That would be fine for me... just people need to accept if other fans come into their threads to discuss the games and not be told to foxtrot oscar.
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correct, it just wouldn't work
Soldato
Lock all the club threads on matchday 
Why can Motors have official threads (Renaultsport thread), Games have official game threads etc yet Football can't have official team threads. It's ridiculous.
Caporegime
I see both sides to the argument.
Make it clear that the weekend threads are for match discussions if you so wish and club threads for club related things; (transfers and gossip should go in the transfer thread but people get the 'back on topic' comments when people discuss transfers and players fitting systems, so maybe a more in depth talk about certain targets)
I thought the other Wenger thread was quite interesting actually and there were some good discussions going on in there.
It's just the same as what goes on in the "MANAGER has been fired!" threads isn't it? except Wenger hasn't actually been fired yet... lol
It's just the same as what goes on in the "MANAGER has been fired!" threads isn't it? except Wenger hasn't actually been fired yet... lol
Soldato
No club threads is why I don't bother posting in here. It's a football forum in which we basically have a matchday thread and a transfer thread, anything else gets dumped into one of those. What's the point of the subforum, may as well leave it as part of the Sports forum! Go onto somewhere like Pistonheads or SA and they have club threads that work out fine, OCUK is just so backwards!
Soldato
Car owners aren't as tribal as footy fans so i can see how brands specific threads work in motors. I would hate club threads.
Man of Honour
If you take a look at the join dates of the posters in here then you'll notice that of them the majority actually joined before the rule was introduced - there's about 4 or 5 people who joined after 2007 out of the 22 posters (including me).
That's not to say that there aren't quite a few new members but I don't know if it's a big enough proportion to suggest that anything would have changed in regard to how people use threads.
How long do you think it would last that people would open new threads for "different" matters? How do you define what is a small matter and what is significant enough to merit its own separate thread? What happens if a moderator determines that the thread isn't significant enough to merit its own thread and closes it or merges it - will there be complaints?
The Fear™ - that worry you might start a new thread and no-one replies, leaving it to die alone and unloved under the weight of its sorrow.
I assume the rule was brought in to stop Sports Arena being littered with "Official *Insert club name here* threads". Now that Football has it's own forum this isn't an issue.
Personally I think the mods could just leave this section alone apart from closing duplicate threads. Only pop in to nuke the occasional troll which will no doubt be RTM'd.
Personally I think the mods could just leave this section alone apart from closing duplicate threads. Only pop in to nuke the occasional troll which will no doubt be RTM'd.
it wasn't for that reason, many of the reasons have been explained in earlier posts
Soldato
Keep away from official threads.
I know it may have been mentioned already but it would just fragment up a (mainly) great little community we have going on here. I enjoy the banter between people and debating points though admittedly weekend threads could be renamed Liverpool/United weekend thread, but still it's better that then everyone hiding in their own little area and not mixing.
Keep things as they are!
I know it may have been mentioned already but it would just fragment up a (mainly) great little community we have going on here. I enjoy the banter between people and debating points though admittedly weekend threads could be renamed Liverpool/United weekend thread, but still it's better that then everyone hiding in their own little area and not mixing.
Keep things as they are!
Keep things as they are then but don't lock threads where there is an existing and interesting conversation going. (The Wenger thread) That isn't helping anyone.
So what if it turns into an Arsenal thread. As long as it's interesting then so be it.
So what if it turns into an Arsenal thread. As long as it's interesting then so be it.
Caporegime
What I mean is relax it. They aren't harming anybody and at least people are talking.
you should have seen the amount of RTMs about it
Man of Honour
It seems you're asking for club threads in all but name (by hook or by crook...) and for moderators to not really come in here. While I believe that you tend to get more by asking than just waiting for it to come to you I don't think it's entirely a realistic proposition - the Football Stadium has lots of good posters and as far as I'm concerned I'm grateful for that but it is not without issues of contention and does require active moderation to keep it running relatively smoothly.
Please do keep RTMing issues as that's part of what helps with the moderation but I would say that just because you don't always see the problem posts doesn't mean that they weren't there. I would however ask that you don't simply RTM just because you disagree with someone or vice versa - if they're breaking the rules or a post is in the wrong section etc then that's a good use for the function - it's not meant to be for sniping at people you disagree with though.
Just for the record here are the main reasons they are not allowed
They stifle discussion
They create sub groups of members
They attract trolls
They lead to others accusing non supporters of trolling
They lead to reduced numbers of threads and topics being lost
Supporters of smaller clubs feel left out
The threads become fragmented where successive posts often are nothing to do with each other
They are near impossible to moderate because they are hard to follow
all these happened when we had them and improved after they were got rid of
They stifle discussion
They create sub groups of members
They attract trolls
They lead to others accusing non supporters of trolling
They lead to reduced numbers of threads and topics being lost
Supporters of smaller clubs feel left out
The threads become fragmented where successive posts often are nothing to do with each other
They are near impossible to moderate because they are hard to follow
all these happened when we had them and improved after they were got rid of
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