Invasor, Excitement?

[NoCarolinaTony]

Dear Steve,

This is more of an editorial:

A a fan of your "former" website, who love's your radio program, enjoy's the cue at the SPA, and especially enjoy listening and reading you're work and handicapping articles and just plain old hanging out shooting the breeze with you, I am having a difficult time with many of the current discusions threads. There appears to be lots of Bravado and insensitive types who enjoy putting people down others as they can hide behind a screen name and do it annonomously. It is great to talk horses and disagree, but then we get into WWII discusions put downs by people who have no idea of what they speak, people putting people down by being obnoxious over and over. We should ignore the childish behavior but I thought I'd take a crack at trying to get the website forum back to its intended roots and thats to discuss horse racing, wagering, ownership, training, jockey's (another brilliant discussion HEY MY GUY GOMEZ WON ANOTHER 3 Races so I'm a Genious- Your Guy JOHNN V sux...)

I know you don't have time to police this, but as you read the site we get more into Bravado speak and less and less intelligent horse speak and handicapping discussions with merit.

Perhaps you can set aside a thread for the mindless discussions and monitor the users some to get this back to a civil discusion of points / counterpoints instead of put downs and insults. Or at least lets have one dedicated thread to intelligent discussion about horse racing and handicapping, which would be more of a reflection of the type of person and human being that I know that you are rather than what is running rampant throughout the site today. It's hard to weed out the good stuff from the crap anymore.

NC Tony

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

Dear Steve,

This is more of an editorial:

A a fan of your "former" website, who love's your radio program, enjoy's the cue at the SPA, and especially enjoy listening and reading you're work and handicapping articles and just plain old hanging out shooting the breeze with you, I am having a difficult time with many of the current discusions threads. There appears to be lots of Bravado and insensitive types who enjoy putting people down others as they can hide behind a screen name and do it annonomously. It is great to talk horses and disagree, but then we get into WWII discusions put downs by people who have no idea of what they speak, people putting people down by being obnoxious over and over. We should ignore the childish behavior but I thought I'd take a crack at trying to get the website forum back to its intended roots and thats to discuss horse racing, wagering, ownership, training, jockey's (another brilliant discussion HEY MY GUY GOMEZ WON ANOTHER 3 Races so I'm a Genious- Your Guy JOHNN V sux...)

I know you don't have time to police this, but as you read the site we get more into Bravado speak and less and less intelligent horse speak and handicapping discussions with merit.

Perhaps you can set aside a thread for the mindless discussions and monitor the users some to get this back to a civil discusion of points / counterpoints instead of put downs and insults. Or at least lets have one dedicated thread to intelligent discussion about horse racing and handicapping, which would be more of a reflection of the type of person and human being that I know that you are rather than what is running rampant throughout the site today. It's hard to weed out the good stuff from the crap anymore.

NC Tony

Tony, Steve has done that already. It seems that people bicker quite frequently on almost every thread, and I would imagine that it gets tough for Steve to decipher the good from the bad.

[NoCarolinaTony]

Knowing Steve I sure he would try to do that. I'm in and out of this site so it's hard to keep up, and once you get into the mindless stuff and insults, It kind of turns you off from moving on to more. I know that's not what Steve has intended.

With the BC coming up and some of the best handicap races of the year, we should have some excellent discussions about handicapping.

I will do whatever I can to to help Steve!!

I thought perhaps I could cause a mini revolt to take back this site and get this back to where it should be, A first class site to discuss Horeracing.!!

NC Tony

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

Knowing Steve I sure he would try to do that. I'm in and out of this site so it's hard to keep up, and once you get into the mindless stuff and insults, It kind of turns you off from moving on to more. I know that's not what Steve has intended.

With the BC coming up and some of the best handicap races of the year, we should have some excellent discussions about handicapping.

I will do whatever I can to to help Steve!!

I thought perhaps I could cause a mini revolt to take back this site and get this back to where it should be, A first class site to discuss Horeracing.!!

NC Tony

Tony, Steve is trying to limit the BS but it's nearly impossible to keep up with every thread every day, esp. when an argument can explode from one innocuous (or in this case ridiculous) post.
Bethani

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

Dear Steve,

This is more of an editorial:

A a fan of your "former" website, who love's your radio program, enjoy's the cue at the SPA, and especially enjoy listening and reading you're work and handicapping articles and just plain old hanging out shooting the breeze with you, I am having a difficult time with many of the current discusions threads. There appears to be lots of Bravado and insensitive types who enjoy putting people down others as they can hide behind a screen name and do it annonomously. It is great to talk horses and disagree, but then we get into WWII discusions put downs by people who have no idea of what they speak, people putting people down by being obnoxious over and over. We should ignore the childish behavior but I thought I'd take a crack at trying to get the website forum back to its intended roots and thats to discuss horse racing, wagering, ownership, training, jockey's (another brilliant discussion HEY MY GUY GOMEZ WON ANOTHER 3 Races so I'm a Genious- Your Guy JOHNN V sux...)

I know you don't have time to police this, but as you read the site we get more into Bravado speak and less and less intelligent horse speak and handicapping discussions with merit.

