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I love this site and most of the people on it, but there are soo many haters who do nothing but bring drown the level of discourse and ruin great discussions. I propose that there is an additional board created for the site, and all members vote on a group of reps for that particular new board. Those reps could then send invitations to posters who have intelligent things to say and do not attack other people and constantly hate on boxers without justification. Basicly an invitation only board for serious boxing fans. Let me know what you all think. If you are a hater or a flamer, dont bother replying for obvious reasons.
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Sounds great! As long as I get an invite.
The only problem is, a lot of the hating is merely in response to other hating going on. I have turned myself into a hardcore Antonio Margarito hater recently, because his fans are the biggest bunch of ****s I have encountered.
I suppose if I didn't have to deal with their **** on a daily basis, I could turn myself back into someone who respects Margarito.
This really is a great idea though. Hopefully a mod sees it and gets it going.Comment
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No-one hates without justification.Comment
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this is rather a good idea, a post where only mature conversation on Boxing goes down, no spam threads making jokes about ****.. a forum where opinions get shared amongst the more serious members of the forums and all that dumb **** gets left aside, no arguing just debating and sharing opinions, agree to disagree but hating shouldn't be allowed, **** riding posts and non sensical posts should get deleted immediately and the post should be reduced from the post count of that member and if continued then the member should be banned.. sounds like a great idea to me but I seriously doubt it will happen, I would love it though because I know there will be no bull**** talk going on and real threads will get made with real cats dropping gems on Boxing.. 100Comment
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thanks for the encouragement dwiens. to reiterate, I in no way want to eliminate arguments, all i want is for the people who constantly make flame topics to be excluded from one particular board governed by the site's most respected posters. not only do haters and flamers clutter up the board with rediculous inflamatory topics solely intneded to start fights, they enter in topics inhabited by people making rational arguments and throw the topics off track. I know this would be somewhat subjective, but i believe standards could be created to fairly determine who should be allowed on the "serious" board. For example, "Floyd ducks everyone, he will never fight cotto because he is scared as hell, imo he is the most overated boxer of the last 50 years." This is a flame and enough of these should disqualify someone from the "serious" board. However, "I think Floyd has made some questionable decisions about just who he fights. He was offered 8 million to fight margarito and turned it down. I know he has beef with Arum and claimed to have a severly bruised hand, but I believe that Floyd may have been scared of his power. And while i do not deny that Mayweather is a very skilled fighter, no fighter is invincible, and he has not faced great competition at welterweight as of yet. If floyd starts to fight the best in the division, and hatton isnt a bad start, and is successful, i will respect him a lot more. If other fighters like Miguel Cotto continue to move up on the latter, and PBF refuses to fight them, i will lose a lot of respect for him and begin to question his p4p title."
That might not have been the best example, but it is a decent example of 2 ways to say the same thing, one is a flame that will do nothing but start a fight, and one gets your opinion acrosss in a respectful manner that is consistant with a good boxing discussion. let me know, i personally dont beleive it would be hard to decide who runs the board because we have a lot of great posters, and it is clear who the flamers and pure haters are. plus, i believe some boards are private as of now anyway, it wouldnt be a huge change.Comment
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thanks for the contribution crillz, laterComment
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You could make people take an IQ test at the door.Comment
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it doesnt take a genius to be a serious poster who does not deliberately start fights. iq test would not be nessessaryComment
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Personally I think this is a dumb idea because basically what you're saying is you wanna take all of the good debates and discussions out of this forum and lock them away somewhere where only certain people can access them. Every forum has people who hate, flame, act ****** etc, your suggestion would do nothing but make more problems than are already here.
How are new members gonna get by if they have one forum full of junk and people hating on everyone and flaming eachother, and then another forum with all the good stuff in which he isn't allowed in? How is he supposed to prove that he isn't argumentative or a hater when the only place he can go is where is full of them sort of posters?Comment
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