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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

The mentality of wanting to criticize the team, players or coaches on a message board dedicated to posting about them??

I joined Cockytalk in the summer of 2005. While there is exponentially more shitposting now than there was then it is not because all of the new posters are from a generation that only knew the Spurrier era.

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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).

Venting is usually a part of a discussion that is criticizing a sports team, especially on the internet. Expecting to open one thread for venting and keeping it there is ridiculous

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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.

Seems way more uninviting to me to ban posters that refuse to shite rainbows and burp butterflies.

I'm mean what is more uninviting than a ban for not posting something less than positive in the vent thread?

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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...

I never said that the owner doesn't have a right to patrol his board as they want.

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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.

But this seems like an indication the board is run poorly and refuses to acknowledge a large segment of its posters.