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    #272
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Okay that sounds fine Iago. But I may not be around for that. I think the arguments have been made at this stage so you can just move what is on here to the soccer thread when the time comes. If anyone wants to add to it they can but i have pretty much stated my case. I think really there should be a two thirds majority to carry other vote as it looks to be very tight.


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    #273
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't post much any more in general but from someone that used to post regularly on soccer I think that sub forums for each club or super thread forums would be a bad idea , an even worse idea would be for separate forums only for PL sides. What about the Leeds, Newcastle, Celtic, Rangers(Eire Bear :p) Spanish league supporters etc etc. Why exclude them when they make a big contribution to the forum itself?

    Making separate areas would take the posters away from the main forum which would be a bad thing. Also, how would you go about putting a case forward to approve each section? It would be very messy & it will just put extra work on the mods & admins. If you don't like particular posters just learn to deal with them for fúck sake or quite simply click the ignore key. I always used to dig a hole for myself in regards to the banter I'd have with United fans(especially last year) but I would just laugh it off. I cannot see why other posters cannot do the same. At the end of the day, if you split up the soccer forum community it will just kill the main forum in general in my opinion which would be a bad thing given it's popularity. Why can't we all just get along eh?


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    #274
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay that sounds fine Iago. But I may not be around for that. I think the arguments have been made at this stage so you can just move what is on here to the soccer thread when the time comes. If anyone wants to add to it they can but i have pretty much stated my case. I think really there should be a two thirds majority to carry other vote as it looks to be very tight.

    And what if there is no two-thirds majority either way? Everything stays as it is?


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    #275
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Okay here is what im starting to think. Move the superthreads to seperate forum as was suggested by Dub13. Allow some leeway in what other clubs want to post via subject that is topical. Remove the off topics sticky status as it is at this stage taking up space. new threads being started up get mod approval. Consider removing the streaming thread because as valuable as it is it also taking up space. Posters can bookmark on their own browser. Decide in other words how many threads you want on main page and manage it after that. Will drop the sub forum idea provided we can have some representation via thread space.


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    #276
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Consider removing the streaming thread because as valuable as it is it also taking up space.

    Why would we remove a valuable thread that is serving its purpose when people have now got the hang of it and find it useful?
    Will drop the sub forum idea provided we can have some representation via thread space.

    That sounds like Union speak.

    Altogether now - "WHAT DO WE WANT?"


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    #277
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    astrofool wrote: »
    In response to this. If you are to walk away, it doesn't need to be made public, until the change has occurred, and then you walk away. People may give out about spirt/bay's need to announce he's leaving the forum, but the mods are being just as melodramatic when they do the same thing. It also makes it a case of "my way or the highway", and reinforces the cliquey nature of moderation in the soccer forum.

    Announcing it the way a couple of the mods have, is, as Des so eloquently described it, being a sensitive Sarah.

    I presume the other mod you are talking about is me.

    We were discussing how any future break up of the forum would be modded,someone suggested that the current mods stay on.I simply said I have no interest in doing that,You are trying to make out that I mad a big deal out of it or it was some kind of announcement,this was not the case I was just replying to a question.


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    #278
    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay here is what im starting to think. Move the superthreads to seperate forum as was suggested by Dub13. Allow some leeway in what other clubs want to post via subject that is topical. Remove the off topics sticky status as it is at this stage taking up space. new threads being started up get mod approval. Consider removing the streaming thread because as valuable as it is it also taking up space. Posters can bookmark on their own browser. Decide in other words how many threads you want on main page and manage it after that. Will drop the sub forum idea provided we can have some representation via thread space.

    love the way you make it sound like a negotiation.....


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    #279
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Okay you asked it. What do we want. More threads. Myself and mike65 as two of the top three pool posters are calling for it. Give us something Xavi. One thread per fortnight without the threat of it been shut down after three posts.


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    #280
    Spud83
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    Can you give me an example of a thread you would create that would not be just as easily discussed in the super thread?


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    #281
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay you asked it. What do we want. More threads. Myself and mike65 as two of the top three pool posters are calling for it. Give us something Xavi. One thread per fortnight without the threat of it been shut down after three posts.

    I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

    One thread per fortnight on what? Does that one thread get shut down after a fortnight when another starts? Or do you just keep sneaking them in every two weeks until, holy shit, it's a forum full of Liverpool threads!

    Clever. I'll give you that.


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    #282
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,959 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay you asked it. What do we want. More threads. Myself and mike65 as two of the top three pool posters are calling for it. Give us something Xavi. One thread per fortnight without the threat of it been shut down after three posts.
    If your threads aren't in breach of charter, or against the rules of the forum they won't be closed, so maybe its you that needs to change and not Xavi. Stop turing this debate into a bargaining tool for you to get more threads that appeal to you on the soccer forum.


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    #283
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭The Recliner


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay you asked it. What do we want. More threads. Myself and mike65 as two of the top three pool posters are calling for it. Give us something Xavi. One thread per fortnight without the threat of it been shut down after three posts.

