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MPTutd

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What are you actually trying to achieve with this site?.

When I first came on the site around 3 years ago, it was full of knowledgeable United fans who cared and knew about the club. Their opinions were always worthwhile reading and although you did not always agree with their opinions, you knew that they knew what they were talking about.

However, in the past year or so, so many of them have left and been replaced by a new breed of poster that knows very little about the club, its traditions and the team.

My question to you is:

Are you going to take a tougher stance on this to take the forum back to the days when it was a well informed site, or are you going to let this site decend into a forum of unknowledgable United 'fans' that represent everything that is bad about the club and who fans of other team believe we all are?.
 
What do you want censorship?

Or would you like us to vet new members to see if they pass the United knowledge test?

Or shall we just allow match going reds from Greater Manchester on here?

If you dont like what other posters are saying why do you bother coming on here?, you can always go to another forum.
 
I think posters should be moderated, yes. Why not, it makes it better for the rest of us.

This is not just about only being for people who go to matches etc, its about being a place where frank, honest and informed opinions can be share. However, it is my opinion that we can make this a greater forum by monitoring the posts which are placed and if any idiots or people who simply do not have a clue.

Also, the reason I do still come on here is that a lot of the people are well informed an knowledgable, but it takes a long time to get through the crap before you find their posts.
 
I can understand what MPTutd is getting at. We do seem to have had an explosion of loons!
 
I think the the answer is to get more rival fans on here instead of just Scousers and Gooners, we could do with a few of our blue friends on.

Whatever happened to SuperJoe?
 
MICKEYREDLAD said:
We could ban all cockeeeerney reds?

;)
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And where would that leave me an jopub, we like it here. we are the real cockneyreds. :D
 
The thing is that this site becomes more known every day. The influx of young posters from all over the world who may or may not know a little less about the club than many of us and many of whom are obsessed with CM style formations and the possibility of buying of every foreign player under the sun and who cut and paste articles from other websites without actually bothering to ascertain whether they are truly newsworthy or not but do so with irritating frequency, leads me to conclude that MPTutd has a point. However doing something about changing all that is probably nigh on impossible, sadly.
 
Too many kids on here recently.
 
Nate said:
Too many kids on here recently.
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agreed, i see the 'why do we have to slag Fergie/united/each other' post way too often from younger posters from various parts of the world who don't know that down the years united have been shit but have always had a footballing philosiphy beyond picking up the gongs at the seasons end.

but i can't condone censoring them. i say tell them they are twats and get on with posting interesting discussions.
 
Dans said:
The thing is that this site becomes more known every day. The influx of young posters from all over the world who may or may not know a little less about the club than many of us and many of whom are obsessed with CM style formations and the possibility of buying of every foreign player under the sun and who cut and paste articles from other websites without actually bothering to ascertain whether they are truly newsworthy or not but do so with irritating frequency, leads me to conclude that MPTutd has a point. However doing something about changing all that is probably nigh on impossible, sadly.
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You know, he's totally right.
 
Dans has a really good point about the CM players on here that base their whole United transfer opinions on the fact that someone has a good rating on CM.
 
Dans said:
The thing is that this site becomes more known every day. The influx of young posters from all over the world who may or may not know a little less about the club than many of us and many of whom are obsessed with CM style formations and the possibility of buying of every foreign player under the sun and who cut and paste articles from other websites without actually bothering to ascertain whether they are truly newsworthy or not but do so with irritating frequency, leads me to conclude that MPTutd has a point. However doing something about changing all that is probably nigh on impossible, sadly.
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It's easy to spot these posters. Either their youth or not speaking English as a first language, or a combination of both, tends to make their posts absolute crap grammatically. Hence you end up with:

Man Utd is not doing good on woolfs loss! can fergie buy good winger and defnder and striker now? Flababanio is best new thing in Brazil with pace of 18 and high shot power. Why we not sign him when Arse scum twats can buy new winger (according to planetfootball)?? Anybody who disagree I will feckin kill you and your whore mother!!! LOL!?!?

...which I agree is not exactly worthwhile opinion from knowledgable fans.
 
