| This Messageboard 12:23 - Sep 24 with 13221 views | Sharpy |
Following on from a post by Clive in another thread regarding improving this site what do you all think needs changing if at all ?
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| This Messageboard on 13:40 - Sep 24 with 1514 views | Northernr |
| This Messageboard on 13:39 - Sep 24 by real_loftus |
I think the site is fine. Can I slag you off anyhow? |
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| This Messageboard on 13:43 - Sep 24 with 1504 views | Sharpy |
Two/to/too things.
Like Charlie has said, i to have meet a lot of posters from this board in person, and although we have differing views on various subjects, to a man they have been a pleasure to know.Maybe a few more on here could try it.
As for the posters who offer opinions from watching a 6 by 4 screen on matchdays i do struggle at times to see how you reach those decisions.Take yesterdays game.Every stream i checked(about 12)there was a lag in play and how you make out one player from the next is beyond me.They all looked the same until a replay was shown. | |
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| This Messageboard on 13:58 - Sep 24 with 1481 views | MoonshineSteve |
I used to post on here a lot. Now I post rarely. Two points mainly:
1. There are too many people on here unable to have a sensible discussion. Reasonable people can disagree reasonably, but it seems to be increasingly the case that a differing opinion has to be made by belittling the other person or belittling their opinion rather than addressing what they disagree with. The sort of behaviour most adults stop shortly after they leave school.
2. There are the WUMs, the posters who just take the opposing view to anything just for the sake of a row. They seem to think they're being clever and/or intellectually provocative, but are actually just really boorish and boring.
As mentioned above though, not much the mods can do about that. Don't want press censorship. Just means some posters enjoy Clive's articles, seek info on rumours, but don't bother to post much any more. |  |
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| This Messageboard on 14:04 - Sep 24 with 1469 views | Charlie1 |
| This Messageboard on 13:58 - Sep 24 by MoonshineSteve |
I used to post on here a lot. Now I post rarely. Two points mainly:
1. There are too many people on here unable to have a sensible discussion. Reasonable people can disagree reasonably, but it seems to be increasingly the case that a differing opinion has to be made by belittling the other person or belittling their opinion rather than addressing what they disagree with. The sort of behaviour most adults stop shortly after they leave school.
2. There are the WUMs, the posters who just take the opposing view to anything just for the sake of a row. They seem to think they're being clever and/or intellectually provocative, but are actually just really boorish and boring.
As mentioned above though, not much the mods can do about that. Don't want press censorship. Just means some posters enjoy Clive's articles, seek info on rumours, but don't bother to post much any more. |
That seems reasonably reasonable
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| This Messageboard on 14:07 - Sep 24 with 1458 views | Bluce_Ree |
1. Login thing going back to the front page. Must stop.
2. Sections. Seriously this forum needs sections. QPR chat/off-topic chat. At least that way I've got a fighting chance of finding an old thread that I want to update. Because it's all in one big section threads are lost too easily.
3. Search function.
4. See user's previous posts/topics started.
5. Lose the f**king swear filter. Please. Take away my swearing and I lose at least 90% of my f**king personality.
6. Away fans section. A bit like the Palace BBS. Keep all this Fulham sh1te well away from the QPR chat.
7. Sticky the 'INteresting' thread. Just for Hucker's awesome Dusty Bin post. |  |
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| This Messageboard on 14:11 - Sep 24 with 1449 views | JAPRANGERS |
| This Messageboard on 13:43 - Sep 24 by Sharpy |
Two/to/too things.
Like Charlie has said, i to have meet a lot of posters from this board in person, and although we have differing views on various subjects, to a man they have been a pleasure to know.Maybe a few more on here could try it.
As for the posters who offer opinions from watching a 6 by 4 screen on matchdays i do struggle at times to see how you reach those decisions.Take yesterdays game.Every stream i checked(about 12)there was a lag in play and how you make out one player from the next is beyond me.They all looked the same until a replay was shown. |
I for one love this site. As of course I can only watch matches on the internet, I am grateful that I can read the opinions of those who actually attend matches. Thanks all. |  | | |
| This Messageboard on 14:11 - Sep 24 with 1447 views | BazWoT |
| This Messageboard on 13:58 - Sep 24 by MoonshineSteve |
I used to post on here a lot. Now I post rarely. Two points mainly:
1. There are too many people on here unable to have a sensible discussion. Reasonable people can disagree reasonably, but it seems to be increasingly the case that a differing opinion has to be made by belittling the other person or belittling their opinion rather than addressing what they disagree with. The sort of behaviour most adults stop shortly after they leave school.
