rangers news and it's good to keep the dialogue going when things are slow. But be judicious. Put some thought not only into the fanpost but also the rationale behind it.
This may be the most active SBN MLB site which is great. But let's elevate the content as much as we can. F Jeff at Lookout Landing (pretty sure it was him/them/it).
What I've heard so far to add to the recommendation list is:
4) Don't double fanpost. If you post some news that someone else posted 30 seconds earlier, delete it (I've done this - pissed me off someone else got the scoop earlier. The only problem I have is to delete other's comments, but you live with it).
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It should be emphasized that you can post on those topics (well, maybe not he Chris Young K’s one), but you have to actually say something. If you have an interesting 4 paragraph discussion about why Peavy to the Angels may actually be good for the Rangers that accompanies the rumor, by all means make a fanpost. But simply posting “Angels are thinking of trading for Peavy” followed by a dozen ’75 words is stupid… ’ pasted over and over is just a waste of time.
I don't
Understand why there’s so much bitching over this. AJM has stuff about Nate Gold and 80’s videos. If you really don’t want to see a particular fanpost fall off the front page you can rec it. I say let democracy rule, not this fascist crap.
If it ever seemed like this place was becoming the equivalent of the RealGM boards or some other unreadable crap, then I’d agree with the sentiment, but news is rather fluid right now and I don’t have a big problem with it. Let’s not forget how slow this place was just a few weeks ago.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:05 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
If you really don’t want to see a particular fanpost fall off the front page you can rec it. I say let democracy rule, not this fascist crap.
Holy crap, I agree with Brett Gardner!
How about an anti-rec button
Enough anti-recs and the fanpost drops from the list entirely
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
would be nice
but no use asking for something like that since getting it implemented would be pretty difficult
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should be easy to put in if it was approved though
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 11, 2008 5:25 PM CST up reply actions
right
i know
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 11, 2008 10:06 PM CST up reply actions
this would be the best thing that could happen imho
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 11, 2008 5:25 PM CST up reply actions
I also agree with brett,
you guys need to stop bitching about it and just make your side bar longer. I have 17 fanposts and 5 rec’d ones. I’m not having a problem with people posting what they want so stop bitching. And why did this diary get rec’d.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
holy crap!!
i agree with a new yorker.
ps: you know the irony of of creating a fanpost to bitch anout useless fanposts getting in the way of news?
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
Jackass?
Let me hear more of your brilliant opinion on this matter please.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:40 PM CST up reply actions
democracy comment deserves more ridicule
how is it democratic for people to post whatever they want? And how is it fascism for 20 posters (not 1 op) to say they don’t want certain diaries? Democratic would be to vote on diaries.
And you know what, I’m all for that. Everybody put up a poll on your diary and if we vote (by a majority) that it sucks, then you should have to delete it.
Ironically, we’ve basically seen straw polls on the last 5 diaries where the comments are exclusively people bitching about the diary. And yet, nobody deletes the diary.
Which also bugs me – what part of “this was already covered in X thread” do people not understand?
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I don't think
You know what ridicule is. You just agreed with me, jackass.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:44 PM CST up reply actions
no, didn't
your way just protects good fanposts. I want to get rid of the bad ones
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No...
I never said I’d be opposed to voting off bad ones. You just assumed that when you lazily insulted me.
Notice I never defended a particular post. I reserved my comments to this “general bitching” thread.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:48 PM CST up reply actions
you called this fascism
i don’t really understand the fascist part of a ton of posters saying they are pissed and want to change things.
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Well
For starters, that was a bit facetious, and I’m a bit shocked that you couldn’t understand that.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
so then you weren't expressing displeasure at the sentiments
of having rules like Wyo suggested?
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Yes
I was. You can have a facetious comment used for exaggeration embedded in an opinion that’s to be taken seriously.
I don’t care about this rule or that one, it just annoys me that certain people would care so much about it. It’s not really a big deal at all to me.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 4:57 PM CST up reply actions
Obviously it is a big deal to you
Or else you wouldn’t have 1/5 of the comments in this post.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
Beautiful logic.
How can I argue with something so thoroughly reasoned?
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:01 PM CST up reply actions
You can't
or else you would. You rarely, if ever, pass up an argument.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
by WyoRanger on Dec 11, 2008 5:05 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
You're
Absolutely right. You know me very well.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:06 PM CST up reply actions
right
“exaggeration”
which doesn’t make any sense because some might consider rules set up by posters (not ops) approved by a lot of posters pretty democratic and pretty apposite to fascism. you don’t generally exaggerate from the complete antithesis to what you are talking about.