A1Dan said:
Man Utd is not doing good on woolfs loss! can fergie buy good winger and defnder and striker now? Flababanio is best new thing in Brazil with pace of 18 and high shot power. Why we not sign him when Arse scum twats can buy new winger (according to planetfootball)?? Anybody who disagree I will feckin kill you and your whore mother!!! LOL!?!?
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:lol:
 
Yeah... I think it's an age thing, this place has had a large influx of young posters over the last year....(perhaps even longer) tbh, I don't even touch 90% of the topics started in the United forum.

Weastey PM - replied.
 
Dans said:
The thing is that this site becomes more known every day. The influx of young posters from all over the world who may or may not know a little less about the club than many of us and many of whom are obsessed with CM style formations and the possibility of buying of every foreign player under the sun and who cut and paste articles from other websites without actually bothering to ascertain whether they are truly newsworthy or not but do so with irritating frequency, leads me to conclude that MPTutd has a point. However doing something about changing all that is probably nigh on impossible, sadly.
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Agreed

Prefer the place busy myself....but whilst the odd Devilish style nutter is amusing, loads of the cnuts is a pain in the arse
 
A1Dan said:
Man Utd is not doing good on woolfs loss! can fergie buy good winger and defnder and striker now? Flababanio is best new thing in Brazil with pace of 18 and high shot power. Why we not sign him when Arse scum twats can buy new winger (according to planetfootball)?? Anybody who disagree I will feckin kill you and your whore mother!!! LOL!?!?
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
stoned.rose said:
What do you want censorship?

Or would you like us to vet new members to see if they pass the United knowledge test?

Or shall we just allow match going reds from Greater Manchester on here?

If you dont like what other posters are saying why do you bother coming on here?, you can always go to another forum.
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with the greatest respect, it's a bit too far to say this to a poster who really has got a point in what he said!!!

especially your last paragraph!!! as a moderator, you should feel encouraging reading posts like that of MPTutd above, so that you know there are still fans who care and make some constructive observation! Fine if you dont agree, even feel objectionable, but telling him off to go to another forum is neither here nor there.

We being in this community want quantities without harming qualities, agree? Although it might be a tall order as moderators to control qualities without censorship, there is still ways to tackle it. One thing that spring to mind what moderators can do is, you contribute more and act more actively in discussion!!! That can tell off some low qualities posters!!!
 
redevil2 said:
One thing that spring to mind what moderators can do is, you contribute more and act more actively in discussion!!! That can tell off some low qualities posters!!!
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Thing is, most of the moderators are low quality posters. ;)
 
WeasteDevil said:
I can understand what MPTutd is getting at. We do seem to have had an explosion of loons!
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I agree, actually. I rarely come on here now, because there are simply too many people who seem to know too little about the club.
 
The problem with the utd & transfer forums are that their are too many new posts every day with the same old thing in em.
I normally just skim through em and posibly read the first few lines in the preview thing.
Their are an awful lot of nutters and the likes of Dev "i have coaching badges so what i say is correct plus my girlfriend's a doctor so the same goes fo medical stuff aswell" :wenger: dont help matters.
You cant say anything in here without Dev or some other 10 yr old sticking their pompus oars in.
 
Ok that it.

I have seen the light.

Everyone is banned until they prove to me that they a) are a current United 1st team player, b) are a former 1st team player, c) were born in OT during a game, c) will kill anyone who criticises United in any way or d) all of the above.

Even more so if you weren't Manc born and bred.

FFS we are mods not the fecking mind police.
 
Wibble said:
Ok that it.

I have seen the light.

Everyone is banned until they prove to me that they a) are a current United 1st team player, b) are a former 1st team player, c) were born in OT during a game, c) will kill anyone who criticises United in any way or d) all of the above.

Even more so if you weren't Manc born and bred.

FFS we are mods not the fecking mind police.
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Oh come on. Virtually everyone on this post agrees with the principle of it. And look at who has posted - all the old hands who have been on here for years.

I think the Mods just need to be more active in deleting pointless posts. That way, those who are putting up stupid and pointless posts will soon lose interest and leave.

I mean look at the post from EricVanCoppell about our worst ever team. He had Fletcher, PNev, Forlan and Golden Brown in it FFS. Clueless he is, feckin clueless. I'd certainly have my eye on him if I were you guys.
 
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