Has anyone else noticed the downturn in quality on bigfooty of late?
Every week, there's these annoying polls over who is the best poster, who should be in the hall of fame, etc. Who cares anyway?
If these were just one off's, it wouldn't be so bad. But why is it, that so many people are making their own ego building so apparent, that it takes over the rest of the site (not just on the general board)?
For instance, people posting huge topics about how they had a disagreement with the moderator, or topics deliberately posted with the intention of getting others to give them a huge pat on the back. Is that what the site is really supposed to be about?
It's a handful of culprits, rather than the majority too. Not everyone on here is like that. There are heaps of good posters. But bigfooty is being taken over, by this handful of people who, as soon as a topic arises, pull it to pieces with their own small talk, or ego building.
And then you have people, who feel the need to post every single detail of their personal lives on here. I'm not talking about people bringing up something that happened to them, that might be of interest/humour to others. But rather people who discuss topics that no one else but themselves would be interested in.
And what's the deal with people turning the forums into a chat site discussing trivial details of their own personal lives in a conversational manner? If people want to post one line replies to each other (like in a conversation), for sanity's sake do it in the chat room, instead of clogging up the forum boards. That is not what the forum is designed for.
It's not a matter of deciding just not to read these topics either. For starters, a lot of decent topics and other boards besides just the general board are being taken over by this type of crap.
Secondly, these huge nonsense topics make computers run slow. It takes ages to load bigfooty these days, whereas it never used to in the past. What's the point in loading up a forum full of one-line conversational style posts, when it slows the thing down for everyone?
Do people think they'll be noticed more, because of their huge tally of posts, and the fact that they've got a whole load of one-line nonsense posts in almost every topic?
I bet I'm not the only one to feel this way either. Perhaps no one else will come on here and agree with me, but you can put that down to not wanting to be slagged off by those who are the main perpetrators of this nonsense.
Every week, there's these annoying polls over who is the best poster, who should be in the hall of fame, etc. Who cares anyway?
If these were just one off's, it wouldn't be so bad. But why is it, that so many people are making their own ego building so apparent, that it takes over the rest of the site (not just on the general board)?
For instance, people posting huge topics about how they had a disagreement with the moderator, or topics deliberately posted with the intention of getting others to give them a huge pat on the back. Is that what the site is really supposed to be about?
It's a handful of culprits, rather than the majority too. Not everyone on here is like that. There are heaps of good posters. But bigfooty is being taken over, by this handful of people who, as soon as a topic arises, pull it to pieces with their own small talk, or ego building.
And then you have people, who feel the need to post every single detail of their personal lives on here. I'm not talking about people bringing up something that happened to them, that might be of interest/humour to others. But rather people who discuss topics that no one else but themselves would be interested in.
And what's the deal with people turning the forums into a chat site discussing trivial details of their own personal lives in a conversational manner? If people want to post one line replies to each other (like in a conversation), for sanity's sake do it in the chat room, instead of clogging up the forum boards. That is not what the forum is designed for.
It's not a matter of deciding just not to read these topics either. For starters, a lot of decent topics and other boards besides just the general board are being taken over by this type of crap.
Secondly, these huge nonsense topics make computers run slow. It takes ages to load bigfooty these days, whereas it never used to in the past. What's the point in loading up a forum full of one-line conversational style posts, when it slows the thing down for everyone?
Do people think they'll be noticed more, because of their huge tally of posts, and the fact that they've got a whole load of one-line nonsense posts in almost every topic?
I bet I'm not the only one to feel this way either. Perhaps no one else will come on here and agree with me, but you can put that down to not wanting to be slagged off by those who are the main perpetrators of this nonsense.