2. There are the WUMs, the posters who just take the opposing view to anything just for the sake of a row. They seem to think they're being clever and/or intellectually provocative, but are actually just really boorish and boring.
As mentioned above though, not much the mods can do about that. Don't want press censorship. Just means some posters enjoy Clive's articles, seek info on rumours, but don't bother to post much any more. |
I agree with daggers and would add there are a few "socialists" on here who claim the moral high ground but abuse people for their opinion ad I mean abuse.
Still takes all sorts innit.
I don't see how someone watches a game can define a problem but that's been a bone of contention on here for many a year. Certainly can actually watch every single game now we're "top flight". Must agree with Sharpy on the lack of stream quality for the Spurs game, tried loads, all shyte really. Watched the game on match choice later for a better view of the game.
As for being there, these days I see very little, can't thing why. It's also clear that being there offers the opportunity for completely different views of incidents and therefore never a consensus, this only happens at away games where the view is the same and opinions can also be formed by those screaming for a foul/penalty/nose picking whatever it is.
As also said, I've met a number of posters from here over the years and they are all vvankers, including me! 
With the exception of the bloke we foisted ourselves on at a table outside the Adelaide whilst regaling the deer costume in Richmond Park, he was from Hampshire and his poster name will come to me at some point.
All this messageboard malarkey should be fun shouldn't it? 
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| This Messageboard on 14:13 - Sep 24 with 1438 views | BazWoT |
The monkey hanger/slayer is also excluded from the vvankers list obviously. | |
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| This Messageboard on 14:13 - Sep 24 with 1437 views | simmo |
| This Messageboard on 13:58 - Sep 24 by MoonshineSteve |
I used to post on here a lot. Now I post rarely. Two points mainly:
1. There are too many people on here unable to have a sensible discussion. Reasonable people can disagree reasonably, but it seems to be increasingly the case that a differing opinion has to be made by belittling the other person or belittling their opinion rather than addressing what they disagree with. The sort of behaviour most adults stop shortly after they leave school.
2. There are the WUMs, the posters who just take the opposing view to anything just for the sake of a row. They seem to think they're being clever and/or intellectually provocative, but are actually just really boorish and boring.
As mentioned above though, not much the mods can do about that. Don't want press censorship. Just means some posters enjoy Clive's articles, seek info on rumours, but don't bother to post much any more. |
This articulates my thoughts exactly. Although I still post fairly regularly I avoid the site at certain times, like after a defeat or if some particular news comes out causing mass panic.
Also, I echo certain sentiments above like meeting people, I met Charlie on Sunday and it makes it alot easier putting a face to the words. I know for example that he is a nice chap in real life that has questionable judgement in shirt sizes ;-)
I also appreciate people that 'go to games' would get a better overall picture of the game but this is also skewed by 2 people at the game having completely different views on what they are seeing. The point is not about having differing opinions, it is as Dagenham says, producing something coherent without belittling others so we can have a reasonable debate rather than a slagging match.
Also on the technical side, a search bar, this would reduce repeat posts and allow us to add to existing discussions
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| This Messageboard on 14:15 - Sep 24 with 1428 views | TheBlob |
| This Messageboard on 14:11 - Sep 24 by BazWoT |
I agree with daggers and would add there are a few "socialists" on here who claim the moral high ground but abuse people for their opinion ad I mean abuse.
Still takes all sorts innit.
I don't see how someone watches a game can define a problem but that's been a bone of contention on here for many a year. Certainly can actually watch every single game now we're "top flight". Must agree with Sharpy on the lack of stream quality for the Spurs game, tried loads, all shyte really. Watched the game on match choice later for a better view of the game.
