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AskaMod
Feb 27, 2020 16:28:27 GMT -5
Post by Cyno on Feb 27, 2020 16:28:27 GMT -5
Why has the site felt slow in the last 2 days? It takes a bit of time to load. I've gotten the Proboards angry bear screen a few times yesterday, so I assume it's something on their end.
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Heartbreaker
King Koopa
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AskaMod
Feb 27, 2020 22:20:28 GMT -5
Post by Heartbreaker on Feb 27, 2020 22:20:28 GMT -5
It’s gotten almost impossible to browse the forum on mobile because this virus always pops up.
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Square
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AskaMod
Mar 10, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
Post by Square on Mar 10, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
Whose running the FAN site nowadays?
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AskaMod
Mar 12, 2020 6:35:09 GMT -5
Post by Gopher Mod on Mar 12, 2020 6:35:09 GMT -5
Whose running the FAN site nowadays? Talk to Madison or Kash on that one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 21:00:19 GMT -5
We're managing to have multiple Coronavirus threads that all have clear different purposes without much overlap and everyone is being very civil and supportive when everyone is freaking out elsewhere on the internet.
I love this community. I love the mods who make it work right. This is one of the only places where I can go and get a real look at things, but not have it descend into petty bickering.
<3 you guys.
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Wardlow on Wardlow 54
Wade Wilson
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Post by Wardlow on Wardlow 54 on Mar 24, 2020 22:06:10 GMT -5
Yeah, this has been my go-to source for info the last couple of weeks. I've seen things get a bit heated at times, but the mods have mostly nipped it in the bud. And I haven't seen anyone be an outright dick, which has been a refreshing change from everywhere else. Here's to you, FAN. Best message board on the web.
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Post by King Boo on Mar 25, 2020 16:49:00 GMT -5
We're managing to have multiple Coronavirus threads that all have clear different purposes without much overlap and everyone is being very civil and supportive when everyone is freaking out elsewhere on the internet. I love this community. I love the mods who make it work right. This is one of the only places where I can go and get a real look at things, but not have it descend into petty bickering. <3 you guys. Yeah, this has been my go-to source for info the last couple of weeks. I've seen things get a bit heated at times, but the mods have mostly nipped it in the bud. And I haven't seen anyone be an outright dick, which has been a refreshing change from everywhere else. Here's to you, FAN. Best message board on the web.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Mar 25, 2020 17:32:53 GMT -5
Yeah, this has been my go-to source for info the last couple of weeks. I've seen things get a bit heated at times, but the mods have mostly nipped it in the bud. And I haven't seen anyone be an outright dick, which has been a refreshing change from everywhere else. Here's to you, FAN. Best message board on the web. Well there was that one Dick, buy we Pounded it out.
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Post by toodarkmark on Apr 2, 2020 9:47:19 GMT -5
If someone was told not to comment on your posts, and if you've politely asked them two times over messenger to please stop commenting on your posts because it is ALWAYS antagonistic, what is the next step? I'm not a fan of snitching, I just wonder what I can tell them?
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Dub H
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Post by Dub H on Apr 5, 2020 1:23:59 GMT -5
If someone was told not to comment on your posts, and if you've politely asked them two times over messenger to please stop commenting on your posts because it is ALWAYS antagonistic, what is the next step? I'm not a fan of snitching, I just wonder what I can tell them? You can block said person.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Apr 7, 2020 2:59:56 GMT -5
My thread about whether the women's division in WWE was currently receiving undue prominence given how good the current roster is, was closed. There was no swearing, no arguing, no breaking the fifty-six pinned notes on rules we can't breach...nothing. Just an opinion that the current women's division isn't very entertaining and therefore is perhaps being given undue prominence within the current product.
This place really is the North Korea of wrestling forums. Wrestling is supposed to be fun. Draconian, serious-as-a-heart-attack mods with zero people skills who talk to members literally like crap and who have an issue with opinions on wrestling they disagree with.