Perhaps you can set aside a thread for the mindless discussions and monitor the users some to get this back to a civil discusion of points / counterpoints instead of put downs and insults. Or at least lets have one dedicated thread to intelligent discussion about horse racing and handicapping, which would be more of a reflection of the type of person and human being that I know that you are rather than what is running rampant throughout the site today. It's hard to weed out the good stuff from the crap anymore.

NC Tony

NC Tony, he can't police it with all the other things he has going on. Its next to impossible.
Many don't appear to want to talk horse racing. Its a social circle for people who wanna tell us about other things.
I'd wish they'd stick to the off topic section.

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

Dear Steve,

This is more of an editorial:

A a fan of your "former" website, who love's your radio program, enjoy's the cue at the SPA, and especially enjoy listening and reading you're work and handicapping articles and just plain old hanging out shooting the breeze with you, I am having a difficult time with many of the current discusions threads. There appears to be lots of Bravado and insensitive types who enjoy putting people down others as they can hide behind a screen name and do it annonomously. It is great to talk horses and disagree, but then we get into WWII discusions put downs by people who have no idea of what they speak, people putting people down by being obnoxious over and over. We should ignore the childish behavior but I thought I'd take a crack at trying to get the website forum back to its intended roots and thats to discuss horse racing, wagering, ownership, training, jockey's (another brilliant discussion HEY MY GUY GOMEZ WON ANOTHER 3 Races so I'm a Genious- Your Guy JOHNN V sux...)

I know you don't have time to police this, but as you read the site we get more into Bravado speak and less and less intelligent horse speak and handicapping discussions with merit.

Perhaps you can set aside a thread for the mindless discussions and monitor the users some to get this back to a civil discusion of points / counterpoints instead of put downs and insults. Or at least lets have one dedicated thread to intelligent discussion about horse racing and handicapping, which would be more of a reflection of the type of person and human being that I know that you are rather than what is running rampant throughout the site today. It's hard to weed out the good stuff from the crap anymore.

NC Tony

Nc Tony,
Quite frankly I'm stunned! You mean there others besides me who find guys who take the time to compile a list of all a guys losing mounts in a week, then when asked to cite one bad ride that the jockey gave, says oh I didn't see any of those.
The irony of morons like that posing as people who know anything about the game at all is not lost on me either.
What you have a is a bunch of guys who never start threads about anything, because they don't have any original thoughts or enough knowledge of the game to say anything worthwhile. What these guys do is read threads looking for fault with something that someone says. They contribute ZERO to the place yet try to assasinate others who do. They are the very worst type of trolls on the net, the kind who attempt to masquerade as non trolls. At least the trolls who come out and admit they are trolls have the guts to do that.
There is nothing more useless than folks who never have anything relevant or educational to say, who just sit around reading threads attempting to find fault with those who do.
But you can't blame Steve NC Tony, asking him to sit around all day long and monitor every thread is not reasonable.

[NoCarolinaTony]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Nc Tony,
Quite frankly I'm stunned! You mean there others besides me who find guys who take the time to compile a list of all a guys losing mounts in a week, then when asked to cite one bad ride that the jockey gave, says oh I didn't see any of those.
The irony of morons like that posing as people who know anything about the game at all is not lost on me either.
What you have a is a bunch of guys who never start threads about anything, because they don't have any original thoughts or enough knowledge of the game to say anything worthwhile. What these guys do is read threads looking for fault with something that someone says. They contribute ZERO to the place yet try to assasinate others who do. They are the very worst type of trolls on the net, the kind who attempt to masquerade as non trolls. At least the trolls who come out and admit they are trolls have the guts to do that.
There is nothing more useless than folks who never have anything relevant or educational to say, who just sit around reading threads attempting to find fault with those who do.
But you can't blame Steve NC Tony, asking him to sit around all day long and monitor every thread is not reasonable.

He would have to Ban People from the board. Repeat offenders should be banned. It's his board and he can do that. He has other monitors as well. If he wants, I could be his policeman.lol

NC Tony

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by NoCarolinaTony

He would have to Ban People from the board. Repeat offenders should be banned. It's his board and he can do that. He has other monitors as well. If he wants, I could be his policeman.lol

NC Tony

If you want you can take it private. Just determine who are the accpetable posters, contact them all, and start you own private club that is not open to the public. I believe the technology exists to do this and then you won't have to wade through any unacceptable threads/posts.

Since this is a public moderated forum it gets a little messy at times and you do have to spend some time wading through stuff that doesn't always have the highest value. I think each person has certain types of stuff that interest them and causes them to post, and not all posts of every poster are constructive.

I personally am not in favor of more police activity and more banning. I think the current balance is about right.

[NoCarolinaTony]

ArlingtonJim,

You're correct. I don't want to bother with that(policing) either. I'll just lurk and chime in when I find something worthwhile and sift through the junk. What was I thinking. I should have known better than to even think it.

This site has grown real fast, so ironing out the kinks is something that will take some time.

Steve, you got a lot of supporters on this site including me. ( You should know that already)

NC Tony