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its all subjective
who are you to decide what is bad.
I do think some people need to put more thought into a fanpost, or if it is a comment place it in the fanshots
Wait 'til the year after next
it's not completely subjective
and i don’t think people really want to police the ones that are in the gray area (some do but I don’t think that is what is driving everybody).
Those rules up there are pretty clear. And the addendum I would add is don’t’ post anything in a fan post that has already been posted as a comment.
Whatever, after today we probably won’t have this problem a whole lot anyway.
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post got cut off
don’t double post in fanposts, make sure your fanpost wouldn’t be better suited as a comment somewhere
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the ones that are double posts based on the titles, I agree
but like I mentioned below. If someone doesn’t know a brief comment was made about a “Topic” in a post titled differently than that “Topic”. Is that person supposed to read every line of every post to find out if that story was broken or not. If the person provides new information I don’t think it takes away from the site. If anything, if the story is important enough, it should warrant it’s own post.
Wait 'til the year after next
Another poster I agree with,
I cant read every line and every fanpost that is written cuz I have a life outside LSB. So when someone posts joe dirt getting signed by the damn yankees, or along that line of thinking, stop getting mad. He probably didn’t realize that Abo3 or tball put it in some other random thread. And that’s not a rip on either of you guys.
So chill, let that person know you guys are discussing it in another thread in a humane way and move on. If AJM wants to delete it Im sure he will.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
+ 1 Brett Gardner he's the man!
Lighten up people!! And posters how about using some common sense so this isn’t an issue.
"The Gerald Laird trade is a GREAT SUCCESS! Who'd we get for him again?"
Tom Hicks
AJM is the blog owner
He can post whatever he wants.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
Random woman: "When are you getting married, Micah?"
Me: "Probably never. In fact, at this point, it's tempting to just adopt more cats."
by The Best Micah on Dec 11, 2008 6:36 PM CST up reply actions
I think a lot of things should be different.
Like some of the people who are putting up the not so great fanpost’s might be new and they’re just trying to put stuff out there to better inform everyone, not knowing that everyone was informed already. Which is understandable and the least everyone could do is just let it go or maybe politely tell them this is old news. But no you’ve gotta make the person feel stupid and tell them how stupid their fanpost is.
I think this fanpost is good so people will know how things work around here without being called stupid beforehand. I think I can just relate to them since I’m not so smart myself.
You dick that was uncalled for - male cheerleader
At Lonestarball compared
to other SB Nation blogs, the fanbase is really active. I visit other sites to see what their fans are talking about and to get their opinions and you get crickets most of the time, or you see 1 Fanpost a week posted.
When you have someone who trys to inform the ranger community here of information, it does nothing to berrate that person except to discourage them from commenting in the future. I for one want as many people as possible from different points of view posting here.
Wait 'til the year after next
concur
very well said mister!
"The Gerald Laird trade is a GREAT SUCCESS! Who'd we get for him again?"
Tom Hicks
just post where you are supposed to
this is an organization complaint, not trying to control people from posting
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new people dont know where to post
thats the point. so when you act like hitlers right hand man on them then they think every1 is a dick (which might be true) and never come back.
i guess it was always like this but i dont seem to remember the incessant prepubescent bickering about what is the proper method of participating on this blog.
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
sorry i wasn't nicer to people. did i hurt your feelings?
do you need a tissue?
seriously, grow a pair.
btw, it’s not new people that are having this problem. go look, most of the people that have been posting these diaries have been here for a while now. and the ridicule has only ramped up within the last three days because for three days straight in every crappy fanpost, people have said STOP DUPLICATE POSTING and nobody seems to be doing it. I don’t care how new you are, how can you not figure out after reading some of the complaints, that certain comments are better left as comments.
Like I said, I don’t think this will be a continuous problem. and i’m pretty sure this will be the last fanpost about this. but at least this fanpost gives people a sense of where to post certain things. i don’t see anything wrong with that.
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Grow a pair?
Oh do you grow tomatoes too? I grow them every year, last year I had a couple of dogs get in my yard and tore the whole garden up.
You dick that was uncalled for - male cheerleader
you have spent more time typing and bitching about it
than i could possibly imagine any1 ever doing. its like you care beyond imaginable reason what others are posting. almost to a point that makes people think some (your not the only one) are either obsessive about what others are posting or that you have nothing better to do than complain. and this isnt even your site.
i may feel exactly the same, but im sure as shit not gonna start a new post about it, im not gonna rail some1 who creates a post about it and i will rarely click on it or spend time or emotion on it.
chill the hell out. i have spent as much time reading of people bitching about others posting habits if not more than any ranger topic since i got back. its friggin sickening.
