PLEASE READ: N&A Guidelines & Restructuring

Praise the goddess. I think if I had to read another thread about a certain past coach benching a certain goalie in favor of a certain other goalie at a certain tournament, I'd gouge my eyes out with a spork.

 

can you also clean up the in-game threads? It's painful getting through all of the BS about computers, match tracker, what people are eating, etc. and just reading about the game itself.

 

i tend to agree with casocrfan. i know it's your call but i'm sure there are more of us who would prefer a stricter pbp in this thread and then the fan thread would be where we can post about the food, beer, personal stories including kvetching, etc.

also with regard to the new media forum, i think that the n&a forum is already too sparsely populated to split it into two. if you add the removal of stuff about previous teams to the fan forum that makes this forum very bare indeed. sometimes several days pass and it's silent in here. this will make it worse. (i know it's just another click of the mouse).

just my two cents.

 

I love the in game threads especially when we are only stuck with craptracker. Yes people joke a little and thats why its great. WTF else are we supposed to do between the 5 minute lapses in anything on matchtraker. i also know a lot of other people enjoy reading them even post game.

I agree that it can close after the game and open a new thread, but i personally really enjoy the discussion and vibe in their during a game. I mean what are we supposed to type about otherwise. good shot, o wait i cannot actually see them game so i can only imagine that it was a good shot.

 

I don't have a problem with the restructuring of the forums, but I hope PBP threads stay the same. I realize there are often more lurkers than posters, but it's easy to request actual play-by-play and not just chat about what is going on. Most matches have been on MatchTracker and have not had television or radio coverage. The PBP threads make it all bearable and fun. If there is a problem with the discussion, I doubt posters would have a problem adjusting if requests were made in those threads during the matches.

 

Just me 50 cents, but here it is...

I have seen other boards ruined by having a catch all for news, articles and such.

There are some players I dont care to read about and i don't want to have to 200 posts to see if I missed anything

People will stop reading and eventually you end up with 2, maybe for people who want to go through all the dribble...

As for play by play, if you only want the soup and nothing else, use yahoo or msn and take over a chatroom for the game.

try listening to MNF and only get the play by play, won't happen


it is much easier to cscan the titles of the threads, avoid the ones I don't want to read and go to ones I do. The ones with no action fall off pretty quick.

I fo one will be avaiding these threads and i would rather go through title fodder than than a catch all.

It is a good way to kill your users from coming to the board and shutts out most new people who have to readd the entire thing to find something that interest them

I have already cut down the number of post and thoughtfull replies that I make and only check this board from time to time, because I cant get the articles listed within an easy link

 

I agree - I miss being able to scan quickly for new threads about new articles and such. AND I liked not needing to scroll through lots of previously-read material to get to what I want (or see if I've missed something).

 

Clicking on the little picture of the document with an arrow will take you straight to the latest unread post of a thread. You don't have to scroll through things you've already read.

You might be sick of trying to find an article, but I personally was a little tired of finding four threads on the same subject, like, "Hope Solo r0x0rs the big one!!!111" and "OMG you guys Hope got a hangnail!"

Since I suggested a TWoP-like restructuring, I'll suggest some threads:

- PBP/Post-game (obviously)
- Team news (this includes any articles about the team in general)
- Individual player threads (this would include interviews with/articles about specific players, player analysis, injuries)
- Upcoming games/Questions about upcoming games
- Youth team(s) news (U20s, U23s, etc... can have their own thread, but let's not start a NEW thread each time a roster is named or they play an insignificant (relatively speaking) tournament)

This is pretty much what redcard suggested. I'm not sure why it's such a problem.

 

like i posted before, i know it's just another click of the mouse, but i also liked just scanning the thread titles and going straight to the one i'm interested in.

 

That's what Riz does over in the DCU section. Works quite well. I'll miss her when she has her kid.

 

if it is C=R=A=P, delete it, make a general guidlines for stuff that will be deleted...

1: All "player AAAA stinks" threads will be deleted
2: All Ryan vs hope or Hope vs Ryan is deleted

when a new thread get to be annoying, add it to the list

 

or close it.

sometimes it's good for all to see that even tho a thread started out fine, it was going nowhere. so close it, people will see why.

i've seen that happen many times - including to threads that i participated in; and i wasn't upset, even tho i didn't get my last word in before the thread was closed. as long as it was closed based on the guidelines.

delete or close, but let's see all the new stuff available as soon as we clilck on the us women's forum.

 

This is the News and Analysis section. Bonnie, if you are saying you can't make your analysis or argument by referencing other players or coaches or generations, that is like saying a lawyer can't use previous rulings in their current cases. Perhaps it annoys people, but then you should just call it "News" and take out the "Analysis" then.

 

oh,my bad. sorry.
... I thought this was a new thread.
I didn't realize it's from a long time ago. i'm late to the draw... ops.