How can we make Players Talk better????

[big joe 1212]

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.

[big joe 1212]

I like it the way it is!

The shit like sammy's doing sucks, but other players will rag on him, so the place will police itself hopefully!

I usually scroll a couple of pages anyways if there's nothing interesting.

[AMBlai01]

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.

Yeah but I hardly ever start threads....yet I only am in PT...I never go to another forum. If i feel like starting 8 threads one day....I want to be able to.

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.

I say leave it alone too...its a bit of Survival of the Fittest. The most interesting best topics stay on page one and the others get moved out. If they don't stay....then obviously they aren't worth value to the forum as a whole and people don't like them.

[Karayilan9]

Not for players talk but a general request, have official SBR soccer tournaments, put more soccer options in the sbrbook and sbrpicks sections.

[CarpeDime]

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.

this might encourage people at their quota to hijack other threads?

[buztah]

You can stop micromanaging it.

[pavyracer]

this might encourage people at their quota to hijack other threads?

I believe the whole idea is to have less threads started but with more posts in each thread. The volume of posts will still be the same. We are not asking people to limit posting. We are asking people to limit the threads started. If you have 200 people posting at PT daily and each is allowed 5 threads started daily you still get 1000 threads started daily. With some posters starting threads has become like facebook where they have to tell us in a separate thread every time about their daily activities, gambling, etc.

[RogueScholar]

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.

This is part of the reason I stopped spending very much time on SBR. Too many people plugging up the Players Talk with threads about sports and picks, threads which obviously belonged in a sports specific subforum. I like the idea of either moving those threads solely to the subforums or creating yet another subforum to house the truly off-topic stuff that I come here to read.

Sadly, I think the root cause of the changes to volume here at SBR are more systemic and can never be fixed. The Points system, while novel and quite successful, has attracted a much different demographic to the community and overwhelmed the old-guard. If I had my druthers, SBR would run a forum under a different brand name with no contests and points so we could have a place to post without any of the freeloaders. Just my two cents.

[Art Vandeleigh]

Threads that have the name of a poster in the title should be moved to a separate forum, would save an enormous amount of clutter, many should be PMs anyway.

[JetsMatt85]

didnt sort through this whole thing, but idiots craving attention like samsincharge should not be able to start 20 threads a day telling us that they won or lost $5. would be nice to reduce the clutter

itd be great if we could stick to the topic at hand- HANDICAPPING

[PAULYPOKER]

Divide players talk into two categories or forums one for strictly sports talk& all other no non related mathematical betting strategies since they are not allowed in the think tank forum/and one for misc. personal stories, humorous stories, bullshit stories,ETC. And call it " THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES"

[jjgold]

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.

Go look and you sure do not see me starting lots of threads and nothing more than anyone else here. Fishface be careful with your comments because you do not know who you are dealing with here.

[Boner_18]

I agree w/ Chi. I am a member of some forums where there are so many sub-forums and topic headers that most often the first response in a thread is "You ass, this belongs in the XYZ forum, blah, blah, blah." That is no fun.

[Matt Rain]

Divide players talk into two categories or forums one for strictly sports talk& all other no non related mathematical betting strategies since they are not allowed in the think tank forum/and one for misc. personal stories, humorous stories, bullshit stories,ETC. And call it " THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES"

I like it. Also make jjgold the one and only mod of The Days of Our Lives. Seriously.

[daggerkobe]

How about instituting a grade system.

Each thread would have 3 icons: thumbs up, thumbs down and attention whoring.

If enough posters click thumbs down, their pts are taken away.

If enough posters click thumbs up, they are awarded pts and stickied for the day.

If enough posters click attention whoring, the thread is immediately moved to the PZ. 3 attention whoring and they are banned for the day.

[wal66]

I have much less time in Players Talk than I have time here at SBR. Until this football season I never even looked in this part of the site. So my opinion matters little and I accept that but will give it anyways.

Things could be tweaked, altered or changed. In doing so you will what Players Talk is will be lost. SBR's Players Talk is maybe the best single site on the entire net, and I am including porn sites in the mix. You have every concievible walk of entertainment right here. You learn so much about everything right here. It is a complete mix of intellectuals and morons.

Naturally there are problem posters. One's that just don't get it and others that just don't care. Even they are part of what makes this specific portion of this site so wonderful.

