Hiding other members...

well lets just block everyone and have the forum all to yourself ?

mate, I wouldn't be on a forum if I didn't want to read other peoples thoughts.

and you know, if you don't like what I post, don't read it. Just scroll past it.

Jesus, someone comes onto a public forum complaining about what some of the public are posting ? WTF ?

deal with it.

move on I'm sure you have better things to worry about.

Something like this exists on the Croatian forum I'm on. There's an 'ignore' button, and clicking this means that none of the posts by that particular user show up when you're reading the forum. However, if someone who's not on your ignore list quotes them, they do show then.

Don't know how technically feasible this is for the YF site, I'm a complete numpty when it comes to those kind of things.

Don't block people then. I on the hand would find this forum a lot better if I could block people if they're annoying me.
If the option is there, you can choose whether you use it or not, everyone's happy.

Well, let us be the judge of that.

I mean, if I think some of your lot's posts are nonsense, I don't lose sleep over it. FFS "oh I don't like how this guy speaks about that topic , BRING OUT THE VIOLINS, PASS ME SOME TISSUES, OH HOW I WISH I COULD BLOCK THIS GUY" cry cry.....

jesus christ.

This thread beats Sydney CCM at the moment.

Get a grip folks..this is a local football website.

Colvinator2010-08-28 22:28:37

all i'm going to say is if you have to resort to a 'block' button, you must have an easy cruisey life for this to be a worry to you.

oh LF1, how do you make it through the day ? it must be a real grind having to come home to the yellow fever website only to find me posting my opinion. f**k. Just how do you cope ?

the thought of people wanting this is just sad. build a f**king bridge and get over it.

Ah you know what ???????????????????????

f**king do it.

see what I care.

just don't come crawling back to me when you can't claim your prize because you blocked me.

loving all the angst

and i regard that last line LF1 as pretty much summing up the thread

whoooo - i honestly don't know what you are getting upset about.

And you can ease up on the language while you are at it.

I banned him, but had 2nd thoughts, but it's pretty damn close to happening.

love ya the fever, promise i'll behave.

I apologize to the yellow fever community for my actions.

chris.

This is a stupid idea.  Sometimes I wish there was a way to not have to read certain people's posts.  Some people only post rubbish, some are about 75% that way and others (most) kind of drift between sense and absolute tosh.  But the problems it rises would ultimately make YF worse off (I'm aware different people would have different people blocked, btw).  I mean, I'd like to think most wouldn't block me but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it at all.

Yes, I pretty much reiterated what's been said over 7 pages.

surely, that isn't enough. Make a thread and apologise to everyone. or send everyone a PM.

it would make things messy. even if i didnt block anyone,id have to read people repeating things,responding to things out of context etc. i never really expect this to be a serious thread as it shouldnt really happen. a nice idea,but in a somewhat conversational forum like this one it could just mess things up. the negative outweighs the positive especially when you can get round the negative by just scrolling down a couple of lines,as you said LF1.

Whooooo can be a dick (ok, often), but he's not offensive. I certainly don't need an apology. You guys must have read the huge amount of racist/deliberately offensive youtube comments. Hardly the same thing saying 'Paston is crap', although it seems stupid to me to have such an opinion, but maybe he actually believes it.

I don't like the constant angst on here, and I never read match threads after we lose, or draw, or sometimes when we win ( ) because a lot of it is so over the top it's just not fun. But if I read it and let it bother me, i'm just as bad for being sucked in. Me getting angsty about the angst isn't gonna change it, so I just have to deal with it or not read the forum. I like reading the match threads before the match starts, cos then people are like 'a draw would be good', and generally realistic, but then if we get a draw, or win poorly, it's usually knives out.

If the Nix lose or play badly, it sucks, but I don't take it personally, because that just seems childish. Maybe that makes me 'less of a fan', but I don't care. Life has enough serious crap in it to get depressed over such matters. That's just my take - if some of you want to slit your wrists over a poor performance, go right ahead.
Cosimo2010-08-29 11:26:01

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The last 2 posts are the most sensible in the entire thread (EDIT before yours whitby_boy, no offence  not saying your post wasnt good,just a timing thing). Tegal2010-08-29 12:14:10

i think the point of the ignore option is to give people the freedom of choice. UberGunner2010-08-29 13:09:37

hmm auskiwi, read any match thread after a game,even a decent win. That is what im talking about. Tegal2010-08-29 13:03:52

Especially those of us who are on dial up at home!

Some of the match thread angst is overly negative, but for the most part (particularly after a loss) it is constructive criticism. To be honest the team has not played particularly well in any of the three games so far this season, despite the win and the draw, and so surely anyone posting their thoughts on the game will reflect that. Everyone on here wants the team to do well, we're all passionate Nix fans, so when the team is poor forummers are bound to get "angsty".

Clearly this forum is different things for different people, so if people want to custom the site to suit them, so be it. For me, the Yellow Fever forum is somewhere to have discussions about football and the Phoenix which I wouldn't usually have in the real world. I enjoy reading a variety of opinions from people on here, even though I find some people's opinions not particularly well thought out and quite often too parochial. Most importantly, the site is another connection to a team and an experience which is all too distant for me up here in Thames.

i understand constructive criticism and welcome it. but after a game theres a few people who post every 2nd post nothing more constructive than"brown sucks" "sack ricki" etc etc,and even after a win it descends into what seems like a teenage angst forum. its those people i would put on ignore. if theyve said something that warrants a reply from someone who isnt ignored,that person would usually quote it,so itd still make sense. or if something didnt make sense but was below an ignored post,id figure it was in reply to that. if i felt the need id click for that post to show. talk of there being confusion etc is valid,but a little exaggerated.

Like i've said before, there is nothing wrong with parochialism.

Embedded YT videos don't load until you click the play button so thats not an issue

wolfman2010-08-29 16:02:06

you could maybe make a rule that you cannot publically reveal who you have ignored. this would be to avoid unfair singling out or ganging up as i imagine would happen to whooo now.

I swear I will wait until someone blocks me and then reveal the prize.

I've got an idea that everyone would like. 

Pitch it to us.

kudos from diegos son? a love letter to simon Elliott written by you?

You still haven't outlined what you would have done.  Its easy to criticise, but much harder to provide a solution.

well I can't reveal it now can I ?

just wait and see......

Go on. I for one am gagging to hear it.