[Rev_Hal]

Man, we really need a win this week. Not so much for the team, but for old Rev. I really can't stand this place after a loss - even one where we played a great game against great team in their house. This place has always been negative, but the past week had been as bad as this place has ever been (sans the Vick season).

I have 1 question for you people who are trashing the team this week - what the heck is the matter with you??? Why are you even here? This is a young team on the rise. We have more talent now than we have had in a decade. We have young players that are going to be stars for a long time. We are competitive and last time I checked, WE HAD A WINNING RECORD!!!!

But I come here are there are 1000 garbage threads like http://life.atlantaf...-playoff-bound/. Look at the last 20 years folks and tell me how many 10-6 and 9-7 teams have made the playoffs. Please - someone look it up for me (I'm swamped at work today;)). We are out "out of it" at all. We are not horrible, and this is not the worst season in history.

It's like many of you just WANT this team to lose. You can't stand that we are competitve. It's like you want to be depressed. You won't be happy until the team is 16-0 and go undefeated in the playoffs, and you still probably would not be happy then. You cling to the past losing season and want to project it on to this team right now.

ENOUGH!!!!!!! Stop it! In the spirit of Samuel L. Jackson, "I have had it with these ****** ******* whiners on this ****** ******* board!!". If you do not want to be a part of the paradyme shift going on with this franchise, the LEAVE. If you don't want to be a part of watching this team compete on a yearly basis, the GET OUT OF HERE! This is the greatest time to be a Falcons fan in 43 years. If you can't see that, then take your garbage elsewhere.

It is fine to talk about the negatives of the team and have discussions of what we do wrong and where we should improve. Having discussions that are critical of the Falcons is our right and our obligation. But this board has been taken over by nonsense garbage about how this team, it's star players, and the entire organization are horrible. If you truly believe that, then you don't belong here.

For the group of loyal fans that understand what is happening in this city, this is my call to arms. TAKE BACK OUR MESSAGE BOARD! Talk about the positives and negatives in contructive way. Put the garbage creators in their place! We can never get rid of the people that make diridulous posts, but we can show each other and the football nation that this is an intelligent fan base with loyal and supporting fans.

To the true fans - show your true Falcons colors!!!!!!!!!!!

/soapbox

[friar_bones]

Man. How come I cannot +1 this? :huh:

[crankdatfalcon]

thread of the decade..needs to be pinned for life!!!!

Most of the threads that are being made trashing our team are by newbs and opposing team fans. Thats why a proposal needs to be passed on this board that states you have to have a minimum of 100 post to create a thread. That wouldnt completely wipe out the problem but it will slow it down.

[Rev_Hal]

http://life.atlantafalcons.com/public/style_images/atlanta/snapback.png

[lucifersam]

Rev_Hal, on 05 November 2009 - 09:51 AM, said:

Man, we really need a win this week. Not so much for the team, but for old Rev. I really can't stand this place after a loss - even one where we played a great game against great team in their house. This place has always been negative, but the past week had been as bad as this place has ever been (sans the Vick season).

I have 1 question for you people who are trashing the team this week - what the heck is the matter with you??? Why are you even here? This is a young team on the rise. We have more talent now than we have had in a decade. We have young players that are going to be stars for a long time. We are competitive and last time I checked, WE HAD A WINNING RECORD!!!!

But I come here are there are 1000 garbage threads like http://life.atlantaf...-playoff-bound/. Look at the last 20 years folks and tell me how many 10-6 and 9-7 teams have made the playoffs. Please - someone look it up for me (I'm swamped at work today;)). We are out "out of it" at all. We are not horrible, and this is not the worst season in history.

It's like many of you just WANT this team to lose. You can't stand that we are competitve. It's like you want to be depressed. You won't be happy until the team is 16-0 and go undefeated in the playoffs, and you still probably would not be happy then. You cling to the past losing season and want to project it on to this team right now.

ENOUGH!!!!!!! Stop it! In the spirit of Samuel L. Jackson, "I have had it with these ****** ******* whiners on this ****** ******* board!!". If you do not want to be a part of the paradyme shift going on with this franchise, the LEAVE. If you don't want to be a part of watching this team compete on a yearly basis, the GET OUT OF HERE! This is the greatest time to be a Falcons fan in 43 years. If you can't see that, then take your garbage elsewhere.

It is fine to talk about the negatives of the team and have discussions of what we do wrong and where we should improve. Having discussions that are critical of the Falcons is our right and our obligation. But this board has been taken over by nonsense garbage about how this team, it's star players, and the entire organization are horrible. If you truly believe that, then you don't belong here.

