***CRIMSON RED DAILY THREAD***

[Jamos]

Wow, Daily Thread has been like the barn's season lately: dead.
 

Just my two cents worth, but the big change to the forum, moving the Daily Thread and adding the robot didn't do much good for the forum, just the opposite. Just saying.

[SUPERCOACH]

Wow, Daily Thread has been like the barn's season lately: dead.
 

Just my two cents worth, but the big change to the forum, moving the Daily Thread and adding the robot didn't do much good for the forum, just the opposite. Just saying.

I think you are probably right about that.  I have a hard time understanding why that is a problem for people though.

[Jamos]

Wow, Daily Thread has been like the barn's season lately: dead.
 

Just my two cents worth, but the big change to the forum, moving the Daily Thread and adding the robot didn't do much good for the forum, just the opposite. Just saying.

I think you are probably right about that.  I have a hard time understanding why that is a problem for people though.

I'm just basing my opinion on what I've seen since the change.

To me, the Crimson Red Daily represented the favorite coffee shop that all the fellows liked to hang out in and discuss whatever, including sports. It was on the main page of the, forum, which was very handy in switching to all of the main topic threads for the posters. There are always a difference in opinions in any "roundtable" discussion and it was a shame that the discussion got as heated as it did. There were some great conversations there and I would personally like to see it  changed back and maybe some of the past posters would see fit to return to the forum in an more active way. We all have had a heated difference of opinions in our lifetime and it's nothing wrong with that, but we must move on and enjoy what is left of of lifetime because there are no guarantees of how long that is.

The robot I think killed the desire of many to find news articles and post them on the forum to initiate a conversation. I personally don't find it enjoyable to have to go to the Wall-E thread to find something to chat about, it's about the same feeling as having to go to another page to get to the Crimson Red Daily.

This is just my opinion and maybe I won't get slammed too bad, but if it will help restore the forum to it's past, then it's well worth getting slammed.

[BAMAWV]

Wall-E provides a constant influx of new articles. This has been a great advancement if you are looking for news about the Crimson Tide. Jamos is right if what he was saying is the board has lost some of it's sense of community. But I think the trade off is well worth it. I fill the void in comraderie with real life friends and conversations. No other forum on the WWW that I have seen provides such a wealth of information. As for the DAILY THREAD weather reports, I just look out the window to keep up to date. JMHO and RTR

[pmull]

I like WALL-E World. There were several of us who spent a lot of time each day posting articles. Now we can spend our time reading and making comments and observations.

[Old Tider]

Moving the Daily Thread back might be the last nail in the Ferguson forum. I find no strain in clicking to that page. Maybe we need more threads of nutty news like we used to have.

[Jamos]

Well all I'm saying is if the changes were for the betterment of the forum then why isn't there more activity on here now. I just wonder what the difference in number of posts per day is now  compared to what it was before the changes, there has to be a big difference.

It's a shame to see how this forum has dwindled down to almost nothing.

[SUPERCOACH]

First! 

Jamos, I hear what you are saying.  You make a lot of good points.  The activity is definitely lower than it was a few months ago, there is no question about that.  And the decrease in activity does coincide with about the time WALL-E was added and the Daily Thread was moved.

I have a little different take on it though.  In my opinion, the activity didn't decrease because WALL-E was added or the thread was moved.  Sure, some folks didn't like the thread being moved, and some folks don't care for WALL-E.  But I honestly don't see people leaving the site because of that.  You get used to the new place for the thread after a few days.  In fact we are all having a pretty good discussion in here right now.  And putting WALL-E in his own board makes it easy for the folks that don't like him to just ignore him.  To me it seems like these would be minor nuisances for a few people in the worst case, and big improvements in the eyes of some others.  But certainly not an issue that would make someone decide to never come back.

I think it has more to do with some of the heated arguments that were going on at that time.  I also wonder if some things may have been said using private messages that we are all unaware of.  But for whatever reason, it seems to me like some folks got mad, frustrated, got their feelings hurt, or whatever you want to call it, and just decided that they have better things to do in life than to get sucked in to constantly bickering with people over the internet.  I know from personal experience back on TideSports that if you are constantly having to defend yourself or argue with someone every time you log on it gets old in a hurry and before long you don't even bother coming around that much.

I could be wrong, but that is my take on it.  I wish it were as simple as moving a thread or tweaking/getting rid of WALL-E, but I am afraid that really has very little to do with it.  That is unfortunate too, because those things are easily remedied.  Conflicts among posters are much harder to resolve.  The most disappointing part of all of this is that there really isn't anything that I can do to fix it (at least not that I am aware of).  I guess in hindsight I should have done a much better job of enforcing some of the rules and putting a stop to some of the disrespectful things that were said before it got out of hand.

[Jamos]

I guess it is what it is then.

[SUPERCOACH]

First! 

[SUPERCOACH]

Maybe we should start a joke thread in honor of Manti Te'o.  It is what we do so well around here.

[Old Tider]

Maybe we should start a joke thread in honor of Manti Te'o.  It is what we do so well around here.

I think we ran out of Te'o jokes during the NC game.

[ricky023]

Well I like it all. I just love the posts and discussions about Alabama sports. I hope I never offend or do anything to hurt someone but this is the best site I ever been on. Great job. SUPERCOACH. RTR!

[cbbama99]

Well, I'm not going to argue on what caused people to leave or whether Wall-E is good, or whether moving the Daily Thread was a problem. My reason for coming here is twofold: I get to stay in contact with fellow Bama fans and discuss athletics with them (which is even more important for me now that I am outside the state); two, there is a camaraderie about being on here. Look, I have my own face-to-face friends as well, but I consider the other posters on here friends as well, even though I have never met a single one of you in person. Friends tend to share common interests, and that is why ... SNIFF SNIFF ... I LOVE YOU GUYS  .

I'm OK now. Anyway, I will not allow some things that have happened in the past ruin my experience here. I have had my share of thin-skinned moments on here, but I have always shook them off. All of you regulars on here for the most part have been here since the beginning, and you also remember the mess that TideSports could be at times. This forum is light years better. Kudos to SC for all the work he puts into this, and kudos to all of you guys who make it entertaining for me on here (even WV  ). Bless you guys, and ROLL TIDE!

[BAMAWV]

Well, I'm not going to argue on what caused people to leave or whether Wall-E is good, or whether moving the Daily Thread was a problem. My reason for coming here is twofold: I get to stay in contact with fellow Bama fans and discuss athletics with them (which is even more important for me now that I am outside the state); two, there is a camaraderie about being on here. Look, I have my own face-to-face friends as well, but I consider the other posters on here friends as well, even though I have never met a single one of you in person. Friends tend to share common interests, and that is why ... SNIFF SNIFF ... I LOVE YOU GUYS  .

I'm OK now. Anyway, I will not allow some things that have happened in the past ruin my experience here. I have had my share of thin-skinned moments on here, but I have always shook them off. All of you regulars on here for the most part have been here since the beginning, and you also remember the mess that TideSports could be at times. This forum is light years better. Kudos to SC for all the work he puts into this, and kudos to all of you guys who make it entertaining for me on here (especially WV ). Bless you guys, and ROLL TIDE!

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