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Post by longtimebooster on Feb 22, 2018 17:24:40 GMT -8
The situation on this board has gotten completely asinine with the half dozen or so idiots who have completely trashed and polluted (much to their glee) what was once a fantastic source of information and community for Aztec fans. I have tried to address this with the moderators on a number of occasions and have been completely ignored. It's not brain surgery. And it's a very easy issue to address and to remedy. But for whatever the reason, the guys who run this board are more than happy to have the clowns run the circus. I'm inches away from hanging it up and taking my Aztec fandom elsewhere. Here' the latest exchange with the person who runs this board. Frankly, it's pathetic.
Gents,
This troll situation needs to be addressed. The board has become intolerable for me. And I've been posting here and on the two previous iterations since online bulletin boards first came on the scene in 1995-ish. There are a handful of posters here whose sole purpose is to take delight in throwing stinkbombs everywhere and anywhere, hijacking threads with word-salad gibberish, pushing buttons with abandon, and creating a general nuisance to the point where I and core group of significant contributors are days away from washing our hands forever of this forum and taking our Aztec fandom elsewhere. It's a problem. A big one. I've mentioned this and complained about it on a few other occasions, as have others. But absolutely nothing has been done about the obvious, deliberate and relentless thread hijackers who've made a mockery of what this board should be all about.
So what's the solutions? I propose this: There are about a dozen core posters who are equally dissatisfied and outraged by incessant demeaning actions/words spewing from the keyboards of a handful of community members. We should convene a round table prior to the SDSU-Nevada game. Meet over some pizza and beer. Hear us out. Hopefully we can come together as a group and implement some steps and processes that make this forum work better than ever. But please know that the status quo isn't working. At all.
Let me know your thoughts, as well as if you'd like to take me up on the offer of convening a roundtable.
Best regards, LTB
As AztecWilliam, I am just a regular member. Please send this message to my official persona, which is William L. Rupp. By the way, you should cite examples of posters who are troublemakers. If you have particular people in mind, why not just ignore their threads and posts? (Another thought; how to define a troll may ultimately be rather problematic.)
Thanks, AzWm
Seriously? That's your response?
This is a huge issue. It has become intolerable. And I don't want to run around grabbing every example of troll-ism on this board. Way too much work. I've written you in the past about certain members and was told to ignore them. Which I did. But that's a suboptimal solution. Especially when half of all threads are regularly hijacked by these knuckleheads who add nothing but bile and mayhem (much to their own delight) to the conversation.
As quick evidence, just go peruse the threads about Why no Official Game Thread?, Kell Update, and Kell/Hemsley. Those are travesties. And if you can't tell who the trolls are by scrolling through them, then what are you doing moderating a chat board?
So, I ask again. Are you willing to have a roundtable with a group of your best and most-reliable contributors and hear us out? Or not?
Ball's in your court. And please don't try to put the turd back in my pocket.
Thanks, LTB
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Post by fisherville on Feb 22, 2018 17:32:14 GMT -8
Someone wants attention
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Post by MontezumasRevenge on Feb 22, 2018 17:41:12 GMT -8
Who's winning the Trollympic gold medal count?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 17:54:31 GMT -8
For the record, I have recently returned from an AM banishment. The mods are not asleep at the wheel and are doing their jerbs. I would agree that these idiotic flame wars have grown tiresome. People react differently to disappointment which has led to the current state of the board.
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Post by moctezumaii on Feb 22, 2018 17:57:12 GMT -8
The situation on this board has gotten completely asinine with the half dozen or so idiots who have completely trashed and polluted (much to their glee) what was once a fantastic source of information and community for Aztec fans. I have tried to address this with the moderators on a number of occasions and have been completely ignored. It's not brain surgery. And it's a very easy issue to address and to remedy. But for whatever the reason, the guys who run this board are more than happy to have the clowns run the circus. I'm inches away from hanging it up and taking my Aztec fandom elsewhere. Here' the latest exchange with the person who runs this board. Frankly, it's pathetic. Gents, This troll situation needs to be addressed. The board has become intolerable for me. And I've been posting here and on the two previous iterations since online bulletin boards first came on the scene in 1995-ish. There are a handful of posters here whose sole purpose is to take delight in throwing stinkbombs everywhere and anywhere, hijacking threads with word-salad gibberish, pushing buttons with abandon, and creating a general nuisance to the point where I and core group of significant contributors are days away from washing our hands forever of this forum and taking our Aztec fandom elsewhere. It's a problem. A big one. I've mentioned this and complained about it on a few other occasions, as have others. But absolutely nothing has been done about the obvious, deliberate and relentless thread hijackers who've made a mockery of what this board should be all about. So what's the solutions? I propose this: There are about a dozen core posters who are equally dissatisfied and outraged by incessant demeaning actions/words spewing from the keyboards of a handful of community members. We should convene a round table prior to the SDSU-Nevada game. Meet over some pizza and beer. Hear us out. Hopefully we can come together as a group and implement some steps and processes that make this forum work better than ever. But please know that the status quo isn't working. At all. Let me know your thoughts, as well as if you'd like to take me up on the offer of convening a roundtable. Best regards, LTB As AztecWilliam, I am just a regular member. Please send this message to my official persona, which is William L. Rupp. By the way, you should cite examples of posters who are troublemakers. If you have particular people in mind, why not just ignore their threads and posts? (Another thought; how to define a troll may ultimately be rather problematic.) Thanks, AzWm Seriously? That's your response? This is a huge issue. It has become intolerable. And I don't want to run around grabbing every example of troll-ism on this board. Way too much work. I've written you in the past about certain members and was told to ignore them. Which I did. But that's a suboptimal solution. Especially when half of all threads are regularly hijacked by these knuckleheads who add nothing but bile and mayhem (much to their own delight) to the conversation. As quick evidence, just go peruse the threads about Why no Official Game Thread?, Kell Update, and Kell/Hemsley. Those are travesties. And if you can't tell who the trolls are by scrolling through them, then what are you doing moderating a chat board? So, I ask again. Are you willing to have a roundtable with a group of your best and most-reliable contributors and hear us out? Or not? Ball's in your court. And please don't try to put the turd back in my pocket. Thanks, LTB Did you call the Waaaambulance? Cry me a river, Argentina.
