Long Threads

Have to agree with the man with the hot avatar. i'm on the team, and the main reason I dropped coin was to support BS. Now I feel like BS isn't supporting me.

 

Just as Marcel spotted this thread, BSSM got locked.

I find it all quite amusing, given the speed at which it happened. However, I am inclined to think that having one thread of 1,000 pages is preferable to having many threads of 350 (or even 200) replies, with associated separate headers, references, and so on.

Or is the overall aim to limit posts, full stop ?

 

Doesn't make sense to me, but how long before this blows the 350 post limit?

So we have 124 of the "Panic's coolest thread - Part CXXIV"

or one thread? Seems like the server would get tanked up as Red mentioned having to sort all those threads.

 

Huss is having a laugh. Sitting back with two strippers and some coke saying "ha look at all those soccer nerds."

 

Some warning would have been nice, ya know.

 

He had it in the mod area - but wham, bam, thank you mam it was in place just 24 hours later or so. Originally they wanted 200 posts. Personally I'd like to see the post count in the Yanks Abroad section as most of those just break down into arguments about whether Jack Monkey should come back to MLS, whether Bruce should call Jack Monkey to the Nats, or something similar.

 

Or at least trying to push us over the edge. I have thirty bucks a year that can get me better service elsewhere.

 

Seems fair to say.

I wonder if sponsors or adds care if we are talking about soccer or other stuff?

 

So let me get this straight. I spend my money to support and show my loyalty to Bigsoccer and I'm rewarded by being Royally screwed? What percentage of the people that were first on board with their money are also people posting in the long NSR threads? We were there for you when times were hard and you screw us like a ten dollar whore.

How do I get my thirty dollars back?

Srew you Huss.

 

How? I mean, what difference would've it made, other than start the kvetching earlier?

 

How does a 350 post/thread limit screw anyone?

 

Don't look now, but Huss is a soccer nerd. It's true, I've met him.

 

People who paid money to support this site might feel included in the community.

People signed up for something. It got changed without notice. That sucks. I'm glad Ididn't pay the $30.

 

I just paid the $15 and I feel screwed. Andy, i had a NSR thread going in FFA with over 1,500 pages of history. The thread was over 2 years old and was a mainstay, now we have to start all over again. Sort of loses its energy now that its on page 1 again.

 

because a major aspect of BS is being changed. It will effectively kill the big threads like BSSM, Daisychick, RT, CarolinaB, and others.

Those threads fostered a real fealing of community, nurtured friendships, and includes some of BigSoccer's most fervent supporters. And now they're dead.

Not to mention that we've been screwed by losing something that we paid our money to keep.

 

Don't know what's showing up on your end but I'm seeing that this site is called Big Soccer. That seems a pretty clear indication of what the site is about. I'm actually amazed at all of the non soccer related forums that they've allowed to exist. There's certainly nothing stopping anyone from setting up their own site or listserv elsewhere where you can decide how it's run and post inane non soccer crap til your hearts content.

K

 

But if the issues are technical and not management, then I would hope that the folks who frequent BigSoccer are intelligent enough to understand and respond humorously instead of emotionally.

If, on the other hand, if it is true - and I don't believe it is - that Huss and company are just doing this to piss FFA/FCM/NS people off, then just ignore me.

Me, I've spent most of the last 20 years working in low level computer programs, and have long been fascinated at just how long some of the threads have become.

Hopefully folks will adapt. I mean the other site I most frequent has a limit of 50 posts per thread and virtually no moderation.

I'd hate to think that folks take things so personally that they leave BigSoccer for this. It should be a technical/intellectual issue, not an emotional one.

I'm afraid, however, that I'm fanning the flames - not my intent, and I haven't spoken with Huss about any of this - so I'll stop.

 

Why? I would appreciate a real answer. Not cause I felt like it. Unless you know that long threads will cause server problems leav well enough alone. Perhaps you should address the real problem, all the code that loads on BS right now that and not thread length is the real issue. On my dial up at home it takes forever to load up.

 

If they are technical, then why not explain them and allow people to discuss the changes instead of just throwing the hammer down? I understand there could/probably are technical issues. But why not be up front about that kind of stuff to the entire community?

I hope people will adapt. I don't want people to bail. I don't believe the customer is always right, but the customer had no imput on an aspect that so many used. I think they deserved the courtesy of some discussion regardless of whether that changed Jess'e mind or not.

 

Not to mention some damn good soccer discussions as well. Just because it was in FFA does not mean we did not discuss a lot of soccer. I know we did in our little thread.

 

People need to get a life a bit here. It's a soccer board first and foremost, and if the NSR boards are overwheling the system then the answer is to curtail or shut down NSR. And I say that as someone who really enjoys the Politics and Music forums. I know I'll get flamed over this, but I fail to see how a 2,000-page thread on a soccer board with almost no soccer content is a great accomplishment that needs to be preserved.