Dear Mods…

[rayzor]

i love it when people complain about something other people do for free to try and help out. 

seriously i have better things to do. 

i might need to start doing them instead of coming in here and seeing this poo. 

[ProcessBlue2]

I prefer this to social media. If somebody is here then they are usually a pretty dedicated fan and even if they have a completely stupid take or opinion its not for a lack of current knowledge. 

Social media is saturated with a bunch of fair weather fans who don't even watch games or highlights, they just have uneducated opinions in their minds and they want to argue without knowing anything. 

Examples: 

• People demanding to fire the GM a week after he had already been fired.
• People mad we traded Jonathan Mingo "while he was a rookie"
• One individual telling me the defense was down because Brian Burns was hurt this season. 
• Bryce should be in contention for ROY this year (2024)
• The Panthers need to fire Matt Rhule (2024)

and my favorite

• Why did the Panthers bench Bryce Young for Darnold, I thought he was with a different team. (Not realizing Andy Dalton is a completely different person)

Edited December 30, 2024 by ProcessBlue2

[Jon Snow]

Just now, rayzor said:

i love it when people complain about something other people do for free to try and help out. 

Stop complaining.

Folks just love to be miserable i guess. It's easier to ignore a comment and move on but some just love to argue.

[TD alt]

5 hours ago, shaq said:

Please update the draft forum from 2023 to 2025, it’s long overdue quite literally two years. This is a really big offseason for us and many of us are excited to talk and discuss this upcoming draft.

 

I can't even get Igo to fix the site to send me a password recovery email. I'm no longer top dawg, but an alt.

[MHS831]

3 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

There's this really cool feature available where you can block individual posters and you won't see their posts if you find their content harmful to the fragility of your psyche. I mean, you can literally moderate the site for yourself! It's incredible!

I encourage anyone who thinks there are trolls to utilize this wonderful feature for themselves and cultivate their own personalized version of the Huddle instead of just bitching and moaning for the mods to please save them from harmful differing opinions.

So you are suggesting that personal attacks should be ignored and we should all man up behind our false names and fake images.  That is so badass! 

Edited December 30, 2024 by MHS831

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

So you are suggesting that personal attacks should be ignored and we should all man up behind our false names and fake images.  That is so badass!  The attacks will continue, but we will not see them.  Your task is to enforce the rules, not analyze the "fragility of psyche"  when a poster is personally attacked without counterpoint or attempt to exchange ideas. I ignore people, and note (in the dialogue) that they continue defamatory, childish attacks--the fact that one does not see them does not make them non-toxic.  The concept here is not that you should "take it like a man" or hit mute--it is to keep dialogue and exchanges of ideas civil.  People immediately attack the person with ideas different than their own.  I like most of the people on this site, but there are some immature punks who offer nothing but personally insulting ambushes--and it does not have to be that way.  I fight back--always have--but nobody will tell you that I have attacked their perspective without first attempting to understand it and then by offering an alternative view.  I know these trolls would not say this to me in a bar in a place where no one would hear them scream, but I learn from others' opinions--I don't attack them. So if you think moderator means to hit "ignore", you might be missing the point.  We want to interact, not defend. 

Personal attacks are one of the specific rules. We heavily rely on post reports for moderation. We aren't reading every post or even close to it. The vast majority of actions we take are based on posts reported by users. So don't complain about lack of action unless you're reporting the offending posts.

[MHS831]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

 So don't complain about lack of action unless you're reporting the offending posts.

I once was attacked and I tried defending myself.  It escalated, so I contacted the mods to explain how, in my view, it crossed the line and that it was persisting.  The troll was very insulting and trolled me on other threads--giving me poo, insulting me--now, I just want to find a pocket of people with common sense and good football ideas to communicate with, but he kept showing up.  After blocking him, he kept commenting about me to the others on the thread.  Privately, I reported it.  It does not matter if you agreed with the complaint or not, you handled it like a troll yourself, without examining the details of my concern. You decided to force your opinions about me scold me on a public thread, insisting that I engaged in it--you obviously had not read the threads, but that was not the issue.  The issue is that you decided to address the matter in the public threads--not privately as it was presented to moderators.   In my view, you were using the moderator position to troll me--nobody reported me to moderators--so you were way out bounds. So, I did as you suggested and this was the result.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

4 hours ago, Ricky Prickles said:

The message board itself is slowly dying. I'm not surprised if some mods have vacated completely. Zod rarely stops by and I'm sure will one day just let it go and pull the plug. Message boards as a whole do not seem to be big as they once were I guess because of Instagram and tiktoks now. It's just a matter of time before this address is typed in and nothing comes up so just enjoy it while it's there. 

Reddit is a forum and it’s still huge. I like this site though as it has some edge to it. R/panthers is too clean

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

Reddit is a forum and it’s still huge. I like this site though as it has some edge to it. R/panthers is too clean

Reddit really hampered other issue specific forums by putting everything under one roof. Smart on them but I hate their layout and that's why I've never become a user.

[Bear Hands]

[CamWhoaaCam]

All I know there are a lot of miserable people on this board. There is no way you wake up everyday in life and hate on a specific player. 

 

At some point you have to ask yourself why are you even a Panthers fan if all you do is hate and find a reason to talk negative about a specific player.

 

It gets old and some people are tired of the negative nonsense every single day. Like bro find something in life that makes you happy. Hell I enjoy going to the gym. That gets my mind off football. When I'm not doing that I'm doing maintenance on my box trucks. Find something that makes you happy people. 

Edited December 30, 2024 by CamWhoaaCam

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

8 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Reddit really hampered other issue specific forums by putting everything under one roof. Smart on them but I hate their layout and that's why I've never become a user.

I agree the layout sucks. I don’t like the way replies to comments are set up. I just want to see the main replies to the OP

[Aussie Tank]

People need thicker skins there only words and opinions they don't hurt ya. 

[kungfoodude]