Pack93z
13 years ago


1) Although a great group of guys, this is a very abrasive and sarcastic board. It just is. You have to expect it and deal with it, or you won't like it here at all. We are always here for each other when the shit hits the fan, but we are not a nice group of people by any stretch of the imagination.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 



I will disagree with the thought that this board isn't filled with a group of nice people.

I think the amount of time some of the core members have been around lead to the imagine that it is a sarcastic board overall... when in reality it is the core group that is generally sarcastic and abrasive with one another. Most of the time with a touch of humor included.. sometimes the humor may miss the mark a bit and come off as more abrasive than intended.

This is where a rapport is built and for the most part you can read another. It is when newer member join in and they get caught in some of the nuances of the core group that misunderstandings take place.

But that is not exclusive to this board.. or even this medium. That is more a product of human nature and societal workings.

Personally.. that is why I enjoyed the hazing experience in college. There was no illusions that a pledge was going to experience copious amounts of pain and anguish in becoming part of the frat. The expectations were built going in.. where as in the rest of the culture it always appears to be a game of cat and mouse while gaining acceptance.
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wpr
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13 years ago

I will disagree with the thought that this board isn't filled with a group of nice people.

I think the amount of time some of the core members have been around lead to the imagine that it is a sarcastic board overall... when in reality it is the core group that is generally sarcastic and abrasive with one another. Most of the time with a touch of humor included.. sometimes the humor may miss the mark a bit and come off as more abrasive than intended.

This is where a rapport is build and for the most part you can read another. It is when newer member join in and they get caught in some of the nuances of the core group that misunderstandings take place.

But that is not exclusive to this board.. or even this medium. That is more a product of human nature and societal workings.

Personally.. that is why I enjoyed the hazing experience in college. There was no illusions that a pledge was going to experience copious amounts of pain and anguish in becoming part of the frat. The expectations were built going in.. where as in the rest of the culture it always appears to be a game of cat and mouse while gaining acceptance.

Originally Posted by: Pack93z 



I have taken the twisted humor I use here to other boards and it is a crash and burn failure. It taught me to be a little more careful what I say other places. (even a broad that I have been a member of for 3 years and have a couple thousand posts on.) And reconfirmed while I am tolerated here I am really not all that funny. [aiee]
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Zero2Cool
13 years ago
wpr, I think you be the funny, although, keep in mind, smells aren't everything!!
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Wade
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13 years ago


These are just a few hints to help you integrate here. You're going to have to develop a slightly thicker skin if you want to get along here. Otherwise you probably won't like many of us, and you'll hate our resident peanut gallery of assholes, including dakotaT, nerdmann, and myself.

Originally Posted by: Nonstopdrivel 



Actually, DakotaT, nerdmann, and Nonstopdrivel are still too young to be complete assholes. That's the reason the board tolerates geezers like dfosterf and me: they aspire to asshole-dom and need models to emulate. Right, Foster?


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play2win
13 years ago

play2win, check Random Babble for the responses please.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



Dude, whatever! I didn't know we had to preface every post here with: "I know I'm not Ted Thompson, but..."

I'd rather we kept this civil. I appreciate your points, I really do, and I feel like you really know what you are talking about. I could just do without the smack.
gbguy20
13 years ago

Dude, whatever! I didn't know we had to preface every post here with: "I know I'm not Ted Thompson, but..."

I'd rather we kept this civil. I appreciate your points, I really do, and I feel like you really know what you are talking about. I could just do without the smack.

Originally Posted by: play2win 



What are you getting so defensive about? You're new so I'll give you a break, but noone is smack talking you, its just friendly jabs. You know, male bonding.

edit: just saw the other thread in random babble. I'd recommend moving all responses to this post to that thread šŸ™‚
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13 years ago
so I won't be accused of derailing a thread once again I am putting my reply in this thread.


What are you getting so defensive about? You're new so I'll give you a break, but noone is smack talking you, its just friendly jabs. You know, male bonding.

Originally Posted by: gbguy20 



funny one of the reasons I chose this board is that is there is not as much animosity (love spell check) here as there is on other sites. If it is noticeable to newcomers we must have slide a bit as we have grown more accustomed to one another. Now that I think about it, knowing his history and where he s coming from, I probably would tolerate negative comments made by Dakota more so than someone who just signed up last week.
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gbguy20
13 years ago
Hi didn't know this thread existed until now. Basically what I got from this thread is that we're all assholes (seems accurate) and you're going to have to get used it because we aren't changing. But most importantly, judging by zero's posts hes finally got the multiquote button working properly! hell ya, now i need to go searching for a reason to use it.


edit: false alarm. multiquote still broken :<
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13 years ago
To be completely serious for a bit, this thread itself illustrates how different it is from most internet boards of my experience.

Most boards treat newbies one of two ways:

Way #1: Call this the "shut the eff up, newbie" approach. Don't speak unless you're spoken to. Don't speak until you know how everyone hear rolls and stay shut up until you speak like the rest of us. Learn how to conform, or we don't want you.

Way #2: Call this "say what you want but you're a newbie, and I and my guys, we like us and your job is to kiss our butts" approach. If you haven't contributed X times (X ā†’āˆž), we really aren't going to pay attention. We're the cool clique. If you aren't our kind of cool, you're not worth our time.

This place does neither. Oh, sure, people here will nudge you to listen for awhile (see NSD, above), to not judge us too quick. But only while they're paying serious attention to you. People read *and* contribute to the "new members" threads. Yes, we know topic X has been treated before -- topic X gets treated on pretty much every board on the Packers, after all -- but we like talking about topic X again. Person Y might hate topic X, but in general the board has lots of people who aren't at all tired of topic X. And if topic X becomes too dominant, Kevin is real good about knowing when to split it off into a sub-forum (see,e.g Brett Favre).

And while we are all Packers fans (well, except for vikesrule, Formo, and polargrizz), we're also people who have and like to share their other interests. We don't just hang out with each other for 3 hours each fall weekend; we like to hang out together and talk about other things.

If someone hangs out here much, you realize that PH is an amazingly diverse place -- and not just because we have a couple VIkings fans and a Bear fan here. But we're not only diverse, but we actually enjoy each other's differences. Rarely do people take themselves too seriously; but almost always people take each other more than seriously enough.

It may be online, but PackersHome isn't a "virtual" community.

It's real.
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Cheesey
13 years ago
Just like in "the real world", there are different personalities here.
And as long as we respect each other, to me at least, it's all good![grin1]
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