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- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
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@Denmen185 I was only trying to be humorous in the same vane as @pocoyo. I meant no disrespect to you with my comment. I apologize!!
BTW I DIDN"T OT this post. I UV it
Obviously @Denmen185 does. I also wonder sometimes what’s up with all the off topics when posts clearly aren’t. Not a big deal, but still curious.
No problem. Thanks
I actually have more problem when I see others get DV/OT votes and have no idea what makes some people get there kicks out of causing trouble. I can assure you that I am old enough and **** enough (English expression) to care what others think of me but do have zero respect for people that feel that demeaning others is their idea of entertainment.
Accepted and Flag removed. I will be watching you. 🤣
I am so looking for someone to DV here. Just to throw some fuel on the fire. lol
It really is baffling sometimes.
Do away with all the user "buttons" only ones I use are the time out and ban buttons......
I share your concerns @Denmen185, but I also understand where @pocoyo is coming from, that it doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
I agree with @Teddy that the popularity of the site and the growing number of new members must be the primary cause.
I agree with @CZCashvilleDawg that we might be better off without the anonymous feature.
I also can't help but put together what @trueping and @Kasey said, and wonder if there isn't a way for mods to track new members who just go around handing out DV's and OT's without otherwise contributing much.
Maybe call them out every once in a while? (Or at least send a private reprimand.) It shouldn't create any additional work for the mods, since a simple algorithm could be created to identify the negative, non-contributing members.
Final thought: it's clear that none of the problem members are participating in this thread, aside from those who DV'ed or OT'ed the OP. And those are the ones I would really love to see called out.
I agree 100%. I sometimes wonder why there is even a DV button. "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything" If you disagree with a post Quote and respond.
I could really care less but I’d prefer we not have UV, DV, or OT. If you want to disagree with someone quote them and tell them why. A lot of my opinions get DVs and I know I’m going to get them. Unless you’re SOFl or Tex some one like that you’re going to get DVs because you’re not the popular posters. Heaven forbid you disagree with those guys either. But I just read and post here so my opinion means exactly Richard.
BTW, there is a great Black Mirror episode on this topic. From season one, IIRC.
The uv/dv/OT are just st00pid but a part in social media.....I for one don't care enough about them to keep up with the serial dv/ot members here must less reprimand the serial immature users.......
In some ways they're
****stu.pid, but in other ways they perform an essential function. In society, some comments and behaviors are well received, some are ignored, and some are not well received. We get the same options here.An online forum is a microcosm of our society, albeit an imperfect one (i.e., there is no face-to-face interaction, no sound, no ability to detect tone, etc.). In this world, the UV's, DV's, OT's, and flags, serve as a proxy for the reactions that occur naturally in society.
I'm sure there have been extensive studies on this topic, and probably better ways to explain it, but you get my point.
Yeah numerous studies done on the internet/social media trolls.....I get your point.....my point is I babysit enuff things here, who is doing the uv/dv/ot is not going to be one of them.......
The DV's bothered me to start with, but when I finally realized, that no matter what you say, you are going to get DV'd ond OT's. Dont bother me anymore.
Betcha can't guess who DV'd you on this.......oh crap...you;re a Mod....😛
If it creates more work for you then I understand, but I tried to address that point on the front end.
@12ed would be proud