For the group of loyal fans that understand what is happening in this city, this is my call to arms. TAKE BACK OUR MESSAGE BOARD! Talk about the positives and negatives in contructive way. Put the garbage creators in their place! We can never get rid of the people that make diridulous posts, but we can show each other and the football nation that this is an intelligent fan base with loyal and supporting fans.

To the true fans - show your true Falcons colors!!!!!!!!!!!

/soapbox

It's real simple and as a mod you should fully realize this.

This message board is setup so ANYONE with any FREE email account can sign up and post here in under 5 mins.
When you have those conditions you are simply asking for a ton of trolling, spam, and non sense like all the negativity we get after a loss.

The noise to good post ratio would be ALOT better if new users had to wait 48 hrs to post and new users had to have 100 posts to create a new thread.

These are pretty simple things that can be put in place that would seriously reduce the amount of spastic noise we get all the time and it would not require any additional work from the mods.

Why can't something like that be done? Why has this issue been ignored so long?

Also for a start why aren't the user ratings being enforced? If a person has a -200 rating they should probably either be banned or suspended for a short time.

This post has been edited by lucifersam: 05 November 2009 - 09:00 AM

[trickworm]

I'm with you Rev.

[R13jd]

Rev_Hal, on 05 November 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

Man, we really need a win this week. Not so much for the team, but for old Rev. I really can't stand this place after a loss - even one where we played a great game against great team in their house. This place has always been negative, but the past week had been as bad as this place has ever been (sans the Vick season).

I have 1 question for you people who are trashing the team this week - what the heck is the matter with you??? Why are you even here? This is a young team on the rise. We have more talent now than we have had in a decade. We have young players that are going to be stars for a long time. We are competitive and last time I checked, WE HAD A WINNING RECORD!!!!

But I come here are there are 1000 garbage threads like http://life.atlantaf...-playoff-bound/. Look at the last 20 years folks and tell me how many 10-6 and 9-7 teams have made the playoffs. Please - someone look it up for me (I'm swamped at work today;)). We are out "out of it" at all. We are not horrible, and this is not the worst season in history.

It's like many of you just WANT this team to lose. You can't stand that we are competitve. It's like you want to be depressed. You won't be happy until the team is 16-0 and go undefeated in the playoffs, and you still probably would not be happy then. You cling to the past losing season and want to project it on to this team right now.

ENOUGH!!!!!!! Stop it! In the spirit of Samuel L. Jackson, "I have had it with these ****** ******* whiners on this ****** ******* board!!". If you do not want to be a part of the paradyme shift going on with this franchise, the LEAVE. If you don't want to be a part of watching this team compete on a yearly basis, the GET OUT OF HERE! This is the greatest time to be a Falcons fan in 43 years. If you can't see that, then take your garbage elsewhere.

It is fine to talk about the negatives of the team and have discussions of what we do wrong and where we should improve. Having discussions that are critical of the Falcons is our right and our obligation. But this board has been taken over by nonsense garbage about how this team, it's star players, and the entire organization are horrible. If you truly believe that, then you don't belong here.

For the group of loyal fans that understand what is happening in this city, this is my call to arms. TAKE BACK OUR MESSAGE BOARD! Talk about the positives and negatives in contructive way. Put the garbage creators in their place! We can never get rid of the people that make diridulous posts, but we can show each other and the football nation that this is an intelligent fan base with loyal and supporting fans.

To the true fans - show your true Falcons colors!!!!!!!!!!!

/soapbox

Couldn't of said it better myself... If u guys wanna bash you're own team, become an Eagles fan!!!

[UnrealFalcon]

majority of the negative posts are from users who signed up less than 7 days ago.(and i'm not talking about the real fans) They're just allowed to flood the board with 20 threads..

This post has been edited by UnrealFalcon: 05 November 2009 - 09:00 AM

[Rev_Hal]

lucifersam, on 05 November 2009 - 08:57 AM, said:

It's real simple and as a mod you should fully realize this.

This message board is setup so ANYONE with any FREE email account can sign up and post here in under 5 mins.
When you have those conditions you are simply asking for a ton of trolling, spam, and non sense like all the negativity we get after a loss.

The noise to good post ratio would be ALOT better if new users had to wait 48 hrs to post and new users had to have 100 posts to create a new thread.

These are pretty simple thing that can be put in place that would seriously reduce the amount of spastic noise we get all the time.

Why can't something like that be done?

