Spring Cleaning Notice

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Dear Fellow Posters:

The ancient "Around The Big East" and "Around College Basketball" threads have been closed and replaced with 25-26 versions, which have preliminarily been populated by some of the more relevant (ahem) recent posts from the original ones. Other on-topic recent posts from those threads may get moved in when time permits, but we had to start somewhere.

The SJU Portal Targets thread (later named the offseason thread) and the 25-26 Season thread have also been closed and some relevant recent posts from those threads have been used to populate the new Get Ready For 25-26 thread.

Please try to keep your posts in these three new threads ON TOPIC!!!!!

The Boogie thread remains open for Fland-related discussions until there is perfect clarity on that situation.

We are...
 
Oh and we also have a 25-26 Rankings thread, so please put your poll/ranking posts there and not in the Get Ready for 25-26 thread. I can see how they seem to be the same topic but we wind up with a lot of statistics and metrics posts in the Rankings thread in addition to the polls so probably best to keep it separate.
Thanks
 
I appreciate your efforts to keep our thoughts organized and support your efforts to remove obsolete and/or no longer or irrelevent discussions. What do you mean by stay on topic?
 
lawmanfan said:
I could have sworn we locked the RJ thread. But hey, we can make this the new RJ thread!

My prediction is that by November 15 it will be "RJ who?" around here.
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What i really understand is locking down threads because the subject matter gets nasty or out of control.

What I don't get is locking down a thread because a mod thinks we've spoken enough about the subject.

If the latter was valid we'd ban speaking about Chris Mullin, how we should have beaten Georgetown in the FF, 1985, Mike Jarvis, Lew Alcindor coming to St John's if the didn't retire Lapchick or any number of repetitive subjects.

In my opinion, if you get tired of a subject, move past the thread. All day there are repetitive posts that say the same thing over and over, often about absolutely false information.

Maybe we just limit how many times people can post or sign on in a day. I'd say a good start is 100 posts and 20 logins but it would restrict too many of us.
 
Beasts of the East said:
What i really understand is locking down threads because the subject matter gets nasty or out of control.

What I don't get is locking down a thread because a mod thinks we've spoken enough about the subject.

If the latter was valid we'd ban speaking about Chris Mullin, how we should have beaten Georgetown in the FF, 1985, Mike Jarvis, Lew Alcindor coming to St John's if the didn't retire Lapchick or any number of repetitive subjects.

In my opinion, if you get tired of a subject, move past the thread. All day there are repetitive posts that say the same thing over and over, often about absolutely false information.

Maybe we just limit how many times people can post or sign on in a day. I'd say a good start is 100 posts and 20 logins but it would restrict too many of us.
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Well, you see the problem is that you CAN'T just skip past the topic BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DON'T PUT THEIR POSTS ON TOPIC.

Thus we now have folks pining away for RJ on at least 3 separate threads at the moment, ultimately making the repetitive posts (i.e. spamming the site, a rules violation) unavoidable.

Ditto the "old days" posts of which I am glad you recognize you are a prime offender, which pop up, derail and pollute thread after thread.

Possibly if you had to clean the Red Fans room yourself, or cared about keeping it clean for others who visit, instead of having your friendly neighborhood mods do it for you, then you might see it differently.

But I digress. I am sure you will find all of the posts where they belong after some volunteer sets their time aside to do it.
 
DaTiger said:
I appreciate your efforts to keep our thoughts organized and support your efforts to remove obsolete and/or no longer or irrelevent discussions. What do you mean by stay on topic?
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Since this appears to be a serious question (if it were coming from me it would be facetious):

Each thread has a title.

The idea is that when people click on the thread they are entitled to have a reasonable expectation that the posts will relate to the thread title.

So if a thread is about the 25-26 St. John's team and you have a thought about when your niece played CYO with Chris Mullins' sister or whatever, then please either (1) find an appropriate existing thread to post that on; or (2) start a new thread for the new subject matter.

Right now we have a 25/26 Season thread for talk about the 25-26 team; a 25-26 rankings thread for talk about rankings, polls, metrics, etc; an around the big east thread for discussion of other BE teams/news; an around college basketball thread for discussion of non-SJU, non-Big East teams/news, individual player threads (new ones are in the recruits section), and various and sundry other threads.

There is a Memory Lane thread somewhere for folks who like to post about The Old Days.

Anyway, I hope that helps.
 
lawmanfan said:
Since this appears to be a serious question (if it were coming from me it would be facetious):

Each thread has a title.

The idea is that when people click on the thread they are entitled to have a reasonable expectation that the posts will relate to the thread title.

So if a thread is about the 25-26 St. John's team and you have a thought about when your niece played CYO with Chris Mullins' sister or whatever, then please either (1) find an appropriate existing thread to post that on; or (2) start a new thread for the new subject matter.

