Is there anyway of having an option on "-" minimizing a poster comment.So after you minimize it when you check back in the thread that post in "minimized" instead of having to filter through it?Not sure if there is anything you can do, but I grow weary in the game threads of folks that can't stay on topic. Too much what I need, who I have, complaints about play calling, etc. When I am in the game thread it is either to report what I see or to read what others see and there is not nearly enough of that.Edited spelling
I hate the injury thread because you have to scroll through pages of BS to find info on your relevant player. Then you get posts such as "he's back in"..."who's back in? This thread is about 12 different players and dozens of people posting about the impact on their own rosters. IMO if a viable fantasy football starter is truly injured then he deserves a thread of his own. Afterall, isn't this the most important news of the day?5Rings said:My only complaint is people making Levin-esque posts in the injury and game threads.Really, I don't care who you start or don't start this week.
When you quote someone in the forums, it should only quote that person and not everyone they quoted. It's a pain to read through a thread and see a comment being quoted six or seven quotes deep, especially since I already read it 2 pages ago.
I thought similarly as you in the beginning of the year. IMO The last few weeks, the injury thread has been pretty well done. It really becomes good quick info if people do it right.....wish more people would realize thatI hate the injury thread because you have to scroll through pages of BS to find info on your relevant player. Then you get posts such as "he's back in"..."who's back in? This thread is about 12 different players and dozens of people posting about the impact on their own rosters. IMO if a viable fantasy football starter is truly injured then he deserves a thread of his own. Afterall, isn't this the most important news of the day?5Rings said:My only complaint is people making Levin-esque posts in the injury and game threads.Really, I don't care who you start or don't start this week.
see my sigTannerBoyle said:Can we get a new bio-photo of Rudnicki? That backwards hat thing is sooo 1998.
Some of us disagree on what the threads are for, perhaps clarification is needed.http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...t&p=6075146I hate the injury thread because you have to scroll through pages of BS to find info on your relevant player. Then you get posts such as "he's back in"..."who's back in? This thread is about 12 different players and dozens of people posting about the impact on their own rosters.5Rings said:My only complaint is people making Levin-esque posts in the injury and game threads.
Really, I don't care who you start or don't start this week.
IMO if a viable fantasy football starter is truly injured then he deserves a thread of his own. Afterall, isn't this the most important news of the day?
This is probably my biggest complaint about the site as wellTannerBoyle said:Can we get a new bio-photo of Rudnicki? That backwards hat thing is sooo 1998.
What's "BBV?"This board needs a BBV forum a la 2+2. Start moving posts there and keep the shark pool clean(er).Also, have the forum administrator disable quoting as the default when replying to a thread. It's completely out of control.
They did this before and you could never tell what the replies were in response to unless the responders re-typed the key points they were addressing. It's much easier to scroll past the junk the scroll back to sort out the actual conversation.This board needs a BBV forum a la 2+2. Start moving posts there and keep the shark pool clean(er).Also, have the forum administrator disable quoting as the default when replying to a thread. It's completely out of control.
They did what before? Who was the Bass guy replying to?They did this before and you could never tell what the replies were in response to unless the responders re-typed the key points they were addressing. It's much easier to scroll past the junk the scroll back to sort out the actual conversation.
Subscriber Content across the board should be released a day earlier than the current schedule... Tuesday at 5 PM should be like Christmas every week. As nice as the 50K contest is, that money is better spent making the info useful for subscribers--use some of it to pay someone to get it out sooner. Weekly Cheatsheets after waivers run does nothing. LD and DD updates always seem too late for most users. There's hundreds of August posts on this single issue.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat...?Number=8475452What's "BBV?"This board needs a BBV forum a la 2+2. Start moving posts there and keep the shark pool clean(er).
Also, have the forum administrator disable quoting as the default when replying to a thread. It's completely out of control.
