I've been lurking around here for about 10 years or so. Been a Giants fan since the 70's. Absolutely love this website, however, following a game thread, as an only means of following the game, can be pretty irritating at times.
Has any thought been given to having a play by play thread that gives us a quick description of a play and the result? What I envision is a thread, were the rest of us are locked out from posting.
Would that be worthwhile?
The NFL site only posts - 35 yard pass to Beckham.. BBI posts - Holy Sh*t - one handed grab by Beckham who makes 5 people miss and takes a cheap late hit out of bounds that should have been a penalty...
Yup.
an a second one for everyone else.
FMIC recap of the first following the game.
Also locking a thread to comments means that the person who would be posting the play by play would be locked out too. We don't have the ability to post on a thread that is locked out. The only thing we have experimented with is live feed -- but I'm not sure you could keep a running play by play up with live feed. Live feed stays in the moment. I suppose we could post a locked thread with a twitter feed - but not being as familiar with twitter -
wouldn't the same thing would happen that happens during a game thread -- and wouldn't be even less regulated than a game thread -- can you restrict what is posted on a twitter feed?
Also it would mean that whoever did it would have to commit to doing it during game time --
Also I agree that it would be hard to beat what the NFL does on their website already - if you have internet feed -- they give a written play by play with a field diagram of where the ball is and how far it travels on each play and have on going game stats combined with it.
I find the game threads helpful only to a degree myself -- so I understand where this is coming from. We could have a game thread for listing plays only and another for discussion -- but who would do the play listings - who would monitor it to keep it clean? As a moderator - I'm not sure I want to do that during the game, because I want to watch the game. I'm pretty sure the rest of the Moderators feel the same way.