Re: Question regarding the VT : Wed May 25, 2016 2:28 pm  

Well, I still like the V.T.

I much prefer it to the parochial club boards with the cliques & uber- partisan supporters, at least you can get the odd measured debate.

The “Fakebook” forums are just littered with bad language & terrible grammar, it’s just like a dumbed down version of this.

It’s a shame some posters have been hounded-out, I particularly enjoyed Williams attendance thread.

Oh well, I could always join the Total R.L. Board, if the V.T. goes the same way as the Sin Bin.

Re: Question regarding the VT : Wed May 25, 2016 2:44 pm  

The Devil's Advocate wrote:

Oh well, I could always join the Total R.L. Board, if the V.T. goes the same way as the Sin Bin.

To be fair, it's not the entire Sin Bin - just one thread that has become the personal blog of a moderator, and is overseen with ruthless North Korean discipline; it does however appear to have caused the whole thing to wither away.

Re: Question regarding the VT : Wed May 25, 2016 4:08 pm  

Apart from the interesting astronomy thread, there are two blog like threads but neither are mods on there (afaik). But it has become very very introspective.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Question regarding the VT : Wed May 25, 2016 4:23 pm  

[quote="wildshot"] The rise of club dedicated forums and social media groups is where a lot of the activity is nowadays. I think it is a great shame since the true spirit of RLFans is interacting with fans from other clubs, especially discussing your forthcoming or just completed match against each other.

/quote]

This is it for me wildshot, spot on.

I can't see the real point in a one club discussion, or anything worse? Even if I'm not tempted to post, I do find it interesting to hear what the other view is even whether I agree with it or not.

Re: Question regarding the VT : Thu May 26, 2016 4:22 pm  

wildshot wrote:

I think some earlier posts in this thread highlight the real issue, RLFans is dying a slow and painful death. The rise of club dedicated forums and social media groups is where a lot of the activity is nowadays. I think it is a great shame since the true spirit of RLFans is interacting with fans from other clubs, especially discussing your forthcoming or just completed match against each other.

I am a follower of the Wakefield group on Facebook and occasionally post there. However I find the lack of moderators means the quality of posts and some of the language is quite offensive in my mind. There are a lot of kids signed up to it and even as an adult I can be offended.

Anyway, enough of my cotton wool sheltered life. There are now a few club forums on here which remain active but look at how quiet the Cas and Widnes threads have gone because they all use their own forum.

I feel we are watching the end of a little era and for me it has a tinge of sadness.

Good post.
It's very sad, RLfans has been a part of my life for nearly 15 years now and i used to spend hours trawling through the boards and reading stuff, now i find myself spending no more than 20 minutes browsing all the decent threads.
i agree about the facebook groups too, i am in a couple of the Giants ones and to be honest they aren't really that good at discussions, more arguments than anything and the moderating is non existent.

Re: Question regarding the VT : Thu May 26, 2016 4:33 pm  

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