This'll result in a ban but it's just going to be a ban from a forum someone created so he can feel in charge. Cool. I'll go elsewhere.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Apr 7, 2020 3:13:07 GMT -5
Seriously though as an (inevitable) parting gift - you run a wrestling forum. Wrestling. And you've made it the single most restrictive and draconian place to discuss anything online, even stuff that matters. There seems to be a passive-aggressive hatred of members and the way mods communicate throughout this forum with members can only be described in charitable terms as highly disdainful. The number of pinned notes and rules on a WRESTLING forum from an outsider almost make this place look like a parody. You close threads if someone has an opinion you don't like.
Please reconsider as honestly with social media, Facebook groups, Twitters and the Reddits and all that other good stuff that aren't run by people looking to get an authority fix, this place either won't be here in 5 years time or it's traffic will be a fraction of what it is today.
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Post by The Zombie Mod The on Apr 7, 2020 6:32:48 GMT -5
Seriously though as an (inevitable) parting gift - you run a wrestling forum. Wrestling. And you've made it the single most restrictive and draconian place to discuss anything online, even stuff that matters. There seems to be a passive-aggressive hatred of members and the way mods communicate throughout this forum with members can only be described in charitable terms as highly disdainful. The number of pinned notes and rules on a WRESTLING forum from an outsider almost make this place look like a parody. You close threads if someone has an opinion you don't like. Please reconsider as honestly with social media, Facebook groups, Twitters and the Reddits and all that other good stuff that aren't run by people looking to get an authority fix, this place either won't be here in 5 years time or it's traffic will be a fraction of what it is today. My thread about whether the women's division in WWE was currently receiving undue prominence given how good the current roster is, was closed. There was no swearing, no arguing, no breaking the fifty-six pinned notes on rules we can't breach...nothing. Just an opinion that the current women's division isn't very entertaining and therefore is perhaps being given undue prominence within the current product. This place really is the North Korea of wrestling forums. Wrestling is supposed to be fun. Draconian, serious-as-a-heart-attack mods with zero people skills who talk to members literally like crap and who have an issue with opinions on wrestling they disagree with. This'll result in a ban but it's just going to be a ban from a forum someone created so he can feel in charge. Cool. I'll go elsewhere. yeah you've pulled this song and dance before, Guys, this is likely my last post here and I have enough respect not to do the classic ‘open a thread and flounce’ routine, but this site is easily the single worst platform of wrestling discussion on the internet. I used to lurk here back in ‘the day’ when it was associated with the Wrestlecrap site. Debates would rage fiercely on a number of topics. Even the most inane discussion could end up fairly heated, because people were passionate about their love of wrestling. Threads on fairly inane subjects would quickly break into double-figure page threads as everyone would pile in, not afraid to exchange their views. It was also a place of tremendous humor. Sadly it’s morphed into the most counterproductively ‘woke’, humorles, over moderated board on the internet. If you’ll forgive the political inference, the moderation here borders on the authoritarian. Undoubtedly moderators see it as their job to stop opinions. The Hogan thread for example, the opinion that Hogan was a jerk that shouldn’t be allowed back was allowed, but the thread closed the second the counter argument got made. There was no ‘flaming’ or abuse, no language, threats, political or religious discussion - it wasn’t even getting particularly heated. Closed. And that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. As someone who used to peruse the site back in ‘the day’ it’s bizarre to see how fairly puritanical and dour this place has become in the interim. I’ve ranted about this before but the Raw and Smackdown. threads are now getting a fraction of the number of posts they used to get. You don’t even have to look that far Source: This boards very own archive page. Smackdown thread - 12/27/16: 79 pages (1.579 posts and 21,507 views) Smackdown thread - 01/01/19 - 25 pages (444 posts and 5,550 views) That’s in little over 2 years. Interest in the product hasn’t fallen that much. Yet desire to want to discuss it here has fallen off a cliff. And that example is less embarrassing that others I could have picked. If you want to go back even further than 25 pages is what you'd get an hour after the thread had been