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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 17:44:19 GMT
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chinapotter
Academy Starlet
"Looking jolly from Stoke" -Mark E. Smith
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Post by chinapotter on Aug 17, 2023 17:45:09 GMT
I’ve been a (low key) member of this board for 15 years. There are no objective rules for what people should or shouldn’t make of a forum. Moderators use their entirely subjective parameters to decide which posts stay, which posts go to the sh*t bin and that’s entirely their prerogative. Even though I don’t post much, it’s always interesting and often entertaining to read what others choose to post. I find it baffling that anyone takes issue with what people choose to post on a public forum. Puns about burgers? They’re relatively (medium) rare over the years and mayo or mayo not stay around for a while but who cares? It’s just somewhere to chat about Stoke - and things tenuously related to Stoke - like we’re all at a pub, relaxing and moaning (usually) about the team. All good, lighthearted fun. Cheers!
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 17:47:35 GMT
I’ve been a (low key) member of this board for 15 years. There are no objective rules for what people should or shouldn’t make of a forum. Moderators use their entirely subjective parameters to decide which posts stay, which posts go to the sh*t bin and that’s entirely their prerogative. Even though I don’t post much, it’s always interesting and often entertaining to read what others choose to post. I find it baffling it that anyone takes issue with what people choose to post on a public forum. Puns about burgers? They’re relatively (medium) rare over the years and mayo or mayo not stay around for a while but who cares? It’s just somewhere to chat about Stoke - and things tenuously related to Stoke - like we’re all at a pub, relaxing and moaning (usually) about the team. All good, lighthearted fun. Cheers! Couldn’t agree more! Can’t beat a good pub lunch with the lads!
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 17:54:24 GMT
Not being funny guys but the shite that's posted on here,particularly on the 'Burger and Stoke Squad 23-24' threads is now getting tiresome and boring. I don't know how others are feeling but I'm finding incredibly frustrating with having to trawl through loads of crap, which quite frankly isn't funny or informative. Maybe I'm being miserable or have lost my sense of humour but I just don't get it! The Oatcake used to be so much better and it seems to be rapidly going downhill in recent weeks. Admin, please feel free to remove this thread but I think your time would be better spent by removing the pointless posts in the threads that I'm referring to. Rant over but I feel that many others are becoming increasingly pissed off with the nonsense. Sorry guys, but get a grip. You make a good point. I do need both hands to grip my Whopper.
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Post by fullmetaljacket on Aug 17, 2023 17:55:45 GMT
Maybe the only way to truly sort this out is to mob up at Sir Stans statue. We could have Puns v no punsThread lockers v thread openers How would people know who to fight? What if they hit a ‘pun’ when it was actually ‘no pun’ intended? Proper old school if someone can bring some bibs? Or shirtless v non shirtless the more ladies the merrier in that case
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 17, 2023 17:57:01 GMT
How would people know who to fight? What if they hit a ‘pun’ when it was actually ‘no pun’ intended? Proper old school if someone can bring some bibs? Or shirtless v non shirtless the more ladies the merrier in that case Sexist filth😏
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Post by eccythump on Aug 17, 2023 17:58:01 GMT
Way too many chain threads. Wordle, qwordle, change a letter etc etc. Just tedious drivel.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 17, 2023 18:00:28 GMT
Way too many chain threads. Wordle, qwordle, change a letter etc etc. Just tedious drivel. Don’t look at them if it hurts your brain mate. Welcome to the Oatcake
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Post by eccythump on Aug 17, 2023 18:02:26 GMT
Never look at them, you only need to see page one of EE to see how many there are. Variation on a theme.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2023 18:03:08 GMT
Sounds more like a reflection of how society has changed over the years. Welcome back Thank you, good sir.
