Politics threads

[Vombatus]

I think, instead of all this negative stuff (I was going to say bull****, but it's the Christmas season), anyway, why don't we post some links to some of sj.com's best ever threads so that Jeff can learn more about the site, its characters, and some of the really funny things that have gone down here?

 

[Vombatus]

And as a start, I offer the two SJ.com Style Guide links:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/29220/

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/43742/

 

[jr/shotglass]

Then this IS a State of the Board Thread.

 

[Songbird]

Don't out.


Should be the lone rule here.

 

[Boom_70]

Red Auerbach on rules:
"We like our players to play for fun and to be happy rather than afraid. It’s like that in any business. If you have employees who work through fear, you’re not going to get any ingenuity out of them. You’re not going to get any employees who will take a gamble or come up with ideas. All you’ll have are robots that are going to do their jobs, have a low-key approach, stay out of trouble. They’ll put in their hours and go home. But I’d rather have it the other way."

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

You catch more flies with honey. I don't think that lesson has been absorbed.
"I like a man who grins when he fights," as somebody once put it.

 

[schiezainc]

I think the problem is this board doesn't know what it wants to be. If this is supposed to be a serious place with serious posters and serious discussions, you can't restrict the free flow of information by limiting what we can and can not talk about and can and can not post.
On the other hand, if you want it to be taken seriously, you need a professional level of decorum the likes of which the internet has never seen or some of the more intelligent and rational people who frequent this place won't stay long.
That's why I always felt having the politics child board was really the best of both worlds. I'm not going to say Jeff should check out the clone to this place to see how they run their politics site but I think they have the right idea. A separate section of the site, where you can discuss those matters, and make sure it stays in there and nowhere else.
All I know is that if I can't come to this place to see pictures of girls who are 6s, then I don't know what the point is.

 

[Vombatus]

Continuing with great threads from the past, here's urinals!

sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/urinals.94419/

 

[dooley_womack1]

I chuckle at the thought that someone has to "bring a game" on a message board. I don't think this is what Darwin had in mind. Anyhoo, the core that kept this board vital...we got older, in a lot of cases real life took over too much, and to some, the tone was no longer the kind that engaged us in the first place. I imagine this isn't the first board this maturation/death spiral? process has happened to. I myself blame not having yearlong Sheep. But a board that doesn't have Lugnuts, Ace and 21 around, to name just three, is not going to be the same as far as smartness and fun goes; it just isn't. There are still some people that have that spirit, as far as I can tell from my occastion visits, just not enough to keep the bustle that used to lead to only about 3-4 dead hours a day.

As for Jeff...spent the gold, makes the rules. Same as Lucas and Kenny.

 

[Moderator1]

As for Jeff...spent the gold, makes the rules. Same as Lucas and Kenny.

A voice of reason returns. Welcome and thanks. I don't mind people who smoke but I've always had a rule: No smoking in my house or my cars. Those who don't like it don't have to come over or ride with me.

When it was Lucas' house, he made the rules.
When it was Outclick's house (Kenny was not an owner), they made the rules.
It is now Jeff's house. He makes the rules. Plain and simple. You want to set the rules, buy the house. Stroke Jeff a check for 150K or so and we'll play by your rules.

Don't be a stranger Dools. Thought of you the other night when the kids and I dined at The Beer Authority.

 

[MankyJimy]

A voice of reason returns. Welcome and thanks. I don't mind people who smoke but I've always had a rule: No smoking in my house or my cars. Those who don't like it don't have to come over or ride with me.

When it was Lucas' house, he made the rules.
When it was Outclick's house (Kenny was not an owner), they made the rules.
It is now Jeff's house. He makes the rules. Plain and simple. You want to set the rules, buy the house. Stroke Jeff a check for 150K or so and we'll play by your rules.

Don't be a stranger Dools. Thought of you the other night when the kids and I dined at The Beer Authority.

This site sold for $150,000?

 

[Moderator1]

You seriously scare me.

 

[MankyJimy]

You seriously scare me.

How much do moderators get paid?

 

[BDC99]

How much do moderators get paid?

At least $150K. Plus full benefits.

 

[Moderator1]

At least $150K. Plus full benefits.

I scoff. Maybe the newbs. Us vets are pushing 500K.

You new here Manky? We get paid the same thing you get paid. Nothing. Never have (though Webby1 did send me a t-shirt once. still waiting on the thong). We do it because we like the community.

 

[dooley_womack1]

A voice of reason returns. Welcome and thanks. I don't mind people who smoke but I've always had a rule: No smoking in my house or my cars. Those who don't like it don't have to come over or ride with me.

When it was Lucas' house, he made the rules.
When it was Outclick's house (Kenny was not an owner), they made the rules.
It is now Jeff's house. He makes the rules. Plain and simple. You want to set the rules, buy the house. Stroke Jeff a check for 150K or so and we'll play by your rules.

Don't be a stranger Dools. Thought of you the other night when the kids and I dined at The Beer Authority.

A voice of reason? Boy, I have you fooled. Hell, I was paying my occasional visit to town, sorry I missed you.

 

[bigpern23]

I haven't read through all 11 pages of this thread (Eleven? Really? Eleven pages on this site is now is worth about as much as 30 home runs were worth in the year 2000), but I'll say this: Ninety percent of Sportsjournalists take the second half of that label more seriously than the first, and banning discussion of politics among a group of people who value the news only stifles debate, discussion and, yes, page views.

Oh, and I mean, 11? Seriously?

 

[BDC99]

I haven't read through all 11 pages of this thread (Eleven? Really? Eleven pages on this site is now is worth about as much as 30 home runs were worth in the year 2000), but I'll say this: Ninety percent of Sportsjournalists take the second half of that label more seriously than the first, and banning discussion of politics among a group of people who value the news only stifles debate, discussion and, yes, page views.

Oh, and I mean, 11? Seriously?

Well, to be fair, take out all of the poo-flinging, and it'd only be like 4 pages. I agree that we should get to discuss politics and current events, but this thread is a good example of why we can't.

 

[bigpern23]

Meh. Didn't read through all the poo-flinging.