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
Not to be a dick
But if you don’t know where to post, you sure as shit shouldn’t be posting fanposts. Again, I’m not trying to decrease the number of fanposts, just hopefully increasing the quality.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
snow does this to you?
or is it normal?
mormons stole me and held me against my will with Oklahoma beer and 12+ hour work days.
Seriously?
I understand this from a fanpost vs. fanshot standpoint.
However, the idea that it’s useful to post another story in the comments section of another post is the dumbest practice here. t ball (who I respect a lot) made a half-serious comment about this the other day. I, for one, do not read all the comments on all the posts. Beyond that, why should I expect a marginal story to be a comment in a post instead of its own fanshot or fanpost?
Why should a marginal story deserve its own fanpost?
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
I meant that to be a fanshot only.
Sorry. It just irritates me that people think everyone should read every comment in every post on this entire website to make sure that they’re caught up on all Rangers-related news.
Not every post in every thread
But if theres one catchall winter meetings thread it should be pretty easy to find new rumors. Most have a link attached and/or a big block quote with a portion of the article. Its very easy to navigate on this board because of the “z” feature. If a certain discussion doesn’t interest you simply hit “z” until the next new comment. Each discussion is seperated by the new comments being tabbed over. Its pretty easy to find new stuff.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
You're right
and I agree wholeheartedly that catchall threads are where most of these marginal stories belong, but if (for instance) someone created a fanshot for a minor league game where one of our prospects did well, I don’t think we should crucify that person even though, in the grand scheme of all things baseball, one minor league game is pretty unimportant.
That’s more or less what I’m getting at.
I agree
But a fanpost about one of our prospects doing well in a minor league game is worthy of discussion.
But if someone posts a fanpost about some random minor leaguer who has a nice game does deserve ridicule IMO.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
That's my problem
I don’t think people should scour the comments of other posts before posting something that is INTERESTING. I think people’s filter on interesting just needs to be fixed. Seriously – no one cares if Toronto is thinking of signing Furcal.
OK
Go look at all the mundane fanposts of late. The ones about the Jays and Furcal or the Rangers signing Brian Gordon. The majority don’t have more than a handful of comments on the subject. Does such a rumor or article demand an entire fanpost for just a couple comments? If its something relevant then it should generate a good amount of discussion.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Okay, and here I'll reiterate
Maybe these should be fanshots instead of fanposts. I have no problem with the fanshot vs. fanpost aspect of this discussion.
Way too diplomatic and nice
I thought you were a lawyer :)
How about a recommendation from Mr. Abrasive: If you post a shitty, half-assed diary, your name goes on the poll. We can call it the shitty diary poll. After a few days, we can vote some shame into some people.
It’s time for some tough love people. Polite requests have gone unheeded long enough.
Nah, noob.
it hasnt shut
up Sarah Palin……
"You’re the worst poster here I think."--- brettgardner
by red shoe ranger on Dec 11, 2008 7:26 PM CST up reply actions
I basically agree
I wish people would put more thought into their diaries. I mean Miles’ diaries, as pointless and irritating as they are, at least seem to require a bit of thought and time. I mean crafting something as obnoxious and annoying as his airline rant takes more time than a simple cut, paste, pound on the keyboard, post.
But, ultimately it’s Adam’s blog and it’s his call I suppose. At least we have the “recommended” function now. That helps a bit. I wish there was an anti-rec function, but maybe Brian’s public shaming could serve that purpose.
"You’re the only here who contributes schtick only." - brettgardner
Amen on the "anti-rec" function.
I’m all for that.
I also wish people would understand the difference between a FanPost and a FanShot.
"Please. What the hell do you know about starting a sports-related website and then deciding to leave it to work on other things and then? How dare you, sir." -- Michael Schur, aka FireJoeMorgan's Ken Tremendous, to Will Leitch
I think an
ignore filter for certain posters would be nice.
Nolan Ryan is the Greatest Pitcher ever, because Google says so.
"BTW I’m officially welching ab03. Yeah I planned too all along, but I figured I’d try to get off the hook with double or nothing first."- Sharky
I guess it's not explicit in the rules
but the main problem is that people keep duplicating fanposts topics that have already been covered in other threads. if we cut that down, that would eliminate a big chunk of the problem
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I agree if there is a fanpost already titled the same or similar
that one should be deleted.
