New posters recommendation thread

[SuperFlyer13]

<rant>

Here's my take on the other place. The two biggest problems were lack of GOOD moderation, and lack of posters having the self control to ignore the idiots who may not have violated the TOS and been "bannable", but were there to attract negative attention and nothing else. Now we have good moderation, but any board can fail if it lacks one of those two important aspects; good moderation, and self control. Now eventually, some clowns are going to find this board and say some dumb things. If they spam, make racist comments, or are obviously looking to be vulgar or troll, yeah you can ban them. But I don't think you can ban someone for constantly making dumb, uninformed, homeristic, or ignorant posts. I suppose you COULD ban them, but I'm kind of against that. In theory, we should be able to post a link to this place right out in the open, and between moderating the twits and ignoring the tools, not suffer in terms of board quality.

Basically what I'm saying is, we have a good thing going right now. But if the same posters fall into the same traps and feed the trolls, this place will look exactly like the old one. Maybe the moderation will keep it from being AS bad, but if every thread eventually gets hijacked because people can't stop themselves from responding...

Eddie, you make some real good points. I think if you have the general crowd that knows hockey, and likes hockey for all the right reasons, it makes threads a lot more funner, and even the less educated fans can learn and ask questions without getting ripped apart for their lack of knowledge. This happened a lot at the other venue simply because it got to the point nobody knew if half those post's were serious. You had to wade through so much bullshit just to find legitimate threads that actually talked hockey. I think on here there will be more of a neighborhood watch approach. Let's just hope it doesn't get to that. I'm sure eventually the other good posters will find a way over here.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

what about winginit? he's a good poster.

 

[naslundfan19]

njdevils will be here soon. GagneFire told me via facebook

 

[Slimpikins]

njdevils will be here soon. GagneFire told me via facebook

Cool. I haven't seen him in a while.

 

[naslundfan19]

Cool. I haven't seen him in a while.

Yeah. Apparently jokerz got him IP banned from the other place.

 

[Destroydacre]

<rant>

Here's my take on the other place. The two biggest problems were lack of GOOD moderation, and lack of posters having the self control to ignore the idiots who may not have violated the TOS and been "bannable", but were there to attract negative attention and nothing else. Now we have good moderation, but any board can fail if it lacks one of those two important aspects; good moderation, and self control. Now eventually, some clowns are going to find this board and say some dumb things. If they spam, make racist comments, or are obviously looking to be vulgar or troll, yeah you can ban them. But I don't think you can ban someone for constantly making dumb, uninformed, homeristic, or ignorant posts. I suppose you COULD ban them, but I'm kind of against that. In theory, we should be able to post a link to this place right out in the open, and between moderating the twits and ignoring the tools, not suffer in terms of board quality.

Basically what I'm saying is, we have a good thing going right now. But if the same posters fall into the same traps and feed the trolls, this place will look exactly like the old one. Maybe the moderation will keep it from being AS bad, but if every thread eventually gets hijacked because people can't stop themselves from responding...

I disagree in that good moderation will not allow a board to become a cesspit that the other board is. Maddog would have been banned ages ago. Acer would have been banned ages ago. Etc, etc. All that crap would be gone. No maddog, and the Crosby hate threads disappear. No maddog and the 'feud' for lack of a better term between the Caps and Pens fans disappears. No maddog and Dup is still a reasonable poster. I don't blame people for arguing because it's so easy to do as an anonymous poster on the internet. But E$PN was the worst 'moderated' board that I have ever posted on. A program that just deleted posts that got reported by 5 users with different IP addresses would do a better job than those Prospero retards. I mean honestly how many message boards are there where not only do you not know who the moderators are, you don't even get responses to questions like "why was I banned?" Because of that this board will never digress to the point of the E$PN boards. As long as Prospero is running the show, that place will never recover.

 

[UTVolCountry]

I agree, I post on E$PN, but it has the worst mods of ANY board I've been to.

 

[maddogmark25]

I agree, I post on E$PN, but it has the worst mods of ANY board I've been to.

E$PN boards having mods is news to me

 

[dare2be]

A program that just deleted posts that got reported by 5 users with different IP addresses would do a better job than those Prospero retards.

I have always felt that is how the moderation in the swamp was typically run. By a computer program.

 

[Larry N]

The only part of this whole process I don't like is the "selection". There are tons of good posters, and I'm sure even more good lurkers that we're going to miss.

I wouldn't worry too much about the lurkers. I was a semi-lurker on the NHL board. But when I saw this opportunity, I just shot my hand up. I'm sure others, if they're interested enough, will do the same.

 

[dare2be]

isles4cups acknowledged his invite...within the next week he says

 

[TOX1]

isles4cups acknowledged his invite...within the next week he says

Sweet!

 

[Caps Revenge]

I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned these guys or if I even have any referral credibility...I have always thought bills glory and lacaprup were solid Sabres reps. I think dsizzler was a good Pens rep too. Any thoughts or objections?

 

[TOX1]

What about minty69? She's a solid Sabres fan.

 

[postmaster]

I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned these guys or if I even have any referral credibility...I have always thought bills glory and lacaprup were solid Sabres reps. I think dsizzler was a good Pens rep too. Any thoughts or objections?

the first two are quality. I tended to notice dsizzler the most arguing with Dup.
That said, feel free to invite who you want to invite.

 

[postmaster]

What about minty69? She's a solid Sabres fan.

go for it.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

I messaged benusmc and I'm trying to hunt down dtones. If anyone has any objections, let me know and I will rescind the invites

 

[dash]

I think we need to bring more Wings fans on this board to balance out all the Pens homers...HaHaHa

 

[postmaster]

I honestly don't think we need to ask anymore.
We have such a good base and with dash boss and dare added as mods, this place should be fine.
I was more worried about who we got to start out the place.
Anyone should feel free to invite people they feel would be good additions and we can sort it out if it doesn't work

 

[dare2be]

I second what postmaster said. Two mods agreeing is a quorum. Invite away, within reason.