Typical.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:40 amMDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:16 amI’m not a very frequent contributor on the women’s side, just don’t have nearly as much knowledge or expertise or news to share.OuttaNowhereWregget wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 7:39 amI have noticed way too often over the past few years that new contributors to the D1 Women's Lacrosse board don't stay long if their initial few posts aren't welcomed. Frequently a new member/contributor is greeted with criticism and sarcasm if a select few long time members don't approve of their perspective. I've seen posts from new members/contributors ridiculed and shamed too often and then they aren't heard from again. Some even have been called names. Honestly, the maturity level of some of the mainstay members is grade school at best. As long as you have that "welcoming committee" entrenched in the D1WL boards, adding lax contributors will require running that gauntlet first, with some concluding that the abuse isn't worth the participation.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 7:22 am We really do need more lax contributors, the more the better! We have lots of readers, but not as much contribution. I'm hoping that with a full season ahead, folks will rediscover the forum and begin to have something to say, report on their teams, kids' teams etc...and that will attract more still.
However, I think what you may be referring to is a tendency by very knowledgeable posters to be impatient with those who are more ‘fans’ than participants. We see that on the men’s side as well.
Some fans get overly effusive, at least from the perspective of more knowledgeable posters.
And some ‘fans’ quite stupidly troll other schools threads, either to incite a battle or to spout off about their school. And I mean really ignorant at times.
Case in point is the gator troll who introduced himself to the forum by posting on the Hopkins thread as if he was a Loyola lacrosse fan. His claims and attacks were obviously poorly informed, much less offensive, to the more knowledgeable posters from both schools. Turned out that the gator never played lax, didn’t have any family members who played or are playing, didn’t even go to Loyola. Yet he trolled away. He’s since taken that act to the Politics thread, where that behavior as had him put in the box quite a lot.
Back to the welcome, I think it’s important to actually be welcoming to new posters who are trying to constructively contribute. And also important to cut each other a bit of slack as we get to ‘know’ one another. Try not to hold a grudge so strongly that there’s no room for redemption.
However, beware the trolls who create a new name and pretend to be new. Not cool.
I couldn’t post an example of arrogance any better than what MD has done above. Too perfect! (The lacrosse ‘I am god’ sentence, is a metaphor for how MD sees himself about everything, regardless of how insanely incorrect he is on everything… he’s the Jen Rubin of Fanlax).
Many people here, outtanowherewregget, have called out MD for his remarkable arrogance. Its a bit of a running dialogue. It’s simply amazing to see it continue without a shred of hesitation, even after being shown the way back to zero.
In any event, two of the more egregious examples of actual trolling and the reasons the politics thread is so idiotic, with the same ten people talking with each other about how this or that leftist policy works, are Kismet and MD, who have replied to you here. Coincidental? No, it’s CYA.
You ought notice that yesterday, you said Kismet was guilty of trolling. He was. Regrettably for this forum, no reasonable person runs to the Admin to complain, which naturally the other side does almost hourly (it’s highly likely this is my last post, as both MD and Kismet and all the other leftist losers will send their emails as soon as they read this).
Yet Kismet never removed his post, which clearly is a nothing additive post. joe Mauer should have told kismet to go stick it. In the real world, he would.
In any event, don’t listen to to anyone here including me about what to do or what to look for. Make up your own mind.
And do not, above anything else, move to Florida if you are a liberal. Thanks.
Any non troll would recognize that I was explicitly saying I was obviously not one of those "knowledgeable" "welcoming committee" posters on the women's side. I don't post much there as I don't have much to contribute, knowledgeably. Outta knows that and definitely wasn't referring to me.
And here's the thing, you know that too...yet you take what I said and claim I said the exact opposite.
It's the typical dishonest behavior of a troll, and I'll call it out directly as such.
I do hope you leave forever. You almost never add anything of substance and even when you do, you pepper it with extreme statements designed to be offensive.
When you're in the box, the conversation continues quite well without you, with perspectives from both sides of the political spectrum, but with far less vitriol from anyone.
Doesn't mean that tempers don't flare, but most of the time that wanes quickly and the conversation is actually constructive and informative.
Don't like the conversation? Leave...please.