OT: Reasons why the NBA forum has hit an all time low

[whitemamba]

you think talking on the internet makes you tough? man, you're a giant pussy

[lefty]

tbh i think it has alot to do with how some fanbases disappear when their teams get on in the playoffs, only to re-appear for the next cycle once the season starts. Dont worry, less than a month to go.

Tlong
suns fans
nuggets fans
bulls fans

[FkLA]

He keeps stalking me. I just laughed at him one day like the rest of this site does and now he just can't stop talking about me. I've tried repeatedly to tell him to let it go but he is just too obsessed.

lol youre such a lying got

You had no problem bringing me up in multiple threads until other posters joined in and started calling you out for being a rider, not until then did you start playing the let it go/obsession card. I like how you had that thread deleted too you sensitive .

[D12]

So is this Cully, Luva, or Extra Kool Security?

Neither, little bro.

[timvp]

that timvp

I like the cut of your jib.

[jag]

[Leetonidas]

tbh if the nba forum has sucked since 2009, why are yall still posting here 3 years later...

[benefactor]

lol youre such a lying got

You had no problem bringing me up in multiple threads until other posters joined in and started calling you out for being a rider, not until then did you start playing the let it go/obsession card. I like how you had that thread deleted too you sensitive .

Never happened...that didn't stop you from making a thread about me though...that I never responded to. How many threads have I made about you? lol obsessed.

Just let it go man. Your endless reaching for ways to try to make me look bad is getting ridiculous.

[ElNono]

Too many "Reasons why the NBA forum has hit an all time low" threads, IMO.

I think once games start, things will get back to normal, tbh...

[benefactor]

Yup. Football...both college and pro...has dominated most of the conversation on this site since their seasons started. This place will start getting it's legs as we get closer to the end of the month.

[Ace]

LkrFan has always flooded the forum with his stupidity and lack of funny bads.

[DD]

The NBA offseason is always brutal around here...it'll still be brutal though if the Lakers get off to a fast start, however. This is why a Laker subforum is sorely needed here--to assuage the crybabies who blame Lakerfans for the downfall of the NBA Forum.

Unfortunately, history tells us that people can't get enough of the Lakers so it would play out like this:

1. Kori/LJ make Laker sub forum
2. NBA Forum attendance/posting drops off drastically to the point it becomes the Pistons forum or...
3. People won't be able to help themselves, and start posting Laker/D12/Kobe threads in the NBA Forum instead of the Laker forum.

The mods realize this, and Kori--being a closet Laker fan and known LA woman--probably wants to create such a forum, but risks alienating her adopted Spurs fan base if she gives in.

Bottom line is that Lakerfans aren't going away anytime soon, so no sense pining for younger and happier days when there was only 2000 members on this forum--half of which were mouse's trolls.

[Koolaid_Man]

The NBA offseason is always brutal around here...it'll still be brutal though if the Lakers get off to a fast start, however. This is why a Laker subforum is sorely needed here--to assuage the crybabies who blame Lakerfans for the downfall of the NBA Forum.

Unfortunately, history tells us that people can't get enough of the Lakers so it would play out like this:

1. Kori/LJ make Laker sub forum
2. NBA Forum attendance/posting drops off drastically to the point it becomes the Pistons forum or...
3. People won't be able to help themselves, and start posting Laker/D12/Kobe threads in the NBA Forum instead of the Laker forum.

The mods realize this, and Kori--being a closet Laker fan and known LA woman--probably wants to create such a forum, but risks alienating her adopted Spurs fan base if she gives in.

Bottom line is that Lakerfans aren't going away anytime soon, so no sense pining for younger and happier days when there was only 2000 members on this forum--half of which were mouse's trolls.

Not only is she placating her adopted Spur fan base..but she's trying to keep things trill at home...I don't know that she's too independent outside of LJ...or maybe she tries to protect his fragile psyche... I don't know if she has her own thoughts or if she feels compelled to agree with him all the time or if she's afraid to go against the grain of what he says for fear of retribution...It would be nice if they had a relationship more like James Carville and Mary Matalin...this think alike lockstep mentality they have is so yesteryear....they need to e this up

Kori you can always come back home baby...there's always room for you on the bandwagon...

