Sorry Junkhead, ndftbl's argument is specious.
Sorry Junkhead, ndftbl's argument is specious.
He started a new thread with a Title “Bookend Florida Cornerbacks!” and he provided a link. He then posted NOTHING about the recruit but vented his dislike for the format of the board. A format that this board started with 4 years ago. A format that GH copied when it started 3 years ago. The same format that Recruiting Planet and several other recruiting boards use. A format that ndftbl is quite familiar with as he's been a member of IrishEnvy since August 2007.
I've worked with Free Form internet boards and it's a nightmare. I was a board administrator on the Irish Recruiting Journal back in the mid to late 90's. All the ND boards trace their roots back to the IRJ. It was started by an ND student on the ND mainframe. The format was Free Form much like NDN is today. Somebody woould start a thread and other posters would cobble on their comments. When a page (computer screen) scrolled by other posters would frequently post the same article or comment, again, sometimes 15 or 20 times a day.
Go over to NDN and post “Chris Martin Considering Visits” and you'll get bombarded with “Japan bombs Pearl Harbor”, “Dewey Wins”, “ Rockne killed in crash”, etc. sarcastically telling you “it's old news” read the older posts before posting. Do it second or third time and you'll get a temporary banning.
There's no way to tell on a free form board what's been posted before and posters like ndftbl aren't going to take the time to scroll through several pages of posts to see if someone already posted that topic.
Be away from your computer for a couple of days on IE and you just need to click on which topics you're interested in. On a Free Form board you have to scroll back through hundreds of posts trying to discern from titles such as “Bookend Florida Cornerbacks” whether Cody Riggs and Spencer Boyd both verballed to Georgia or if Urban Meyer has installed a new defensive set.
The vBulletin Forum software used here, GH, and elsewhere eliminates that problem by allowing separate forums to be set up for different themes or topics like ND Football or ND Recruiting. It also allows subsets to be set up such as '08 Recruiting, '09 Recruiting, '10 Recruiting, etc. so someone looking for a posts on Spencer Boyd doesn't have to wade through threads on Sam Young, Jimmy Clausen, or Joey Getherall. A poster can do directly to “'10 Recruiting” and find a profile of that recruit and chronological articles and comments about that individual.
Nothing anal about it. It's simply tried and true and an hell of a lot more efficient than ndftbl's approach. He obviously has no experience operating an internet board.
He wants the news, quick, and easy. So he says.
The article was already posted under Boyd's name 4 hours before he posted. Several posters had commented on that article.
If ndftbl had gone to the IE Homepage, he would have seen Boyd's Thread listed on the left side of the page under “Recent Posts” at the time ndftbl made his post Boyd's Thread was in the Top 3. He didn't look very hard, did he Junkhead? Actually, he didn't look at all.
If he his Favorite Link on his computer was set for the Recruiting Page. He would have found Boyd's thread in the Top 2. Only three '10 Recruiting Threads had entries yesterday (Austin White and Anthony Barr were the others).
Another poster suggested to him in his thread that he can just click on “New Posts” in the Header. He also could have use the “Search” function.
Ndftbl claims he wants it easy but his way he had to open a new thread, enter a title, and then make his post. The vBulletin Forum way required he only click on Boyd's Thread and hit reply.
If ndftbl wanted things easy why did he chose the title, Bookend Florida Cornerbacks! It doesn't let anyone know the threads about Spencer Boyd, does it?
Here's the title of Boyd's thread on IE, '10 FL Ath Spencer Boyd (Official Offer). How clearer can it be?
The IE title is self explanatory; ndftbl's is cryptic.
As far as chasing posters away, he's no newbie. He's been here for 2 years. He hasn't posted much but he does like to complain and he takes serious issue whenever someone makes a suggestion or explains why things are the way they are. He's had problems with polite posters in the Hendrix thread and the Utupo thread as I recall. On NDN or GH he would have been thrashed and then banned a long time ago. He wasn't banned here. No one even hinted at it. We tend to be more tolerant here. A lot more tolerant than he seems to be.
I don't know whether he's a troll or not but his point was BS. He's been here for 2 years if he doesn't like the vBulletin Forum software he's free to avail himself of any of the other boards that use something more to his liking.
I don't see why the mods should have to change things around to accommodate his laziness. Or that they should have to do more work to re-organize posts so people can find them easily.
