Let's talk a little seriously about the future of this forum. I commented in another thread about it but I feel like there's a lot more to be said, and maybe some other people can voice their opinions. If you don't care about the quality of this forum you probably won't read all this text. If you do I really hope you read it and you make a comment about what you think of all that.

First of all I want to say that here and reddit are the places I go to to talk about football. I like coming here because it feels more personnal. I've been on here for over a year now and I feel like I know the usernames and the people that are behind them quite well. And in the end I care about this forum and I'd like it to get better.

FIRST THING WE COULD WORK ON

We get great discussions going on from time to time. I don't have any issue with heated discussions, it even makes things more interesting sometimes. The issue I have is that sometimes the content is borderline idiotic. Some threads are just a meme dumpster where people throw pictures they found on troll football.

Let's take an example. This is about arsenal, I'm sorry, but it's one of the recent ones I remember :

This week end, arsenal got absolutely trashed by Chelsea. This is an important event in european football, so it's only fair that we have a thread about it. The issue is that the thread is titled Thoughts on the chelsea arsenal game, and the content is two reaction gifs. Following that, we get a bunch of pictures and stupid memes. NO TEXT. This is a forum for discussion and there were plenty of things people could have talked about. We could have talked tactics, about how our midfield got exposed super early, about how chamberlain and arteta are not good enough to start for a title challenger. We could have talked about chelsea and asked if their striker problem is even a problem. About if wenger was the right man for his job. We could have talked about many things but there were only jokes and memes. Actual discussion followed, and that was good. My question is, DO WE REALLY NEED THE MEME CRAP BEFORE STARTING A CONVERSATION ? The answer is no. In my opinion, memes and reaction gifs should be banned from this forum as they bring nothing to any thread. And that is true for the whole internet. If it were for me they would disapear from the universe.

Btw memes are the obvious thing to ban, but sometimes some people who will recognize themselves just say the most useless things...

SECOND THING WE CAN IMPROVE ON

This is a website where people supporting many teams gather and talk about football. It's a neutral place. While sometimes people can argue and trash talk rivals (because we all lose our cool), threads made for people to gather and hate one team should be deleted straight away. I'm thinking about that "THE REASON WHY PEOPE HATE BARCA" thread from two days ago. This was bound to become the disaster. No ganging up on one team just to trash talk. There are teams I can't stand. I can't stand chelsea, some of you may know that about me, but I don't create a thread titled "LET'S ALL GATHER AND TALK ABOUT HOW CHELSEA IS THE DEVIL". Because that doesn't create any sort of discussion, just angry people moaning and disagreeing with each other. There is no point.

My answer to that is to spot these things and delete them before they turn into a sh*t storm.

THIRD THING WE CAN IMPROVE ON

This can be somehow linked to my second thing, there are people on here who don't care for discussion. They are usually the less active members, who sometimes come up out of no where to say the most infuriating things. These people are trolls and the fact that they are still on the forum is bringing the whole thing down. When you argue about something, put time into your comment, wrote a nice bit of text about something, and are waiting for someone to do the same and answer to your comment, there are some people who turn up, and will say stuff like "lol your team is shit what you say is irrelevant". These people's only comments are made for the single purpose of pissing off people and this holds the whole forum down.

How to fix this ? It's easy, you delete their comments and if they keep posting that sh*t you ban them. The most obvious troll I can think of is this guy called manchesterutl with a "u mad bro" profile pic (do I even need to say more).

The sad thing is that often these comments get thumbs up so approval from the forum. I don't give a crap about thumbs up but it gives them the incentive to continue.

Alright I'm all done I think, I talk a lot about having better discussion. What I'm trying to do here is to find ways to make this place a better a more mature forum.

Please if you have things to add or complaints about the quality of the posts and ideas on how to improve we can discuss it here. About how to make these rules real, I don't know, the only thing I know is that Alex is a mod. I would really like to hear if mods have guidelines and what these guidelines are.

Where di you see an argument ?
The reason why people HATE barça, and no need to say anything.... Is that an argument ?
I will remember the freedom of Hate argument.

The title is the problem, not the content.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

Alex, in my opinion rules should be more strict on the forum. That thread about the clasico should have been deleted. There would have been another thread created for people to talk about it, with a more suited title. That thread about chelsea you talked about should have been deleted as well.

