Happy Holidays, and some friendly reminders about posting!
Dec 6, 2021 17:32:05 GMT -5
Don Caballero, dd, and 13 more like this
Post by Chris Hatfield on Dec 6, 2021 17:32:05 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
Hope you and your families are having a good, safe, healthy holiday season. Thanks again for what's been a banner year at SoxProspects, thanks in no small part to our terrific forum posters!
Given that there's going to be a bit of a baseball news vacuum thanks to the lockout (AT LEAST THERE'S STILL MINOR LEAGUE RULE 5 W00T W00T), it seemed like time for a brief reset and some reminders regarding posting here on the Forum. We're all going to have to roll with the punches together on this, and it'd be good for all of us to have a reminder on a few things.
1) First, thank you all for your continued respect for other posters and general civility! That's been a point of emphasis when we've posted these reminders, but honestly, people have been pretty great about this lately, so thanks again! Great job, good effort, luv ya, etc.
2) When there's a bit of a lull in the news cycle like this, there's a temptation to over-respond to every post on the board. I get it - there's nothing new to talk about, so we pore over whatever is out there (and a lot happened the last couple of weeks!). However, we ask all posters—and let me be clear that we are not singling anyone out—to please try to avoid doing so. When one, two, three, or four posters are doing the majority of the posting, it tends to suck all the air out of the room, so to speak, and others wind up getting discouraged from contributing—if your small, simple question is going to get swallowed up by three posters going round-and-round on some transaction, it's easy to think, "why bother?" So please, consider stepping back, evaluating just how often you're responding in a thread (or generally), and maybe just letting things sit for a while rather than posting for the 10th time in the thread's last 20 posts. If you look in a thread and see your avatar pretty consistently on the most recent page, maybe give others a chance to jump in. Be willing to agree to disagree, and consider that sometimes a single response after others have been able to discuss does a lot more to advance discussion than responding seriatim to every post since your last one, such that now we have 6 competing discussions happening in one thread.
3) This certainly isn't coming from a ground rules perspective, but some poster-to-poster advice: before you click "reply" on that 10-paragraph, book-length response, consider whether you need all of it. Again, there's nothing wrong with that kind of post, but for what it's worth, there's a good chance most folks aren't going to read it compared to a well-phrased two-paragrapher. Sometimes the long post is necessary and appropriate, but just keep that in mind.
We here at the site hope you all have a great end of the year and start of 2022. Thanks so much for being a part of this community, and happy posting!
Hope you and your families are having a good, safe, healthy holiday season. Thanks again for what's been a banner year at SoxProspects, thanks in no small part to our terrific forum posters!
Given that there's going to be a bit of a baseball news vacuum thanks to the lockout (AT LEAST THERE'S STILL MINOR LEAGUE RULE 5 W00T W00T), it seemed like time for a brief reset and some reminders regarding posting here on the Forum. We're all going to have to roll with the punches together on this, and it'd be good for all of us to have a reminder on a few things.
1) First, thank you all for your continued respect for other posters and general civility! That's been a point of emphasis when we've posted these reminders, but honestly, people have been pretty great about this lately, so thanks again! Great job, good effort, luv ya, etc.
2) When there's a bit of a lull in the news cycle like this, there's a temptation to over-respond to every post on the board. I get it - there's nothing new to talk about, so we pore over whatever is out there (and a lot happened the last couple of weeks!). However, we ask all posters—and let me be clear that we are not singling anyone out—to please try to avoid doing so. When one, two, three, or four posters are doing the majority of the posting, it tends to suck all the air out of the room, so to speak, and others wind up getting discouraged from contributing—if your small, simple question is going to get swallowed up by three posters going round-and-round on some transaction, it's easy to think, "why bother?" So please, consider stepping back, evaluating just how often you're responding in a thread (or generally), and maybe just letting things sit for a while rather than posting for the 10th time in the thread's last 20 posts. If you look in a thread and see your avatar pretty consistently on the most recent page, maybe give others a chance to jump in. Be willing to agree to disagree, and consider that sometimes a single response after others have been able to discuss does a lot more to advance discussion than responding seriatim to every post since your last one, such that now we have 6 competing discussions happening in one thread.
3) This certainly isn't coming from a ground rules perspective, but some poster-to-poster advice: before you click "reply" on that 10-paragraph, book-length response, consider whether you need all of it. Again, there's nothing wrong with that kind of post, but for what it's worth, there's a good chance most folks aren't going to read it compared to a well-phrased two-paragrapher. Sometimes the long post is necessary and appropriate, but just keep that in mind.
We here at the site hope you all have a great end of the year and start of 2022. Thanks so much for being a part of this community, and happy posting!
