Question for members

[Fishman'81]

Re: Question for members

I spent 2+ hours scouting our next opponent for my sons travel team. I did have the Plattsburgh game up in the background, but have yet to go to a game and have only watched a handful. Mostly because my weekends are traveling 2-3 hours one way for hockey...and never when/where Plattsburgh is in town.

While I somewhat agree with Fish on the "flamefest", just like with all social media its given a platform for a lot of people to give their "opinions", and while everyone is entitled to them, backing them up with facts and stats is something that most people dont grasp on here. Anyone can give an opinion, but if you dont substantiate it with facts and or stats it doesnt carry much yet those are the ones who normally feel entitled to post and cause flamefests. At least with Fish he can normally back his flamefests up with logical thoughts (for the most part right Fish). And while we may not agree, it will at least make you think. Then you get the snowflakes who dont like being told their opinion makes no sense, and because it's the internet they HAVE to be right...and if you tell them otherwise they will run away pouting kicking and screaming....sadly much like today's society....

Good post, Champs, but we haven't had a haven't had a decent squabble for years, either...

Getting old!

 

[OZFEST]

Re: The death of the forum

Re: The death of the forum

It certainly doesn't help when the team you support sucks. Look at all the teams having "down" years, and the corresponding absence of threads dedicated to their teams. Seems that once your team goes into a funk, the posting momentum is lost forever.

Also, and probably more influential, the number of posters whose sole intent is to create flame-fests and ridicule others' opinions. There are/were a bunch of them from Lake Forest, Utica, Plattsburgh, Norwich, Potsdam & Elmira who collectively drove a number of us off the board. For each new opinionated, combative poster that joined, a more rationale poster would leave.

When writers become readers........

 

[pux44]

Re: Question for members

It doesn't help when people show up and do things like share information on a huge topic like the retirement of Bob Emery, months before anyone else knew or had the guts to say it themselves, and they just get shouted down by the same handful of people left here who obviously had zero information of their own but felt qualified to pop off anyway. Then after being proven completely wrong still wouldn't own up to it. With that sort of treatment why would anyone bother to share good information or a contrarian opinion? You buried yourselves and continue to do so even though none of you are capable of realizing or admitting it. But whatever, now back to your worthless circle crank.

 

[hockeyfan77]

Re: Question for members

LOL, this is reason people left the boards...So you got a scoop, want a medal? I've had like 100 plus in my time of the boards: which is 17 years more than you

 

[Fishman'81]

Re: Question for members

LOL, this is reason people left the boards...So you got a scoop, want a medal? I've had like 100 plus in my time of the boards: which is 17 years more than you

The reason this board is growing moribund (IMO) is that young people have so many more options now...

Hell, if Tinder and Instagram had existed in 1990, I'd have **cked myself to death by 1993, and would have never budgeted time to talk about college hockey.

(Remember land-lines, and actual husbands???)

We still have each other to bicker-with, and that's fun enough. When this board is officially dead, most of us will be in the same boat.

I'm happy that there's still some interest here, until there won't be any interest anymore.