Unless using the word "hate" is used as humour in a way to create a debate, there shouldn't be threads like this. And I've been guilty of those things. About iraqi madridista, he is an okay member, he just goes out of line from time to time. And any member should be warned when being out of line. Any dumb comment on any thread that is judged to be plain provocation and bringing nothing to the conversation should be deleted. If not, people will respond to it because no one has perfect self control, and no one can ignore remarks like this all the time. I will lose my temper sometimes because of someone saying something useless. This forum doesn't need this.

As a regular member I know the community rules of FR, I was more wondering about if FR gives you guidelines about how to apply those rules as mods.

Thank you guys for the debate. Especially on this thread let's keep it civile and let's not get angry at each other or bring up old fights.

^ He has been nice lately, in Clasico times, passion won over reason even for the fans...

@Alex That was a funny thread, and was popular because people laughed. Anyway i founded it not fair at all, considering the performence of Barça and the quality of the game. Many good things could have been said instead of that we got that thread showing Neymar ''exageration'' (there was a little contact).
Considering Real Madrid got a penalty instead of a free-kick, and many calls in their favour this year. I found it unfair to make Barça looks like each time helped by refs when everybody simply ignore the calls against us.
Against City, same thing happened where we deserved to win in both legs.
Anyway no problem mate.

Agree, I have no problem if people put on good debates, heated debates or sarcasm remarks, it's part of the discussion. But definitely not constant trolling, a$shole remarks or insulting each other. Mod should take an eye on them, give warning before ban them for period of times.

I like this site and this forum because there are real football talk in it.

I am however against the idea of banning meme, MEME are great, people need good laugh from time to time. reading is tired sometimes and picture and meme are great ways of expression, even it's mostly sarcasm. Like I said: it's ok as it's part of life too.

Yes indeed KH. There is a slight issue of immaturity and disrespect. Sometimes you give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it's the same wise crack being brought up, you start to see through their hidden agenda.
I can understand when someone flies of the handle and says something mean in the heat of a discussion. We've all been there. Frustration is a universal quality. Unless you are a Tibetan monk who's been meditating in the mountains since you were a child, you'll get pissed off from time to time.

Sometimes seeing someone get angry and want to get his point across can be refreshing. It shows that they

are passionate about the game. Another thing is to always say something antagonizing crap just to get a reaction.
That's something that just irks me to no end.
I'm sure everyone here loves their club. It's very important to them. Criticism towards it can be hard to take.

No club is perfect, so criticism can be a constructive and healthy topic if it's done right. It's great to see things from
neutrals perspective also.
As for trolls, I'm sure the majority of the people here have good intention's. After all, were are all from the 4 corners of the globe. All with different mentalities, age, race and religion. One thing can be offensive to one guy and another thing to someone else and so on. There are some things that are said that are universally offensive, so it doesn't matter where you are from, you need to use common sense. A couple of users border on this. Sometimes they comment like a normal person and sometimes they just follow others around to try and irritate. You know who they are, I don't even need to mention any names.
Mods, I know your job is voluntary. You nominated yourself to take on this job. FR appointed you to uphold the standards. This is a Football forum. All football related topics should be up for discussion as long as they are not obviously trying to offend. The job of mods is to enforce the rules and guidelines. It's not the job of a mod to pick and chose what subject suits him best. It's not the job of a mod to sensor opinions that he does not agree with. Finally, mods should be impartial and not side with users they get on better with than others. This only creates tension.
I usually don't hold grudges. I'm not petty. If a user once said something that annoyed me but doesn't do it all the time, i'll let it go. But if someone keeps trying to piss me off intentionally I'll really let them have it. As I said before, I'm not a monk. There's only so much bullshit I can take from anyone.

We all need a mutual respect. We all need to be a little more tactful. A few harmless jokes all in good taste never harmed anybody. I'm sure we don't want this forum to turn into a militant place with no place for humour. From time to time, we all just need to take a step back and have a good laugh, show respect and continue to have healthy discussions about the beautiful game. Off topics are great too from time to time. Great opportunity to see the other dimensions of peoples character.