As for being there, these days I see very little, can't thing why. It's also clear that being there offers the opportunity for completely different views of incidents and therefore never a consensus, this only happens at away games where the view is the same and opinions can also be formed by those screaming for a foul/penalty/nose picking whatever it is.
As also said, I've met a number of posters from here over the years and they are all vvankers, including me!
With the exception of the bloke we foisted ourselves on at a table outside the Adelaide whilst regaling the deer costume in Richmond Park, he was from Hampshire and his poster name will come to me at some point.
All this messageboard malarkey should be fun shouldn't it?
That is all |
Well this is it.I'd like to know what the definition of "sensible " is for starters.I wouldn't want to see a diminuition of the humour.Personally I'd love to meet other posters,if only to compare inside leg measurements. |  |
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| This Messageboard on 14:17 - Sep 24 with 1420 views | JAPRANGERS |
| This Messageboard on 14:15 - Sep 24 by TheBlob |
Well this is it.I'd like to know what the definition of "sensible " is for starters.I wouldn't want to see a diminuition of the humour.Personally I'd love to meet other posters,if only to compare inside leg measurements. |
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| This Messageboard on 14:20 - Sep 24 with 1415 views | daib0 |
I'm an away fan in peace, and I enjoy it. Good chat from you guys ...
If I'm honest, the only thing for me would be to slightly categorize the topics, because if you're not on for 48 hours you lose what you were looking at previously. Instead a having such a single huge forum, I'd humbly suggest three:
1] QPR chat
2] General football news
3] Other sports and general current 'life' issues
'Away' fans might then be encouraged to post in 'General Football' and not give opinions on things like QPR transfers or ticket policies when we obviously know far less than you guys do on this (as a mod on a Reading forum I'm acutely aware of the inter-reaction between home and opposition fans!)
But you've a very nice site, I did look around at a number of others before getting in contact first of all ... |  |
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| This Messageboard on 14:20 - Sep 24 with 1413 views | Rodneysgongger |
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| This Messageboard on 14:32 - Sep 24 with 1373 views | Northernr |
Good post Daggers.
Thoughts on some of the other points made....
1 - Log in going back to the front page.
Again, a techi thing and I was hoping to keep this discussion to content but yes it is bloody annoying, particularly when using the site on a phone, and will hopefully be corrected when the new version launches. Same with a search function. Hopefully the same with a 'merge thread' option for me, because then I can go through and merge posts on the same topic without nagging people about looking down the board to see if there is an existing thread.
2 - Separate sections.
Not happening, sorry, unless literally everybody on the site wanted this I wouldn't even consider it for several reasons. First of all the idea behind the board is it's like an online pub, where everybody sits around and talks about everything without somebody coming along and saying "if you want to talk about that you have to go to the other room". Second of all, whenever boards are seperated there is always one section that is used a lot more than the others, so people who want their post seen will put it in the busy board regardless, and then rightly moan when it gets moved. Third, it just becomes a stream of arguments about what is a QPR topic and what is a general football topic - Gareth Ainsworth new Wycombe manager for instance, where's that going? Southampton get first win of the season is presumably general football but also directly affects QPR. It's also time consuming for me when I'd much rather just let you all get on with it with minimal modding and me get on with writing copy. Four - if we had an away fans section at the moment it would have one Fulham fan, one Reading fan, and that Chelsea clunge twice a season.
3 Swear filter
Agree, needs to go, in keeping with the 'pub' idea. It's easily circumnavigated fck sht cnt etc but it's annoying and childish. The idea that there are loads of eight year olds waiting around on football message boards to be mortally offended by reading a swear word is a nonsense.
