To answer some readers’ queries:
Tom Nightingale, who has been writing the excellent Talking Points posts on this blog every week, has co-founded his own fantasy football Web site called Dream Team Hero. As of this week, he’ll be posting a truncated version of Talking Points to this blog with a link to the full version over on his site. I encourage you go to over to DT Hero and read the articles, there’s a lot of good stuff there. Also, comments will be turned off on the FF blog version of Talking Points, but they’ll be open on the DT Hero site (with some more stringent posting requirements).
That brings me to the other point, which is that while I have been very happy to see that Tom’s posts in particular, and mine to a lesser extent, have become so popular that they get hundreds of comments from all you passionate fans out there… there have been some problems. Specifically, in the last week or so there was some inappropriate language and even some racial abuse in the comments by certain individuals. I don’t know what possesses people to think that a fantasy football blog should be the forum where they can throw about racial epithets and libelous accusations, but let me set it out here. I will not tolerate any poster who uses bad language or racial taunts, I will ban anyone who breaks any laws by posting here (e.g. copyright or libel), and I have no time for anyone who wants to talk about non-fantasy-football related topics. Just because we don’t have armies of moderators like BigFooty doesn’t mean our publishing standards are any lower. (And let me thank Tom for his sterling job acting as unpaid mod for this blog up until now!)
Having said that, I am not going to remove comments altogether. I think that when the trolls stay away, the comments you come up with are very informative and entertaining. Good luck for the fantasy finals!
Maybe you could make could make posting avaliable to only those who have registared at fan footy with there teams, that way if they break the rules you can delete there account.
That’s a pretty good idea.
Hmm, I’ll see what I can do.
I find this site a lot easier to post on and easier on the eyes etc.
DTH will get a lot better (design-wise) in the next few weeks - we’re still sorting a lot of that stuff out.
Rest assured, the layout and usability will definitely get better…
i appreciate the DTH designing will get better in the next few weeks… but it might as well just not bother until next year because in a few weeks it will be over…
bring back comments on FF in the mean time…
Comments are still open on all the articles I write, hingding. I’ll try to do more of those in future, I have been slacking off lately due to Tom doing such a good job.
[...] in the general footy talk segment we stick to fantasy issues: the recent outbreak of unpleasantness on the FanFooty blog, plus more discussion about the future of fantasy football [...]
Hingers, I know that DT ends in four weeks… For 2007, our aim is really to get settled and lock in some regular sections. In 2008, we’ll look to really make the site a must-read from the pre-season onwards.
Shatted. Much, much prefer this site. If you need someone writing some FF talking points… hint hint.