Soccer Forum reaches 100,000 posts!

Post #1 » by **LittleOzzy** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:40 am

Thanks everyone for making this such a great soccer forum.

Nice to reach this milestone, now well ahead of the NHL forums, and will pass by the NFL soon enough too.

I hope after the World Cup a lot of the new posters stick around to talk about MLS, EPL, Serie A and so on.

Any ideas on how to make this forum better? Let us know.

Matty · Post #2 » by **Matty** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:45 am

I imagine most people who post in here are Premier League fans. We can have a season long fantasy PL group just for RealGM and compete with each other week in and week out, and at the end of year crown the RealGM poster with the most points. That way the flow of posters coming in these parts of the board remain consistent throughout the season. We used to do the same thing in a previous forum that was not soccer related a few years back and it was quite successful.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

There is also a similar fantasy game with the champions league and I imagine almost everyone here follows that too.

The bigger the group we have that participates, the more competitive and fun it becomes.

We can also advertise that weeks in advance of the season starting to let our fellow NBA posters know as well.

Foye · Post #3 » by **Foye** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:38 am

Next goal 1,000,000.

Matty wrote:I imagine most people who post in here are Premier League fans. We can have a season long fantasy PL group just for RealGM and compete with each other week in and week out, and at the end of year crown the RealGM poster with the most points. That way the flow of posters coming in these parts of the board remain consistent throughout the season. We used to do the same thing in a previous forum that was not soccer related a few years back and it was quite successful.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

There is also a similar fantasy game with the champions league and I imagine almost everyone here follows that too.

The bigger the group we have that participates, the more competitive and fun it becomes.

We can also advertise that weeks in advance of the season starting to let our fellow NBA posters know as well.

I think we already had that last season. Although, I haven't logged in there for months now. :oops:

truth18 · Post #4 » by **truth18** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 3:24 pm

You mentioned MLS and Serie A but not the Bundesliga? Lol :wink:

Love this forum, wish I discovered it earlier

Post #5 » by **LittleOzzy** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 7:06 pm

truth18 wrote:You mentioned MLS and Serie A but not the Bundesliga? Lol

Love this forum, wish I discovered it earlier

Haha, I said and so on...

MalikJoakim24 · Post #6 » by **MalikJoakim24** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:31 pm

on to a milli

White+Purple · Post #7 » by **White+Purple** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:32 am

100,111

Post #8 » by **Baphomet** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 3:41 am

1,000,000 shouldn't take too long if we can keep up the kind of traffic we've had during the World Cup so far. Hopefully some posters will stick around when it's over. I prefer this place over fanbase specific forums or more active, hectic places because the level of discourse tends to be more paced and reasonable. Plus it's interesting to get perspective from other fans without the discussion devolving into flame wars.

White+Purple · Post #9 » by **White+Purple** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:19 am

Baphomet wrote:Plus it's interesting to get perspective from other fans until the discussion inevitably devolves into flame wars.

Fixed.

EArl · Post #10 » by **EArl** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:37 am

great job everyone. We will be the second most active sports forum on realgm.

Post #11 » by **Baphomet** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 8:59 am

White+Purple wrote:
Baphomet wrote:Plus it's interesting to get perspective from other fans until the discussion inevitably devolves into flame wars.

Fixed.

You think so? I reckon Massimo and maybe No_20 are the only real culprits here. Compared to the General NBA board this place is incredibly well behaved.

Andi Obst · Post #12 » by **Andi Obst** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:12 am

EArl wrote:great job everyone. We will be the second most active sports forum on realgm.

We're coming for you, basketball...

:lol:

White+Purple · Post #13 » by **White+Purple** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 9:23 am

Baphomet wrote:You think so? I reckon Massimo and maybe No_20 are the only real culprits here. Compared to the General NBA board this place is incredibly well behaved.

Not saying much

I wasn't being critical, just having a laugh

Post #14 » by **LittleOzzy** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:54 pm

Baphomet wrote:
White+Purple wrote:
Baphomet wrote:Plus it's interesting to get perspective from other fans until the discussion inevitably devolves into flame wars.

Fixed.

You think so? I reckon Massimo and maybe No_20 are the only real culprits here. Compared to the General NBA board this place is incredibly well behaved.

And it will remain that way because I'm ban happy.

Though to be honest, I have never given an official warning out on this forum. I have told a few guys to knock it off a few times, but never for anything too serious. Some people just need to be told to shut up sometimes so they'll move on to a new conversation.

Post #15 » by **LittleOzzy** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:55 pm

Little Nathan wrote:
EArl wrote:great job everyone. We will be the second most active sports forum on realgm.

We're coming for you, basketball...

Haha, that's our goal by World cup 2022.