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| This Messageboard on 14:34 - Sep 24 with 1368 views | Northernr |
I think to be honest one thing that would help is if I shut up for a bit. Because we only have one moderator, and it's me, I'm on here pretty much all the time making sure nothing is kicking off and therefore I'll respond to most threads. I'm always pretty straightforward and blunt with my point of view and I think having the guy that runs the site on every thread, sometimes disagreeing with people in a forthright manner probably isn't the most helpful and welcoming thing. So I'll try and keep myself in check. | | | |
| This Messageboard on 14:36 - Sep 24 with 1326 views | Bluce_Ree |
| This Messageboard on 14:34 - Sep 24 by Northernr |
I think to be honest one thing that would help is if I shut up for a bit. Because we only have one moderator, and it's me, I'm on here pretty much all the time making sure nothing is kicking off and therefore I'll respond to most threads. I'm always pretty straightforward and blunt with my point of view and I think having the guy that runs the site on every thread, sometimes disagreeing with people in a forthright manner probably isn't the most helpful and welcoming thing. So I'll try and keep myself in check. |
nah you're good. Shut up about shutting up. | |
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| This Messageboard on 14:43 - Sep 24 with 1314 views | londonscottish |
| This Messageboard on 14:34 - Sep 24 by Northernr |
I think to be honest one thing that would help is if I shut up for a bit. Because we only have one moderator, and it's me, I'm on here pretty much all the time making sure nothing is kicking off and therefore I'll respond to most threads. I'm always pretty straightforward and blunt with my point of view and I think having the guy that runs the site on every thread, sometimes disagreeing with people in a forthright manner probably isn't the most helpful and welcoming thing. So I'll try and keep myself in check. |
No way. You're the pub landlord. You're expected to interrupt. |  |
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| This Messageboard on 14:44 - Sep 24 with 1301 views | TheBlob |
| This Messageboard on 14:34 - Sep 24 by Northernr |
I think to be honest one thing that would help is if I shut up for a bit. Because we only have one moderator, and it's me, I'm on here pretty much all the time making sure nothing is kicking off and therefore I'll respond to most threads. I'm always pretty straightforward and blunt with my point of view and I think having the guy that runs the site on every thread, sometimes disagreeing with people in a forthright manner probably isn't the most helpful and welcoming thing. So I'll try and keep myself in check. |
No,don't bottle it up,you must let it all out.Otherwise neuroses creep in at a later stage.Do you want to spend your latter years bound and gagged in a care home ogling pictures of naked African tribeswomen with droopy tits?
I think not. | |
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| This Messageboard on 14:45 - Sep 24 with 1299 views | Northernr |
| This Messageboard on 14:44 - Sep 24 by TheBlob |
No,don't bottle it up,you must let it all out.Otherwise neuroses creep in at a later stage.Do you want to spend your latter years bound and gagged in a care home ogling pictures of naked African tribeswomen with droopy tits?
I think not. |
That sounds wonderful actually, pay a bloody fortune for that at the moment. [Post edited 1 Jan 1970 1:00]
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| This Messageboard on 14:46 - Sep 24 with 1290 views | Bluce_Ree |
Oh, do this.
Implement this rule. Anyone making a thread that is just a link with no description or context gets banned for life.
If the link is to any tabloid paper, you go round their house and flush their dog's head down the toilet. | |
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| This Messageboard on 14:50 - Sep 24 with 1276 views | Vish |
As already mentioned
A search facility.
Anything to make it more user friendly on a mobile would be super.
I don't think there are as many WUMs around as people may think. More of, when they do appear people get p'd off.
For example, the top 5 threads as I type are;
This Messageboard
Lower School End
Kieron Dyer
Steve Kean
Gareth Ainsworth
All of which are decent reads with no WUMs in sight. |  | | |
| This Messageboard on 15:12 - Sep 24 with 1241 views | baz_qpr |
agree with all of that North. no to categorisation from me, search will resolve some of the issues
Baz people of all political persuasions are just as abusive however I enjoy the political debates on here, as North says it give it the pub feel.
Likewise every board has its agitators from Doran to Smiffy, it makes it interesting but please keep Jones off here.
Re the swear filter, agree swearing should be on but hey lets have some fun with the filter to autochange words to something humorous. Lets turn it into a cliche filter |  | | |
| This Messageboard on 15:26 - Sep 24 with 1223 views | eastside_r |
Like the idea of LFW being an on-line pub.
Mine's a pint if anyone's buying. |  | | |
| This Messageboard on 15:59 - Sep 24 with 1184 views | Michael_Hunt |
| This Messageboard on 15:26 - Sep 24 by eastside_r |
Like the idea of LFW being an on-line pub.
Mine's a pint if anyone's buying. |
I've definitley met you in a pub! |  | | |
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