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Post by Olgrligm on Aug 17, 2023 18:06:21 GMT
The biggest issue with the Oatcake, for me, has been the tendency over the last few years to resurrect old threads with new, usually unrelated news. One of the great things about the Oatcake has always been that it has never been one of those places where there is one thread for a player or manager that must be used for all discussion about them ever. Don't get me wrong, I think that the biggest transfer thread is sensible, as is having one thread for when a player is rumoured to be signing. I find it makes the board more difficult to navigate and use. The 'new' button only picks things up going so far back, meaning that for older threads it will just take you to the opening post. This means that you then have to wade through what would be 20+ pages of posts to find the news. As an example, there was recently a post on a thread about Bojan appearing on TalkSport. The thread was a few months old and the new post was only tangentially related to Bojan. How is anybody with any interest in that post supposed to know that it's there unless they scour every single post on the board? My ideal solution would be if the admin locked any thread more than one week old that gets brought to the top. You are aware that you can click on the last page of the thread🙄 Which is great, unless you arrive a couple of hours after something particularly interesting has happened and several pages of discussion (or burger puns) have followed. The biggest issue with the Oatcake, for me, has been the tendency over the last few years to resurrect old threads with new, usually unrelated news. One of the great things about the Oatcake has always been that it has never been one of those places where there is one thread for a player or manager that must be used for all discussion about them ever. Don't get me wrong, I think that the biggest transfer thread is sensible, as is having one thread for when a player is rumoured to be signing. I find it makes the board more difficult to navigate and use. The 'new' button only picks things up going so far back, meaning that for older threads it will just take you to the opening post. This means that you then have to wade through what would be 20+ pages of posts to find the news. As an example, there was recently a post on a thread about Bojan appearing on TalkSport. The thread was a few months old and the new post was only tangentially related to Bojan. How is anybody with any interest in that post supposed to know that it's there unless they scour every single post on the board? My ideal solution would be if the admin locked any thread more than one week old that gets brought to the top. What do you mean "scour every post on the board", why would you have to do that? Every post is time-stamped and if a thread comes to the top it takes a matter of seconds to go to the end and find the contribution that reactivated it - hardly any longer than it would take to open a new thread. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get what the issue is. Taking that Bojan thread as an example, I know that Bojan was on TalkSport months ago. Why would I want to click on that thread again? But if I wanted to know about whatever trivia it was about Bojan's latest venture, I'd have missed it. That's what I mean. The news about Gareth Owen went by virtually unnoticed because it was tucked away on a thread about Kevin Russell. A new thread for a new topic, rather than jamming everything onto one barely navigable thread. What's so bad about that?
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Aug 17, 2023 18:12:23 GMT
You are aware that you can click on the last page of the thread🙄 Which is great, unless you arrive a couple of hours after something particularly interesting has happened and several pages of discussion (or burger puns) have followed. What do you mean "scour every post on the board", why would you have to do that? Every post is time-stamped and if a thread comes to the top it takes a matter of seconds to go to the end and find the contribution that reactivated it - hardly any longer than it would take to open a new thread. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get what the issue is. Taking that Bojan thread as an example, I know that Bojan was on TalkSport months ago. Why would I want to click on that thread again? But if I wanted to know about whatever trivia it was about Bojan's latest venture, I'd have missed it. That's what I mean. The news about Gareth Owen went by virtually unnoticed because it was tucked away on a thread about Kevin Russell. A new thread for a new topic, rather than jamming everything onto one barely navigable thread. What's so bad about that? Mate there’s 13 posts on the Bojan thread before it was bought back yesterday which took about 10 seconds to get to🤔I really don’t see the issue myself
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Post by shakermaker on Aug 17, 2023 18:22:27 GMT
It's up to Admin to do something about it, otherwise let's rise above it and perhaps certain posters will realise how tiresome and immature they are. Admin’s tolerance levels are fucked up. As an example, the Finn Delap thread started only 8 hours ago. In his wisdom, Admin has decided the conversation is not worthy of attention so stuck an anchor on it. Yet he seems to find over three weeks of inane drivel on the Burger thread somehow acceptable!