At the same time, if in the fanpost titled “Rule V Draft”, someone briefly mentions an off-topic trade or story involving the rangers and someone else isn’t interested in the “Rule V Draft” (only using as an example) but looks at the titles sees that no one has mentioned the story they found, so they place a fanpost about the supposed scenario for everyone else. If the person took the appropriate time and thought in adding information not already mentioned. I still think that warrants a post. Not everyone can read every line of every fanpost to see if something is posted.
I enjoy reading peoples opinions and arguments whether I agree with them or not. and, I think we have a great fanbase here that really does discuss baseball and the rangers well.
Wait 'til the year after next
"reading every line"
just do a search. it’s just a little lazy not to just read a fan post about rule v draft to see if the topic was covered.
the biggest problem I have with it is that if i’m already talking about the topic in the rule v draft thread, i don’t wnat to have the same conversation somewhere else. You end up having to track two different threads and it just gets jumbled. plus, it does add extra clutter.
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The thing is
I bet you’d be opposed to an actual majority rule feature. How many posters are there on this site? Do we tell by registered users? If you needed 100+ votes to knock something off, it’d be useless.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:15 PM CST up reply actions
Weird
You create an issue and then argue about it with yourself – eventually shooting down your own issue.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
How so?
I did no such thing. If there were such a majority rule feature, I’d be all for it.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:20 PM CST up reply actions
Plurality, then?
That’s bullshit to me. Go all the way or just let individuals have the ability to delete fanposts.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:27 PM CST up reply actions
dude
what? what election have you been a part of that counts people that didn’t vote when determining a majority?
then every political election ever would have been a pluarlity
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You're right
But what does that have to do with anything?
I was talking specifically about a majority rule system.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:36 PM CST up reply actions
people would say obama got a majority of the popular vote
who cares, semantics anyway. majority of the people that voted. and i don’t see why it is “bullshit”
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Well
You want to do something which would affect every user here: deny content. I think it’s only fair that a real majority at least gets a chance to express an opinion.
The truth, it seems, is you really only want to reward the most frequent posters who agree with you.
Now you can keep arguing with me on this undeniably moot point, or you can just accept that we don’t agree and move on, saving the unnecessary insults for another thread and another topic of more import.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 6:10 PM CST up reply actions
voting
is not a right exclusive to frequent posters. even people who passively read can click a button.
you should learn to cope with criticism and even insults better. or drop out of law school
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Unless, of course
there is a third option.
1) rec
2) unrec
3) I think I’ll have a soft-boiled egg
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
Huh?
So if there are 100 people, 2 vote yes and 1 votes no, you have a majority?
No, that’s a plurality. The third option, of course, is to not vote.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 5:34 PM CST up reply actions
Here's something interesting I just noticed
Whenever you commented in this post and someone responds, you always happen to have to have the last comment. Do you get pissed when someone says you just look “fine”?
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
Then I'm sorry
You look nice today. Very nice. Those shoes really bring out your avatar.
Nothing pithy here. Please move long.
by WyoRanger on Dec 11, 2008 6:29 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I still agree with Brett and
this blog belongs to AJM ….. end of story. What is stupid to one person may not be to another. If you are not happy with LSB go somewhere else.
I have nothing to say
I unrec
this diary.
"...my balls are really like a veiny flesh color" blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
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Yes we can! November 04, 2008
my opinion
I think people are being a little over dramatic.
I don’t see whats wrong with posting that. Is it really needed all the time? No, but come on you have to have some leeway here.
The Connor and Gordon posts may not be real interesting, but they are fair play. This is an active site and they disappear fast… I could understand more of the complaints if there was no rec feature to keep certain posts up top.
Now fanposts for stuff that has nothing to do with the rangers, completely off topic stuff (miles can fanshot his little stories, come on), things that have already been on the front page or had their own fanposts.. yeah, that should be deleted.
But a vote system is too far.
Imo, most of the small stuff should be allowed through and ignored if you dont like it, and truly repetitive or unrelated minor rumors or whatever should be deleted by a moderator if they feel its cluttering up the fanposts. Perhaps there is a need for another moderator to deal with such things, but I don’t think its a particularly pressing issue.
the preceding post was a great success.
screwed up a cut/paste.
The “I dont see whats wrong with that” is talking about the connor/gordon part.
Woops.
the preceding post was a great success.
