I personally find the forums a bit dry for my taste. I have been told this by a few others as well. You are just as likely to get ignored, stomped, uninformative dismissal or closed thread as you are to get an informative response or continuation of discussion, especially for the newer user-those most suited to train NT players. Alienated on arrival. Light hearted or funny responses seem a bit shunned as well. Just my opinion. Sometimes I cringe when I click the forum link after posting in the forums. Not the most 'community oriented' environment.
Hello everyone, first off all if i sound patronizing in my response try not to feel patronized, although my english is near to fluent, is very difficult for non native english speaker to really accentuate what he is trying to say,so I hope u will take an effort in trying to understand what I mean.
Secondly,Im sorry for barging into the NT debate,however I read BBcharles comment about the community as a whole and though I would give u my opinion as a non american,because I think there are some very good things being said,and some things in ur country are very similar to the dutch.
I quoted the bit heathcoat says,because I totally agree with him.if u compare the tone in the general english forums to the many forums I am a member off in the hattrick community,i would at best rate the BB community to be friendly and when I am saying that i am trying very hard not to type unfriendly.I see many debates and try to participate in them and they end up being a "i know better than u" contest than being it a real debate.Sometimes u are totally being ignored or things u say are totally been taken out off contest.I know sometimes I get angry when another player for the umpt time tries to act like i am some kind off morron that has no clue at all,and I do apoligize for that.Especially to BBcharles to whom I wrote an angry message last week in frustration.I m just suprised that quite a few GMs also do this and I am not certain as to what their roles are,but in a way I feel they should try to guide the conversations a little more so that it stays more friendly and perhaps be more carefull as to what they say.(I most likely get killed for saying this, but I am sorry,as far as I know a GM is kind off a moderater for their country or something like that, please educate me if I am wrong)
Secondly I think alot off the problems come from the many different nationalities people have and the many different levels off english involved and the lack of trying to read between the lines and actually trying to understand what people say instead off reading it, not 100% understanding it and jumping the gun. I am sure there is no harm ment, but this is just the feeling I get when I read and use the forums.
Now to the other topic that I wanted to comment on.With regards to the americans loving their team sports.I think this is true.Just look at college sports,where else in the world do you have competitions where school kids compete and whole neighbourhoods support them?(might sound a bit degrading dont mean it like that,many off these school kids are probably alot better than most pro athletes else where around the globe).Let me try and explain what I mean.I am from holland and since I lived close to the border with Germany and my parents are from Vienna,I speak near fluent German and am quite interested in Germany as a country.If Holland wins something in a sport (only soccer is the exception),we barely celebrate it and hardly care.If you watch the players at the start off the game,the most players dont sing the national anthem.Look at the Germans,when they win something,even in the smallest sport possible,they are proud off it.I think the Chinese and Italians are like the Germans and the Americans are like the dutch.I would say the Americans are not as nationalistic as the germans, chinese and italians and perhaps this is a reason why they are less involved and care about the U21 and NT?