[benefactor]

Sup Extra Stout.

[BlackSwordsMan]

Its the ing off season find a ing hobby and stop posting so much

[whitemamba]

Its the ing off season find a ing hobby and stop posting so much

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Lots of reasons, hard to sort out which one carries the biggest burden. I think the whole process really got started with the Spurs 2007 championship. The years leading up to that pulled in a number of good Mavs, Suns, and Pistons fans. It also pulled in a lot of dumbass GNSF who seemed to think that having outsiders on a Spurs board was an affront to God. (FOUR RINGS, GOT!) Its a credit to the outsider fans who stuck around through the needless ringsmack. With that said it doesn't absolve them from their part in trolling right back in the ensuing seasons as the Spurs couldn't return to glory. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, but that was where things started to lose their way IMO. Previously the trolls would come out in response to ty takes that were out place in the forum's generally high quality BB discussions. Around this time the trolling started to replace the BB discussion. If there was a time where this place might have been put on a leash it was then. I'm not saying that would have saved it. In all likelihood the reasons for letting it go were right; throwing a bunch of rules up wouldn't have done anything to stem the tide of GNSF idiots, while the non Spurs fans who enjoyed the NBA forum were there mostly for the lax moderation compared to other sites.

Then the Lakers got relevant again and their trolls came at the exact worse time. By the time that the post Gasol trade Lakers were established in the league the NBA forum had pretty much been declared the wild west. It was mostly self regulating. You went downstairs and you entered at your own risk. Threads got derailed but with a little patience you could find some real gems, both in terms of entertainment value and BB relevance. In a short span of time we all saw how precarious the balance had been here. The forum's quality was anchored by the fact that for all the nastiness and fighting that went on it was ultimately people who were fighting to maintain something they had a stake in building and along came idiots with no such scruples and all the freedom they needed to things up for everyone. That was when the forum crossed over from 'acquired taste' to 'unreadable'. Around that time I (and plenty others) all but stopped visiting the forum much less posting there and there was little to bring in any new posters except people who were into juvenile already. To use a National Geographic kind of analogy back in the day it was a like a highly compe ive ecosystem, which naturally leads to an overall survival of the fittest; fast enough to not get eaten, strong enough to catch your own meals, tough enough to last in the lean times. Guys like Kool and Luva were like a plague introduced to an ecosystem. The survivors aren't necessarily the best and brightest, rather only the ones with a genetic disposition to resist it. The only thing needed to last in the NBA forum was an ability and willingness to slog through an endless stream of unfunny schtick repeated over and over over and over.

A few strategic pinkings restored the balance, but it's going to take some time to bounce back. And in the mean time, even with it being the offseason, I think what's hurting the NBA forum is a growing apathy towards the NBA itself. It's so easy to follow every detail of one's hometeam these days, but very little that is compelling about the league wide in terms of rivlaries or any sort of universally marketable superstar. Equally problematic is that demographically I think most of us in here cut our teeth on the NBA during at least part of Jordan's era and the story since then has been the NBA constantly tweaking the rules to make it less physical and easier to score, and thus distancing the game as it is now even further from that time, rather than connecting fans to whoever they are pimping as "THE NEXT JORDAN" every other year.

[FkLA]

Never happened...that didn't stop you from making a thread about me though...that I never responded to. How many threads have I made about you? lol obsessed.

Just let it go man. Your endless reaching for ways to try to make me look bad is getting ridiculous.

Your thread disappeared over night after lakerhaterade of all people tore you a new asshole. I made the thread to make fun of you because either you had it removed or Slomo (whos you ride all the time) felt bad for you and did it himself, stop trying to distort and playing the obsession card . You sound stupid go ride someones instead.

[Lincoln]

SFIE summed it up perfectly.

