ads216 said:
I joined this forum in 2002 and here were many football relevant threads plus in the off topic section there were lively debates in a whole bunch of topics and games etc.
Now there are tons of new members but about 90% of the older members do not visit the forum anymore. And if you look at the threads, it's the same thing over and over again. There are so many redundant threads on the exact same topic with very slight variations. and the forum is far less interesting than it used to be.
Even though there were plenty of arguments before, the arguments now seem to be on a much more personal level and insulting men vs. women etc. There are a lot of members who think they can simply write a lot of insulting stuff about whoever they want to without getting banned or warned and this has dramatically reduced the quality of the forum. If you read the older threads, the mods made sure the posts were kept inline with the topic and posting irrelevant stuff or taking the thread in a completely different direction was discouraged. Nowadays, most of the threads start off as onething but along the way, the posts are on things that have nothing to do with the topic.
When this forum was started there were plenty of members who were from Italy and who contributed a hell of a lot to the English forums. But now they never post on the English forums because they say all they see is nasty fighting in the forums instead of actualy repartee there used to be. So they all are confined into the Italian section and do not post anything in the English section anymore.
I think a serious revamping on the policies and the behavior is needed. otherwise the forum will keep getting more and more boring. The diversity of the members is what made this forum interesting but now with the personal attacks and the redundant threads, the forum is losing its attraction.
Brilliant post ads216!
From my point of view, many of our members don't want to post when the forum's fucked up big-time with arguing all over the place + countless useless posts around.
Wake up mods/admins - it's about time !
The only thing I'd like to add ti your post is all these nationalistic/political comments around at the forums.
I've seen a lot of harsh and ugly comments around from the Former Sovjet republics, former Yugoslav republics and Israel/Rest of the Middle East.
Please - leave all the political crap at home - or find another political forum. Yeah I know that we have an off-topic section. But still it ain't the right place to discuss politics.
I remember some time ago we were talking about Eastern European teams in the CL, and a guy from Ex-Sovjet started bashing Russian players and Russian teams - just because they'r Russian
Same thing happened when Red Star fans invaded the forums, they were around for like 5 minutes and suddenly they began talking of slaughtering Albanians and about Kosovo.
Look, I don't give a shit about politics nor slaughtering - like most people around here, this is an footballforum god damn!
And YES, re-open the thread - Passion is absolutely right - we shouldn't let some lame comments screw the whole thread, ever heard of the delete function?
