GSoM: Warriors fan blog or Warriors fans debating?

What’s the matter with doing both? That’s what communities do, right?

do both.

It’s a blog Stalin, let go.
Read if you want.
Write if you want.
Go Warriors.

The New Game album “LAX!” Man that album is solid! Much needed Gangsta’ rap featuring Raekwon, Common and NaS! Say What?!? Been in my deck for 3 days now!

Reading about how much somebody loves the Warriors and wants them to win on a Warriors fan blog does nothing for me. It doesn’t pique my interest… “Really, you like the Warriors? Me too!” That’s about all you’re going to get from me. If this site was mostly fanposts about that, I’d read the game recaps and then go away. I wouldn’t contribute to the community because the community does nothing for me and I wouldn’t feel a part of it.

On the same note, if you write something that’s impossible to read, that makes it less interesting for me to take the time to read it. I’m not going to read somebody’s posts if they use terrible grammar or punctuation because it hurts my head. Language has grammar and written language has punctuation for a reason. If you’re not going to at least try to make an attempt to communicate in a way people are accustomed to, why should I make the effort to communicate with you by reading your stuff?

On your comments about topic redundancy, what if every single comment was posted, not as a nested comment within a topic, but as a new fanpost? Do you understand how that might turn readers off? Do you see how difficult it would be to read the discussion thread on a single topic if they’re all in different places? Again, there’s a reason for the organization that is instated here. One thing the mods might be able to do better is to append a redundant fanpost to the previous fanpost as a quoted comment. That way the opinion could stay, but we wouldn’t have redundant fanposts linked at the top of the page. Chapters are usually compiled in a single book, not sold separately. If you had to separately go out and acquire each chapter of the Bible (or Crime & Punishment, A Tale of Two Cities, The Dostoyevsky Brothers, etc.), would that make it easier or harder to read?

Again, there’s organization for a reason. It’s meant to make things easier for the end user, if you lose that organization, the users go away. If you want your blog where you can just post whatever you want, wherever you want, however you want, there are going to be far fewer people to share with on this site. If the mods delete redundant topics, they’ll maybe lose a few of the people who posted them. Though every time I’ve seen a post deleted, or a new post started about deleted posts, the mods are always courteous to tell the OP why it was deleted and how they could avoid deletion and where their post belonged. If you get pissed by that, that’s your own problem and maybe you don’t belong in the community in the first place.

If we were all stranded on an island and the community leaders told you that you couldn’t sh!t on the village lawn but had to do it in the outhouse, it’s because it’s bad for the community for everybody to sh!t wherever they want, not because they hate you. If you want to go move out to the other side of the island by yourself so you can sh!t wherever you like, good riddance.

Everytime somebody says something inane like “Trade Al Harrington, Belinelli, and BWright for DHoward” the debaters tell them that there’s no way Orlando would do that and that they’re being a homer and such. Usually the OP’s aresponse to this is to say that they’re a-holes for saying bad things about their post. Have you seen the way people complain about JAE’s use of “statistics” to back up his claims?

Some people want to come here and say whatever they want and not have to back it up with, you know, reality and not have people tell them that just because Belinelli is a Euroleague SG, doesn’t mean he’s going to become the next Manu next year. Other people want to have an open discourse where you can disagree with somebody without them getting their undies in a bunch.

I put a poll here to see which side of the fence people fall on and perhaps help the debaters understand that a large number of people come here just to spout off about how Anthony Randolph is going to be the next KG, no, no, he’s gonna be like KG and LeBron combined! And Jason Kidd too! And the Warriors are going to win 55 games this year, because they would have won 60 if Monta hadn’t been injured. Don’t tell them they’re wrong, because they don’t want to hear it.