I Just Want to talk BBALL

[BroadwayVa]

I agree, people have a right to express their opinions.


And people have a right to do that also. If people did not want others to comment on their posts, then they wouldn't post them. Nobody who posts wants to be ignored. We are all looking for validation, or at least a response.


Because if we allow dumb/silly/inaccurate/false things to remain unchallenged, then the BY becomes a place where intelligent/creative/fun posters don't want to post anymore (and this has happened). It becomes known as a place where the posters post dumb/silly/inaccurate stuff. The BY becomes a laughing stock.

There are some people who feel obligated to right wrongs.


It doesn't necessarily have to do with liking or not liking. It has to do with dumb/silly vs intelligent, or comprehensive vs incomprehensible or truth vs inaccuracies.


Exactly. We need to put out information so people on here will have the facts.


Yes, just like Geno, we need to tell these people they have no idea what they are talking about.


But you shouldn't let them go through life without at least trying to inform them. That's like not telling a drunk alcohol is not good for him, because, well he probably won't change anyway.

We have a duty to try and help these people. Just ignoring their posts is abdicating our responsibilities.

Meyers7--is this working towards getting me ejected from this forum--for my silly comments?? You see, I believe that along with the serious--the silly can add some fun elements. If only those with significant knowledge of ALL WBB--I'm in trouble because I joined with ONLY UConn Women BB as my team .
Further, If I think Geno is wrong ==is that such heresy as to not be voiced?
I do agree--and I have--ignored replies or posts from constant pokers---whose only goal in life is to take the wrong side and be royal pains in the glutus maximus.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Appreciate your thoughts. I think most would agree. One strategy to consider is for readers to ignore comments they deem of little value. Responding can, under some circumstances, simply increase attention better directed elsewhere. If you disapproves of the general tenor of a thread, one easy solution: start another that shifts the focus onto something positive! You get enough people doing that, and the naysayers are eventually drowned out.

yOU ARE so right!!

 

[CocoHusky]

I agree with many of your points, & might add another idea about the Miss. State game. My opinion, which is worth exactly what it’s costing you to get it, is that when you win a majority of your games in a comfortable fashion, when players get thrown into a pressure situation in an environment they aren’t at ease in (final four), when they miss a couple of easy shots their tendency is to start rushing everything. That usually leads to the snowball rolling down the hill getting bigger and going faster as the game progresses. This might explain some of the easy misses, and the results of the final offensive possession.
I had an assistant coach tell me once when our team was in a similar situation that it wouldn’t make any difference if we had 20 timeouts because the players were in a trance, and it wasn’t going to change until the game ended, and they relaxed. I’m not saying this 100% accurate because I wasn’t privy to what the coaches were, but it had a lot of the earmarks of those emotions. JMO

Geno would agree with you whole heartedly and has said as much on a couple of occasions. To paraphrase Geno: The team found themselves in an unfamiliar situation and all of a sudden the little things that you are used to going your way doesn't.

 

[DaddyChoc]

I want to start an OT thread but I don't wanna get yelled at "during the season"

 

[Charliebball]

I want to start an OT thread but I don't wanna get yelled at "during the season"

Why would anybody yell at you for starting an OT thread? I see plenty on here................if somebody isn't interested they can simply ignore it............

 

[meyers7]

I want to start an OT thread but I don't wanna get yelled at "during the season"

It's ok though if we yell at you during the off season?

 

[JS]

Because if we allow dumb/silly/inaccurate/false things to remain unchallenged, then the BY becomes a place where intelligent/creative/fun posters don't want to post anymore (and this has happened). It becomes known as a place where the posters post dumb/silly/inaccurate stuff. The BY becomes a laughing stock.

All depends on how one does it. People who point out that something is inaccurate or false, and why, do everyone a service and make for a better board. Some people are good at it. Others may be coming from a different place.

The key is to deliver one's critique civilly. "Dumb" and "silly" are pejoratives that can be wielded in an uncivil manner amounting to a personal attack.

Whatever one may be thinking, if uncivil "hit words" or personal ridicule are actually used in reference to another's post it's going to attract our attention.

We've had individuals who were masters at thinly disguising their personal attacks as "attacking the post, not the poster." Does anyone think "Stop putting up moronic posts" complies with the maxim?

There are some people who feel obligated to right wrongs. . . .
We have a duty to try and help these people. Just ignoring their posts is abdicating our responsibilities.

If righting wrongs means correcting unsupported, inaccurate statements by supplying the facts, if it means supplying a more realistic perspective, then the people who feel thus obligated should have at it.

There are people, though, who enjoy confrontation. People who enjoy putting other people down. People who really would like to run those whose attitudes they don't like off the board.

People like that (a small but sometimes prominent minority) don't mind if their aggressiveness intimidates some lurkers or visitors into not posting, or provokes others into pissing matches, either way to the detriment of the board.

We do mind.

Everybody can have at it. Set the record straight. Have a vigorous debate. Be fervent, to use a word seen somewhere in this thread.

But if one's aggressive methods cross into incivility, we will take steps of our choosing to remedy the situation.

Policing the board to make it work, as nearly as possible, for everyone is our job, not the job of self-appointed Posting Police.

We won't tolerate vigilantism.

 

[BroadwayVa]

This is quite the response. When I said that people "will be called out," I didn't say they MUST be called out, nor do I believe they should. But when you post here you can expect people to react one way or another to what you say, though sometimes there is no reaction. I was saying that rather than try to stifle posts ("drown them out"), we should accept them for better or worse. If they're problematical, anyone is free to say so, to "like" them, or to ignore them. I enjoy your generally thoughtful posts; thanks for being interesting. PS/I have no idea where you got the notion that (UConn's) WCBB "is not life or death."

I agree most with Scoop and with you. Opinions are just opinions but when voiced one must know there may be opposing views. Opposing views can being with--you idiot --or stupid --or some other personal degradation--which only incites anger.
You can disagree without being disagreeable and most can take disagreement that isn't an attack.

 

[BroadwayVa]

All depends on how one does it. People who point out that something is inaccurate or false, and why, do everyone a service and make for a better board. Some people are good at it. Others may be coming from a different place.

The key is to deliver one's critique civilly. "Dumb" and "silly" are pejoratives that can be wielded in an uncivil manner amounting to a personal attack.

Whatever one may be thinking, if uncivil "hit words" or personal ridicule are actually used in reference to another's post it's going to attract our attention.

We've had individuals who were masters at thinly disguising their personal attacks as "attacking the post, not the poster." Does anyone think "Stop putting up moronic posts" complies with the maxim?


If righting wrongs means correcting unsupported, inaccurate statements by supplying the facts, if it means supplying a more realistic perspective, then the people who feel thus obligated should have at it.

There are people, though, who enjoy confrontation. People who enjoy putting other people down. People who really would like to run those whose attitudes they don't like off the board.

People like that (a small but sometimes prominent minority) don't mind if their aggressiveness intimidates some lurkers or visitors into not posting, or provokes others into pissing matches, either way to the detriment of the board.

We do mind.

Everybody can have at it. Set the record straight. Have a vigorous debate. Be fervent, to use a word seen somewhere in this thread.

But if one's aggressive methods cross into incivility, we will take steps of our choosing to remedy the situation.

Policing the board to make it work, as nearly as possible, for everyone is our job, not the job of self-appointed Posting Police.

We won't tolerate vigilantism.

AMEN