CamanoIslandJQ
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Homers vs: “baiting” trolls.
Fans are often called “homers” when they show loyalty and support optimistic expectations for their favorite team. That makes me a homer as I am very optimistic about the coming seasons. I have recently noticed on several sites and message boards that some of the other fan bases (most notably San Francisco), that way over hype their own players while at the same time bad mouthing Seahawk players, coaches and the Seahawks team accomplishments in general. I’d say that is fairly normal, however, baiting others into long drawn out dialogs about crap that has nothing to do with this season and repeatedly calling people vulgar names to me is pretty obnoxious and reason enough to “not reply” in spite of the bait.
I recently read ALL of the (many) article comments on several “national” sites (ESPN, etc.). It was obvious to me that (especially) the San Francisco fan base were exceptionally obnoxious and more than willing to bait, disparage and call people names (including many nasty and vulgar names). I also came to the conclusion that the majority of those disparaging remarks came from only a few posters. Those posters were obviously there ONLY to argue, harass and demean anyone that they could. In other words they were “baiting” responders into many stupid arguments and then in multiple posts going on to claim their franchise is unbeatable, their players are the best, how stupid conflicting arguments are, vulgar name calling and just a lot of pure BS. I have fairly thick skin, but some of these guys tick me off just reading their crap.
I held my cool and did not reply to any of the referenced comments although I was often tempted.
My conclusion from all of this is that for me at least, I’d prefer not to comment at all to so many of these obvious baiting attempts. I intend to let them argue amongst themselves and stay out of these arguments (although some on this site MAY enjoy same). These obnoxious fans will only believe their own BS and I suspect that many of them are about 13 years old and delight in pissing people off with their banter.
The Seahawks will show them all what a super bowl WIN feels like - this year. Who cares what happened in the past decades or how many rings grandpa has? The current truth will be decided on the football field, not in blog comments and blind-eyed support of “supposed” fans. Seems to me these guys prefer to just argue rather than have any meaningful dialog about football.
How do other Seahawk fans feel about this issue? Will not replying to the BS posts make them dry up over time? Anyone else noticed that on some “national” web-sites (as well as some Seahawks web-sites) these type of posters are on the increase lately? How does everyone else handle this on .net? This off-season is so darn long.......... :49ersmall:
Fans are often called “homers” when they show loyalty and support optimistic expectations for their favorite team. That makes me a homer as I am very optimistic about the coming seasons. I have recently noticed on several sites and message boards that some of the other fan bases (most notably San Francisco), that way over hype their own players while at the same time bad mouthing Seahawk players, coaches and the Seahawks team accomplishments in general. I’d say that is fairly normal, however, baiting others into long drawn out dialogs about crap that has nothing to do with this season and repeatedly calling people vulgar names to me is pretty obnoxious and reason enough to “not reply” in spite of the bait.
I recently read ALL of the (many) article comments on several “national” sites (ESPN, etc.). It was obvious to me that (especially) the San Francisco fan base were exceptionally obnoxious and more than willing to bait, disparage and call people names (including many nasty and vulgar names). I also came to the conclusion that the majority of those disparaging remarks came from only a few posters. Those posters were obviously there ONLY to argue, harass and demean anyone that they could. In other words they were “baiting” responders into many stupid arguments and then in multiple posts going on to claim their franchise is unbeatable, their players are the best, how stupid conflicting arguments are, vulgar name calling and just a lot of pure BS. I have fairly thick skin, but some of these guys tick me off just reading their crap.
I held my cool and did not reply to any of the referenced comments although I was often tempted.
My conclusion from all of this is that for me at least, I’d prefer not to comment at all to so many of these obvious baiting attempts. I intend to let them argue amongst themselves and stay out of these arguments (although some on this site MAY enjoy same). These obnoxious fans will only believe their own BS and I suspect that many of them are about 13 years old and delight in pissing people off with their banter.
The Seahawks will show them all what a super bowl WIN feels like - this year. Who cares what happened in the past decades or how many rings grandpa has? The current truth will be decided on the football field, not in blog comments and blind-eyed support of “supposed” fans. Seems to me these guys prefer to just argue rather than have any meaningful dialog about football.
How do other Seahawk fans feel about this issue? Will not replying to the BS posts make them dry up over time? Anyone else noticed that on some “national” web-sites (as well as some Seahawks web-sites) these type of posters are on the increase lately? How does everyone else handle this on .net? This off-season is so darn long.......... :49ersmall:
