An observation...

[Kung Fu Wang]

How can we improve on our side?

How about have more serious MA technique/skill discussion? In one Hon Kong MA magazine, there is a session that's called "3 moves combo". That was the only reason that I had subscribed that magazine. It forces me to think my MA technique 3 steps ahead when I was very young. A kick (or punch) is more than just a kick (or punch). It can be used to "set up" something else. The moment that we get into "combo" discussion, the moment that the MA discussion can be lifted into next level.

If each and every member puts up one of his personal technique clip, we can all learn from each other. If one person puts up his personal clip, it could be just "showing off". When everybody all put up their personal clips, it's "sharing".

 

[Tgace]

Be honest....people love drama. This discussion is nothing new. Technique threads die....soap opera thrives.

Embrace the dark side

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[Transk53]

I had a brief stint as a mod on a specialist forum for a PC game called Football Manager. Because I was generally regarded as the one with different interests (basically not a game fanatic), the forum I took control off primarily was the OFT. Generating traffic though was not too difficult, just getting members to sign up. The OFT was open to guests and content did flow, but the majority that did sign up, disappeared pretty quickly. Not sure if that could ever be solved, but if it could, the traffic around here would be large.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

opening up the site to guest posting would mean a lot of spam to deal with. Let me think on that though.....it might be a good lead in...

 

[Tames D]

However, the point to this thread is why aren't more of the people who complained before about my posts on the study not gracing the study with their thoughts and insights about life the universe and everything, now that I post in the basement. considering all the whining they did about the stifling effect of my posts...they have failed to take advantage of all the free space in the study...and this thread is generating more posts than I have seen from those people in a long time....

I have my chips and my diet fudge soda now, so I'll be heading back downstairs...

Are the same people that complained about you posting in the study now posting in your basement? If that's the case, it seems a little strange that they would follow you over there.

 

[wingchun100]

opening up the site to guest posting would mean a lot of spam to deal with. Let me think on that though.....it might be a good lead in...

Isn't there a way you could make it so guest posts had to be approved? That way you could filter out the spam before it touches the board.

 

[wingchun100]

How do we return to "Friendly Martial Arts Community"?

I wish there was an easy answer to this. My experience here has been mostly friendly, but when it gets bad, it gets really bad. Sorry if I am overly sensitive, but I don't think it's cool to basically insult someone because they spoke up on a subject and you feel they misunderstood it. How about, instead of insulting, you explain so they understand better? Why do some people have to jump right to insults?

Unfortunately my view on the situation is bleak: I don't think you CAN truly make it "friendly martial arts" discussion when you have unfriendly people on the board, and there is no way of KNOWING they are unfriendly until they start interacting. And even then, what are you supposed to do? Monitor the boards to the point of basically being a forum fascist and delete any comment that comes off as "insulting" to another user?

The choice is pretty simple for me: either find another martial arts discussion board to go to and hope history doesn't repeat itself, or stick to fewer forums on here and hope this solves the issue. For now I have chosen the latter. Aside from this post here, I will be sticking to the wing chun and meet/greet forums...MAYBE the Library every now and then.

A few weeks back I started posting here because I liked coming to a place where I could talk to martial artists from all over. Now I feel like it just isn't worth it. Why make the extra effort to go to a place where there's a 50-50 chance I could be insulted?

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Technique threads die....soap opera thrives.

I just don't understand why people don't want to discuss "MA technique" in MA forum but want to discuss something that have nothing to do with MA. When I saw a thread such as:

- GWB sucks...
- Obama sucks...

It just turns me off big time.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Isn't there a way you could make it so guest posts had to be approved? That way you could filter out the spam before it touches the board.

Yup. The question is would our mods want to wade through the insane amount of viagra posts though?

 

[tshadowchaser]

any forum will have a number of people who do not agree with each other. There are also people who just want to cause problems on any forum. Then you have people who misunderstand a point of view and think they have been slighted and will either stop posting a start a war contradicting the one they feel has wronged them.
Now all of the above may help post counts and may lead in many instances to other threads that are very productive.
While opening up to guests may lead to post count it dose let the spammers in.
Over the years we have had so many threads on so many subjects but that is no reason these subjects can not be revisited.
Heck if everyone who has posted in this thread started one would we get even more threads as off shoots of some of them