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 17, 2023 18:28:46 GMT
It's up to Admin to do something about it, otherwise let's rise above it and perhaps certain posters will realise how tiresome and immature they are. Admin’s tolerance levels are fucked up. As an example, the Finn Delap thread started only 8 hours ago. In his wisdom, Admin has decided the conversation is not worthy of attention so stuck an anchor on it. Yet he seems to find over three weeks of inane drivel on the Burger thread somehow acceptable! Yeh and a clearly homophobic post was allowed to fly a few days ago. Weird🤷🏻♂️
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Post by sensiblestokie on Aug 17, 2023 18:49:26 GMT
I don’t mind the puns. It’s the threads which deteriorate into slanging matches between posters (usually the same culprits) that annoy me 100% agree. The puns are a bit shite especially when people repeat the same really crap ones. But it’s just a bit of fun. Once it gets too much for me I just simply don’t read them and move on? Like this post says, the same people repeating absolute drivel who have no knowledge of the game but think because they have thousands of posts arguing with eachother like some Oatcake royalty is much more tedious tbh.
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 18:55:13 GMT
The puns are a bit shite especially when people repeat the same really crap ones. But it’s just a bit of fun. Once it gets too much for me I just simply don’t read them and move on? Like this post says, the same people repeating absolute drivel who have no knowledge of the game but think because they have thousands of posts arguing with eachother like some Oatcake royalty is much more tedious tbh. That’s very sensible sensiblestokie
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Post by chiprockets on Aug 17, 2023 18:56:23 GMT
Way too many chain threads. Wordle, qwordle, change a letter etc etc. Just tedious drivel. someone else upset with a play on words
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 17, 2023 19:06:19 GMT
What do you mean "scour every post on the board", why would you have to do that? Every post is time-stamped and if a thread comes to the top it takes a matter of seconds to go to the end and find the contribution that reactivated it - hardly any longer than it would take to open a new thread. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get what the issue is. Taking that Bojan thread as an example, I know that Bojan was on TalkSport months ago. Why would I want to click on that thread again? But if I wanted to know about whatever trivia it was about Bojan's latest venture, I'd have missed it. That's what I mean. The news about Gareth Owen went by virtually unnoticed because it was tucked away on a thread about Kevin Russell. A new thread for a new topic, rather than jamming everything onto one barely navigable thread. What's so bad about that? Well to give a counter-example, there was a Ben Brereton thread that I contributed to quite significantly around the time of his call-up for Chile. On occasion I want to refer back to something in that thread but it’s a massive ballache to find because two or three other threads have been started about him since then. Some people post on those ones, some on the original one and it’s all fragmented. Much better if it’s one merged thread imo. And I still don’t get the thing about the Bojan thread - if you understand how the board works (which you clearly do), why would you see that thread revived at the top of the board and think anything other than some new info has been posted that I might be interested in? The Gareth Owen thing is a fair comment but there wouldn’t have been anything stopping you or anyone else giving that its own thread…
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Post by foster on Aug 17, 2023 19:06:35 GMT
I’ve been a (low key) member of this board for 15 years. There are no objective rules for what people should or shouldn’t make of a forum. Moderators use their entirely subjective parameters to decide which posts stay, which posts go to the sh*t bin and that’s entirely their prerogative. Even though I don’t post much, it’s always interesting and often entertaining to read what others choose to post. I find it baffling it that anyone takes issue with what people choose to post on a public forum. Puns about burgers? They’re relatively (medium) rare over the years and mayo or mayo not stay around for a while but who cares? It’s just somewhere to chat about Stoke - and things tenuously related to Stoke - like we’re all at a pub, relaxing and moaning (usually) about the team. All good, lighthearted fun. Cheers! Well done. Who'd have thought that a few burger puns would get people into such a pickle.
