2020 Columbus Crew schedule

Discussion in 'Columbus Crew' started by TRUJDUB, Dec 19, 2019.

  1. kgilbert78

    kgilbert78 Member+

    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    United States
    Dec 28, 2006
    Cowlumbus, OH
    Club:
    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Folks--there's a thread for politics.
     
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  2. Ch(Elsey)

    Ch(Elsey) Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    May 2, 2003
    Green, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That sub-forum should be nuked.
     
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  3. POdinCowtown

    POdinCowtown Member+

    Jan 15, 2002
    Columbus
    If you feel that strongly about it, you should participate there.
     
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  4. TKyle

    TKyle Moderator
    Staff Member

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    Dec 28, 2014
    Nordecke’s Porch
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    (Original poster not noted because this post is about the sentiment, not the poster)

    I don’t understand the above sentiment. The Crew Politics board gathers a lot of dust and cobwebs, sure. But why does it get panned? It wouldn’t get dusty if people visited it and posted.
    Now, some folks don’t like to engage in political discussion. Which is fine. Different strokes and all.
    Last summer during the Women’s WC, a thread over here veered into the political. Which understandably annoyed some people. Yet (IMO) it was a lively and charged discussion which I enjoyed reading. It went along for some time. Appropriately, Kyle moved it to the political board, where it DIED in its tracks. I never understood that, and I’d like some insight on that, if folks care to share. (Or send me a PM if you don’t want to post about it.)
    This has (mostly) always been a reasoned, lively forum with different perspectives. But why not on the political front?
     
  5. LaMacchia

    LaMacchia Member+

    Jul 12, 2008
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm with you: I'd like to see a vibrant political discussion. Especially in an election year.
     
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  6. Ch(Elsey)

    Ch(Elsey) Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    May 2, 2003
    Green, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Somewhat related but not to your points - Crew NSR should be disbanded and out in the light. It is not secret I disagreed with the action when that occurred fifteen years ago.
     
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  7. TKyle

    TKyle Moderator
    Staff Member

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    Dec 28, 2014
    Nordecke’s Porch
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I’d like to point out, before Timon does, that the “poster” I quoted should have said “periodic SENTIMENT” and not “periodic sediment.” No, I wasn’t trying to help Cybrslydr with a geology project. I think after a discussion mentioning him yesterday I must have been channeling Jack Sticker...
     
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  8. TKyle

    TKyle Moderator
    Staff Member

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    Dec 28, 2014
    Nordecke’s Porch
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think doing so would see those threads get more traffic.
    OTOH (not a criticism of you), it’s not that hard to click over to there. I myself don’t tend to do so but for every 2-3 days.
     
  9. Ch(Elsey)

    Ch(Elsey) Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    May 2, 2003
    Green, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    One thing that also bugs me about NSR is that you cannot see the forum if you are a guest. That seems like that is quashing potential outside traffic.
     
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  10. jairadballerina

    jairadballerina Member+

    Sep 15, 2004
    C-Town
    Also can't see them easily on Tapatalk. But it is good to help camouflage other conversAAAtions from other members of this board....
     
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  11. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    IMO, pushing the political threads to a far corner makes sense. If someone wants to find them, they're there. If someone doesn't want to enter an area for division and bickering, that's totally fair.

    It's like back when the rivalries forum was really active...if you want it, it's there. If not, it's easily avoidable.
     
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  12. POdinCowtown

    POdinCowtown Member+

    Jan 15, 2002
    Columbus
    That's how we got the politics sub forum. It turns out BS has a politics and current events forum elsewhere but since Ohio is a swing state and central Ohio a swing region, we got bombarded with ads every 4 years. So Fid created the forum to keep politics out of the other threads.
     
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  13. kgilbert78

    kgilbert78 Member+

    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    United States
    Dec 28, 2006
    Cowlumbus, OH
    Club:
    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Makes a lot of sense. Heck I don't even want to see ads for people I'm for...
     
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  14. Bill Archer

    Bill Archer BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 19, 2002
    Washington, NC
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Been saying that for years. Even if I love everything you stand for I dont like being bombarded.

    My wife had to go in for surgery over the weekend before election day 2000. I spent almost 48 straight hours in a large Ohio hospital and since every single place where they want to corralled has TV's blaring, I got hours and hours of political ads. I dont think there were ads for anything else.

    Some of the candidates I liked, some I detested but it didnt matter; I wanted to punch each and every one of them in the mouth
     
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  15. kgilbert78

    kgilbert78 Member+

    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    United States
    Dec 28, 2006
    Cowlumbus, OH
    Club:
    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It is interesting, in a way, however to be out of town during an election cycle--I've had that happen a few times--and get to hear ads fro folks you have no idea about. One of my favorites was "Vote now for Terrance Later"...
     
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  16. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If there's any good thing about political ads, it's that we won't get Christmas ads in September.

    At least DVRs soften the blow a bit. If the show starts at 8, start it at 8:20 and it's not *as* bad.
     
  17. TKyle

    TKyle Moderator
    Staff Member

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    Dec 28, 2014
    Nordecke’s Porch
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That makes sense.
    Is it worth not having the politics forum as a separate subforum in the NCR—just have those threads rise up and down amongst the “what are you reading/drinking/listening to” and the “WTF” and “Awesome Things” threads? Would they get more traffic that way? (And uninterested NCR posters could just skip over those threads.)
     
  18. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why have it as a subforum of a subforum?
     
  19. MLSinCleveland

    MLSinCleveland Member+

    Oct 12, 2006
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Club:
    Cleveland C. S.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's a ticketmaster thing and I think they have a league deal with the NFL and possibly MLS (for primary sales).
     
  20. hardhead

    hardhead Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 19, 2008
    NEO
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    We're pretty off topic for the 2020 Crew schedule. But, to answer your point: it is an artifact of how it unfolded. Back in these forums a long while ago, EVERY SINGLE THREAD was turning into rank, often name-calling, uncivil (and often not substantive) partisan debate. There were reasons this was happening, but it was becoming so unbearable that people were leaving the forum.

    There has always been a lively Politics & Current Events forum on BigSoccer where several of our active members have been also active in their discussions at times. We repeatedly asked people to tone it down, to be civil, to not make these forums a bad experience for people who just wanted to talk about soccer. There was soreness about censorship and we tried again. Eventually, the group of active mods at the time decided we were taking partisan politics out of the Crew forums--and asked people to move it over to the general forums.

    There was a group of people here who were generally substantive in their political discussion and pleaded to allow political discussion just among Crew fans (and not in the general BigSoccer forum), specifically so Ohio/Columbus politics could also be discussed. The mods didn't want to deal with that. So, that group (led by @POdinCowtown IIRC) asked the SuperMods if they could moderate their own Crew subforum for politics. The forum mods said they'd be happy to allow it, so long as they had no responsibility for policing it.

    And, that's how Politics became a subforum of a subforum.
     
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  21. LaMacchia

    LaMacchia Member+

    Jul 12, 2008
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  22. 110toyourleft

    110toyourleft Member+

    Jan 27, 2007
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Tickets are now showing up in account manager with the QR codes and everything.
     
  23. LaMacchia

    LaMacchia Member+

    Jul 12, 2008
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Can I download them to a digital wallet yet, or are we still waiting for the FO on that, too?
     
  24. 110toyourleft

    110toyourleft Member+

    Jan 27, 2007
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yep - download, transfer, sell.
     
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  25. TracieB

    TracieB Member

    Oct 2, 1999
    Columbus, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Doesn't look like you can print them like you could last year. Looks like mobile entry only.
     

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