    No offence to either yourself or Mike intended but I would prefer quaility over quantity

    Just becaue you post a lot does not give you more say than poster who post infrequently

    Plus anytime I see Mike post lately it has been to say how Sh!t the place is which does little to help the situation


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    #284
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,581 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Threads aren't designed for or conducive to discussing multiple topics at once. Superthreads are a misuse of the vBulletin functionality. Forums and sub-forums are designed to group individual discussions of a single general subject, threads are for the focused discussion of one exact topic.

    By shoehorning all of these discussions into a single superthread, you're damaging the conversation. It can really only deal with one topic at a time, so it is inevitably dominated by the single latest or biggest story of the day.


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    #285
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    LoLth wrote: »
    love the way you make it sound like a negotiation.....

    I can't stop laughing at that.


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    #286
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    Can you give me an example of a thread you would create that would not be just as easily discussed in the super thread?
    Okay fair enough. The Liverpool ownership thread which should be made a stickie until its resolves. Clubs future very important.


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    #287
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    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay fair enough. The Liverpool ownership thread which should be made a stickie until its resolves. Clubs future very important.

    A thread about a single club should be a sticky? r u srs?

    What about the Man Utd ownership, should that be a sticky?

    The Pompey Administration?

    Both equally as important topics.

    You are becoming a parody of yourself at this stage


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    #288
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay fair enough. The Liverpool ownership thread which should be made a stickie until its resolves. Clubs future very important.

    Now I know you're just a piss taker.

    When is that leave date?


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    #289
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Des wrote: »
    A thread about a single club should be a sticky? r u srs?

    What about the Man Utd ownership, should that be a sticky?

    The Pompey Administration?

    Both equally as important topics.

    You are becoming a parody of yourself at this stage
    It can be destickified when the interest drops down. Lets face it des. No one had any problem debating the Liverpool and Rafa done thread. Any time we lost it got bumped. Dragged on for four months untill Lucky Lloyd had the vision to take the sting out of it. And Im guessing United fans wouldnt want to wash their dirty linen in public.


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    #290
    The Muppet
    Registered Users Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭The Muppet


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay you asked it. What do we want. More threads. Myself and mike65 as two of the top three pool posters are calling for it. Give us something Xavi. One thread per fortnight without the threat of it been shut down after three posts.


    Sorry SOS but that's one of he funniest comments I have ever read here, who's the renegade, AL?


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    #291
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Okay fair enough. The Liverpool ownership thread which should be made a stickie until its resolves. Clubs future very important.

    Whatever about a separate thread there is no way this should be a sticky. Absolutely not.

    However when has this discussion of that ever been stifled in the super thread? I have read many interesting discussions and informative posts regarding the said issue, and have never seen it dragged off topic or whatever.

    This topic is something that would not be discussed every day. Its something that gets discussed when new information or new revelations happen.

    Also and I actually find this hilarious.

    You created such a thread right here

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055795481

    it went on for eight pages and was never locked.


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    #292
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    The Muppet wrote: »
    Sorry SOS but that's one of he funniest comments I have ever read here, who's the renegade, AL?
    Dont know where Mr Alan is today. So cant speak for him as such. Myself, Nekidbible man and Mike65 are all agreed on this. Thats a big chunk if you ask me.


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    #293
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    alanmurphy83 wrote: »

    it went on for eight pages and was never locked.

    4 pages n00b


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    #294
    event
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    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    And Im guessing United fans wouldnt want to wash their dirty linen in public.

    what does this even mean?


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    #295
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    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Dont know where Mr Alan is today. So cant speak for him as such. Myself, Nekidbible man and Mike65 are all agreed on this. Thats a big chunk if you ask me.

    It's three people out of the whole forum, but there are 7 people in here looking for a subforum idea to be accepted.

    Anyway, just because you have thousands of posts in a single thread doesn't make you any more valid than someone who has only one.

    Why do you think it does?


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    #296
    Dub13
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    The Liverpool ownership thread is not even a sticky on Irishkop.


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    #297
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    Des wrote: »
    4 pages n00b

    shuut up, they load faster when they are smaller.

    postcount is nothing but a number. Its meaningless.


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    #298
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    shuut up, they load faster when they are smaller.

    postcount is nothing but a number. Its meaningless.

    Go HMod....:)


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    #299
    _blank_
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    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    postcount is nothing but a number. Its meaningless.

    You are only saying that because your postcount is so small.


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    #300
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    alanmurphy83 wrote: »
    shuut up, they load faster when they are smaller.

    I bet you say that to all the ladies


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    #301
    event
    Registered Users Posts: 16,051 ✭✭✭✭event


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Dont know where Mr Alan is today. So cant speak for him as such. Myself, Nekidbible man and Mike65 are all agreed on this. Thats a big chunk if you ask me.

    between the 3 of ye, ye have 1776 posts on a thread that has 19,937 posts.

    thats around 9%. so you think that 9% of a thread is a big chunk.

    im not even taking into account quality of posts, just quantity


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