Stop with the "Predict the Score" posts

Aggiewest · Post by **Aggiewest** » February 27th, 2020, 11:18 am

I usually only have time to quickly glance through the forum for subjects that interest me, but now I'm have to page down through all the "Predict the Score" posts that have been updated recently. Annoying !!!!

SweepDance · Post by **SweepDance** » February 27th, 2020, 11:20 am

Stop with the "Stop with the "Predict the Score" posts" posts.

Post by **ProvoAggie** » February 27th, 2020, 11:29 am

There isn't a problem with the posts. We do a guess for every game and the standings haven't been updated in a while. It's not going to be a long term problem. It's pretty much caught up now.

Aggiewest · Post by **Aggiewest** » February 27th, 2020, 11:35 am

Just seems it would be cleaner to just put all the updates in one thread instead of updating every "Predict the Score" thread for the entire year.

brownjeans · Post by **brownjeans** » February 27th, 2020, 11:43 am

Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:35 am
Just seems it would be cleaner to just put all the updates in one thread instead of updating every "Predict the Score" thread for the entire year.

Where were you a couple of years ago?
I voiced a similar opinion a few years ago and found myself eating lunch by myself for a few weeks. Not even the other social outcasts wanted to sit by me. I was sad.

2004AG · Post by **2004AG** » February 27th, 2020, 11:47 am

brownjeans wrote:
Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:35 am
Just seems it would be cleaner to just put all the updates in one thread instead of updating every "Predict the Score" thread for the entire year.
Where were you a couple of years ago?
I voiced a similar opinion a few years ago and found myself eating lunch by myself for a few weeks. Not even the other social outcasts wanted to sit by me. I was sad.

I’ll sit with you.

I wish that whole forum would disappear.

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brownjeans · Post by **brownjeans** » February 27th, 2020, 11:51 am

2004AG wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:47 am

brownjeans wrote:
Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:35 am
Just seems it would be cleaner to just put all the updates in one thread instead of updating every "Predict the Score" thread for the entire year.
Where were you a couple of years ago?
I voiced a similar opinion a few years ago and found myself eating lunch by myself for a few weeks. Not even the other social outcasts wanted to sit by me. I was sad.
I’ll sit with you.

I wish that whole forum would disappear.

If we have a whole forum, The Quad, devoted to these things, why is it necessary to also have contest threads in all the other forums AND have them pinned to the top?

Roy McAvoy · Post by **Roy McAvoy** » February 27th, 2020, 11:53 am

brownjeans wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:51 am

2004AG wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:47 am

brownjeans wrote:
Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:35 am
Just seems it would be cleaner to just put all the updates in one thread instead of updating every "Predict the Score" thread for the entire year.
Where were you a couple of years ago?
I voiced a similar opinion a few years ago and found myself eating lunch by myself for a few weeks. Not even the other social outcasts wanted to sit by me. I was sad.
I’ll sit with you.

I wish that whole forum would disappear.
If we have a whole forum, The Quad, devoted to these things, why is it necessary to also have contest threads in all the other forums AND have them pinned to the top?

I'll sit with you guys at the table on this one. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

NVAggie · Post by **NVAggie** » February 27th, 2020, 11:55 am

Yeah, it's pretty tough to just push next topic.

utaggies · Post by **utaggies** » February 27th, 2020, 12:06 pm

I’m at your table, too. The update could have been given in a single post rather than game-by-game.

Dwigt · Post by **Dwigt** » February 27th, 2020, 12:08 pm

Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:18 am
I usually only have time to quickly glance through the forum for subjects that interest me, but now I'm have to page down through all the "Predict the Score" posts that have been updated recently. Annoying !!!!

usufan1 · Post by **usufan1** » February 27th, 2020, 12:25 pm

Aggiewest wrote:I usually only have time to quickly glance through the forum for subjects that interest me, but now I'm have to page down through all the "Predict the Score" posts that have been updated recently. Annoying !!!!

Sorry you don't feel you have received your money's worth visiting the site...

Just scroll past them, not a big deal. They'll be gone soon.

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ViAggie · Post by **ViAggie** » February 27th, 2020, 12:32 pm

Dwigt wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 12:08 pm

Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:18 am
I usually only have time to quickly glance through the forum for subjects that interest me, but now I'm have to page down through all the "Predict the Score" posts that have been updated recently. Annoying !!!!

BACK IN MY DAY!

Real Life Aggie · Post by **Real Life Aggie** » February 27th, 2020, 12:37 pm

Dwigt wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 12:08 pm

Aggiewest wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 11:18 am
I usually only have time to quickly glance through the forum for subjects that interest me, but now I'm have to page down through all the "Predict the Score" posts that have been updated recently. Annoying !!!!

