(06-17-2020 07:51 PM)Purplehazed Wrote: (06-17-2020 07:02 AM)JMUNation Wrote: H’burg is a great guy. I think we could use an additional moderator as he is not present enough to go solo. There are times when things go to far and there are too many OT personal scrabbles. We have lost a lot of posters over the years because of this. I run into folks who are big fans of JMU and when we discuss our boards the common statement is “they are hard to read”.
The board hard to read comments come from the constant bickering about conference-fcs-fbs, not politics.
Moderators can't moderate opinions about sports even if repeated 10,000 times.
For some people that might be it, but the things that make threads unreadable at times have absolutely nothing to do with opinions about that kind of stuff.
If you click a thread on conference realignment and don't like what you're reading about conference realignment, that's 100% on the person that clicked on the thread.
The things that make it unreadable to me are three separate issues:
1.When we start attacking one another. I'm not talking about fun ribbing into one another. I'm talking about taking the low road and hurling insults and resorting to name calling just for thinking someone had an opinion someone else totally disagreed with.
2.Going completely off tangent. When you click a thread for conference realignment and there are page after page of people talking about something completely unrelated to the topic, that's a problem. When you click on a link and have to go back pages to find out how the discussion even got to that point, that's pretty ridiculous. It doesn't have to be political, but at times it obviously does go there.
3.Trolls.
Here's the best part of this: we can fix a lot of this on our own. Be more respectful to one another. There is an actual person on the other side of things. Try to keep that in mind.
Try to make an effort to stay on topic. If you have an opinion that has nothing to do with the topic, just make a new thread. No reason to have a recruiting thread turn into a 10 page discussion on why narwhals are actually mermaid jedis. Of course that is an over-exaggeration, but you get the point.
And I said it before, but this is not at all an indictment against hburg. I just think it's impossible (and unfair) for one person to have to keep track of everything that happens here and expect things to be squeaky clean. It's just not reasonable.