Just allow club talk within threads already

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 21:27

Stop restricting legit conversation. Ok so you won't allow club threads but stop being so overzealous and allow the occasional bit of chat about specific clubs.

It's healthy for the forum and mods who keep locking threads mid conversation isn't helping anyone.

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 21:30

Definitely not.

But another small voice just gets the point across.

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 21:34

SideWinder said:
If there are club threads, where will it end? The odd Watford fan will make a thread, a random Peterborough fan and so on...it will end up with the Man Utd thread being the biggest along with Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool and perhaps Man City.

It will make everything so messy.

Just don't make club threads. Just allow the occassional chat.

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 21:44

Moses said:
Cry moar?

The Berba talk was more than a few comments - just start a thread on it, ffs! People say these threads won't work... but they don't try making them .

If there was a seperate thread then that would have been locked for being a United thread....

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 22:42

Rotty said:
at least you can see the probem unlike some others, the problem was that thread got took over by about 4 folks to the exclusion of others

I don't see how people are excluded just because 4 people are having a discussion. Anyone is free to just jump in.

And obviously the biggest stories are going to be discussed. It just so happens that most of the stories come from Man Utd. So you can either allow the discussions to take place or just ban talk about Man Utd altogether.

I'm obviously not a United fan but welcome talk about individual clubs without the threat of conversations being cut short by mods locking threads.

Shamikebab said:
If King Kenny announced that Suarez might want to leave at the end of the season would that be discussed in the transfer thread? If RvP came out and said he didn't want to sign a new contract would that be discussed in the transfer thread? Obviously, yes. So there is no problem with Fergie saying Berbatov might want to leave in the summer for first team football.

+1

Rotty said:
yes there were RTMs but I am not going to tell them that

These people RTM'ing people talking about clubs seriously need to get a life and you don't have to give in and agree with them.

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 23:36

semi-pro waster said:
I understand that you think we need club threads, you've made that perfectly clear, but when we've had club threads before they haven't gone well so they're unlikely to get reintroduced.

Why? What's the reason for not allowing them?

peterattheboro · 14 Mar 2012 at 23:57

semi-pro waster said:
They're not allowed for the same reasons as when you asked the question last month in the Wenger thread, Rotty gives a fair summary of the main reasons here.

Rotty said:
They stifle discussion ???
They create sub groups of members Fans?
They attract trolls So ban them?
They lead to others accusing non supporters of trolling I think we all get along quite well enough to not do this
They lead to reduced numbers of threads and topics being lost There's a limited number of threads anyway
Supporters of smaller clubs feel left out Boo hoo
The threads become fragmented where successive posts often are nothing to do with each other Like the current large threads?
They are near impossible to moderate because they are hard to follow Like the current large threads and people will RTM offending posts

peterattheboro · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:02

Moses said:
People post up random transfer rumours/links in a main thread. People discuss individual stories in other threads.

We have a whole football forum, now... we don't have to worry about making a load of threads which drown out other sports, or whatever. I don't think it'd create a mess, 'cause this forum's just for football, now...

This!!

peterattheboro · 15 Mar 2012 at 12:15

Rotty said:
There are probably well over 100 folks use this forum and less that 10 that don't like the way it is, as usual the majority keep quiet in these matters and that normally indocates that they are happy with things

I'd say there are about 30 regular posters. The rest are people who just pop up on rare occassions to say how well or how badly their team has done.

Half of which have posted in this thread and most of them aren't happy with the way threads are locked willy nilly.