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 19:42:12 GMT
I’ve been a (low key) member of this board for 15 years. There are no objective rules for what people should or shouldn’t make of a forum. Moderators use their entirely subjective parameters to decide which posts stay, which posts go to the sh*t bin and that’s entirely their prerogative. Even though I don’t post much, it’s always interesting and often entertaining to read what others choose to post. I find it baffling it that anyone takes issue with what people choose to post on a public forum. Puns about burgers? They’re relatively (medium) rare over the years and mayo or mayo not stay around for a while but who cares? It’s just somewhere to chat about Stoke - and things tenuously related to Stoke - like we’re all at a pub, relaxing and moaning (usually) about the team. All good, lighthearted fun. Cheers! Well done. Who'd have thought that a few burger puns would get people into such a pickle. There is sweet and sour on these forums too
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Post by smallthorner on Aug 17, 2023 19:48:33 GMT
I’ve been a (low key) member of this board for 15 years. There are no objective rules for what people should or shouldn’t make of a forum. Moderators use their entirely subjective parameters to decide which posts stay, which posts go to the sh*t bin and that’s entirely their prerogative. Even though I don’t post much, it’s always interesting and often entertaining to read what others choose to post. I find it baffling it that anyone takes issue with what people choose to post on a public forum. Puns about burgers? They’re relatively (medium) rare over the years and mayo or mayo not stay around for a while but who cares? It’s just somewhere to chat about Stoke - and things tenuously related to Stoke - like we’re all at a pub, relaxing and moaning (usually) about the team. All good, lighthearted fun. Cheers! Top post China.
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Post by Olgrligm on Aug 17, 2023 20:33:33 GMT
Which is great, unless you arrive a couple of hours after something particularly interesting has happened and several pages of discussion (or burger puns) have followed. Taking that Bojan thread as an example, I know that Bojan was on TalkSport months ago. Why would I want to click on that thread again? But if I wanted to know about whatever trivia it was about Bojan's latest venture, I'd have missed it. That's what I mean. The news about Gareth Owen went by virtually unnoticed because it was tucked away on a thread about Kevin Russell. A new thread for a new topic, rather than jamming everything onto one barely navigable thread. What's so bad about that? Mate there’s 13 posts on the Bojan thread before it was bought back yesterday which took about 10 seconds to get to🤔I really don’t see the issue myself Ok, not the best example but I'm on mobile and that was in my mind after seeing it yesterday. I can think of two more better examples, in addition to the Gareth Owen one above. We used to have threads about games of football when they took place, particularly if they were televised, even if it was Scunthorpe vs Bradford or something. We now have 'today's other games', which I find to be completely useless, partly because I don't have enough interest in non-Stoke football these days to know what other games are on. Where you might once have had a thread that attracted a few pages of discussion, you now get one or two posts from a limited number of posters. It's the same for the FA Cup. How can there be a whole thread for the FA Cup and all that it encompasses? I find that it just kills any organic discussion stone dead because people just don't engage with it. I can vaguely recall there being a huge argument over this with some overzealous moderation in about 2012, with lots of posters up in arms. At the end of the day, it's just how people post on a message board and if the way the board is nowadays makes most people happy then it's not something worth getting wound up over. It just doesn't mesh very nicely with how I use the board and I thought I might have a whinge and suggest a solution on a thread whinging about how things are nowadays. Taking that Bojan thread as an example, I know that Bojan was on TalkSport months ago. Why would I want to click on that thread again? But if I wanted to know about whatever trivia it was about Bojan's latest venture, I'd have missed it. That's what I mean. The news about Gareth Owen went by virtually unnoticed because it was tucked away on a thread about Kevin Russell. A new thread for a new topic, rather than jamming everything onto one barely navigable thread. What's so bad about that? Well to give a counter-example, there was a Ben Brereton thread that I contributed to quite significantly around the time of his call-up for Chile. On occasion I want to refer back to something in that thread but it’s a massive ballache to find because two or three other threads have been started about him since then. Some people post on those ones, some on the original one and it’s all fragmented. Much better if it’s one merged thread imo. And I still don’t get the thing about the Bojan thread - if you understand how the board works (which you clearly do), why would you see that thread revived at the top of the board and think anything other than some new info has been posted that I might be interested in? The Gareth Owen thing is a fair comment but there wouldn’t have been anything stopping you or anyone else giving that its own thread… My point is more that it wasn't really anything new to do with him being on TalkSport, it was just some Bojan miscellanea, which I guess is not so bad on a thread called 'Bojan miscellanea'. You might not expect that an old thread about Bojan being on the radio might have been resurrected to discuss Bojan's recent foray into making matchstick models of famous footballers (or something). I was going to, but suddenly got this feeling as though I'd seen Wayne Thomas in Gregg's. Plus it just felt a bit arsey.
