I haven't read this whole thread, but I want to say for what it's worth that I'm thrilled. I think merging the boards will inject some much-needed life into this forum.
I haven't read this whole thread, but I want to say for what it's worth that I'm thrilled. I think merging the boards will inject some much-needed life into this forum.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
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i miss the epic battles with NEILYNG.
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What's the deal with FCB anyway? Weren't he and Steel both banned? How long does that last, isn't it time to bring them back? Or is the absence of their own volition?
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
I agree with M2 on this.
I loved the rep system and thought the board was more interesting back then. Used to post almost exclusively on the baseball side, now I rarely do. I dont honestly know if its related to the death of the rep system or not. Could just be a lot of other factors that happened to come about around the same time.
I think merging the board is a step in the right direction.
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Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
I've skimmed this thread, and this is my favorite idea. Rep points next to our name sounds lame, but it would be nice to scroll through some of the enormous threads that sometimes get started and just read some of the more interesting, or important, or entertaining posts. Red Reporter has something like this and I always like scrolling through their game threads and reading a couple usually hilarious posts. Can't really do that here. Maybe this would also do away with the "No Discussion Threads." I hate those things!
Not sure that a "thanks" button is necessary.
Occasionally, I will thank someone for posting a link to an article that I think is interesting. But I'm not doing it to build my post count. I don't think we have that problem here. Thankfully, post count is not a status symbol on this board.
I guess to be brutally honest, this message board isn't exactly the friendliest place on the internet, so I like that there's no rep-like tools anymore.
I'd fear a problem where someone posts something, the rebuttal gets 100 thanks.. the person who wrote the rebuttal gets a swollen head and continues attacking..
Note, I am not complaining about the board in any way, I just think the rep system caused more bad feelings than good, which I imagine just created more work for the mods. I am sure people like M2 did not abuse the rep system, but unfortunately everyone is not like M2.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
Again, I am not criticizing the board, but isn't it possible that the barrier to enter the ORG has now made it not worthwhile for new posters to try to get in?
I mean, a newbie poster could only interact with the people that could vote for him in the minor league forum (and maybe nonbaseball talk).
What if a newbie poster isn't a hardcore minor league guy?
He languishes in the Sundeck forever.
Heck, there's one person in the Sundeck (I will not mention his name) that did something politcially incorrect about maybe 5 years ago? People still hold grudges for that.. I'm not even sure if he's still here or not, but I remember it being brought up in his vote.
I think with the barrier to the ORG lower, we will get an influx of new posters. I am excited about this change.
I miss a lot of the old posters too. Not sure why they are less active, but people change in life. Only so much can be talked about on a Reds forum.
Walt is an awesome GM, but he doesn't juggle the roster on a weekly basis like Bowden and Wayne did. Less fodder for discussion.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
For those of you lamenting the quality of discussion, I can recommend the discussion in the Minor League thread under "John Sickels Rankings." There has been a lot of great stuff in there about the potential impact of speed and run expectancy.
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showt...t=99883&page=7
GIK and I have agreed to implement the "thanks" addon on a trial basis. This will not be visibly tracked anywhere, so this is not the reputation system all over again. Due to the problems it caused (or that were exploited), we have no desire to go back to that.
It's very easy to change the "thanks" link to a "like" link a la Facebook while providing the same functionality; only the verbiage is different. I'd like to take an informal poll: which do you prefer?
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