Excellent.

sam tingey · Post by **sam tingey** » February 27th, 2020, 12:39 pm

I hear you and I apologize. I fell behind and caused the mess. Next football season i will post the predict the score threads in the Quad. For the rest of this basketball season they will still be posted here to be consistent. I will have a single results thread as well so the score predictions can fall off after each game.

Sorry once again for cluttering up the forum.

Post by **treesap32** » February 27th, 2020, 12:43 pm

@sam tingey , thank you for all you do!

It's a double edged sword, if you post them in the Quad your participation will decrease probably to the tune of about 1/8th of what it is on the actual basketball forum. If you post them on here you get people complaining about having to see the posts when they don't participate.

One thing I used to do was post all of the threads before the season started in the Quad and then moved them over one at a time to the basketball or football forum for the week of the game. Then moved them back. But that requires moderator permissions and extra work... it did result in a less cluttered forum and made it possible for participants to vote for every game in advance if they wanted to. Just a thought.

sam tingey · Post by **sam tingey** » February 27th, 2020, 12:59 pm

yea, i am sure that participation will drop, but the whole reason the quad forum exists is for games, right? I will just have to market it better I guess. You also used to give a prize. i may have to look into something like that.

Post by **treesap32** » February 27th, 2020, 1:05 pm

I'll be happy to continue the prizes if you'll continue running the games. Prize for this year's basketball winner will be an autographed Marvin Roberts basketball card. Maybe we can keep commenting on this thread just to bug all the angry old men on this forum.

sam tingey · Post by **sam tingey** » February 27th, 2020, 1:08 pm

that is really awesome of you treesap32 to offer such a worthwhile prize.

brownjeans · Post by **brownjeans** » February 27th, 2020, 1:18 pm

treesap32 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:05 pm
I'll be happy to continue the prizes if you'll continue running the games. Prize for this year's basketball winner will be an autographed Marvin Roberts basketball card. Maybe we can keep commenting on this thread just to bug all the angry old men on this forum.

hipsterdoofus21 · Post by **hipsterdoofus21** » February 27th, 2020, 1:25 pm

What if we started predicting the scores of the BYU game on here too?

Murkymerk · Post by **Murkymerk** » February 27th, 2020, 1:26 pm

treesap32 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:05 pm
I'll be happy to continue the prizes if you'll continue running the games. Prize for this year's basketball winner will be an autographed Marvin Roberts basketball card. Maybe we can keep commenting on this thread just to bug all the angry old men on this forum.

I don’t think commenting on this thread is all that annoying. It would be much more annoying to comment on the predict the score threads...

Post by **ProvoAggie** » February 27th, 2020, 1:26 pm

The next game will remain in the basketball forum to encourage participation but all previous games will be moved over to the quad.

Aggiewest · Post by **Aggiewest** » February 27th, 2020, 1:35 pm

We deal with things that are inconvenient all the time, but if you never complain nothing usually gets better. I can live with it especially now that some of the geniuses have made me aware that we can actually skip to the next topic without reading those in front of it or that there is some function called "scroll" that will help to navigate around these topics. Damn the things you can learn on a message board.

Post by **treesap32** » February 27th, 2020, 2:50 pm

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:26 pm
The next several games will remain in the basketball forum to encourage participation but all previous games will be moved over to the quad.

Fixed it for you.

Post by **ProvoAggie** » February 27th, 2020, 3:03 pm

treesap32 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 2:50 pm

ProvoAggie wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:26 pm
The next several games will remain in the basketball forum to encourage participation but all previous games will be moved over to the quad.
Fixed it for you.

When I say next game I mean we'll always have the next game in this forum...once we move one out we'll put a new one in.

brownjeans · Post by **brownjeans** » February 27th, 2020, 4:25 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:25 pm
What if we started predicting the scores of the BYU game on here too?

WAaggieFan · Post by **WAaggieFan** » February 27th, 2020, 5:00 pm

brownjeans wrote:
hipsterdoofus21 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:25 pm
What if we started predicting the scores of the BYU game on here too?

You’d quadruple participation with all the folks who secretly love to click on any BYU related thread on the USU forums!

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Real Life Aggie · Post by **Real Life Aggie** » February 27th, 2020, 5:32 pm

WAaggieFan wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 5:00 pm

brownjeans wrote:
hipsterdoofus21 wrote: ↑
February 27th, 2020, 1:25 pm
What if we started predicting the scores of the BYU game on here too?

You’d quadruple participation with all the folks who secretly love to click on any BYU related thread on the USU forums!

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Nah... mostly we'd score terribly because we'd predict BYU to lose every game.

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