Raising the Bar; Help Wanted

[Agloco]

"Raise the Bar" and give this forum a "boost".

I hope Sequ took his happy meds before timvp announced this...

[lennyalderette]

i would love to help anyway i can, i havent been here long, but i can tell this isnt the way things are supposed to be run. not being arrogant, just would like a nice balance and courtesy between our fellow fans

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

You have my support on this whole "Raising the Bar" thing. I'm glad to see more effort in this area.

Word. The old timers have your back, LJ (and Princess).

[024]

most of the low quality posts have occurred in the nba forum due to the amount of trolls there. the spurs forum itself i think is fine. aside from the panic threads popping up after every lost, it's been pretty civil.

[HarlemHeat37]

I agree..I don't really mind the NBA forum either, I don't know what the big deal is..a lot of people seem to be complaining though..

[George Gervin's Afro]

As the Spurs journey through their 13th consecutive season as an elite team in the NBA, it's undeniable that SpursTalk.com has failed to remain elite in the beginning of the 2009-2010 NBA season. For a myriad of reasons, the quality-to-noise ratio has been at an unacceptably low level. I take partial responsibility, as life issues indefinitely suspended my participation on the forums. But now I hope to help nudge SpursTalk.com into the correct direction so that it can regain its rightful position.

In addition to raising my posting level, I'll also make it a point to author three features for each game: Keys to Victory, Initial Reaction and Game Thoughts. Kori Ellis has a yet to be revealed feature that will definitely raise the bar.

How can you help? Kori Ellis and I have a long list of feature ideas that can add to the quality of SpursTalk.com ... if we can only locate the necessary help. If you are willing to help, we will be grateful. No matter if you only have time for a one and done feature that involves minimal basketball knowledge or you want to tackle a larger project, we can work together to figure it out. If you are interested, please send me a PM. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

In addition to features, overall posting quality will be held up to a slightly higher standard. The freedom SpursTalk.com offers won't be altered, however we do ask that you take more time when it comes to starting threads and expressing your vulgar thoughts and emotions. A poster who gets multiple threads merged due not giving common courtesy to the very simple rules when it comes to starting threads will now automatically lose their ability to start threads for period of a month. Extreme and unnecessary vulgarity will also come under scrutiny. We can live with 99% of the vulgarity but the over the line potshots will result in a warning to help serve as a reminder that the bar has indeed been raised.

Even if you believe that nothing above applies to you, I simply ask that you make a small effort to improve your contribution level. If we all take a little step, the result will be a large improvement.

In the long history of SpursTalk.com, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending greatness in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other fans or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this team will light our forum and all who read it -- and the glow from that fire can truly light the path to back to greatness.

And so, my fellow SpursTalk.com brethren: Ask not what your forum can do for you -- ask what you can do for your forum.

[Chieflion]

Duncan will play no matter what the rice people do!

A mild example of racism on this board. There may be more examples but things like this should not be tolerated.

[Warlord23]

Great idea, timvp. Having been on these forums for over 5 years, I found myself posting lesser as time went on, and slowly but steadily moving away from the Spurs section, first to the NBA section and finally from there to the NFL section.

If we can try, as a community, to avoid trolling/responding to trolls, stop the juvenile namecalling, and focus on quality rather than quan y of posts, I believe it will make a huge difference. Also, If timvp, Marcus Bryant, Solid D and the other old-timers start making regular contributions, we'll turn this thing around yet.

[ForeignFan]

I am not a regular poster, though I have been around for a few years now, but I will try to help (even if only by refraining to comment on stupid threads).

[TheProfessor]

The gauntlet has been thrown down.

I would like to see the "Think Tank" get active again, though that seems to be more of an off-season deal. But it would be nice to get people looking at and discussing prospects in college and overseas.

[PM5K]

Awesome!

[J.T.]

Great thread. I think yous guys should let me and samikeyp do some things for the NFL forum. He'd make a good Biden to my Obama. I can have that place more popular than The Club before Super Bowl Sunday.

[Flux451]

Good timing. I have noticed that since Timvp has been posting more, some of the juggernauts have come out to play. THnks!!

[Bukefal]

Who are all the active mods on ST? And how many mods are their in total?

Kori, Timvp, Slomo....?

[Kori Ellis]

Who are all the active mods on ST? And how many mods are their in total?

Kori, Timvp, Slomo....?

Slomo isn't a mod. He's an admin on the tech side maintaining our servers (though he would moderate in an emergency) along with Muki.

It's just timvp and I. Then there are certain mods in specific forums (College Sports Forum, MMA Forum).. those are listed on the bottoms of those forums.

[Mavs<Spurs]

My pm to timvp -

(and I gave my email )

I hope that you are doing well.

If I can help, please let me know.

My name is Robert. I am in the category of fan but not expert on basketball.

But I am willing to do what I can.

sincerely

mavs less than Spurs

[Mavs<Spurs]

Slomo isn't a mod. He's an admin on the tech side maintaining our servers (though he would moderate in an emergency) along with Muki.

It's just timvp and I. Then there are certain mods in specific forums (College Sports Forum, MMA Forum).. those are listed on the bottoms of those forums.

Allow me to say thank you to you and timvp for running and maintaining this site. Thank you !

I hope that timvp is well !

robert

[Bukefal]

Slomo isn't a mod. He's an admin on the tech side maintaining our servers (though he would moderate in an emergency) along with Muki.

It's just timvp and I. Then there are certain mods in specific forums (College Sports Forum, MMA Forum).. those are listed on the bottoms of those forums.

Aha I see. just curious. Thanks.

[Thompson]

Give me the phenomenal cosmic power of moderation, I promise I won't let it go to my head. Peasants.

[Summers]

Give me the phenomenal cosmic power of moderation, I promise I won't let it go to my head. Peasants.

I think they prefer to be called "common folk".

[ashbeeigh]

Way to go y'all. I usually lurk in the sports forums since many of the things I'm thinking get said pretty quickly, or as I am thinking them. Maybe you all type like 100 wpm as opposed to my 60 wpm or something. But things have derailed a bit so I've found myself shying away from even the Spurs forum on any day except game nights.

I will gladly step up my game, raise the bar, contribute, etc. in any way either of you two need me to.

[SequSpur]

Totally agree...not just raising the bar...call a spade a ing spade.. Look, the championships were great but that was in the past. Turn the page already... watch a game, go to a game whatever..quit living off of buck harvey, andy everett, charlie parker and jay howard...4 of the biggest popo s ever...

there is so much wrong with this ty team, that you all can at least talk about something...i mean come on!!!!

GTG, next wednesday.. I will be there...name a place... chuckie cheese for all of you kids? or Buffalo Southwest Cafe? or Fast Eddies? Wherever...let's do it...

[tlongII]

If you need me to start more threads in the Spurs Forum I'll be happy to oblige. I'm all about raising the bar. And Quality. And all that stuff...

[Lars]

Wanting to buy red colored name, willing to exchange quality posting, adopting Spurs as my 2nd favorite team or a 1991 Chrsyler Lebaron.

[biba]

Great news. I'm sure many were waiting for something to happen.

By the way: do you know what happenend to Duncan228. No news... She and her contributions are missed.