[FkLA]

Lots of reasons, hard to sort out which one carries the biggest burden. I think the whole process really got started with the Spurs 2007 championship. The years leading up to that pulled in a number of good Mavs, Suns, and Pistons fans. It also pulled in a lot of dumbass GNSF who seemed to think that having outsiders on a Spurs board was an affront to God. (FOUR RINGS, GOT!) Its a credit to the outsider fans who stuck around through the needless ringsmack. With that said it doesn't absolve them from their part in trolling right back in the ensuing seasons as the Spurs couldn't return to glory. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, but that was where things started to lose their way IMO. Previously the trolls would come out in response to ty takes that were out place in the forum's generally high quality BB discussions. Around this time the trolling started to replace the BB discussion. If there was a time where this place might have been put on a leash it was then. I'm not saying that would have saved it. In all likelihood the reasons for letting it go were right; throwing a bunch of rules up wouldn't have done anything to stem the tide of GNSF idiots, while the non Spurs fans who enjoyed the NBA forum were there mostly for the lax moderation compared to other sites.

Then the Lakers got relevant again and their trolls came at the exact worse time. By the time that the post Gasol trade Lakers were established in the league the NBA forum had pretty much been declared the wild west. It was mostly self regulating. You went downstairs and you entered at your own risk. Threads got derailed but with a little patience you could find some real gems, both in terms of entertainment value and BB relevance. In a short span of time we all saw how precarious the balance had been here. The forum's quality was anchored by the fact that for all the nastiness and fighting that went on it was ultimately people who were fighting to maintain something they had a stake in building and along came idiots with no such scruples and all the freedom they needed to things up for everyone. That was when the forum crossed over from 'acquired taste' to 'unreadable'. Around that time I (and plenty others) all but stopped visiting the forum much less posting there and there was little to bring in any new posters except people who were into juvenile already. To use a National Geographic kind of analogy back in the day it was a like a highly compe ive ecosystem, which naturally leads to an overall survival of the fittest; fast enough to not get eaten, strong enough to catch your own meals, tough enough to last in the lean times. Guys like Kool and Luva were like a plague introduced to an ecosystem. The survivors aren't necessarily the best and brightest, rather only the ones with a genetic disposition to resist it. The only thing needed to last in the NBA forum was an ability and willingness to slog through an endless stream of unfunny schtick repeated over and over over and over.

A few strategic pinkings restored the balance, but it's going to take some time to bounce back. And in the mean time, even with it being the offseason, I think what's hurting the NBA forum is a growing apathy towards the NBA itself. It's so easy to follow every detail of one's hometeam these days, but very little that is compelling about the league wide in terms of rivlaries or any sort of universally marketable superstar. Equally problematic is that demographically I think most of us in here cut our teeth on the NBA during at least part of Jordan's era and the story since then has been the NBA constantly tweaking the rules to make it less physical and easier to score, and thus distancing the game as it is now even further from that time, rather than connecting fans to whoever they are pimping as "THE NEXT JORDAN" every other year.

cliffnotes please

[ElNono]

Lots of reasons, hard to sort out which one carries the biggest burden. I think the whole process really got started with the Spurs 2007 championship. The years leading up to that pulled in a number of good Mavs, Suns, and Pistons fans. It also pulled in a lot of dumbass GNSF who seemed to think that having outsiders on a Spurs board was an affront to God. (FOUR RINGS, GOT!) Its a credit to the outsider fans who stuck around through the needless ringsmack. With that said it doesn't absolve them from their part in trolling right back in the ensuing seasons as the Spurs couldn't return to glory. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, but that was where things started to lose their way IMO. Previously the trolls would come out in response to ty takes that were out place in the forum's generally high quality BB discussions. Around this time the trolling started to replace the BB discussion. If there was a time where this place might have been put on a leash it was then. I'm not saying that would have saved it. In all likelihood the reasons for letting it go were right; throwing a bunch of rules up wouldn't have done anything to stem the tide of GNSF idiots, while the non Spurs fans who enjoyed the NBA forum were there mostly for the lax moderation compared to other sites.