OT diaries
I generally find them to be pretty well received. If they were outnumbering the Rangers fanposts, sure, I’d see a problem, but until then, as has been mentioned before, we have a lot of bright, funny people here from a variety of backgrounds, and i think the OT diaries are usually alot of fun. Look at Ben’s commercial diary for a recent example.
And yeah, the repetitive diaries suck, but for me, the half-assed ones are much worse. Putting a shred of fucking effort into it is not too much to ask.
People should take a page out of Shroomer’s book. The guy is one of the most interesting posters we have, and he typically has the scoop on something when he links it, but he doesn’t feels this compelling need to compose a diary every time he comes across something noteworthy (cough agreen07 cough).
Nah, noob.
by Brian Thomas on Dec 11, 2008 5:48 PM CST up reply actions
I was thinking fanshots for off topic stuff
The rec’d fanposts and such get put to the very top of the page.. it just seems to me that that it should be kept on topic, using the fanshots as more of a community type area.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I participate in some of the off topic threads and have probably made one or two myself.. aside from miles personal stories getting 20 recs I dont care, but from the perspective of someone who comes here for baseball info it seems weird to have commercial discussion be one of the first things you see on the page. Now I’m getting really over dramatic msyelf.
Obviously Im not in charge of anything around here, but thats at least how I’d prefer it.
the preceding post was a great success.
Yeah, I'm probably in the minority on the OT thing
But I think many of us have come to think of this as a little more than a just baseball blog.
I mean, we’re all obsessed w/ baseball, true. But I get more out of LSB than just stats and analysis.
I think the problem w/ fanshots is the location. Case in point: has there ever been a fanshot with more than 30 comments?
Nah, noob.
by Brian Thomas on Dec 11, 2008 6:36 PM CST up reply actions
Only ones
That have been moved to the front page.
by brettgardner on Dec 11, 2008 6:39 PM CST up reply actions
Agreed
Fanshots only show up on the sidebar if you’re on the main page, too.
Their layout should really have Recommended Fanposts and Recommended Fanshots next to each other.
Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy though
If there was an effort to move some of the popular off topic threads into fanshots the comments would follow.. as of now since theres nothing special about fanshots beyond being able to post a video the section is neglected.
And to clarify, I meant the baseball info only user as a general audience for the site.
The community aspect is a big draw to me, particularly in the gameday threads but in general as well. i mean you dont make 15K or whatever threads without getting to know (in some sense) a lot of people.
Again though Im not saying this is some huge issue I think has to be addressed, just throwing out what I’d do since theres a topic.
the preceding post was a great success.
The Un-rec feature
basically everyone wants Digg-like functionality for Fanposts? If they suck, they get buried, but you can still go view the post if you want.
As good as that may be I think it’s far too complicated to implement, but maybe not. I typically just ignore most of the Fanposts.
Solution
Every now and then someone posts a really good fanpost and it gets moved to the main post area by Adam. If he would just delete the really bad ones then the problem would be negligible. It’s Adam’s website so I think he and he alone should have the power to delete these things. If he doesn’t care enough about it then why should we?
"Colt mccoy sucks, mack brown needs to be fired." - Longhorn
by LSBUser on Dec 11, 2008 6:05 PM CST reply actions
I think that's asking a lot of an admin
who already has a full-time job in addition to all the responsibilities of this website, such as posting news, Rangers analysis, and baseball analysis in general.
i dont think any of this interests him, heh
i doubt he reads it. which is fine =)
the preceding post was a great success.
i admit i was annoyed
but it’s not worth much more than a few annoyed comments in this thread.
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I'm scared to make a fanpost now
Saw this at the NMLR board. Here’s a link to a wild-azz story in the Dallas Observer that claims the DMN will cease to cover the Rangers. No more Evan Grant
wow
I hadn’t heard about any of that. I saw where EG did some Cowboys stuff recently, but I thought that was temporary.
That sucks.
I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles
by Dirk Diggler on Dec 11, 2008 7:41 PM CST up reply actions
My only peeve is duplicate diaries
Read before you post, folks. Posting stuff that was discussed in the comments of another random thread is excusable, I guess, but posting a diary on the same subject as the diary two spaces down should be unacceptable.
Other than that… yeah we need an anti-rec button to drop the useless Ahmad turds down the list, ext… but aside from that, what are you really going to do?
"I´d like to apologize in advance for anything that I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go NUTS."
nothing
i probably came off a bit too hostile than i really feel overall about this. just that it kept happening – cumulative effect.
otherwise, it’s not really a big problem.
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