Problems with The Ram Inn

[SithHappens]

I know David locked the thread to do with Stephen Pearce and what he supposed to have said on a night out.

I guess on dcfcfans it's probably the subject of more scrutiny due to the volumes. I know Mel used to look on there and would give David a nudge if anything was posted that was untoward relating to him or the club.

The problem with politics over there is when it was allowed it was a full time job moderating because of the volume of posts. Insults fly all the time. Bans were abundant.

[ramAnag]

Regarding the semi-hijacked part of this thread, regarding moderation. There?’s been calls for moderator adherence to a footy mad decreed ?‘set of rules?’, which I?’ll confirm is difficult as there were none offered when I became mod and none evident on the site. However, be careful what you wish for in any case. Looking at our junior partner (lol) in Rams forums, DCFC fans, their set of rules state ?‘prohibited content - politics, religion?’. Their mods have recently locked a fairly well mannered discussion which broke this rule, it would be easy for me to piggy back on DCFC Fans rules, but my guess is that some would be upset by that.

A bit of an over simplification perhaps, but not entirely misleading…the average response count to the top 10 ‘stickies’ is 33.4 while the average response count to the top 10 ‘non stickies’ is 1392. Food for thought?

[Geoff Parkstone]

food - maybe. For thought - not really. We few, we happy few need something to fill the time before football returns and have got addicted to the OT threads which are always giving. A football thread is usually topical for a week, the non football threads are permanently topical on a rolling basis.

So a foootball thread lasts a week - for 33 posts. That would be 1716 a year if it had remained topical all year. An OT thread averages 1392 and is always topical. So football threads contribute more. See, you can prove anything with numbers.

[MadAmster]

food - maybe. For thought - not really. We few, we happy few need something to fill the time before football returns and have got addicted to the OT threads which are always giving. A football thread is usually topical for a week, the non football threads are permanently topical on a rolling basis.

So a foootball thread lasts a week - for 33 posts. That would be 1716 a year if it had remained topical all year. An OT thread averages 1392 and is always topical. So football threads contribute more. See, you can prove anything with numbers.

Indeed, lots of people believe in numerology. Take a situation, a birth date, the day something happened, whatever. Think of a number. Take the numbers in the date, singularly or in pairs, trios etc. choose the arithmetic device you wish to utilise between the various numbers or groups of numbers. The ones you choose will be the ones that get you closest to your required outcome. Add, subtract etc the number you first thought of to/from/by the outcome of the previous arithmetic and, if you're lucky, you'll get 666 proving that Florence Nightingale was a witch or that Mother Theresa is the devil or whatever it was you wanted to be the outcome.

That's not exactly how numerology works but it's not far off... if you're a conspiracy theorist.

[Andy_Faber]

A bit of an over simplification perhaps, but not entirely misleading…the average response count to the top 10 ‘stickies’ is 33.4 while the average response count to the top 10 ‘non stickies’ is 1392. Food for thought?

My point wasn't around post volume, it was around the impossibility of satisfying posters who don't want no moderation, don't want moderation based on a reasonable offering from the moderator, and don't want the reasonable set of rules used by another comparable forum, the relative higher popularity of which may be partly driven by its list of prohibited content. I'd suggest we should continue 'as is', especially as there appears to be some sort of 'Christmas 2014'-style outbreak of friendliness occurring at present.

[ramAnag]

food - maybe. For thought - not really. We few, we happy few need something to fill the time before football returns and have got addicted to the OT threads which are always giving. A football thread is usually topical for a week, the non football threads are permanently topical on a rolling basis.

So a foootball thread lasts a week - for 33 posts. That would be 1716 a year if it had remained topical all year. An OT thread averages 1392 and is always topical. So football threads contribute more. See, you can prove anything with numbers.

Not really, GP. You see the ‘stickies’ are, with the exception of ‘Next Season Recruitment’ - which is high scoring for obvious reasons - not really about DCFC/football. They are, this one (Ram Inn problems, 54), Cricket ‘25 (26), Marinakis (48) and Transgender footballers (54).

It’s obviously not the right time of year to judge match day threads but I think they usually average between 12-25 based on degree of contentiousness and disappointment and because there’s only so much about ten blokes can say about one match.

My point was that, without the O/T threads - particularly the political ones - the forum would, in all likelihood, already be dead so I’m agreeing with AF and thinking best to leave well alone and long may the ‘outbreak of friendliness’ continue.

[Oldtimeram]

Private messaging has been disabled on my account too

[Andy_Faber]

Private messaging has been disabled on my account too

private messaging is disabled for everyone at the moment, which from my POV means I can't even send a message to be ignored by admin...

[MadAmster]

private messaging is disabled for everyone at the moment, which from my POV means I can't even send a message to be ignored by admin...

On the upside it does mean Admin doesn't have to do anything...

[ramAnag]

On the upside it does mean Admin doesn't have to do anything...