I didn’t get banned for negativity, I was banned because I got into it with one of their beloved Tennessee trolls they love and protect vigilantly over there. I went, he stayed. I don’t know many Gamecock fans that search out Gamecock forums so they can muck it up with a rival school and have that rival school bash your team on your own teams board, but hey, that seems to be the business model they’re going for on CT. More power to ‘em.
On CT, "negative" meant critical thinking or using your mental faculties to make educated conversation that posed questions unrelated to uniforms or "how amazing the team was going to be".
That’s not 100% true. As long as you matched the moods of the mods you were okay. Like the things they like don’t like the things they don’t and they were fine. It was when you stepped out of line and didn’t like something they did that there were problems.
It sure never stopped them from getting ban happy.
The operate under the Good ol' boy system. If you get into an argument with one of the friends on the board you will be the one banned even if you weren't the one flaming.
Like others have pointed out, too often their friends were fans of other schools. Between that and basically never being able to take paid, professional coaches to task without getting banned I said to hell with them. I enjoy this board MUCH better.
Yep, for all that people bitch and moan about it, there were some really good things over on CT that you just don't get here.
Me. either, but I looked at it and saw it was a saccharin site. So I familiarized myself with their preferred style - and adopted a different approach everyplace else I post.
Me. either, but I looked at it and saw it was a saccharin site. So I familiarized myself with their preferred style - and adopted a different approach everyplace else I post.
Oh BS. There was no consistency for how posters got banned, nor for how long. Unless it was for not being being all sunshine and unicorns. But even that was forgivable -- if you were an opposing fan. Then you could bash away to your hearts content.
I enjoy reading anything I agree with, if it's pretty literate. I don't go in for personal insults and name-calling, and that means towards players or other posters. That's for people who aren't smart enough to articulate thoughts.
Spurticus used to be pretty strict with enforcing bans. He eventually left the board because of posters getting out of line according to him. I will give Spurticus some credit. He was the reason Spurrier had to shut down the open fall camp practices. He would write really in depth analysis on the practices and scrimmages and post on CT. Spurrier mentioned that some people were sharing too much detailed info as the reason.
They always had the Gamecock equestrian updated by match , Great baseball live commentary , good recruiting info
This entire paragraph basically sums my -- and many others -- entire argument about why that site sucked. Vent threads? That could only be started my the mods? Seriously? And even the posts in those specific threads could get you banned if you dared to criticize paid, professional coaches. And even those threads would get shut down if there was more criticism than sunshine. (And let's not pretend like there was a vent thread following every pathetic loss.) I've NEVER seen that crap here or any other boards.
LOL! Great post - I agree with all of it - Especially the part about Thumpin' - LOL!
