fudgebucket
Johnny Ball⭐
I have previously only posted once.
Unfortunately I am unable to make very many home games, and use this forum to find out news and more importantly the views of us the fans.
The post match threads are invaluable. They enable those who cannot make a game, feel what happened. The experiences of those who went are invaluable. It is really interesting to read peoples comments. Just from what someone writes you can tell so much about the person posting, their age, seasons following the blues, the style of play they prefer, the type of player they like etc. It is also good to read both the frustrations and the positives. It is at times like being in the pub
Then there are the posts from fans who have been following the club for years, and their experiences are something that will never happen again. The recent post started by Ozzie (photo’s thanks to LBBlue) was incredible viewing.
However, the posts over the past 6 (or maybe 9) months, have actually gotten myself to post for only the 2nd time.
There was a time when the post match thread was a true account of the experience that the poster had whilst attending the match (whether you agreed with the post or not, it was their experience and therefore valuable). This is now simply not true. We get many posters writing their opinion and not their experience (a lot of opinion posters have clearly not attended the game as they are contradicted by those who did, even those whose experiences are opposites).
We also have mysterious posters whose user names I am not familiar with. They are not familiar because they have only started posting recently. Although they do not troll (that is too strong), they do bait. Baiting is to be expected, and it it can be interesting, but not when a baiters argument is personal. Occasionally you’d get JohnnyStokes winding people up, but he is an Orient fan, and in some ways his baiting is actually interesting, as it always says a lot about us as SUFC fans.
Neither those who post match opinion nor those who bait personally add value to this forum.
Yet in the past this forum’s strength was the quality and value of the posters.
Recently the posts have started to become polluted. This is not just frustration and disappointment with the club. There has definitely been a change in how people post. It is also terrible to read that folk don’t understand why they have upset someone.
To show respect to someone else is to simply be polite.
It is really sad, as I’m not sure where else I should turn to catch up on news, views, gossip, pre-match threads, post-match threads, history, breaking news, etc……..
Unfortunately I am unable to make very many home games, and use this forum to find out news and more importantly the views of us the fans.
The post match threads are invaluable. They enable those who cannot make a game, feel what happened. The experiences of those who went are invaluable. It is really interesting to read peoples comments. Just from what someone writes you can tell so much about the person posting, their age, seasons following the blues, the style of play they prefer, the type of player they like etc. It is also good to read both the frustrations and the positives. It is at times like being in the pub
Then there are the posts from fans who have been following the club for years, and their experiences are something that will never happen again. The recent post started by Ozzie (photo’s thanks to LBBlue) was incredible viewing.
However, the posts over the past 6 (or maybe 9) months, have actually gotten myself to post for only the 2nd time.
There was a time when the post match thread was a true account of the experience that the poster had whilst attending the match (whether you agreed with the post or not, it was their experience and therefore valuable). This is now simply not true. We get many posters writing their opinion and not their experience (a lot of opinion posters have clearly not attended the game as they are contradicted by those who did, even those whose experiences are opposites).
We also have mysterious posters whose user names I am not familiar with. They are not familiar because they have only started posting recently. Although they do not troll (that is too strong), they do bait. Baiting is to be expected, and it it can be interesting, but not when a baiters argument is personal. Occasionally you’d get JohnnyStokes winding people up, but he is an Orient fan, and in some ways his baiting is actually interesting, as it always says a lot about us as SUFC fans.
Neither those who post match opinion nor those who bait personally add value to this forum.
Yet in the past this forum’s strength was the quality and value of the posters.
Recently the posts have started to become polluted. This is not just frustration and disappointment with the club. There has definitely been a change in how people post. It is also terrible to read that folk don’t understand why they have upset someone.
To show respect to someone else is to simply be polite.
It is really sad, as I’m not sure where else I should turn to catch up on news, views, gossip, pre-match threads, post-match threads, history, breaking news, etc……..
