JoeRedskin
07-26-2013, 01:00 PM
^^ You're entitled to you're opinion. Lots of the threads peter out on their own. Lots of threads in the football forum get contentious with no minds changed and then locked (Jaws QB list comes to mind).
In MY opinion, DTE has a lot of interesting discussion by intelligent people. Few people change their minds, but a lot get a better understanding of some of the issues. You don't like, don't go there. There are lots who do.
That forum should be labeled Merry Go Around. Lets go around and around on a subject with no actually conclusion to anything until a moderator closes that thread.
IMO it is the black eye of this site.
Agreed, I'd rather get rid of it completely to be honest. I get more complaints about that forum than anything. I gave up playing babysitter a long time ago.
JoeRedskin
07-26-2013, 01:38 PM
lol. Okay. I guess that settles it. Thanks for letting it exist Matty.
NC_Skins
07-26-2013, 01:44 PM
^^ You're entitled to you're opinion. Lots of the threads peter out on their own. Lots of threads in the football forum get contentious with no minds changed and then locked (Jaws QB list comes to mind).
In MY opinion, DTE has a lot of interesting discussion by intelligent people. Few people change their minds, but a lot get a better understanding of some of the issues. You don't like, don't go there. There are lots who do.
This.
No idea why anybody would complain about a particular section of the forum. Simply don't visit it if it's not your cup of tea.
RedskinRat
07-26-2013, 01:48 PM
This.
No idea why anybody would complain about a particular section of the forum. Simply don't visit it if it's not your cup of tea.
Some people thrive on their feelings being hurt, even when it's avoidable. It's the fashionable art of victimhood.
mredskins
07-26-2013, 02:20 PM
^^ You're entitled to you're opinion. Lots of the threads peter out on their own. Lots of threads in the football forum get contentious with no minds changed and then locked (Jaws QB list comes to mind).
In MY opinion, DTE has a lot of interesting discussion by intelligent people. Few people change their minds, but a lot get a better understanding of some of the issues. You don't like, don't go there. There are lots who do.
I don't normally go there and it is fine that is there I just don't want it on the front page.
And to answer the bold part; ok you are right BUT this is a football forum not a political forum with a side of football. Plus sports at times can have definitive answer (team wins or loses; player was good or bad); most of the DTE stuff is just peoples beliefs on very sensitive subjects that you will NEVER change.
The majority of heavy users on DTE are people I would avoid at say a cookout they just want argue for the sake of arguing. You are not going to change anyone's mind on religion or politics; so what is the freaking point? To hear yourself complain or somehow prove your intelligence on a subject matter? Do you suddenly think one day Saden1 will be a conservative or Giantone is going to buy a gun?
IF folks went back and looked at the time they spent in that forum exhausting their opinion and reapplied that time to something more constructive in their lives they be much better off.
For the record I am speaking in general not to you directly Joe; as I have always considered you one of my favorites on here. So basically nothing personable just my opinion about the DTE.
mredskins
07-26-2013, 02:21 PM
This.
No idea why anybody would complain about a particular section of the forum. Simply don't visit it if it's not your cup of tea.
I don't visit for the most part I just don't want it on the front page. Nor am I saying shut it down.
NC_Skins
07-26-2013, 02:23 PM
I don't visit for the most part I just don't want it on the front page. Nor am I saying shut it down.
That was in reference to Matty saying he got the most complaints about that forum.
mredskins
07-26-2013, 02:24 PM
That was in reference to Matty saying he got the most complaints about that forum.
Gotcha sorry.
This.
No idea why anybody would complain about a particular section of the forum. Simply don't visit it if it's not your cup of tea.
Most of the complaints are from the participants.
So and so is being mean to me, so and so is using bad language, etc.