re: SC Diplomacy Thread

Can you request a name change? How does that even work?

I got mine changed by starting a thread and emailing them and explaining why. Looooong time ago though.

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I used to lurk on CockyTalk a long time ago, I opened the site and it has definitely changed. Is that because most of their poster migrated over here or just the inmates started running the prison?

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Most of their posters didn't migrate here, only a few of us are on here in the first place. IF you look at clicks/views/posts/etc... that board dwarfs this board with traffic.

Cockytalk was always a decent size free board. Its membership really exploded though in the mid 2000's when The State went from being a free board to a subscription board, that's when I and many other posters on The State's board left The State's board and went to cockytalk. It was great for years. It might still be, I don't know, I don't frequent that board much anymore (I mainly go there now to PM CNB and ATL to let them know that I've been banned here.)


I like this board b/c I get to talk shite to more fans from other schools.

They had a mod over there, Spurticus, leave when the fairweather fans started becoming relentless about how much they hated the coaching staff.

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They had a mod over there, Spurticus, leave when the fairweather fans started becoming relentless about how much they hated the coaching staff.

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The same Spurticus that is a fark God? Always wondered why he never ventured over to tRant, here, or either of tOT boards.

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Although I think he refused to allow any kind of criticism about players or coaches which was pretty shitty, especially when it was deserved.

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Well that was never true. The admin made it a tradition to establish vent threads for years there for the specific purpose of allowing posters the opportunities to complain about the games. They could always - and can still - complain about how the games were played: the execution, the gameplans, the decision-making, etc.

It was the posters who feel the need to post that certain players are shite or need to be kicked off teams, or coaches are shite and need to be fired, or other extreme forms of direct bashing that the admins like Spurticus draw the line on. And why shouldn't they: the posters who post that shite don't have one fricking clue about whether or not a coach or player is shite, and playing or coaching poorly in a collegiate game doesn't make those coaches or players shite anyways.

No one who posts on those sites (and this one) have any rights to anything. It's like being invited into someone's house to talk sports. If you're not mature enough to know to wipe your feet off before entering, then you belong outside with the rest of the dogs and animals. You want to start cussing and pitching a fit, you need to remember you were invited there but you don't have a right to stay there. People who feel they need to trash other people's lives personally because they lose a college game lead sad, sorry lives. No matter if those posters are 20 or 60....

It's just the mentality of the younger fanbase who knows only about the Steve Spurrier years and think the successes that Spurrier had at Florida somehow extends to USC, and therefore began posting and acting like USC was winning all those SECTs, back when we were going 7-6 every year. They are too young to appreciate where USC has been and how far we had/have to go to get to where we want to be....

People talk all the time about how Cockytalk has changed for the worse from what it used to be as a fan forum for Gamecock sports. It's about 90% having to do with the mentality that you posted above, from the newer, younger posters who didn't bother with Gamecock msg boards back when USC sports were struggling more, but showed up by the truckloads after Spurrier was hired acting like we're now contending for national titles.

It's OK to have an opinion, and to express that opinion. Everyone has that right, but not on someone else's dime. That's always the bottom line whether one likes it or not.

The admins have done this for a long time. Try to post your thoughts to Chicken here and see what response you get from him: The vent threads on Cockytalk. Venting is not discussion - those are two entirely different animals. The admins there couldn't begin to tell you how someone posts a thread to calmly DISCUSS negative concerns about the team(s) in the weeks after bad losses, that themselves turn into vent threads because the emotions are still raw for many posters, or the discussion topics keep the scabs torn off the wounds, keep windows open for MORE venting. Just not in the vent thread(s).

So then the football forum turns into shite, with a ton of threads started for discussion purposes that end up deleted or locked, full of repetitive vent posts and bash posts that had already been posted a dozen times in the vent thread. Which tears up the forum and makes it uninviting for posters to visit. Which is why the admins there try to keep the ranting and venting to one thread.

Used to be, the posters that made up Cockytalk wouldn't have an issue with it - even the mad, frustrated posters: they'd just keep their frustrations to the vent thread, vent them, and move on. They would remain hopeful about the team and stay civil in other threads. The board would stay pleasant and inviting to other Gamecock fans to post. It would be a nice little community, which is mostly what the old-timers that post there miss about it. But now there is a ton of posters who feel they own the site and should be allowed to dictate to the site owners how posting should be allowed. And they blow up the forums if given the slightest chance, turning the board into shite. And they could give a frick about doing it. It's not like THEY invested in it, or spent money on it. But they still deserve the RIGHT to do as they feel on it.

It just don't ever work that way, until you start paying the bills. Sorry. And you can email Chicken, email ANY owner/admin of ANY popular messageboard/forum for sports who pays the bills and does the work to maintain the boards, and ask them. They will ALL tell exactly what I just did...

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They had a mod over there, Spurticus,

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leave

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Was quite glad when that happened.

Then he came back and banned me.


He's a little bitch.

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I laughed so hard when Spurticus ended up coming back after that insanely long rant he went on. I knew he would.

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Lol when he made that rant/thread there were so many people commenting. "Don't leave" etc etc.

I went in and said, "good never liked you"

Didn't get banned for that, got banned for reporting people talking smack outside of smack, regardless of the affiliation.