Questions About SpursTalk.com

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

1. If SpursTalk had a built-in arcade section, would you play the games there? Would you mind if there were banner ads in that section?

Maybe.

2. Would you frequent any of the following forums if they were added to SpursTalk:

Tech Talk - computers and other geek stuff

Yes

Buy/Sell/Trade/Promote - nothing illegal, of course

Yes

Spanish Only - self-explanatory

No. Speak English, it's America

MMA - should I just re-name the "Other Sports" forum MMA? Set up a new forum?

Keep it in the other sports section

Music - I think music, tv, entertainment should stay in the Club, but maybe that's just me.

Keep it in the club

[kingsfan]

1. If SpursTalk had a built-in arcade section, would you play the games there? Would you mind if there were banner ads in that section?
it depends on the games but probably and ads are fine

2. Would you frequent any of the following forums if they were added to SpursTalk:

Tech Talk - computers and other geek stuff
Great idea I think, it would give people like myself who are technically challenged to learn a lot and then maybe I could get mouse to answer my questions without him ignoring my phone calls

Buy/Sell/Trade/Promote - nothing illegal, of course
Don't care one way or the other
Spanish Only - self-explanatory
I never thought I'd say this but I agree with sequ

MMA - should I just re-name the "Other Sports" forum MMA? Set up a new forum?

Then where would we talk about soccer + tennis?


Music - I think music, tv, entertainment should stay in the Club, but maybe that's just me.

Agreed, it's fine there.

[mouse]

Edited to appease jackseven

[Shelly]

However, I vote for Kori to add her own personal "Dumb PMs I get daily" forum!

[ShoogarBear]

I actually would keep a Site Technical Issues forum separate from the Tech Talk forum. Site Technical Issues should be specific stuff related to the running of the board, outages, configuration, etc. Sure it would be low-traffic, but you'd want that section to be completely no-nonsense.

[polandprzem]

Gotta Q


Kori will the vbooks be 'refreshed'?
I mean the start of a season 500$ and more activity. More bets. ???

[jackseven]

Disclaimer: I'm not promising anything discussed in this post. I'm just thinking about some stuff.

So it's guaranteed then. Nice.

Thanks.

Thank You.

1. If SpursTalk had a built-in arcade section, would you play the games there? Would you mind if there were banner ads in that section?

I would play tetris off and on. I like banner ads and pop-ups. They make me aware of existing products and offers that might be relevant to my interests.

2. Would you frequent any of the following forums if they were added to SpursTalk:

I might glance in some of them.

Tech Talk - computers and other geek stuff

Maybe a quick browse biweekly.

Buy/Sell/Trade/Promote - nothing illegal, of course

This is a stellar idea. You just have to be very careful of setting out the guidelines, restrictions, and medium and fine print.

Spanish Only - self-explanatory

This one is shaky but has tons of potential.

MMA - should I just re-name the "Other Sports" forum MMA? Set up a new forum?

Rename other sports forum.

Music - I think music, tv, entertainment should stay in the Club, but maybe that's just me.

This is basically the club already. Since the club is a genous area, you create a few specialized topics such as these and it might become confusing for where to post what.

Anything else?

Yes, do something with this damn forum. The overwhelming majority of people in here respect you for providing a good place to discuss topics and everything else you do for them. Its a waste not to think bigger with Spurstalk.com and you're not cheating anyone or selling out if you make money off the forum. I don't see how it hurts anybody if there are links to other places, offers, or advertisements.

For the people that like Mouse and Mookie about "selling out" what the do they know. Mouse's game has been weak for years and now he doesn't even know what he's about on the Internet. Mookie is a guy best known for having a bowl haircut.

I don't mind the individualized team forums. Some people like to just see topics on your their own team. I think there should be a few more forums and then some services like you mentioned and then maybe some others. A consumer review section of stores, restaurants, and products would be awesome. Contests would be cool to - like a weekly NFL pick'em where it's sponsored and the winner gets prizes.

Granted, the server costs would be huge and installing some of these ideas and possibly links to other pages while keeping aesthetics is a ton of ground work, but if you implemented the right system ,Spurstalk.com could become a mecca of sorts where sports minded people are driven here, but then can discuss other topics and gather other useful information from the same website without having to spend valuable time surfing for other information.

