The epic shitness of the forum

[Ursus]

When we play well we praise..when we play shit we call it.

Its called being honest son..try it.  Some of us have let our eyes and brains tell us what to think. We can see whats good and what ain't.

If that were true, fine.

Unfortunately it is not.

What it has become is continual knocking whether deserved or not. Some players get continually hammered while others can do no wrong.

It is insidious, and easy to get caught up in and destroys justifiable criticism and match discusion and eventually the morale of the entire support base especially when done through a public forum.

Personal name calling of those joining the discusion really helps.

Enough.

 

[FFC Mariner]

For mine. this debate is long overdue. I fully support the mods having control over what posts get deleted, what warnings are issued, etc

There's half a dozen posters on here that offer nothing except put shit on people who offer their opinions and they get cut down and ridiculed. Great way to encourage new posters and those that read and haven't posted because they are nervous to do so for fear of replies.

A good forum about any topic anywhere in the world is where people can freely express their opinions and others whilst maybe not agreeing have respect for those views. It's what we call a civilised society in western culture.

I hope we see the day when we have a vibrant, diverse forum where everybody can express views without fear or favour. A forum where we have a couple of thousand regular contributers each with their own opinion, negative or postive, good and bad, that are respected by all. When that happens we will all be better for it and we can all learn something from each other. After all, we all have one thing in common and that is our love of the Mariners. All that should transcend everything else.

We may not know each other personally but we've all got one love in common and it's blue and yellow.

Have avoided this thread for now (and I'm glad really) but for this post

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