Then the Lakers got relevant again and their trolls came at the exact worse time. By the time that the post Gasol trade Lakers were established in the league the NBA forum had pretty much been declared the wild west. It was mostly self regulating. You went downstairs and you entered at your own risk. Threads got derailed but with a little patience you could find some real gems, both in terms of entertainment value and BB relevance. In a short span of time we all saw how precarious the balance had been here. The forum's quality was anchored by the fact that for all the nastiness and fighting that went on it was ultimately people who were fighting to maintain something they had a stake in building and along came idiots with no such scruples and all the freedom they needed to things up for everyone. That was when the forum crossed over from 'acquired taste' to 'unreadable'. Around that time I (and plenty others) all but stopped visiting the forum much less posting there and there was little to bring in any new posters except people who were into juvenile already. To use a National Geographic kind of analogy back in the day it was a like a highly compe ive ecosystem, which naturally leads to an overall survival of the fittest; fast enough to not get eaten, strong enough to catch your own meals, tough enough to last in the lean times. Guys like Kool and Luva were like a plague introduced to an ecosystem. The survivors aren't necessarily the best and brightest, rather only the ones with a genetic disposition to resist it. The only thing needed to last in the NBA forum was an ability and willingness to slog through an endless stream of unfunny schtick repeated over and over over and over.

A few strategic pinkings restored the balance, but it's going to take some time to bounce back. And in the mean time, even with it being the offseason, I think what's hurting the NBA forum is a growing apathy towards the NBA itself. It's so easy to follow every detail of one's hometeam these days, but very little that is compelling about the league wide in terms of rivlaries or any sort of universally marketable superstar. Equally problematic is that demographically I think most of us in here cut our teeth on the NBA during at least part of Jordan's era and the story since then has been the NBA constantly tweaking the rules to make it less physical and easier to score, and thus distancing the game as it is now even further from that time, rather than connecting fans to whoever they are pimping as "THE NEXT JORDAN" every other year.

last thing I will ever say to you on this entire forum as long as it exists

dude I hope you die a slow painful death after being ed up the ass by prison s with 12 foot s

You really are everything that has ever been wrong with the entire ing world. You sell out a guy you hang out with in person just to impress people you’ve never met that you play Madden with.

Well I hope your status in the Madden crew is tight. Hope all the blue-named Mavs fans you play Madden with, with your precious colts see you as a down ass white boy for giving them our real names, and all that info they kept trolling us with back in april.

Cuz it’s really probably that they learned all that private from some other poster on this site, right?

You are a ing walking zombie, because regardless of anything you ever do in this life, you’re always going to know that you sold out a great person just to impress XBOX Madden Mavericks s.

That is what you did. You ed over someone you had real people interactions with just to gain status on the ing internet. You are a piece of and I hope the next person on spurstalk that turns up dead is you.

And what’s REALLY REALLY FUNNY is that you might have seen our pictures and act all tough guy but you actually know jack about us. Nothing other than our names. I told mike from day 1 he was stupid to hang out with you especially after he told me what a ing walking acoustic guitar playing junkie you were.

But after this, after your shallow actions possibly leading to this bull …you best believe you will have the ability to shove a shank up my gooch. Because I never roll alone and you truly do not know any of us.
I cannot recognize you but if anyone I am with in Austin ever sees your ass we will follow you home and we will ing destroy you.

Have fun playing Madden with that choker Peyton and always remember you sold out a real life friend for internet mavs props.


you and I hope you burn in .

[jeebus]

[benefactor]

Your thread disappeared over night after lakerhaterade of all people tore you a new asshole. I made the thread to make fun of you because either you had it removed or Slomo (whos you ride all the time) felt bad for you and did it himself, stop trying to distort and playing the obsession card . You sound stupid go ride someones instead.

I think I've had one or maybe two direct interactions with Slomo in the whole 4 years I've posted here, but you can keep making up whatever you think sounds legit. If you will stop with the obsession I will agree with it. ...I'll even be a nurse for you if that will satisfy you.

[FkLA]

Are you including all the ' slomo' or 'thanks slomo for the behind the scenes work' in those two interactions? Your thread disappeared after lakerhaterade made you look stupid, I made a thread asking why it mysteriously disappeared...thats not obsession dumbass.

[benefactor]

Sure bro. Whatever you say.