Yes indeed KH. There is a slight issue of immaturity and disrespect. Sometimes you give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it's the same wise crack being brought up, you start to see through their hidden agenda.
I can understand when someone flies of the handle and says something mean in the heat of a discussion. We've all been there. Frustration is a universal quality. Unless you are a Tibetan monk who's been meditating in the mountains since you were a child, you'll get pissed off from time to time.
Sometimes seeing someone get angry and want to get his point across can be refreshing. It shows that they are passionate about the game. Another thing is to always say something antagonizing crap just to get a reaction.
That's something that just irks me to no end.I'm sure everyone here loves their club. It's very important to them. Criticism towards it can be hard to take.No club is perfect, so criticism can be a constructive and healthy topic if it's done right. It's great to see things from
neutrals perspective also.
As for trolls, I'm sure the majority of the people here have good intention's. After all, were are all from the 4 corners of the globe. All with different mentalities, age, race and religion. One thing can be offensive to one guy and another thing to someone else and so on. There are some things that are said that are universally offensive, so it doesn't matter where you are from, you need to use common sense. A couple of users border on this. Sometimes they comment like a normal person and sometimes they just follow others around to try and irritate. You know who they are, I don't even need to mention any names.
Mods, I know your job is voluntary. You nominated yourself to take on this job. FR appointed you to uphold the standards. This is a Football forum. All football related topics should be up for discussion as long as they are not obviously trying to offend. The job of mods is to enforce the rules and guidelines. It's not the job of a mod to pick and chose what subject suits him best. It's not the job of a mod to sensor opinions that he does not agree with. Finally, mods should be impartial and not side with users they get on better with than others. This only creates tension.

I usually don't hold grudges. I'm not petty. If a user once said something that annoyed me but doesn't do it all the time, i'll let it go. But if someone keeps trying to piss me off intentionally I'll really let them have it. As I said before, I'm not a monk. There's only so much bullshit I can take from anyone.
We all need a mutual respect. We all need to be a little more tactful. A few harmless jokes all in good taste never harmed anybody. I'm sure we don't want this forum to turn into a militant place with no place for humour. From time to time, we all just need to take a step back and have a good laugh, show respect and continue to have healthy discussions about the beautiful game. Off topics are great too from time to time. Great opportunity to see the other dimensions of peoples character.

Yes indeed KH. There is a slight issue of immaturity and disrespect. Sometimes you give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it's the same wise crack being brought up, you start to see through their hidden agenda.
I can understand when someone flies of the handle and says something mean in the heat of a discussion. We've all been there. Frustration is a universal quality. Unless you are a Tibetan monk who's been meditating in the mountains since you were a child, you'll get pissed off from time to time.
Sometimes seeing someone get angry and want to get his point across can be refreshing. It shows that they are passionate about the game. Another thing is to always say something antagonizing crap just to get a reaction.
That's something that just irks me to no end.I'm sure everyone here loves their club. It's very important to them. Criticism towards it can be hard to take.No club is perfect, so criticism can be a constructive and healthy topic if it's done right. It's great to see things from
neutrals perspective also.
As for trolls, I'm sure the majority of the people here have good intention's. After all, were are all from the 4 corners of the globe. All with different mentalities, age, race and religion. One thing can be offensive to one guy and another thing to someone else and so on. There are some things that are said that are universally offensive, so it doesn't matter where you are from, you need to use common sense. A couple of users border on this. Sometimes they comment like a normal person and sometimes they just follow others around to try and irritate. You know who they are, I don't even need to mention any names.
Mods, I know your job is voluntary. You nominated yourself to take on this job. FR appointed you to uphold the standards. This is a Football forum. All football related topics should be up for discussion as long as they are not obviously trying to offend. The job of mods is to enforce the rules and guidelines. It's not the job of a mod to pick and chose what subject suits him best. It's not the job of a mod to sensor opinions that he does not agree with. Finally, mods should be impartial and not side with users they get on better with than others. This only creates tension.

I usually don't hold grudges. I'm not petty. If a user once said something that annoyed me but doesn't do it all the time, i'll let it go. But if someone keeps trying to piss me off intentionally I'll really let them have it. As I said before, I'm not a monk. There's only so much bullshit I can take from anyone.
We all need a mutual respect. We all need to be a little more tactful. A few harmless jokes all in good taste never harmed anybody. I'm sure we don't want this forum to turn into a militant place with no place for humour. From time to time, we all just need to take a step back and have a good laugh, show respect and continue to have healthy discussions about the beautiful game. Off topics are great too from time to time. Great opportunity to see the other dimensions of peoples character.

