How can we make Players Talk better????

[SBR_John]

One challenge for SBR is how to control the heavy volume in Players Talk. Good topics are on page two in about an hour. Sometimes I just can't find an interesting thread because its on page 5 or so. Any ideas?

What else needs to be changed or added?

[G's pks]

Easy solution if you have guys posting 30 threads in an hour and they are all just separate bets on games pull them all together into one thread...

[Shark79]

Keep Topics with x amount of hits on first page for the first 2-3 days.

[BubbleBobble]

Give it up John, you have all the "power posters" here now (some people call them spammers).
Lost case.

[G's pks]

Maybe a warning for doing it first time...if they do not listen dump all threads into PZ.

[Chi_archie]

it is what it is. the users make player's talk what it is. I would think that too much effort from SBR to "change" things, would only backfire.


if you are concerned about missing "interesting threads" than you've have to have mods s-link such "interesting" threads to another section, where people that maybe wanted to sift through the drama and bs could go directly to, to read these threads. Problem is, who determines what is interesting?

if it gets to page 5... the majority of users did not deem it interesting

[G's pks]

Guys that are talking about non sports posts...sex, drugs, goofy crap, dump immediately into PZ..

This actually sounds pretty easy!

[G's pks]

Man give me some points for what I have suggested...seriously good stuff by me!

[BubbleBobble]

Keep Topics with x amount of hits on first page for the first 2-3 days.

bad idea, the topics with the most hits are usually JJGOLD vs. cool guy X vs. Nickyyyy vs. Sammyyyyy...with a little interrution of the Pavy/Taco troll elite duo.

[FishFace5]

Stop allowing JJ\Sammy to start 20 threads an hour, a thread limit per day seems reasonable.
Stop allowing members to have 2 and 3 different screen names.
Let the mods move the crap to PZ a lil quicker. More "government" seems like a scary suggestion but I agree there's just too many worthless threads.

[FishFace5]

9 responses in 5 minutes LOL. You think this is an obvious problem???

[Chi_archie]

just bumped an example of a good way sammy posts threads, and a bad way from last saturday... somtimes he will put 8 games out there, that could all be in the same thread

[RobbReport]

don't know if you can program it in, but a topic ticker would be cool.

[FishFace5]

. As archie clearly points out the problem for us.

[RobbReport]

high volume threads go on ticker.

[Swinging Johnson]

Hi John,

Well, first we need a separate and distinct tab for quotes of the day before we concern ourselves with this. It could be funny quotes or even helpful. For instance Sickler started a thread that is asking for help mending fences with his sister who has 5 children. I don't mean to be promoting myself here (oh who the hell am I kidding) and I shared an experience with my own sister that I thought might be of some assistance. And here it is:

I recall when my sister and I were estranged. It was difficult but then once we saw eachother at a family gathering...I took the high road and greeted her with a big hug and a kiss. Once our tongues met, it was like all the bad blood just flowed right to my throbbing member and all was soon forgotten. Ahhhhh, the holidays, good memories, good times.

[Shark79]

bad idea, the topics with the most hits are usually JJGOLD vs. cool guy X vs. Nickyyyy vs. Sammyyyyy...with a little interrution of the Pavy/Taco troll elite duo.

Thats why its considered Players Talk.

Players Talk is an area where people steam off from bad beats or simply to see whats new with other posters.

If you have an interesting Thread with over 100 hits ... it should be kept in Main Page.

If you want to talk about sports and how to profit from them, go to subforums, thats the whole idea why they were created.


BTW . No disrespect ... but 135 posts and you think you know what this place needs ... hehe.

[pavyracer]

Restrict the amount of threads an individual poster can start in PT daily. Put a quota of 5 per day or 1 every 3 hours. I really don't care what JJ is doing every day. I don't care if he eats, drinks or sleeps with trannies.

[dimewinner]

maybe have two different categories of playertalk: one for relevant posts and one for useless posts on stupid topics. you can make it self policing. those who posts in the wrong categories can have points rights suspended.

[goblue12]

Have you guys been double posting all the posts in the _____ handicapping forums in here? Or just the blog posts?

[daggerkobe]

Fire sam odom and move jj to the think tank.

[The Seer]

definitely put Sam's threads into one

[FishFace5]

Fire sam odom and move jj to the think tank.

hahahha. Yeah right, do you wanna start a riot. Fishhead just tried that. They ran him out of there in a week, imagine what they would do to JJ.

[Mudcat]

Could revisit the idea which has been kicking around since the early days of having a General Discussion sub-forum for topics that have nothing to do with sports and betting (like movies, hot chix, music etc.) It doesn't seem right to move them to the Private Zone when there is nothing objectionable about them.

Failing that, I would say just leave it alone.

Personally I would like it if the software would block topics from people I have on Ignore. It blocks their posts but I can still see their topics. Not seeing those would tidy things up a lot for me.

[mmike032]

have an OT forum for all the BS that is shoveled into PT

[SBR_John]

Could revisit the idea which has been kicking around since the early days of having a General Discussion sub-forum for topics that have nothing to do with sports and betting (like movies, hot chix, music etc.) It doesn't seem right to move them to the Private Zone when there is nothing objectionable about them.

A lot of very good ideas. I like this one I think. And several posters mentioned combining threads from the same poster as well as limiting the amount of threads one guy can start.

Players Talk is pretty entertaining now but to me it is at the max in volume and volume keeps increasing. Keep the ideas coming. It would be better to plan a solution now then wait until PT is simply over run.

[MrMonkey]

IMO Pavy and G's suggestions sound good! Some sort of limit on threads started a day would probably help out? Also picks really shouldn't made in PT (sports forums have less viewers so posters put them here) so putting the picks in one thread might also help out?

Finally, if SBR John is asking about this, I don't think SBR is urging certain posters to constanting keep posting to make the numbers look good? Some people might think that but this request here says otherwise.

[Bread]

Hire Mofome back. Problem solved.

[illmatick]

too many pick threads, I like the idea of limiting the amount of theads started by a single person

[StraitShooter]

it is what it is. the users make player's talk what it is. I would think that too much effort from SBR to "change" things, would only backfire.

This guy as usual is a good voice of reason
If it aint broke, dont fix it.

You will never be able to truly dissect the slight level of immaturity, the posters with more than one handle ( look in here, couple guys who signed up yesterday speak with the confidence and knowledge of having been here 5 years) or the level of the intelligence of each post.

As the year nears it`s end...I see SBR flourishing like no sports forum in history

I dont think you need to change much..just tweak things as they go

People will always migrate to what floats their boat on here anyways..just yesterday some kid posted a play in PT and got alot of action just for the drama it induced..while some other kid posted a winning play and got 1 response...Big deal..thats just the way it is

[LLXC]

Move threads that are really a play, into their sports forum.

[goblue12]

When I come to the Players Talk, I don't want to see threads about Joe's system plays or about what side everyone is on for the Charlotte - Atlanta basketball game. I'm hear to read up on what's going on in everyday life, what everyone is doing with their winnings, Information in the gambling world (UIEGA), etc. Basically a general discussion forum.

I would like to see more activity to the selective sports forums on a daily basis and create a sub-forum for the wanna-be touts who post their picks for free. The CFB forum is a ghost town in the off-season ditto to the MLB forum. That's my 2-cents.

[lakerboy]

Just keep it the way it is.

[poker_dummy101]

just have to combine alot of threads... there are 4 different threads saying take the niners, 3 different saying take cards, 10 different saying about some fukkin curse nicky gave sammy... just combine and throw away the garbage.

[Richkas]

Best thing to do with it is leave it alone and let the posters moderate the forum.