created, two-days before it was due to air. It's genuinely horrible to see what's happened to this site. You could blame some on the drop of interest in the WWE product but you also have to look at the overbearing moderation we have here now where moderators, despite the denials, demonstrably see it as their job to stop discussion or any opinion that they don’t like. And the thing is I know I’m not alone. I’m in contact through other means with posters of the past who voted with their feet who stopped coming here for the same reason. They’re still chatting about wrestling elsewhere, still equally as prolific, but they do so in a setting where they don’t fear a moderator will give them a warning for the crime of expressing an opinion they disagree with, have threads locked when it looks dangerously close to breaking out into a debate, or have it suddenly announce that entire WWE events cannot be spoken about or referred to because…”politics” But you know, whatever. I’ve accepted if you no longer enjoy something walk away. There’s almost nothing of interest that happens here anymore because of moderators who smother discussion under the direction of an individual who turned the most vibrant and expressive wrestling message board into a quite austere, somber and self-righteous platform that’s dying before our eyes and whose response to this post is probably going to be denials/ban and just carry on as normal. In 12 months time everyone will look back and wonder why the Raw/Smackdown threads are struggling to get into double figures. Meanwhile the big guy will frantically try and think of another 11 rules he needs to impose. Oh well, such as life. Out. you're bitching about the rules here again, everyone agrees to those rules when they sign up. you deleted your account then came back to post here again despite the moderation being so draconian and oppressive, I'll just quote what I said to you last January
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 7, 2020 21:23:28 GMT -5
My thread about whether the women's division in WWE was currently receiving undue prominence given how good the current roster is, was closed. There was no swearing, no arguing, no breaking the fifty-six pinned notes on rules we can't breach...nothing. Just an opinion that the current women's division isn't very entertaining and therefore is perhaps being given undue prominence within the current product. This place really is the North Korea of wrestling forums. Wrestling is supposed to be fun. Draconian, serious-as-a-heart-attack mods with zero people skills who talk to members literally like crap and who have an issue with opinions on wrestling they disagree with. This'll result in a ban but it's just going to be a ban from a forum someone created so he can feel in charge. Cool. I'll go elsewhere. Go elsewhere, then. You posted that trying to bait people.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 8, 2020 15:55:57 GMT -5
Imagine typing that much word vomit to say "I'm leaving this board."
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Pensacola Tableheads
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Post by Pensacola Tableheads on Apr 8, 2020 18:42:56 GMT -5
Would it be OK if I made a thread for my Twitch channel in case I do stuff for other board members to join in?
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AskaMod
Apr 9, 2020 15:00:24 GMT -5
Post by Psy on Apr 9, 2020 15:00:24 GMT -5
Would it be OK if I made a thread for my Twitch channel in case I do stuff for other board members to join in? Would you mind if it was a general streaming thread, so that other posters that might stream could post theirs there too? I can see some others wanting to do the same thing.
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AskaMod
Apr 9, 2020 15:04:38 GMT -5
Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 9, 2020 15:04:38 GMT -5
Would it be OK if I made a thread for my Twitch channel in case I do stuff for other board members to join in? Would you mind if it was a general streaming thread, so that other posters that might stream could post theirs there too? I can see some others wanting to do the same thing. I'm all for this.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Apr 10, 2020 13:22:33 GMT -5
Just a quick FYI: we currently have XFL threads in both WWE-Current and Off-Topic, in addition to the original one. I’m assuming they would be merged into the all-purpose XFL thread in the Sports forum, right?
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AskaMod
Apr 10, 2020 14:24:39 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Limity (BLM) on Apr 10, 2020 14:24:39 GMT -5
Just a quick FYI: we currently have XFL threads in both WWE-Current and Off-Topic, in addition to the original one. I’m assuming they would be merged into the all-purpose XFL thread in the Sports forum, right? Merge the threads? Oh so just screw social distancing, eh?!
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