Right now we have a 25/26 Season thread for talk about the 25-26 team; a 25-26 rankings thread for talk about rankings, polls, metrics, etc; an around the big east thread for discussion of other BE teams/news; an around college basketball thread for discussion of non-SJU, non-Big East teams/news, individual player threads (new ones are in the recruits section), and various and sundry other threads.

There is a Memory Lane thread somewhere for folks who like to post about The Old Days.

Anyway, I hope that helps.
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Totally get it LMF but respectfully posting about RJ's draft prospects in a thread titled Haggerty Award when he just won the biggest of those awards this week could hardly be considered off topic.
 
NCJohnnie said:
Totally get it LMF but respectfully posting about RJ's draft prospects in a thread titled Haggerty Award when he just won the biggest of those awards this week could hardly be considered off topic.
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Agree - it was renamed to fully open the door for RJ discussion (sadly nobody wants to talk about Zuby or Kadary but whatever) and the off topic posts (mostly of the "how dare moderators moderate" variety) were moved here.
 
paultzman said:
Being a mod here is often like herding cats on acid.
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LMF clearly stated that if you want to post about the Good Old Days, you should go down the Memory Lane thread.šŸ˜‰

Thank you LMF for taking time out of your busy life to organize/ reorganize threads.
Unfortunately, some of us suffer from age related making sense degeneration and within a few threads, you will have to repeat this exercise all over again.šŸ˜¦
 
Rocket said:
LMF clearly stated that if you want to post about the Good Old Days, you should go down the Memory Lane thread.šŸ˜‰

Thank you LMF for taking time out of your busy life to organize/ reorganize threads.
Unfortunately, some of us suffer from age related making sense degeneration and within a few threads, you will have to repeat this exercise all over again.šŸ˜¦
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Thanks. To be clear, we do not much care what the content of people's posts are. We are looking for three things:

1. Don't break the site rules

2. Don't post the same thing over and over again (technically a site rule violation since it becomes "spamming the site" but it is worth mentioning separately for obvious reasons)

3. Try to keep your posts on topic with the thread title.

Other than that, have at it.
 
lawmanfan said:
Well, you see the problem is that you CAN'T just skip past the topic BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DON'T PUT THEIR POSTS ON TOPIC.

Thus we now have folks pining away for RJ on at least 3 separate threads at the moment, ultimately making the repetitive posts (i.e. spamming the site, a rules violation) unavoidable.

Ditto the "old days" posts of which I am glad you recognize you are a prime offender, which pop up, derail and pollute thread after thread.

Possibly if you had to clean the Red Fans room yourself, or cared about keeping it clean for others who visit, instead of having your friendly neighborhood mods do it for you, then you might see it differently.

But I digress. I am sure you will find all of the posts where they belong after some volunteer sets their time aside to do it.
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I kind of think in this case you went off topic because my post was about locking a thread because you believed everything that could be said had already been said, and was now repetitive.

Changing my critique to be about your pet topic of off- topic posts is in fact, off-topic.

Before you belabor the point about how hard it is to organize this site, i do believe that filing posts under the correct topic is kind of a pet peeve for you and I don't have a problem with you doing it. I also don't think the majority of users mind going off topic.



But to the main point of arbitrarily shutting down a topic because you subjectively think enough was said, I think of why people come here.

For many users, they come here to express an opinion. Whether it's been said before or not, really isn't that important to them. I don't mind - it gives folks a voice, and an opportunity to express themselves.

At least this place isn't like Quora, where topic moderator delete posts and blovk users they don't agree with - but maybe that's off topic too.

Look, I appreciate what the mods do, but id also say after close to 20 years on this site, I don't recall mods quitting or new mods appointed. it clearly must give you some satisfaction to maintain order or enforce rules. But it almost doesn't put any mod above respectful criticism.

Thanks in any event for all the work.
 
lawmanfan said:
Thanks. To be clear, we do not much care what the content of people's posts are. We are looking for three things:

1. Don't break the site rules

2. Don't post the same thing over and over again (technically a site rule violation since it becomes "spamming the site" but it is worth mentioning separately for obvious reasons)

3. Try to keep your posts on topic with the thread title.

Other than that, have at it.
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Or in keeping with Main Manā€™s recent reference to Bob Dylan lyrics as they apply to our great site:
ā€œNow when all the clowns you have commissioned have died in battle or in vain and youā€™re sick of all this repetition wonā€™t you come see me Queen Jane?ā€.
 
lawmanfan said:
Thanks. To be clear, we do not much care what the content of people's posts are. We are looking for three things:

1. Don't break the site rules

2. Don't post the same thing over and over again (technically a site rule violation since it becomes "spamming the site" but it is worth mentioning separately for obvious reasons)

3. Try to keep your posts on topic with the thread title.

Other than that, have at it.
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How about adding "keep your posts positive" as we all know that sometimes there are negative posts that just keep coming.
 
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