Important:
Raising the Bar; Help Wanted
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.
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