How can we improve Chiefs discussion around here?

[DaFace]

I've mentioned my disappointment in the quality of discussion in a few threads lately, but figured it's worth a more meta discussion to figure out 1) if I'm alone in this perception and 2) if there's anything that can be done about it.

Back in the old days, I walked 20 miles to school in the snow uphill both ways!

Err...wait. I mean, ChiefsPlanet was THE place where I got my Chiefs news. If an article was worth reading on another site, it was linked here. If there was a tweet with Chiefs news, it was posted here 30 seconds after it hit Twitter. If someone said something worthwhile on the radio, someone would post about it on here. And (with all due respect to those who like megathreads), you could glance at the front page and have a pretty decent idea of what the big news was for the day.

After returning home from the boonies on Sunday morning, however, I honestly had no idea how the game Saturday even went. I ended up visiting Arrowhead Pride and Chiefs Digest just to get a feel for what went down. Am I the weird one for thinking that that sucks?

Anyway, just figured it's worth the discussion. If it turns out that everyone is pretty content the way things are, I'll just bookmark some other resources and move on with life. But if I'm not alone, what can we do to make things better?

[Discuss Thrower]

Y'all aren't considering reddit's downvote system is actually one of the site's biggest flaws in that it inevitably leads to a Hivemind mentality.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Y'all aren't considering reddit's downvote system is actually one of the site's biggest flaws in that it inevitably leads to a Hivemind mentality.

You may be right? It was just a suggestion, and that doesn't mean the way it works here can't be tweaked..

Limited number of downvotes by a user within a certain time period.
Freeze the option for habitual abusers. Make up and down votes public.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

You may be right? It was just a suggestion, and that doesn't mean the way it works here can't be tweaked..

Limited number of downvotes by a user within a certain time period.
Freeze the option for habitual abusers. Make up and down votes public.

It's just an inherent feature of the system. Downvotes tend to hide alternative points of view.

The only serious way to improve "football discussion" is to allow absolutely no criticism of the team.

[BigCatDaddy]

Needs more Lil Chiefy

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

You may be right? It was just a suggestion, and that doesn't mean the way it works here can't be tweaked..

Limited number of downvotes by a user within a certain time period.
Freeze the option for habitual abusers. Make up and down votes public.

self moderation, get the greasemonkey scripts to enable universal ignore