More moderation for the British forum? Vote in the poll

I think number 1 is the key here...there are 3 or 4 posters that clog up threads with this type of behaviour. It's fine mentioning it once, twice or even 3 times, but after 87 times it gets very dull. We also have the opposite of this too, though this is more anti Fury.
There's a lot of veiled comments too that are easy to see through. An example is the Audley vs Ruiz thread started just yesterday. The poster doesn't like AJ so is making a point with how poor he thinks Ruiz is. A poster then does the opposite, implying Hrgovic is an easier opponent for Ruiz than Wilder (because he doesn't like Fury). Both laughable comments and only expose their bias. It's incredibly weird, childish behaviour.
MODs don't really engage and comment on this forum either, so they don't necessary see the patterns, if they did they would and would be able to warn. I think that is all that is needed. But warn on the thread. i.e. "that's enough of that now, keep this thread on track". Or comment "this thread is pointless" and lock it. I see this on other forums (non boxing) and it works quite well. The issue is time and effort for MODs so I appreciate what I am suggesting isn't easy.
Apart from that it's good - and some of these posters have great things to say but it is demeaned by the above. I did have them on ignore, but it became difficult to follow threads, especially when they were actually saying something useful!

 

Ultimately, posters make a forum. As somebody said, most of it is "puddings" "game changed" its so tedious. Now I'm more of a lurker than a poster and it'll probably stay that way as it's something I just couldn't be arsed joining in with.

 

The underlying problem is, IMO, that this forum is fueled by negativity (I'm no stranger to that). There are too many active anti-something posters than active pro-something posters. It's tedious, but especially frustrating when spammed constantly. The above mentioned spamming of game changed/puddings/AJ being the obvious example.

 

Yet the same posters also frowned upon as well for being joyous watching the genuine current British Greats such as Tyson Fury and Josh Taylor along with previous British Greats such as Lennox Lewis and Joe Calzaghe. Applauding great fights on channel 5 as well does not go down well with the few Matchroom employees/posters on here pressing the report button daily and it was Eddie Hearn who coined the term Game Changed.

Banter seen by most on here, is frowned upon by the few which is more the real issue regardless of boxer, promoter or broadcaster.

For the record there are some cracking Matchroom biased posters on here.

 

Yet you've used that Game Changed play on words 9 times already this year (I know it's sad that I've just had to check). That's pretty much every other day...aren't you bored of it yet?
You've used the term 'Pudding' (mostly around AJ) over 20 times (Again, I know it's sad that I've just had to check). That's literally every day...aren't you bored of it yet?
Do you feel that maybe it's no longer funny anymore (after all banter is supposed to be funny).

 

So have many others and it is banter.

I would stay in bed all day if that would upset me but all to their own.

 

Just one example of the type of posts that need to stop from one thread. [url]https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/usyk-vs-hrgovic.695347/[/url]

The thread was about Usyk Hrgovic but quickly derails into talk about Hearn and Joshua.

This poster sums up everything perfectly.

 

That's the same in life. Most people come from a point of self bias. They cloud there opinions with things that they favour.



I remember the forum going downhill a year or two after the mass exodus from the British forum somewhere around 2014. At that time and for a good year thereafter this forum went seriously downhill but it was more from posters simply badgering each other with childish name calling. Then around 2015/16 the forum started going in the right direction again. By.2018 this place was thriving again.

Although the issues were different the place where the forum went to was the same.

Was anything done my the mods/owners around that time to rid this British forum of the negativity it suffered and consequently recovered from, or was it just some kind of natural traction that was to set ot back on the right tracks. I don't remember rightly tbh. I think it was just a case of we started to get some real good posters joining and some of the more negative posters, 'moving on.'

 

This is all a bit childish really. I think it's an overspill from the sesspit that is social media where everything is polarised.



I will say the mods seem a bit too trigger happy in the wrong cases, I once had a ban for saying the UK wasnt the home of boxing! Then the mods will let alts or whoever start and bump threads clearly provoking existing members and its all starts again. It's odd and I don't understand the process.

Anti matchroom is a thing but it works both ways from what I can see. You have certain poster who can't post in any other thread without relating it back to Wilder or Fury in some sort of way.

I mean, jesus we had Aydamn making this the Dillian Whyte forum for a while!

 

That is typical of you with next to zero humour cherry picking posts you are annoyed about due to your Matchroom agenda.

Any rationale person would move on to the next post and never get annoyed at banter. You sound like the type of guy who prefers to spend his Saturday evening in a library instead of a bar.

For every one of you, there are hundreds on here who embrace banter regardless of fighter and promoter.

May be better to have an exclusive Matchroom Forum away from the British Forum for the few people who are easily offended.

You could be the MOD and approve access to it.

 

You're right others have, I was just replying to your comment with specific examples from you to get my point across.

We have different views of banter I guess. Banter is supposed to be original and funny. It deffo was original and funny...at the beginning

And this doesn't upset me, we were asked for an opinion on the state of the British forum, this is just my view and my opinion.

 

It's not funny though. The thread has nothing to do with them yet we had all those posts about them. No one cares if someone uses the word "pudding" or "game changed" but if you say it in every post it's just nonsense as @hobby rider said.