That's (IMHO of course) a good idea. I created an Excel spreadsheet to track how "giving" each team in the league has been in fantasy points terms throughout the season, and though I've had to input the results each week to keep it current, it's been very useful to me in strategizing about which D I might want to pick up off of waivers for next week, or even the week after. Something along these lines should be fairly simple to code, and would provide useful info to subscribers.The suggestion that follows is solely based on my own beliefs regarding the proper presentation of information to make it more useful to a "consumer", viewed from the perspective of a software developer who has been working with similar presentation issues for some 30+ years now. This perspective isn't infallible, but it might be worth thinking about, and it's offered free of charge. Often in various articles reference is made to facts such as "team x is ranked 29th in rushing TD's given up", but finding the rankings to back that up isn't as easy as it could be. The info may well be online, but it isn't always presented in a manner that is easily scanned and understood. The tendency to try to make the info "presentable" on the web page often can make the information harder to digest, spreading it out vertically, with the result being that the headings for every single bit of data have scrolled off the page long before you reach the point where you're looking at the info related to the particular team you might be looking for. (Kickermania comes to mind as a prime example of this). That makes interpretation much more difficult, because you're having to "remember" which column represents what (since you can't just glance up at the column headers), and that's very distracting in itself. An approach that goes a long way towards addressing that deficiency is to spread out the same info horizontally across (ideally) one line per team, with the option of clicking on column headings to sort the displayed info based on the data in each column. To the extent that it is possible to provide this sort of presentation as either a replacement presentation or an optional one (the best solution, but harder to code), I'm of the opinion that it would make FBG's "product" far easier for the typical user to make use of.Game logs for team defenses would be fantastic. In most leagues, defenses can be the key to victory in most weeks. Having easy access to data on their performance over the course of the season would be very useful.
Yeah. And the "point to the shirt" smiley is lame. Get rid of it.You know how in the NFL, the second guy to commit the personal foul is the one who normally gets penalized? It's the reaction, not the first offense that usually catches the ref's eye?Well, I suggest we do the same thing here. The only thing more annoying than posts that stray off-topic or into WDIS are the whiny librarians who spend lots of screen space pointing it out. And they paste the offender's entire post, too. So technically, they waste a little more space than the first guy.Instead, how about a "get this thread back on topic" smiley that should be used alone, NOT with a paste of the original post? Just a gentle reminder that there is a specific topic for that thread.Thanks. This forum is a great resource, and I appreciate the care you put into making it a success.
how do you feel about SSOG's style of quoting?When you quote someone in the forums, it should only quote that person and not everyone they quoted. It's a pain to read through a thread and see a comment being quoted six or seven quotes deep, especially since I already read it 2 pages ago.
It stands for "brags, beats and variance", which is basically a way to say it's the forum for all the stories that are about you. On a forum like this, it could be a spot for all of the "my team is great" or "I'm screwed now that XXX is hurt" or "what do you need on Monday night" threads.The neat thing about the 2+2 forum is that not only does it clear those posts out of the other forums, but people know what to expect in BBV so you actually get discussion instead of nothing but "nobody cares, junior" replies.What's "BBV?"
Not sure I buy that. Most forums I'm on don't quote by default and people still know how to use the feature when needed. But if it was an issue before, then can it be set to quote only the most recent post?I've just never seen a setup where the default is to quote everything, every time. Nothing like scrolling for five screens just to see the "good posting" smilie. And of course, you get the people who cut off a quote tag and fill the screen with junk.They did this before and you could never tell what the replies were in response to unless the responders re-typed the key points they were addressing. It's much easier to scroll past the junk the scroll back to sort out the actual conversation.
We've been over this. The mods think "point to the shirt" is hilarious, even two years later. End of discussion.Is there anyway FBG's can ban any references to "Honda" and "Points to Shirt" and all corresponding emoticons?
Are you threatening me? Don't make me sick Rudnicki on you. Honda and PTTS stay.We've been over this. The mods think "point to the shirt" is hilarious, even two years later. End of discussion.Is there anyway FBG's can ban any references to "Honda" and "Points to Shirt" and all corresponding emoticons?
I like looking at the Top 250 forward when thinking about my waiver claims. I imagine a lot of leagues must have waivers early on Wednesday morning after the previous games. However, the Top 250 forward would usually come really late on Tuesday night (for an East Coaster), meaning that I would have to wait up for it or just forget about it. Put out the Top 250 forward earlier!
So are Member's Only jackets and bell bottoms jeans on guys. Where are those equally amusing emoticons?We've been over this. The mods think "point to the shirt" is hilarious, even two years later. End of discussion.Is there anyway FBG's can ban any references to "Honda" and "Points to Shirt" and all corresponding emoticons?