USMstang wrote:Andre--
if the Bluto guy is one of those multi-alias trolls, why invite him over here (to phuck up the Memphis board)? It takes a special kind of strange to have time or desire to troll message boards in that manner. Just sayin...
It's a valid question, and one that I've had to ask myself in setting up this board. Ultimately, I've decided that if you treat people like adults, they'll act like adults.
Look at the Memphis board over there:
This forum is PG. That one is PG-13. This other one is (yikes) NC-17.
Board #1 is about sports and if you post about politics you'll get in trouble. Board #2 is about politics and if you post about sports you'll get in trouble.
There's no name-calling allowed, or talking about Josh Pastner. Or maybe you can talk about Pastner but only if you've got a valid point that doesn't involve Georgia Tech... because you can't talk about Tech on the Memphis board.
You can build a board that way. It's pretty prevalent, in fact. But those boards end up being not about the team or the school, but about the mods and the rules. And people, having been treated like asses, act like asses.
Look at the last thread from that site that I linked to here. It starts with some clown heaping praise (in capital 36 point letters) on Jeremy for banning some other clown. Then we get the references to Canadian TV, a few of Jeremy's favorite insults and images, and a bunch of people accusing each other of being duplicates of each other.
Where's the insight into Memphis sports?
The moderators over there often complain about getting phone calls and messages telling them to ban this user, or delete that post. I don't get those calls and messages because people know I'd never act on them. Problem solved.
If I can ever get Memphis people to post here, I know they'll build a good board, because this site is actually about sports- not rules lists, or me, or Canadian TV shows, or trains, or getting drunk, or anything else.