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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.
- 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.
Comments
We have a lot of Gen Z and younger Millennials, a lot of these poor kids have spent most or all of their lives on the dopamine rollercoaster that is social media. To them the down vote is a real weapon.
Boomers and for the most part Gen X, and some of the older Millennials are somewhat immune to it because we weren't raised on it. For me this up and down vote thing is new. This is the only forum I'm a member of that has both up and down votes. I don't have social media accounts like Facebook or Twitter, I never have.
This is not off topic. It just proves with the OT vote that there are some sick minds on this forum!
I am actually grateful we didn't have social media growing up. And I'm doing my best to raise my kids knowing how insignificant it is, and in some cases harmful.
Not sure I have much to add that others haven't already mentioned. I'm not personally offended a when I get a DV but think the concept of anonymous downvoting is inherently passive aggressive and cowardly. If you have something to say to someone, say it and own it. Hiding behind a keyboard is weak on a message board or anywhere else.
Off Topic is more legitimate - as the old answer defining the difference between pornography vs art goes "I know it when I see it". I'm for 2 or 3 follow-on comments or tangental jokes in the stream of discussion but some members here will DV or Off Topic something as benign as someone saying "I agree...I think <player name here> will be good". That said -there aren't many things more frustrating than checking in to find 254 posts on a topic since you last visited and 2/3 of them are on a different topic.
Mods - any chance that the feedback on this thread will be considered? Or are we all just barking dawgs at this point?
I wonder if he's reincarnated on the board somewhere....👀
All of us on this forum have come here to read the opinions of others and to express our own opinions. It is all too easy to misinterpret the words that someone else types. For example, I posted a comment here that received several "votes up" and a "flag" for being disrespectful of another member. The flag was subsequently removed, but this demonstrates my point. We all like the ego boost of being "voted up" on our comments but we should also be ready to accept that others might not agree with, or might completely misunderstand our point and vote down what we post. In those immortal words of Sgt. Hulka "Lighten up Francis"!! Not all of our comments here are golden and if someone disagrees with you, SO WHAT. A little number in a black rectangle is not the end of the world. It's just someone expressing his/her opinion just like you.
I"m done now.
I think most posters couldn't care less about UV, DV, OT, Flag, whatever.
I am too.
I think we're going to get some long-term, not so great, effects from all of this. Social media is a technological form of low dose amphetamine. We've really only had it since the '00s. What happens when you start people on something that raises dopamine levels above baseline from childhood? It's an interesting question.
What happens to those kids in their mid-life. Will we have a wave of depression and suicide? Are we already seeing the effects in some way?
When I first joined Dawgnation's forum I thought a person could be banned for having too many down votes or off-topic tic marks. Kind of like that episode from the anthology television series Black Mirror, titled "Nosedive".
If that's not really the case, then there's really nothing to worry about with upvote and off-topic tick marks, is there?
I'm one that could care less. I get more Off Topic and DV's than anybody on this board and I'm sure I'll get a bunch for this one. I just laugh, who cares to many other more important things to think about.
Goooooo Dawgs!
Got my first off topic last night, finally feel like I'm part of the forum now
Don't get cocky. May have just been a fat thumb issue. Wait til you get a few DVs and OTs. Then you can feel confident that at least some of them were real.
Don't worry Johnny, It was probably me with my hormonal-overly sensitive computer touchpad that casts Off Topic, and Vote Downs if I so much as look at it wrong. Think nothing of it.
p.s. It does cast a lot of Vote Ups too!!
I think they let you know if folks are listening. I like To receive and give out uv’s. Have only dv’ed 12ed. I dont think anybody cares if I disagree with them or not
I think I'm establishing a new policy. I'm Off Topic voting everyone, just for fun.