[2006alum]

Nyuk nyuk how clever

There’s a reason why newspapers put some stories on the front page and others somewhere else. And why magazines have cover stories.

But sure, let’s make football fans wade through 80 posts if we don’t agree with their views.

As to your procedural point, if there are 80 posts about Stanford football's decline, why wouldn't they be in a single thread? Why make people look all over the place and decide which thread to post a response in? This is board management 101. Trust me, lots of boards do this, and many are even more heavy-handed about it, believe it or not. 

As to your substantive point, Stanford has brought home the Directors' Cup for 25 straight years. Football has played but one small role in that alongside anywhere from 16-19 other sports. And while many of our best board contributors equal ESPN's commentary and analysis for college football, I've yet to find any even close to as well informed sources for following our men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross country and track and field, men's gymnastics, and men's and women's swimming and diving -- just to name, off the top of my head, the sports I've learned so much about in the past few years because of the tremendous contributions of my fellow Cardboarders. Seriously, y'all provide an embarrassment of riches with your knowledge and the amount of (free) labor you put into crafting thoughtful posts to share your expertise with the rest of us.

As a moderator, one deputized task is to ensure the board's strengths are prominently on view, and one chief way to do that is thread management.

[2006alum]

Nyuk nyuk how clever

There’s a reason why newspapers put some stories on the front page and others somewhere else. And why magazines have cover stories.

But sure, let’s make football fans wade through 80 posts if we don’t agree with their views.

As to your procedural point, if there are 80 posts about Stanford football's decline, why wouldn't they be in a single thread? Why make people look all over the place and decide which thread to post a response in? This is board management 101. Trust me, lots of boards do this, and many are even more heavy-handed about it, believe it or not. 

As to your substantive point, Stanford has brought home the Directors' Cup for 25 straight years. Football has played but one small role in that alongside anywhere from 16-19 other sports. And while many of our best board contributors equal ESPN's commentary and analysis for college football, I've yet to find any even close to as well informed sources for following our men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross country and track and field, men's gymnastics, and men's and women's swimming and diving -- just to name, off the top of my head, the sports I've learned so much about in the past few years because of the tremendous contributions of my fellow Cardboarders. Seriously, y'all provide an embarrassment of riches with your knowledge and the amount of (free) labor you put into crafting thoughtful posts to share your expertise with the rest of us.

As a moderator, one deputized task is to ensure the board's strengths are prominently on view, and one chief way to do that is thread management.