Lots here love to hate the test board. Always throwing shade it’s way. The hatred and vile is down right distasteful.....almost as bad as some of the test board posts themselves. But if nothing else it provided a space for others to vent away from this board.
Yes it gets messy and downright ugly. Some people are way over the top. But I have see a lot of tasteless posts on the M board also. Rude, insulting, embarrassing, distasteful, lacking class. Endless threads trading insults, showing tuff guy internet muscles, always having to have the last word, desperate for attention, the whole gambit of human frailties. So don’t be throwing stones....
And the test board often has some great material. Sure it is full of garbage but so is this board.....ever read the game day threads?......the media, the entire internet. Like everything else in life one needs to clear away the chaff to get to the grain. The various posters there often post links to stories or studies that I otherwise would have missed. Universities, foundations, non profits, governmental, think tanks, and more. As there is no way for anyone to survey all sources, it was a great way to enlist others to help find relevant information. Even though I watch far more news from many sources than the average person I undoubtedly learned a lot from fellow posters there and am grateful for it. Like the AKB, it has been a valuable source.
Hopefully it will continue, if not here perhaps at another home. Thanks to all who posted intelligent, reasonable posts and backed them up with links to sources.
Yes it gets messy and downright ugly. Some people are way over the top. But I have see a lot of tasteless posts on the M board also. Rude, insulting, embarrassing, distasteful, lacking class. Endless threads trading insults, showing tuff guy internet muscles, always having to have the last word, desperate for attention, the whole gambit of human frailties. So don’t be throwing stones....
And the test board often has some great material. Sure it is full of garbage but so is this board.....ever read the game day threads?......the media, the entire internet. Like everything else in life one needs to clear away the chaff to get to the grain. The various posters there often post links to stories or studies that I otherwise would have missed. Universities, foundations, non profits, governmental, think tanks, and more. As there is no way for anyone to survey all sources, it was a great way to enlist others to help find relevant information. Even though I watch far more news from many sources than the average person I undoubtedly learned a lot from fellow posters there and am grateful for it. Like the AKB, it has been a valuable source.
Hopefully it will continue, if not here perhaps at another home. Thanks to all who posted intelligent, reasonable posts and backed them up with links to sources.