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Post by johneaztec on Feb 22, 2018 18:03:13 GMT -8
The situation on this board has gotten completely asinine with the half dozen or so idiots who have completely trashed and polluted (much to their glee) what was once a fantastic source of information and community for Aztec fans. I have tried to address this with the moderators on a number of occasions and have been completely ignored. It's not brain surgery. And it's a very easy issue to address and to remedy. But for whatever the reason, the guys who run this board are more than happy to have the clowns run the circus. I'm inches away from hanging it up and taking my Aztec fandom elsewhere. Here' the latest exchange with the person who runs this board. Frankly, it's pathetic. Gents, This troll situation needs to be addressed. The board has become intolerable for me. And I've been posting here and on the two previous iterations since online bulletin boards first came on the scene in 1995-ish. There are a handful of posters here whose sole purpose is to take delight in throwing stinkbombs everywhere and anywhere, hijacking threads with word-salad gibberish, pushing buttons with abandon, and creating a general nuisance to the point where I and core group of significant contributors are days away from washing our hands forever of this forum and taking our Aztec fandom elsewhere. It's a problem. A big one. I've mentioned this and complained about it on a few other occasions, as have others. But absolutely nothing has been done about the obvious, deliberate and relentless thread hijackers who've made a mockery of what this board should be all about. So what's the solutions? I propose this: There are about a dozen core posters who are equally dissatisfied and outraged by incessant demeaning actions/words spewing from the keyboards of a handful of community members. We should convene a round table prior to the SDSU-Nevada game. Meet over some pizza and beer. Hear us out. Hopefully we can come together as a group and implement some steps and processes that make this forum work better than ever. But please know that the status quo isn't working. At all. Let me know your thoughts, as well as if you'd like to take me up on the offer of convening a roundtable. Best regards, LTB As AztecWilliam, I am just a regular member. Please send this message to my official persona, which is William L. Rupp. By the way, you should cite examples of posters who are troublemakers. If you have particular people in mind, why not just ignore their threads and posts? (Another thought; how to define a troll may ultimately be rather problematic.) Thanks, AzWm Seriously? That's your response? This is a huge issue. It has become intolerable. And I don't want to run around grabbing every example of troll-ism on this board. Way too much work. I've written you in the past about certain members and was told to ignore them. Which I did. But that's a suboptimal solution. Especially when half of all threads are regularly hijacked by these knuckleheads who add nothing but bile and mayhem (much to their own delight) to the conversation. As quick evidence, just go peruse the threads about Why no Official Game Thread?, Kell Update, and Kell/Hemsley. Those are travesties. And if you can't tell who the trolls are by scrolling through them, then what are you doing moderating a chat board? So, I ask again. Are you willing to have a roundtable with a group of your best and most-reliable contributors and hear us out? Or not? Ball's in your court. And please don't try to put the turd back in my pocket. Thanks, LTB Did you call the Waaaambulance? Cry me a river, Argentina. Exhibit A right here.
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Post by moctezumaii on Feb 22, 2018 18:04:38 GMT -8
Did you call the Waaaambulance? Cry me a river, Argentina. Exhibit A right here. I thought you were done quoting the trolls? LOL.
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Post by johneaztec on Feb 22, 2018 18:06:52 GMT -8
I thought you were done quoting the trolls? LOL. I love how you just called yourself a troll!!! First thing you've been correct on here.
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Post by moctezumaii on Feb 22, 2018 18:08:43 GMT -8
I thought you were done quoting the trolls? LOL. I love how you just called yourself a troll!!! First thing you've been correct on here. Thanks, John. Appreciate the shout out.
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Post by Frantic on Feb 22, 2018 18:21:35 GMT -8
I've been in a few flame wars over the past couple weeks. They primarily stem from a few psoters not wanting to hear facts.
