(10-21-2017, 06:15 PM)McC Wrote: No.  It never was.  It just used to be a slightly less stupid version of itself.  Really, the whole concept is quite pathetic, yelling the same shit back and forth at each other over and over.  A pissing contest with typing.  Woo Hoo!  Big fun.  Must not be much to do where you are.   You could give your cousin a call.  She's probably up for anything.  I know she was that night the fleet was in town.

(10-21-2017, 11:47 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Actually, once upon a time it really was fun. 

See, once upon a time there was good natured smacking of teams between fans that actually still respected the other fan-base and there was actually some intelligent debates and some...not so intelligent debates (Madieu Williams vs Troy P rings a bell). 

But the real thing that is different between then and now, is the people. See, when the smack forum was at its' best, a troll was a troll. It didn't matter if it was a steeler fan trolling, Brown fan, Raven fan or Bengal fan. When people showed up and said and did stupid stuff, the entire board went after them. 

The garbage that gets posted here now by some members, not naming names but it is pretty obvious who, would have been called out and shut down by their own fans as much as by opposing fans. 

Now, it is literally a situation where it is 75% trolling and just "ya momma" type of comments. Our guy is dirty but your guy is dirtier....oh boy...such smack. And..."what have you guys ever won" Oh boy...such smack...how did we not realize this team never won a Super Bowl....just weak and pathetic type of garbage now. 

It was fun..... doubtful it ever will be again. It's why most of the people who used to be highly active in smack (Beaker, The Bat, StealyJ, 34, etc, etc, etc) have all either kinda stopped or just didn't move over here. 

Hell, my own posting style in here anymore reflects how much this place has gone down hill. I really view most of the opposing fans who post here as bored trolls, most mind you. There is still some that come here and can be rational and some from the old board, but they are the minority.

(10-22-2017, 12:14 AM)McC Wrote: Okay.  I respect you, and your opinion, so I stand corrected.

(10-21-2017, 03:16 PM)MrRager Wrote: He just does the exact same thing back, maybe without the awful name calling. They are two sides of the same coin. Brad is the the Bengal version of Vlad.

We need to watch out for people's who's names end in ad 

(10-21-2017, 11:47 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Actually, once upon a time it really was fun. 

See, once upon a time there was good natured smacking of teams between fans that actually still respected the other fan-base and there was actually some intelligent debates and some...not so intelligent debates (Madieu Williams vs Troy P rings a bell). 

But the real thing that is different between then and now, is the people. See, when the smack forum was at its' best, a troll was a troll. It didn't matter if it was a steeler fan trolling, Brown fan, Raven fan or Bengal fan. When people showed up and said and did stupid stuff, the entire board went after them. 

The garbage that gets posted here now by some members, not naming names but it is pretty obvious who, would have been called out and shut down by their own fans as much as by opposing fans. 

Now, it is literally a situation where it is 75% trolling and just "ya momma" type of comments. Our guy is dirty but your guy is dirtier....oh boy...such smack. And..."what have you guys ever won" Oh boy...such smack...how did we not realize this team never won a Super Bowl....just weak and pathetic type of garbage now. 

It was fun..... doubtful it ever will be again. It's why most of the people who used to be highly active in smack (Beaker, The Bat, StealyJ, 34, etc, etc, etc) have all either kinda stopped or just didn't move over here. 

Hell, my own posting style in here anymore reflects how much this place has gone down hill. I really view most of the opposing fans who post here as bored trolls, most mind you. There is still some that come here and can be rational and some from the old board, but they are the minority.

(10-21-2017, 11:47 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Now, it is literally a situation where it is 75% trolling and just "ya momma" type of comments.

(10-21-2017, 06:15 PM)McC Wrote: No.  It never was.  It just used to be a slightly less stupid version of itself.  Really, the whole concept is quite pathetic, yelling the same shit back and forth at each other over and over.  A pissing contest with typing.  Woo Hoo!  Big fun.  Must not be much to do where you are.   You could give your cousin a call.  She's probably up for anything.  I know she was that night the fleet was in town.

