There are a handful of sage responses to this topic, yours covers a few with which I tend to agree.
I am probably one of the oldest (born 1944) members here, been aboard since year one yet due to the fact that I have an incredibly low number of posts, see a lot of sophomoric ridicule when writing here.
It's nothing more than the "my chocolate tastes better than yours" idiom when posting an opinion. Those who have thin hides do not do well here. The best feature is "ignore", a feature that I use quite often on keyboard gunslingers that live vicariously here. This is especially true with threads comparing manhood claims or the color of dump they made that morning.
I have followed the chiefs since their first game in KC. There have be such atrocious seasons, but none sinking to the depth of this season. The CP soundboard this year is so caustic that sometimes it bends sanity just to read some of the threads. Years ago, I wrote my opinion of the franchise failures lay directly at the foot of the owner(s). Very few agreed. Now it is a hot topic. Football tradition is lost with he Hunt family, perhaps it was never there.
But for all this, I still bleed as much as any fan. I stopped questioning why I still followed this team and even in this rock bottom world of football still follow this team. Seems silly but then again I enjoy rope burns, root canals and an occasional sharp stick in the eye.
Back to lurking. . .
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Originally Posted by Canofbier
Just another Beerme thread.
Negative: Veteran posters get away with more bullshit than new ones do. I've never had a problem with it, but I've seen new posters with promise who are unneedingly ridiculed and end up never posting again. Likewise, I've seen veteran (or new but frequent) posters get away with saying some pretty stupid shit solely on the merit of their post count. Ultimately, I see this as a net-negative in the long-term health and growth of the community as a whole.
Positive: The moderation is awfully fair (although reasonable), and there are a lot of interesting topics and opinions that are allowed around here. If people are interesting in discussing it, the topic will stand. IMO, that's what makes this such a highly frequented forum. There's always something to talk about, and there's always someone to hold you accountable to what you say. To someone like me, this is a superior news site than many of the professional sources.
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