Yes indeed KH. There is a slight issue of immaturity and disrespect. Sometimes you give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it's the same wise crack being brought up, you start to see through their hidden agenda.
I can understand when someone flies of the handle and says something mean in the heat of a discussion. We've all been there. Frustration is a universal quality. Unless you are a Tibetan monk who's been meditating in the mountains since you were a child, you'll get pissed off from time to time.
Sometimes seeing someone get angry and want to get his point across can be refreshing. It shows that they are passionate about the game. Another thing is to always say something antagonizing crap just to get a reaction.
That's something that just irks me to no end.I'm sure everyone here loves their club. It's very important to them. Criticism towards it can be hard to take.No club is perfect, so criticism can be a constructive and healthy topic if it's done right. It's great to see things from
neutrals perspective also.
As for trolls, I'm sure the majority of the people here have good intention's. After all, were are all from the 4 corners of the globe. All with different mentalities, age, race and religion. One thing can be offensive to one guy and another thing to someone else and so on. There are some things that are said that are universally offensive, so it doesn't matter where you are from, you need to use common sense. A couple of users border on this. Sometimes they comment like a normal person and sometimes they just follow others around to try and irritate. You know who they are, I don't even need to mention any names.
Mods, I know your job is voluntary. You nominated yourself to take on this job. FR appointed you to uphold the standards. This is a Football forum. All football related topics should be up for discussion as long as they are not obviously trying to offend. The job of mods is to enforce the rules and guidelines. It's not the job of a mod to pick and chose what subject suits him best. It's not the job of a mod to sensor opinions that he does not agree with. Finally, mods should be impartial and not side with users they get on better with than others. This only creates tension.
I usually don't hold grudges. I'm not petty. If a user once said something that annoyed me but doesn't do it all the time, i'll let it go. But if someone keeps trying to piss me off intentionally I'll really let them have it. As I said before, I'm not a monk. There's only so much bullshit I can take from anyone.
We all need a mutual respect. We all need to be a little more tactful. A few harmless jokes all in good taste never harmed anybody. I'm sure we don't want this forum to turn into a militant place with no place for humour. From time to time, we all just need to take a step back and have a good laugh, show respect and continue to have healthy discussions about the beautiful game. Off topics are great too from time to time. Great opportunity to see the other dimensions of peoples character.

Yes indeed KH. There is a slight issue of immaturity and disrespect. Sometimes you give people the benefit of the doubt, but when it's the same wise crack being brought up, you start to see through their hidden agenda.
I can understand when someone flies of the handle and says something mean in the heat of a discussion. We've all been there. Frustration is a universal quality. Unless you are a Tibetan monk who's been meditating in the mountains since you were a child, you'll get pissed off from time to time.
Sometimes seeing someone get angry and want to get his point across can be refreshing. It shows that they are passionate about the game. Another thing is to always say something antagonizing crap just to get a reaction.
That's something that just irks me to no end.I'm sure everyone here loves their club. It's very important to them. Criticism towards it can be hard to take.No club is perfect, so criticism can be a constructive and healthy topic if it's done right. It's great to see things from
neutrals perspective also.
As for trolls, I'm sure the majority of the people here have good intentions. After all, were are all from the 4 corners of the globe. All with different mentalities, age, race and religion. One thing can be offensive to one guy and another thing to someone else and so on. There are some things that are said that are universally offensive, so it doesn't matter where you are from, you need to use common sense. A couple of users border on this. Sometimes they comment like a normal person and sometimes they just follow others around to try and irritate. You know who they are, I don't even need to mention any names.
Mods, I know your job is voluntary. You nominated yourself to take on this job. FR appointed you to uphold the standards. This is a Football forum. All football related topics should be up for discussion as long as they are not obviously trying to offend. The job of mods is to enforce the rules and guidelines. It's not the job of a mod to pick and chose what subject suits him best. It's not the job of a mod to sensor opinions that he does not agree with. Finally, mods should be impartial and not side with users they get on better with than others. This only creates tension.
I usually don't hold grudges. I'm not petty. If a user once said something that annoyed me but doesn't do it all the time, i'll let it go. But if someone keeps trying to piss me off intentionally I'll really let them have it. As I said before, I'm not a monk. There's only so much bullshit I can take from anyone.
We all need a mutual respect. We all need to be a little more tactful. A few harmless jokes all in good taste never harmed anybody. I'm sure we don't want this forum to turn into a militant place with no place for humour. From time to time, we all just need to take a step back and have a good laugh, show respect and continue to have healthy discussions about the beautiful game. Off topics are great too from time to time. Great opportunity to see the other dimensions of peoples character.