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Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 10:16 am
by TimeForGuinness
Radbird wrote:
Michael wrote:
Jocephus wrote:
thrill wrote:
Leroy wrote:Maybe it's just a frustrating season...tonight included. :?
I think there is a lot to that.
yea, so do i...and considering last season was the introduction of GRB and the subsequent world championship to boot...it was a great year...and this season, so far, has yet to be...

Last year drama increased on GRB when the Cards tanked in the 2nd half. In fact, we created the music tourney to help combat it. :wink:
And it was working well until some idiot decided that ZZ Top was better than The Clash... 8-[
I will never forgive you for that.

/No offense popeye

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 10:55 am
by Radbird
TimeForGuinness wrote:I will never forgive you for that.

/No offense popeye
At least no one has brought up Gibby and Clemens

<< D'OH !! >>

Okay, time to get serious. An interview is an activity that can affect the outside world's perception of GRB. As such, there are probably some controls needed. Here is a suggestion:

Maybe in the future an "interviewer" could be designated (not necessarily a mod) and all questions could be pm'd to that person, who would then pick from the questions submitted and conduct the interview ("this next question is from Leroy.."). Just a thought. Some fun questions like "Which Jessica?" could be included in the mix. The interviewer would be responsible for gathering background information about the interviewee. For example, if we were to land an interview with Maroth, his site contains a wealth of information about him (married, 2 kids, lives in Fla, likes pizza, etc) - so for him, you'd work in a Disney World or "what's your favorite pizza?" question instead of the Jessica one.

Just some thoughts for the future.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 12:00 pm
by jim
Radbird wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:I will never forgive you for that.

/No offense popeye
At least no one has brought up Gibby and Clemens

<< D'OH !! >>

Okay, time to get serious. An interview is an activity that can affect the outside world's perception of GRB. As such, there are probably some controls needed. Here is a suggestion:

Maybe in the future an "interviewer" could be designated (not necessarily a mod) and all questions could be pm'd to that person, who would then pick from the questions submitted and conduct the interview ("this next question is from Leroy.."). Just a thought. Some fun questions like "Which Jessica?" could be included in the mix. The interviewer would be responsible for gathering background information about the interviewee. For example, if we were to land an interview with Maroth, his site contains a wealth of information about him (married, 2 kids, lives in Fla, likes pizza, etc) - so for him, you'd work in a Disney World or "what's your favorite pizza?" question instead of the Jessica one.

Just some thoughts for the future.

I like it.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 12:06 pm
by Fat_Bulldog
I'd be perfect for the job.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 7:43 pm
by MrCrowesGarden
jim wrote:
Radbird wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:I will never forgive you for that.

/No offense popeye
At least no one has brought up Gibby and Clemens

<< D'OH !! >>

Okay, time to get serious. An interview is an activity that can affect the outside world's perception of GRB. As such, there are probably some controls needed. Here is a suggestion:

Maybe in the future an "interviewer" could be designated (not necessarily a mod) and all questions could be pm'd to that person, who would then pick from the questions submitted and conduct the interview ("this next question is from Leroy.."). Just a thought. Some fun questions like "Which Jessica?" could be included in the mix. The interviewer would be responsible for gathering background information about the interviewee. For example, if we were to land an interview with Maroth, his site contains a wealth of information about him (married, 2 kids, lives in Fla, likes pizza, etc) - so for him, you'd work in a Disney World or "what's your favorite pizza?" question instead of the Jessica one.

Just some thoughts for the future.

I like it.
The only problem I have with it is that I have a tough time believing that certain posters would never be able to pass through that filter, and others would get through like they were going through the Rams O-Line.

I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing that all posters get equal treatment, and I'd be fine with that if it were based on content-only, but sometimes it's based on name and post count.

I suppose I'm a little frustrated about things that aren't really anybody's fault. I start a thread and get few replies unless my thread gets hijacked, others get people to read their threads, which I find eerily similar to mine, like it's going out of style. Nobody's fault really, but it sucks when it happens.

I also don't know if this is the right place for this or not, but a few pages back in this thread we got back to the discussion of BT being intimidating. I don't think it is as much anymore, but it's my personal observation that it gets intimidating when you've got obstinant people.

Popeye said it once before on here that some knowledge is often more dangerous than no knowledge, like the kid in a 200 level college class correcting a professor because of something he learned in the 100 class.

All too often, I think people misapply statistics or use them backwards. It usually goes something like "Player A has a .900 OPS. He is a good player." I don't think this is true. Player A could in fact be a good player, but that .900 OPS is a product of him being a good player, not the reason why he is.

Sorry, just had to vent. You can move this to rants if you need to.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 8:38 pm
by Fat Strat
I suppose I'm a little frustrated about things that aren't really anybody's fault. I start a thread and get few replies unless my thread gets hijacked, others get people to read their threads, which I find eerily similar to mine, like it's going out of style. Nobody's fault really, but it sucks when it happens.

I also don't know if this is the right place for this or not, but a few pages back in this thread we got back to the discussion of BT being intimidating. I don't think it is as much anymore, but it's my personal observation that it gets intimidating when you've got obstinant people.
I don't know. I can only speak for myself, but I like the vast majority of your posts, and wouldn't mind at all when you (or others) call me out for misusing stats, which I admittedly do every now and then... as long as it was done cordially.

I should also point out that just because a thread doesn't get a lot of responses doesn't mean it wasn't a quality thread or that the thread wasn't as good as some one else's thread.

I do agree that obstinance can make BT intimidating, and we try to mod that as much as we can... which can be difficult to do, because there are many posters that are pretty good at being obstinant while staying well within the forum guidelines. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, since I think most of us have done that at one time or another, but it's true nonetheless.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 8:53 pm
by TimeForGuinness
Fat Strat wrote:
I suppose I'm a little frustrated about things that aren't really anybody's fault. I start a thread and get few replies unless my thread gets hijacked, others get people to read their threads, which I find eerily similar to mine, like it's going out of style. Nobody's fault really, but it sucks when it happens.

I also don't know if this is the right place for this or not, but a few pages back in this thread we got back to the discussion of BT being intimidating. I don't think it is as much anymore, but it's my personal observation that it gets intimidating when you've got obstinant people.
I don't know. I can only speak for myself, but I like the vast majority of your posts, and wouldn't mind at all when you (or others) call me out for misusing stats, which I admittedly do every now and then... as long as it was done cordially.

I should also point out that just because a thread doesn't get a lot of responses doesn't mean it wasn't a quality thread or that the thread wasn't as good as some one else's thread.
++ on that.

Sometimes I get too busy to reply to a thread...or I think I've already replied to it. I like your Minor League posts MrCrowesGarden...I just don't know enough to reply to them (to be honest)

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 9:03 pm
by G. Keenan
MrCrowesGarden wrote: I suppose I'm a little frustrated about things that aren't really anybody's fault. I start a thread and get few replies unless my thread gets hijacked, others get people to read their threads, which I find eerily similar to mine, like it's going out of style. Nobody's fault really, but it sucks when it happens.
I don't reply to most threads, usually because someone has already said what I wanted to to say better than I could or because I don't know enough to add what I feel would be substantive.

But I do know that when I see that you (MrCrowe) have started a thread that I always read it.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 9:04 pm
by jdk82
Sometimes I think its a waste of time to even post in the minor league board, seems like hardly anyone goes there.

Re: Interview thread embarassing?

Posted: June 26 07, 9:06 pm
by stretch
jdk82 wrote:Sometimes I think its a waste of time to even post in the minor league board, seems like hardly anyone goes there.
I always read it.