Two other suggestions I just thought of are a Cowboys forum and taking out a lot of the flesh or wierd imagery in the icons and signatures. Sometimes I can't read a post because I'm in public. Also, a block of pure box ads at the bottom of the main page would be cool to see sales and other websites that might be appealing. I'm always looking for NFL apparrel at decent prices.



--K.E.[/QUOTE]

[mouse]

I actually would keep a Site Technical Issues forum separate from the Tech Talk forum. Site Technical Issues should be specific stuff related to the running of the board, outages, configuration, etc. Sure it would be low-traffic, but you'd want that section to be completely no-nonsense.

So how do we access this forum to see why the board is down?

[Whottt.]

For the people that like Mouse

If you think mouse is the only one who es then you must be new to ST

[dallaskd]

So how do we access this forum to see why the board is down?

[jackseven]

If you think mouse is the only one who es then you must be new to ST

First of all that wasn't that funny. Second of all you didn't need another alias to post that. And c if you look at what I wrote, it said people like Mouse which implies more than one.

Create a new alias that says no game. I'd get a kick out of that.

[mouse]

First of all that wasn't that funny. Second of all you didn't need another alias to post that. And c if you look at what I wrote, it said people like Mouse which implies more than one.

Create a new alias that says no game. I'd get a kick out of that.

Why would you waste your long winded post to kori about her site with a cheesy insult? You just lost all credibility. You got game meet me in the troll forum. This guy must be some sort of Web Zar so with that said I will delete my previous comments out of respect for his greatness.

[T Park.]

My take on all this.........

I am not one to toot my own horn but I have been surfing since 1995 (I was late to the www) and I have seen all kinds of things happen. One thing websites do that gets my goat is they make to many forums. It's hard enough for a person on the www to actually visit all the websites he or she likes to see on a daily or weekly basis. The last thing they need is for one of their favorite websites to turn into a huge rat maze they have to go though to find that small piece of cheese they need while on their lunch break at work.

What I mean is I have been to websites that have more forums than I have screen names.

They have...........................

Cooking forums
Collage Sports forums
Fun and Games Forums
Movies and night life forums
NFL forums
NBA forums
NCAA forums
MLB forums
strange news forums
Tech forums
Gamer forums
Politics forums
Introduce yourself forums
What do you think about us give us feed back forums
Religion forums
weight watchers forums
Hockey forums
Soccer forums
self help forums
buy and sell forums
find a job forums
Arts forums.................ect...

must I go on? I think you get my point?


Now don't get me wrong! you can have all the forums you want, what bothers me is this.........


Lets say I make a topic about Tom Cruz "does he eat pork?" and here is what happens......The topic gets moved to the cooking forum, now as we talk about Tom Cruz I happen to mention he will vote for Hillary Clinton, now the topic gets moved to the Politics forum. While in the same topic now in the politics forum, I asked another poster what team Tom Cruz roots for? Since he is a huge Baseball fan it gets moved to the MLB forum. Then another poster says yes he loves baseball but he wont eat a hot dogs due to his religion. What religion is that? topic gets moves to the religion forum and there another poster says "Tom may not eat Hot dogs but he has a great Soybean burger recipe" and the topic ends up back in the cooking forum where it all began.
my 2 cents

Thats some good weed you got!

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Please answer these questions.

Disclaimer: I'm not promising anything discussed in this post. I'm just thinking about some stuff.

Thanks.

1. If SpursTalk had a built-in arcade section, would you play the games there? Would you mind if there were banner ads in that section?

2. Would you frequent any of the following forums if they were added to SpursTalk:

Tech Talk - computers and other geek stuff

Buy/Sell/Trade/Promote - nothing illegal, of course

Spanish Only - self-explanatory

MMA - should I just re-name the "Other Sports" forum MMA? Set up a new forum?

Music - I think music, tv, entertainment should stay in the Club, but maybe that's just me.

Anything else?

--K.E.

1) Rarely/Sometimes. No I would not mind.
2) I think its unnecessary. Music, tv, entertainment is just about all I post about/respond to in The Club, so..

