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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 1, 2015 23:17:29 GMT -5
Can we still have omens?
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Post by Raskovnik on Apr 1, 2015 23:56:29 GMT -5
If you want to kill one of the last overt signs of positive fan engagement and goad the trolling fans into more and more negative chanting to amuse themselves, go right ahead and ban the signs. The smarter thing to do if one truly wants to see the signs drop off somewhat is to have WWE, oh, I don't know, actually put on matches and feuds we might care about between wrestlers who might actually be able to do more than pose for Kevin Dunn's spank bank. Perhaps, if WWE slowly backed away from its stand that it's only "sports entertainment" and began playing up the more "official", "athletic contest" aspects that had always been part and parcel of pro wrestling, it may be possible to get audiences back into suspending disbelief and feeling that there's actually something at stake. You shut up the audiences during the matches by making damn sure that their eyes are peeled on what's going on in the ring. Maybe those people should stop going to the f***ing shows if they dislike it so much. Gee whiz.
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Post by mizerable on Apr 2, 2015 0:41:49 GMT -5
The worst is when people bring them to house shows.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Apr 2, 2015 0:44:08 GMT -5
At the very least, there should be a sign code. Keep it out of the matches and big promos. Entrances and the like are fair game, but not during every single one of them, of course. It's a good idea in theory but they'd never be able to enforce it
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 0:49:36 GMT -5
I'd be fine with no more signs.
It's basically saying, "hey look at me and not what's going on in the ring. Also, f*** you people sitting behind me."
I mean, if you have to be asked to out your sign down, you're already being inconsiderate. People shouldn't have to ask you not to block their view with your oh so clever sign. No one is paying to see the back of a piece of poster board for even 1 second.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 2, 2015 0:55:17 GMT -5
At the very least, there should be a sign code. Keep it out of the matches and big promos. Entrances and the like are fair game, but not during every single one of them, of course. It's a good idea in theory but they'd never be able to enforce it I think they could if they really wanted to. They would need to have an announcement prior to the show, which they already do for video cameras/laser pens, so fitting that in wouldn't be difficult. Then it's a matter of having arena security competent enough to confiscate a few that don't abide by it. Set the precedent and everyone else gets the picture. Of course, it's all hypothetical because WWE's stance seemingly is that they actually like having the signs on television for the hard camera side, as local ads have encouraged that people bring posters to the event. They'll even show them on the Titantron during the commercial breaks, and I believe there is a weekly feature on WWE.com with their favorites from the show. At the very least, there doesn't seem to be enough dissent about them to really considering changing it at the moment.
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Post by StormanReigns on Apr 2, 2015 1:01:59 GMT -5
Going to an event as a kid in the attitude era was awful. So many signs, you could not see. Naturally, this lead to a lot of fights in the crowd.
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Post by Speedy Cerviche on Apr 2, 2015 1:09:58 GMT -5
If you get rid of signs how will people know that Roman is a wank pheasant? I wouldn't mind if a crowd started a wank pheasant chant re: Roman. It would be both entertaining and informative.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Apr 2, 2015 1:58:09 GMT -5
They should just ban having an audience and always wrestle in empty arena matches. No wait, just wrestle in small, empty gyms like those weird fetish videos. Christie Ricci could be the Champ.
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Post by avenger on Apr 2, 2015 3:23:30 GMT -5
There was one twat at Wrestlemania about three rows from the front, right in the middle, that brought about a dozen signs that were about a tiny soccer team in England, and nothing to do with wrestling. If he was in front of me, I'd have set them on fire.
People with those massive printouts of their own faces. Piss off, no-one cares.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Apr 2, 2015 3:30:39 GMT -5
I remember at a Raw I was at 2 years ago, there was this kid in front of me who kept putting his sign up and looking at the titantron every time the camera showed the hard camera side, even though he wasn't being shown. It was so annoying I felt like grabbing his sign and ripping it up in front of him! Ironically when the camera did actually pan onto our section (during William Regal's entrance) he was sitting down so you couldn't see him!
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 2, 2015 3:49:39 GMT -5
People with those massive printouts of their own faces. Piss off, no-one cares. I used to find these funny, but from the hard camera view alone at Mania I spotted five.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Apr 2, 2015 6:23:39 GMT -5
Need it fixed? Send CM Punk into the stands. That always works.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 6:25:24 GMT -5
I like the signs, they're like a prehistoric version of Twitter that allows you to actually focus on one screen instead of constantly looking at another.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 2, 2015 6:28:05 GMT -5
See this is why I sit in the cheap seats. No one brings signs up there
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Post by nisidhe on Apr 2, 2015 6:50:35 GMT -5
If you want to kill one of the last overt signs of positive fan engagement and goad the trolling fans into more and more negative chanting to amuse themselves, go right ahead and ban the signs. The smarter thing to do if one truly wants to see the signs drop off somewhat is to have WWE, oh, I don't know, actually put on matches and feuds we might care about between wrestlers who might actually be able to do more than pose for Kevin Dunn's spank bank. Perhaps, if WWE slowly backed away from its stand that it's only "sports entertainment" and began playing up the more "official", "athletic contest" aspects that had always been part and parcel of pro wrestling, it may be possible to get audiences back into suspending disbelief and feeling that there's actually something at stake. You shut up the audiences during the matches by making damn sure that their eyes are peeled on what's going on in the ring. Maybe those people should stop going to the f***ing shows if they dislike it so much. Gee whiz. They continue doing what WWE wants them to do the most - they spend money on tickets. What they can bring themselves to do to shit all over the show is outside WWE's control (beyond being ejected) and I don't think WWE wants to be seen as an entity willing to throw people out for having a good time. 8)
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