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Yep, I'm sure everyone that posts here a lot gets this feeling once in a while.
I've had to stop posting in pretty much every other forum I visit, and I blame Team Liquid entirely. I visit a hockey forum and have 3-4k posts there over the years but I went back there today after not posting for a few months and wow... I can't describe it.
It's the same as it's always been, but that has become unbearable for me.
Half the threads are people having knee jerk reactions to something (trade this player, he sucks 3 games into the season on a new team) or sensationalist crap based on reading article headlines (but not the article itself). Most thread's OP have 1 or 2 sentence in them if you're lucky, and most posts are memes and pure flaming of everyone else (put 30 fans of competing hockey teams on the same forum, watch everything blow up).
Ex : Thread title = "OMG X DESTROYS Y HUGE HIT!"
Post : "Crazy!"
Every other post in the thread : "youtube", "that sucked fail", etc
I wanted to discuss the hockey season but before I could I gave up on the site. A real discussion is impossible and you're lucky if your thread gets 5 posts in it before someone starts flaming you. It made me realize how much I like the moderation in general here, despite how many feel about LR threads. Trust me, these are nothing. They may get spam, but at least no one is posting "FANS/PLAYERS OF TEAM X SHOULD ALL DIE I HATE THEM ALL" because their team is losing... or even when they're winning.
In fact, posting in that kind of environment leads me to make ridiculously stupid posts as well because I get pissed off.
And so, I've thought up a genius idea.
Team Liquid needs to start renting their moderators and rules to other sites!
Picture a site you used to like but that happens to have a few hundred idiots constantly ruining the potential discussion. Now picture how it looks 1 week later after that website rents Manifesto. Amazing right?
But yeah, anyone have a hockey forum with harsh moderation and good discussion?
  
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yah but TL staff are already so busy as it is....just go ask Chill lol
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/
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I know the feeling. It makes me wonder how I ever tolerated GameFAQs. Nowadays, the only forums that I can enjoy are TeamLiquid and Smogon; the rest are simply gigantic cesspools of fuck.
On October 16 2011 02:07 Carnac wrote:
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/
The difference is that TL mods do something about it.
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On October 16 2011 02:07 Carnac wrote:
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/
I don't disagree, but there aren't enough to completely destroy any and all topics. At the very least, it's not that difficult to have a conversation (at least in blogs) without randomly being called a stupid fuck.
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This blog is terrible, you should just stop posting and kill yourself or something.
I actually agree though, looking at other forums makes me sad.
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On October 16 2011 02:07 Carnac wrote:
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/
just look at the ACS refuses $500,000 thread lol.
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Indeed, what initially impressed me and made me want to stick around on TL was that there was actual intelligent discussion ongoing. Even in the General forum, which I was told to stray away from, people lead civil conversations/discussions.
The internet attracts a lot of idiots, due to a lot of things that I won't bother listing here, and there end up being a lot of stupid people on TL as well, but the mods do such a great job of flushing out the idiots, it doesn't matter.
edit: wow aeres smogon? I didn't know you were into pokemons! gogo pokemons~
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On October 16 2011 02:07 Aeres wrote:
I know the feeling. It makes me wonder how I ever tolerated GameFAQs. Nowadays, the only forums that I can enjoy are TeamLiquid and Smogon; the rest are simply gigantic cesspools of fuck.
Smogon definitely has its share of ... really bad posts...
@OP totally agree ^^
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On October 16 2011 02:21 kaisr wrote:Show nested quote +On October 16 2011 02:07 Carnac wrote:
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/ just look at the ACS refuses $500,000 thread lol.
General forum is really pretty terrible sometimes, I avoid it completely! I prefer reddit for those kinds of topics TBH
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I agree!
I just can't read any forums now that I got into TL. But I like it that way, I don't think I'm missing much.
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United States17042 Posts
I can't post in any other forum, I really like hanging out on TL
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Actually, TL should just take control of the Internet in general.
Then they could have a training program and test you needed to get to receive an internet license.
After that you could use the internet, but if you were a bad poster, you might get banned.
This seems perfect. :p
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On October 16 2011 02:23 synapse wrote:Show nested quote +On October 16 2011 02:07 Aeres wrote:
I know the feeling. It makes me wonder how I ever tolerated GameFAQs. Nowadays, the only forums that I can enjoy are TeamLiquid and Smogon; the rest are simply gigantic cesspools of fuck.
Smogon definitely has its share of ... really bad posts...
I don't deny it, but I don't care, because the really bad posts are all made fun of. People there generally know what merits a good post, and those who don't get sent to Trou du Cul.
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The standards I have for my internet are even higher than what is on TL.
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If they pay TL $100,000 a week per mod, then I'm all for it :D
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United States4053 Posts
On October 16 2011 02:07 Aeres wrote:I know the feeling. It makes me wonder how I ever tolerated GameFAQs. Nowadays, the only forums that I can enjoy are TeamLiquid and Smogon; the rest are simply gigantic cesspools of fuck. Show nested quote +On October 16 2011 02:07 Carnac wrote:
tbh there are a lot of bad posts on TL as well :/ The difference is that TL mods do something about it.
hmmm smogon, from my experience the average mod there is a below average poster
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Although I do agree with what OP is saying about how the quality of team liquid is certainly greater than that of other sites. At Team Liquid you certainly get a sense of 'community'. However that's saying there aren't some bad posts here. I mean I do bad posts quite a lot but at least the mods are quite excellent. The difference between TL and other forum websites is that the moderators actually seem to read the posts of everybody and get involved unlike other websites.
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