[Pimp my Banner]

Well then you may want to add the tech forum and remove the Technical Issues forum.

add another cool forum and get rid of a non popular forum. You can have different forums like you have now, It's when certain topics get moved around to the point no one knows where to post a topic about Tim Duncan has a new CD out and is going to promote it with his new cookbook at his favorite church during the 08 elections.
where would that topic best be placed?

People will always talk about music and movies no matter what forum they are in. So if you want to know where to download a cool Rap CD you may as well merge it with the tech forum since they will ask how to burn it to CD using Nero.

Then Tpark will come in and tell us we are all going to for downloading music and it may end up in the religious forum. But chances are I will run some fresh 2008 smack on his Funnel cake eating ass and it will eventually end up in the Troll forum

I have to agree with some of this.

[T Park]

in mouse.

Create your own names and stop copying others you out of work .

[Leetonidas]

1. If SpursTalk had a built-in arcade section, would you play the games there? Would you mind if there were banner ads in that section?

Honestly, probably not.

2. Would you frequent any of the following forums if they were added to SpursTalk:

Tech Talk - computers and other geek stuff [Sure]

Buy/Sell/Trade/Promote - nothing illegal, of course [Definitely]

Spanish Only - self-explanatory [No]

MMA - should I just re-name the "Other Sports" forum MMA? Set up a new forum? [Meh...]

Music - I think music, tv, entertainment should stay in the Club, but maybe that's just me. [Nah, I think it needs a forum actually]

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

So how do we access this forum to see why the board is down?

[mouse]

in mouse.

Create your own names and stop copying others you out of work .

Try to stay on topic and stop embarrassing ST and Kori

[Shelly.]

in mouse.

Create your own names and stop copying others you out of work .

Does it really matter how many forums Kori makes if people like Tpark are going to ruin every topic?

[Kori Ellis]

Gotta Q


Kori will the vbooks be 'refreshed'?
I mean the start of a season 500$ and more activity. More bets. ???

Yes, everyone will be starting over with $500 next week.
There will be bets for every Spurs game and NFL game thereafter (as usual). Plus some other bets here and there.

[T Park]

Try to stay on topic and stop embarrassing ST and Kori

Get a in job, and stop using my goddamn screen name.

[Leetonidas]

Get a in job, and stop using my goddamn screen name.

[marini martini]

Spanish Only - self-explanatory [No]

I would love Spanish only, if you had the translation in English under the post

[Mavs08]

in mouse.
you out of work .

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...=1#post2024829

[whottt]

I don't get everyone voting against the Spanish forum...I guess Slomo made the best argument against it....

But to me it's a matter of...just because you can't read Spanish, doesn't mean we shouldn't have one...



The fact is there are obviously a ton of people on this board that speak Spanish...and they would use that forum.


I know why people in America aren't crazy about the idea of a Spanish forum, but the fact is, a lot of the Spanish speakers on the board, have nothing to do with that...this board is bigger than just an American board...

I know...Mexican Nationals living in America...you mofos need to learn to speak some ing English. One country...one nation. A house divided etc...


But that really has nothing to do with a Spanish forum on this board...the Spanish forum on this board has to do with the fact that there are a ton of Argies and probably a few Spaniards on this board...


Slomo made the best argument against it, when he said that some of these guys are very knowledgable posters and the addition of a Spanish forum might deprive the main forums of their insight...

I don't think that'll be a problem though, they undoubtedly have Spanish basketball forums they frequent already, and they still come to SpursTalk to talk and read about the Spurs in English...and the addition of a Spanish forum here probably isn't likely to change that, since the majority of articles concerning the Spurs are still going to be in English.


In fact...it'll probably encourage more members from these countries to join up at ST and participate in the main forums.

I've got no problem with the Spanish forum...due to the large international membership of this board, featuring a great number of members from Spanish speaking countries, that have nothing to do with the language issues in America at this time.


I get as pissed off at the Argies rooting for the player over the team as much as the next guy...but they've been here a long time now, and some of them are major contributors and sources of information.



For the record...I'd be in favor of adding a board in French and Slovenian as well, if she wanted to do it...because we have a lot of members from France and Slovenia as well....


I don't think it'll keep them from participating on the main forums...if they didn't want to participate in English speaking forums...they wouldn't have become members at ST in the first place.