Personally I had serious problems with Buztah's threads anytime he was dealing with race issue's I had a problem with him personally but the threads as vile and ignorant as they were actually provided a wealth of information. You were able to get to know some posters by their responses. You learned that some were intelligent and well versed even if you didn't totally agree with their stand. You learned some really post to be accepted and don't post a true train of thought. Much was aquired in those types of threads.

A annoying as ZBoiz, Sammy and JJ's threads can be from a redundant standpoint they too offer something that other sites just don't have. They too tell you much about the person as well as the responders. I agree that Z and Sammy have 6 games and 13 post related to those same games is ridiculous but it really harms no-one. I doubt seriously if it even slows a user down searching for content because once you see who's thread it is you already know if you want to waste your time on it or not.

I think most of the negative comments are due to what individuals associate Players Talk to mean literally. I think many feel that a title such as that implies intelligent topical issues are discussed in an appropiate manner. It's all about perception when you get right down to it. So maybe as some have stated Players Talk itself should be a sub-forum and a new one created that implies what Players Talk already is.

Personally I think even with all the bad the final results are Players Talk is a success and should be left un-changed.

[BadNina]

I agree with Wally.

The end

[paco]

Change is not always good. (see Obama). PT is fine in my opinion.

[wal66]

You really wanna make Players talk better, Nina, Robyn, Teela have to post nudes web-cams twice a month.

Seeing how Nina already agrees with me I will have to make more suggestions now.

[Mudcat]

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.

It seems like SBR kind of wants to decongest PT but isn't quite committed. There are sub-forums with specific functions, and mods are aware of using them, but instead of threads being moved to where they belong, they are copied there so they are still in PT as well.

If you are really serious about this, mods need to just take the plunge and move stuff whether it be picks/politics/movies/whatever. Don't copy, move.

[BadNina]

Good try there, Wally.


The title of this section is pretty self explanatory. People talk about whatever. If I don't see anything that catches my attention within the first page and a half, then I do look at my posts and see if there is anything new there. It is what it is.

[koby25]

I like it like it is

[Robyn]

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.

This is the best suggestion. The only exception should be shanty. He should be allowed to make an unlimited amount of threads each day.

Thank you.

[BadNina]

Wally....guess what I just got???

[B1GER1C828]

Get rid of all the drama threads.

[wal66]

Wally....guess what I just got???

I can only imagine your Bama payoff arrived. Cool. To the winner go the spoils. Only even though I lost I kind of won.

[BadNina]

at least you know I will think of you in the bubble bath.

[acarmelo1]

A Limit of 3 Threads per Hour or 20 per day seems fine

[wal66]

at least you know I will think of you in the bubble bath.

Gum on that Abe!

[keyboarding]

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

Yeah. This is probably the only forum in existence without an Off-Topic section. Players Talk should be reserved for conversation relevant to sports and gambling, not the perverse and often idiotic nonsense often found there.

[SBR_John]

Things could be tweaked, altered or changed. In doing so you will what Players Talk is will be lost. SBR's Players Talk is maybe the best single site on the entire net, and I am including porn sites in the mix. You have every concievible walk of entertainment right here. You learn so much about everything right here. It is a complete mix of intellectuals and morons.

Wow! Make it a double wow.

A lot of really great ideas. This thread is full of the high IQ'ers.

I agree with those who say micro managing PT will only hurt it BUT, the growth is going to hurt quality if tweaks are not made soon. One thing SBR does or did was slink, which adds posts to other relative forums. Like if you post "Problem with Sportsbook.com" in PT a mod I think will copy that into Offshore Sportsbooks and vica versa. Any topic started in another forum should not be slinked to PT. Its a minor step. Also, Pavy I think it was kind of joked around that a daily limit could be imposed. If it was 5 a day, I mean who needs to start more than 5 topics a day anyway? I kind of like that one. There is only so much air in the room.

[yisman]

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.

Good suggestions.

[Sam Odom]

Lot of good suggestions

[keyboarding]

Move Player's Talk to the bottom of the forum's main page, into the "More" section.

[The Seer]

If any poster earned the right to post multiple threads in players talk then its gold. He's a crazy fuk but, like him or not, his threads generate alot of interest and replies. However, I don't think it would hurt anything by having a non-sports related subforum though where you can post about movies, music, life situations, hot chicks, etc.