is this the beginning of the end , i've seen this before ...........
come on folks !~!
is this the beginning of the end , i've seen this before ...........
come on folks !~!
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
It's the offseason and also half the people are sick of each other
See you Space Cowboy ...
no football
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It's the dead time of the offseason. I'm sure things will be jumping once training camp starts.
always excuses for slow times ... the thing is it wasnt all that long ago that this place was busy 12 months of the year and at draft time so busy you would make a post and have 3 responses before you took another sip of beer , now even draft time is slow ....Originally Posted by El Kabong
like it or not places like this are on borrowed time ....
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
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Holiday weekends are usually slow. People tend to spend more time with actual other people rather than online chat rooms. Add that to nothing really going on in the NFL world right now and you get 2 days since the last post.
Or maybe.....
This isn’t a new thing. Since the inception of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. message boards have been “going out of business” left and right. Unless something is easily accessible from a phone, short and to the point, it’s not really current with the times.
I’ve been viewing the message board through Tapatalk for quite some time now and it’s my preferred way to do it. It’s way easier than trying to navigate the website through a phone. I’ll check it out on the laptop every now and again but the phone is probably 98% of my viewing and message boards aren’t really phone friendly…
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I can absolutely see what you're saying. I'm one of those dinosaurs I guess. I hate looking at things on my phone. I'm also not on those other social media apps other than FB, just not on my phone. But I can see that a message board like this would be tiresome on a phone.
This place is really the only outlet for talking Steelers for me. Mostly Titans, Saints, Cowboys, and whatever team is winning at the moment fans around here. I hope it endures. I still think the holiday weekend has a lot to do with things at this moment in time. Guess we shall see.
I used to post all the time.
but a power-hungry female mod decided to flex her muscles and show me who was boss just because she needed to be right so I hardly ever post here anymore.
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I've been popping in and posting. I even started a few threads. There's just not much action here lately.
My reading vision is failing and I hate typing on my phone. I still prefer using my laptop from home.
At many of the other outlets, the fans seem less informed. They are more likely to make short comments with less substance than in the longer format people like us do here at a message board using a full keyboard.
Reading posts with nothing but acronyms is beyond annoying. The abbreviated form of speaking that is becoming more prevalent each and every day is destroying true communication between individuals. It is also promoting more hostility because when so much less is said, there is so much more that can be read into comments. The more specific and knowledgeable a post is, the less room there is for misinterpretation.
It's the direction the world is going, but it's not a good direction. People seem to be more worried about just saying something rather than saying something that is thoughtful and meaningful.
mods are rarely here anymore either so there is that
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
Hardly anyone is here anymore. It's only a matter of time. All message boards are dying.
"Zeds dead baby, Zeds dead." - Butch
I'm currently on two other message boards that are both very active.
which ones?
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Planet steelers is one , IDK what other one he is at
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
http://www.planetsteelers.com
http://thesteelersfans.com/
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Just popped over on Reddit at 12:13am central time and there were 120 people online on the r/steelers subreddit. I see way much more during the days. So this could be siphoning some of the fans. But I like the format of this message board more than Reddit.
A couple of more weeks it will pick up steam when training camp starts.
kind of the original point ... there is always an excuse of why its slow ... whereas not all that many years ago there was more traffic in the downtrodden times here than there is in the "busy times" here now ...
its a troubling trend as an old guy who gets set in his ways going to a new board , or a new format such as Reddit to talk football or more specifically Steelers football just lacks excitement ... perhaps we are just witnessing the end of an era and nothing can be done about it
Kenny Pickett is who I though he was .. Eagles didn't value him either , now he is a Stain at the Mistake by the Lake 3 teams in 4 years more of a shooting star than a superstar
I admit that I go through streaks when I’m active here. But I don’t often start a thread, and when there are less threads started I’m obviously less likely to chime in. It’s a vicious cycle.
But that said, I really appreciate this forum. There are some petty arguments once in a while, but on the whole this is a great site with some very knowledgeable fans. If the Steelers start winning early I have a feeling it’ll pick up around here.
THIS!
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I usually visit the "new posts" page first.
If I see a bunch of poiltical threads only with new posts, I pass and close out the forum and move on somewhere else. Not wasting my time.
I'm on tapatalk/phone and my PC so I check alot. Have alot of doctor appointments so there's a lot of time browsing on my phone.
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Thanks brother!
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You're right tube.
Politics are going to be the death of this message board. This place is so toxic, that it creeps into nearly every thread.
the NFL and its employees are the ones who brought the politics to their platform.
true thatthe NFL and its employees are the ones who brought the politics to their platform.
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the NFL and its employees are the ones who brought the politics to their platform.
If you are talking about kneeling for the Anthem or other things that are happening within the framework of a football game, then yes. Everything else, including the election, COVID, vaccines, Trump, Biden, etc.... All that stuff should be conversed in the soapbox. There is no place for it in the football areas of this message board. In nearly every thread someone is making a political reference towards other members here based on disagreements they had with another poster over politics. It's ridiculous and it's aggravating. It is making people stay away.
I know I have come here, looked at a couple threads, and said screw it...I'm outta here. I'm gathering from others that the political talk has reached the point of turning fans off of coming here and participating.
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100%
Fansince is able to turn off the political threads so you can’t see them on Tapatalk. He turned them off for me…I only see them on the computer…and they’re a waste of time…lol. People still whining about COVID and political parties…lol. There shouldn’t even be a “soapbox” here…it’s a Steelers site, not some political romper room…there’s plenty of sites for that.
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I agree 100%. I have said that at every message board I have ever been on. Politics has no place at a football forum.
The worst part is so many here aren't mature enough to leave that discussion in another part of the forum. It carries over into everything.
There shouldn't be a soapbox area IMO. No politics here please.
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