So we went through a camp without a Megathread. Looking for feedback on how everyone liked it compared to a Megathread.
My opinion is it was much easier to read day over day. I don't have a ton of free time in August, so that was super appealing to me.
I think a big thing is that the fucktarded arguments that go on and on were kept shorter because someone wouldn't read it 3 days later in the Megathread, respond to it and fire it back up 3 days later. JMO.
I also didn't do the Tweet RRS thing that had been done in the past. Not sure who used that. I didn't because I'd be washed out of the thread after a couple days.
Anyway, thoughts? If it sucked I won't bother doing again. If it's better, I'm open to doing a little work to make it a better experience. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Yeah, I probably need to do the work to setup an adequate Twitter Account. I just haven't seen the value when I click through Twitter threads. And most of the relevant tweets get posted somewhere else I figure, so why bother.
Mostly the same with Reddit, which I have taken the time to set up. There is good stuff in there, but it is typically buried in a myriad of shitposts.
That's why I come here, you guys post the relevant stuff, and other than some Claynus trolling, there wasn't a ton of shitposting.
You don't need a Reddit account, I don't think. But, yeah, Twitter and Instagram kick you off pretty quick if you don't have an account.
Likewise, I never saw enough value to actually get accounts in either of those. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
Yeah, and I do that. I meant more about posting the feed in the header. You have to go based off of key words...which means you get all of the bullshit that you don't want.
I haven't ever looked into the feed embedding features, but my guess is you could create a list of journalists you want and embed that pretty easily. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
You can, but bumping old threads can be fun at times, and that wouldn't take care of my frustration anyway.
I'm more referring to the fact that no one ever posts a thread on a single topic anymore. For example, Mecole Hardman was carted off the field this week. Blake Bell may be out for a while. Chris Jones even got dinged up. Without digging through threads, you'd never even know any of that happened.
I don't hate threads to dump info into entirely - we don't need a new thread for every time Mahomes completes a pass in practice or anything. I just miss the days where you could glance at the front page and actually see the big things you should know about. Right now there's not a single thread on the front page that provides any actual Chiefs news in the subject.
It is what it is. Like I said, I've just given up and go to Twitter instead.
And, if anyone does happen to make a thread as you've suggested, they get railed with comments about it being a repost because it was mentioned in the megathread. F that, I'd rather scan the front few pages than sort through hundreds of posts trying to find the same information. [Reply]
I'm generally an anti-megathread guy, and I enjoyed the daily TC threads.
But, Training Camp is only a couple weeks long, and I would not have minded a single thread for that period of time.
The Mega threads that irritate me are the ones that are years old and obscure all the recently happening news. ....and sometime have pages of stupid arguments over petty bull shit - further obscuring information. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
Also side note, I really only prefer mega threads when it comes to stuff like free agency. Otherwise the first page gets cluttered with bullshit threads that get like 5-6 replies.
I am a fan of free agency mega threads. They seem to continue discussion more than TC does. [Reply]
Originally Posted by luv:
And, if anyone does happen to make a thread as you've suggested, they get railed with comments about it being a repost because it was mentioned in the megathread. F that, I'd rather scan the front few pages than sort through hundreds of posts trying to find the same information.
That has pretty well moderated over the years. At least I don't see it anymore. I won't sit here and profess to read every thread on here. [Reply]