That call was made by the Falcons organization. The position of the team is that we welcom all comers, especially those from opposing teams. As long as the COC is not violated, all are welcome.

But the garbage I'm talking about is from long time posters.

[lucifersam]

Rev_Hal, on 05 November 2009 - 09:59 AM, said:

That call was made by the Falcons organization. The position of the team is that we welcom all comers, especially those from opposing teams. As long as the COC is not violated, all are welcome.

But the garbage I'm talking about is from long time posters.

Not sure what your seeing but what we see is new users who are here less than 7 days spazing out all over the place or the same few people like ATL75 signing up for 1 million different accounts.

A time period wait and post limit to create a new thread would not hinder anyone from joining the board it would simply stop blatant trolls and spammers. Any user that wanted to be a part of this message board still could.

But if the organization is not going to address the root cause of the issue don't ever expect it to go away.

[rvrndzombii]

completely agree man.. its awesome to be a falcon fan now.. even people i talk football with that are not falcon fans have a different outlook on this team.. do they all say that we are the greatest team ever and are bound for a super bowl? well no.. but they actually take us seriously, which is much more than i could say about years past.. i used to get that condescending grin when i would mention our team..not anymore

now as for the ridiculous negative posts, i must say for some odd reason i find them oddly entertaining.. It makes me wonder who in the world these people are, and what their warped little world must be like. I think the only way to fight these type of issues is to either let the posts fall off of the page or to post the most asinine response possible (my personal favorite :lol: ).. however there can be no logical arguing...its like in gremlins except its completely not like that at all.

[Joey563]

This is one of the reasons i dislike that so many people play video games that are supposed "as real as the real game" because people start to think just because they can go a whole videogame season and only lose 1 or 2 games that the pros are suppose to do the same. I remember when if we broke .500 if was a great season..

[friar_bones]

Rev_Hal, on 05 November 2009 - 08:56 AM, said:

If you cold rate Admins, we would all be at -40,000,000,000,000,000.

:lol:
Naw, Bankerbird has a +2 right now.

[pr0d1gy]

There was a lot of us who had previous accounts, so if they would quit changing the boards and forcing us to re-register you would see a lot less "noobs" here. As for me, I posted a thread after the game suggesting that major professional sports leagues are all fixed. I love our team, I think we could beat anyone on an "even playing field" but we might have to play in the CFL, EFL, or some other league to get that very thing.

[virginia falcon]

totally agree. im all for spirited debate and honest criticism, but the whole "matt ryan's a bust" "fire all the coaches right now"... i mean come on.

[phattywankenobi]

I'm trying Rev. I attempt logic based on concrete facts and perhaps some people filter out the positive posters because I get no response that clearly beyond a shadow of doubt disproves the off the top of the head whiners. They are only interested in venting or if they do respond it is solely based on insults and not factual base for argument at all. I don't start a lot of posts because most of the time 10 other people started the same one. I don't need attention, I just like to talk football.

I know this is more of a tech question but why isn't there a minimum post count before people can start a post? Their 1st amendment rights they so dearly guard but sorely misunderstand wouldn't get trampled on.

[virginia falcon]

.... and when people post the same topic 15 time in a row just to get their point across really screws up the message board for everyone else. there im done.

[Caddieman]

LOL! Rev I post a like thread, however not so near as eloquent as this one and I got people whining about the the post. If you whine about Smith, Turner or Ryan there is on hope for ya! Great thread by the way!

[Rev_Hal]

virginia falcon, on 05 November 2009 - 09:13 AM, said:

.... and when people post the same topic 15 time in a row just to get their point across really screws up the message board for everyone else. there im done.

Should we limit the amount of new threads you can start in a day? I'm not sure the org would go for that, but what would be an acceptable #?

[Joey563]

phattywankenobi, on 05 November 2009 - 09:13 AM, said:

I'm trying Rev. I attempt logic based on concrete facts and perhaps some people filter out the positive posters because I get no response that clearly beyond a shadow of doubt disproves the off the top of the head whiners. They are only interested in venting or if they do respond it is solely based on insults and not factual base for argument at all. I don't start a lot of posts because most of the time 10 other people started the same one. I don't need attention, I just like to talk football.

I know this is more of a tech question but why isn't there a minimum post count before people can start a post? Their 1st amendment rights they so dearly guard but sorely misunderstand wouldn't get trampled on.

I can agree to a point with the minimal post count except that im at 617ish post and i have been here since '02, plus it would encourage people making several hundred substance free post just to get their post count up.