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Post by GreaterGlasgowstokie on Aug 17, 2023 20:34:41 GMT
Not being funny guys but the shite that's posted on here,particularly on the 'Burger and Stoke Squad 23-24' threads is now getting tiresome and boring. I don't know how others are feeling but I'm finding incredibly frustrating with having to trawl through loads of crap, which quite frankly isn't funny or informative. Maybe I'm being miserable or have lost my sense of humour but I just don't get it! The Oatcake used to be so much better and it seems to be rapidly going downhill in recent weeks. Admin, please feel free to remove this thread but I think your time would be better spent by removing the pointless posts in the threads that I'm referring to. Rant over but I feel that many others are becoming increasingly pissed off with the nonsense. Sorry guys, but get a grip. How do you feel about the Tories?
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Post by pretzel on Aug 17, 2023 20:40:36 GMT
Live and let live is my motto. The first one or two burger puns were mildly funny but once they got a bit repetitively tedious, I just stopped opening the thread and won't bother looking again unless the title changes to 'Signed' or something like that. I do feel that some of the puntagonists need to chill a bit and accept that not everyone is as perfect as them
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 17, 2023 20:43:31 GMT
Live and let live is my motto. The first one or two burger puns were mildly funny but once they got a bit repetitively tedious, I just stopped opening the thread and won't bother looking again unless the title changes to 'Signed' or something like that. I do feel that some of the puntagonists need to chill a bit and accept that not everyone is as perfect as them Perfectly put oh wise Pretzel
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Post by scfcno1fan on Aug 17, 2023 20:47:33 GMT
The oatcake has to be easiest forum to navigate mind.
Very straightforward.
When you look at other clubs forums, you realise just how good this one is. Some of the other forums are just a mess in terms of visuals and how to navigate.
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 17, 2023 21:18:42 GMT
The oatcake has to be easiest forum to navigate mind. Very straightforward. When you look at other clubs forums, you realise just how good this one is. Some of the other forums are just a mess in terms of visuals and how to navigate. It’s bunderful
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Post by thevoid on Aug 17, 2023 21:50:36 GMT
The oatcake has to be easiest forum to navigate mind. Very straightforward. When you look at other clubs forums, you realise just how good this one is. Some of the other forums are just a mess in terms of visuals and how to navigate. That Luton one is a work of art
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Post by sensiblestokie on Aug 17, 2023 23:06:54 GMT
The puns are a bit shite especially when people repeat the same really crap ones. But it’s just a bit of fun. Once it gets too much for me I just simply don’t read them and move on? Like this post says, the same people repeating absolute drivel who have no knowledge of the game but think because they have thousands of posts arguing with eachother like some Oatcake royalty is much more tedious tbh. That’s very sensible sensiblestokie Sense is wasted on here I’ve found 😂
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Post by thepottypotter on Aug 18, 2023 6:33:40 GMT
That’s very sensible sensiblestokie Sense is wasted on here I’ve found 😂 Common sense is so rare here that it's the Oatcake’s unicorn.
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