You can have fun and joke around. You can even have vigorous disagreements between members. None of that is any problem. It doesn't have to be "all serious".
What became all too common on the old board was more than that. It was a few guys who constantly trolled, made stupid comments that weren't remotely funny, hijacked interesting threads repeatedly, and generally acted like jobless 28 yo losers still living in their mom's basement who had nothing better to do than be internet smart-asses. Many of us complained and admin tolerated or ignored it and/or let banned posters come back.
We finally just got fed up and left.
If anyone wants to know the reasons why that's a perfect testimonial MP.
You can have fun and not have trolls on your board. DBS is just infested with trolls, Ski needs to smell the coffee when all (and I mean all) of his historic and recent knowledgeable posters have skipped town. If he can't see that then I don't know what to tell you.
I was thinking the very same thing. Serious only place? I am quite the opposite. I tend to try (key term there of course is TRY) to inject humor in most of my posts. I am on this board to enjoy myself and talk Bears. The two are not mutually exclusive. I saw a lot of attempts at humor on the old board from many of the new posters. And maybe they are really funny, but I did not really find myself laughing at most of it. Yet here, I have had quite a few chuckles already. I suppose as he says, it comes down to preference. But to say that the board was too serious. I'm not sure honestly if he is trying to describe polite or non-combative or what he is trying to convey, but I do not agree with the serious label.
In any event, a very classy post, and hats off to him for looking it in the eye and addressing it straight on. Almost seriously one might say....
I'm glad I was asked to be here as the old site was just wearing me out with the trolling and other garbage that went on. I'm here for football and some laughs, nothing too serious as I (like everone here I bet) deal with that all day.
There's a big difference between 'too serious = bland fb only talk ' and every thread being hijacked into blatantly mean-spirited jackhole buffonery and utterly useless stupidity .
I'll put it this way : if Jon Gruden looked at both sites , which one do you think he'd want to be on ? Nuff said .
Wal now if'n yer accusin' me a bein' a wordy sumbitch I'm a guessin' I will hafta plead guilty as charge yor honor.
Sorry but we talk like that a lot "out west".
Dude, The Websters Dictionary, messaged me, they wants their words back....ya wordy SoB.
I'll have you know I paid good money for the education that allowed me to find and use all of those words so they'll have to gimme a kick back on those they want back.
Dude, The Websters Dictionary, messaged me, they wants their words back....ya wordy SoB.
I'll have you know I paid good money for the education that allowed me to find and use all of those words so they'll have to gimme a kick back on those they want back.
It's not that they don't appreciate it Soul, it's just that now they don't have enough words left to put out the next edition. They only had a few Zs, a handful of Ys, a couple of Xs. You can't put together a proper dictionary with what you left them.
While I like dbs, it does at times get overwhelming digging through the trash to find content. I, while not opposed to a little off-topic banter, would like a place that is more focused. Maybe this will be it.