For example, one psoter might say the AF win was a [good] win, so I put forth facts why AF sucks and it's not really that [good] of a win. That's not being a flame, but I'm called a crony and a negative nellie.
Some psoters get excited at the prospect of finishing 5th in conference. That's fine for them. It's my opinion that 5th is an embarrassing finish considering our talent, the quality of the league, the fact we finished 6th last year, and we're looking at the prospect of three straight years without making the Tournament. But I'm called a flame.
Other psoters don't take the time to actually read the psot, but instead rush to the keyboard to express outrage and put forth their misinterpretation of the psot. Then when called on it, they double down or change the topic to avoid being wrong. I admit when I'm wrong, some on here should try it.
I try not to talk bad about individual players. Occasionally I'll point out stats of a player (like if a shooter goes on an 0-13 streak), but I recognize these are just kids and they are trying their best. The commitment to be a D1 athlete is ridiculous.
If a psoter is putting up trash, then ignore it and move on.
LTB, I've been following you around the different boards since the late 90's. We've seen characters, good and bad, come and go. Ride this one out.
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Post by johneaztec on Feb 22, 2018 18:25:04 GMT -8
I've been in a few flame wars over the past couple weeks. They primarily stem from a few psoters not wanting to hear facts. For example, one psoter might say the AF win was a great win, so I put forth facts why AF sucks and it's not really that great of a win. That's not being a flame, but I'm called a crony and a negative nellie. Some psoters get excited at the prospect of finishing 5th in conference. That's fine for them. It's my opinion that 5th is an embarrassing finish considering our talent, the quality of the league, the fact we finished 6th last year, and we're looking at the prospect of three straight years without making the Tournament. But I'm called a flame. Other psoters don't take the time to actually read the psot, but instead rush to the keyboard to express outrage and put forth their misinterpretation of the psot. Then when called on it, they double down or change the topic to avoid being wrong. I admit when I'm wrong, some on here should try it. I try not to talk bad about individual players. Occasionally I'll point out stats of a player (like if a shooter goes on an 0-13 streak), but I recognize these are just kids and they are trying their best. The commitment to be a D1 athlete is ridiculous. If a psoter is putting up trash, then ignore it and move on. LTB, I've been following you around the different boards since the late 90's. We've seen characters, good and bad, come and go. Ride this one out. Nobody said it was a great win. It was good win, especially how inconsistent we have been this year and the fact that AF has played Boise, Nevada, UNLV, tough at home. We are who we are, and this year it was considered a good win there.
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Post by Frantic on Feb 22, 2018 18:51:00 GMT -8
John, your psot is unrelated to the topic of thread. That's another problem with some psoters that I forgot to mention. In any event, I modified my psot to say "good" not "great." Sure any win is a good, but AF sucks and SDSU shouldn't be patting itself on the back. Now back on topic...
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Post by johneaztec on Feb 22, 2018 18:54:01 GMT -8
John, your psot is unrelated to the topic of thread. That's another problem with some psoters that I forgot to mention. In any event, I modified my psot to say "good" not "great." Sure any win is a good, but AF sucks and SDSU shouldn't be patting itself on the back. Now back on topic... Lol
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Post by brokencurse on Feb 22, 2018 19:30:21 GMT -8
I thought you were done quoting the trolls? LOL. (Mock) moctezumaii is Exhibit A, my hunch he is a fan of another school (first guess Lobos) and comes here to trash the program and instigate the board.
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Post by chris92065 on Feb 22, 2018 19:58:54 GMT -8
Ltb
Stay, dude.
Please.
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Post by aztecfan1 on Feb 22, 2018 20:27:06 GMT -8
LTB: did you really expect agreement from the likes of the cowards of the keyboard such as above? Hang in there. 😎
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Post by northcountymike on Feb 22, 2018 21:02:19 GMT -8
Creating an entire thread for this? Haha. Posting a "private" message publicly? Classy - that speaks volumes about a person. Trying to flame a moderator because they don't do what you want? Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Additionally, urging a legion of cyber fans to back your cause because your crusade isn't working out the way you envisioned is pretty sad.
Wanting to meet up in person with pizza and beers over something as inconsequential as a sports message board in an attempt to cure the ails of it is straight up silly.
Someone needs to get over himself and stop pretending to be the good guy. If you can't take it, leave. No need for drawn-out exits or "who's comin' with me's."
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Post by legkick on Feb 22, 2018 21:08:19 GMT -8
4 of the trolls have already polluted this thread.
It's not going to change, ltb. While you're here, best to block them and anyone who gives them oxygen by quoting them.
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Post by johneaztec on Feb 22, 2018 21:38:20 GMT -8
4 of the trolls have already polluted this thread. It's not going to change, ltb. While you're here, best to block them and anyone who gives them oxygen by quoting them. I actually counted 5. Oh well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 21:50:18 GMT -8
4 of the trolls have already polluted this thread. It's not going to change, ltb. While you're here, best to block them and anyone who gives them oxygen by quoting them. I actually counted 5. Oh well. Good looking out.
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