(10-22-2017, 08:49 AM)Captain Obvious Wrote: Jungle Noise is really where the really pathetic posters go. This board let's you have more freedom. Please go back to Jungle Noise, you fit in perfectly over there. I go over there every so often just for a laugh. I hate when you life long Jungle noobs come over here and say this board is pathetic or tell us to leave and go back to our teams board. You just don't get the concept of what this board is for and why it's here.

(10-22-2017, 09:54 AM)Synric Wrote: Smack Talk is for us Jungle Noise pathetic posters to come over after a lose to realize yea the Bengals lost but at least we don't have a mullet and drive around in a Trans am we bought in high school.  I know it makes me feel better.

(10-22-2017, 09:58 AM)6andcounting Wrote: Yeah, but we also have Starter jackets.

(10-22-2017, 10:05 AM)Synric Wrote: Lol and Jeans with holes in the knees you cut yourself.

(10-22-2017, 08:49 AM)Captain Obvious Wrote: Jungle Noise is really where the really pathetic posters go. This board let's you have more freedom. Please go back to Jungle Noise, you fit in perfectly over there. I go over there every so often just for a laugh. I hate when you life long Jungle noobs come over here and say this board is pathetic or tell us to leave and go back to our teams board. You just don't get the concept of what this board is for and why it's here.

(10-21-2017, 06:15 PM)McC Wrote: No.  It never was.  It just used to be a slightly less stupid version of itself.  Really, the whole concept is quite pathetic, yelling the same shit back and forth at each other over and over.  A pissing contest with typing.  Woo Hoo!  Big fun.  Must not be much to do where you are.   You could give your cousin a call.  She's probably up for anything.  I know she was that night the fleet was in town.

(10-21-2017, 11:47 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Actually, once upon a time it really was fun. 

See, once upon a time there was good natured smacking of teams between fans that actually still respected the other fan-base and there was actually some intelligent debates and some...not so intelligent debates (Madieu Williams vs Troy P rings a bell). 

But the real thing that is different between then and now, is the people. See, when the smack forum was at its' best, a troll was a troll. It didn't matter if it was a steeler fan trolling, Brown fan, Raven fan or Bengal fan. When people showed up and said and did stupid stuff, the entire board went after them. 

The garbage that gets posted here now by some members, not naming names but it is pretty obvious who, would have been called out and shut down by their own fans as much as by opposing fans. 

Now, it is literally a situation where it is 75% trolling and just "ya momma" type of comments. Our guy is dirty but your guy is dirtier....oh boy...such smack. And..."what have you guys ever won" Oh boy...such smack...how did we not realize this team never won a Super Bowl....just weak and pathetic type of garbage now. 

It was fun..... doubtful it ever will be again. It's why most of the people who used to be highly active in smack (Beaker, The Bat, StealyJ, 34, etc, etc, etc) have all either kinda stopped or just didn't move over here. 

Hell, my own posting style in here anymore reflects how much this place has gone down hill. I really view most of the opposing fans who post here as bored trolls, most mind you. There is still some that come here and can be rational and some from the old board, but they are the minority.

(10-22-2017, 06:48 AM)ballsofsteel Wrote: Tell it like it is Murdock! Its mostly Brad and Lovenuts fault. The great smack posters of this message board are disappearing. There are only a few of us left!

(10-21-2017, 06:04 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Does anyone else remember when the smack forum used to be fun?

(10-21-2017, 11:39 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: You mean like about 5 or 6 years ago.

Yes, but those days are sadly long gone.

(10-21-2017, 11:47 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: Actually, once upon a time it really was fun. 

See, once upon a time there was good natured smacking of teams between fans that actually still respected the other fan-base and there was actually some intelligent debates and some...not so intelligent debates (Madieu Williams vs Troy P rings a bell). 

But the real thing that is different between then and now, is the people. See, when the smack forum was at its' best, a troll was a troll. It didn't matter if it was a steeler fan trolling, Brown fan, Raven fan or Bengal fan. When people showed up and said and did stupid stuff, the entire board went after them. 

The garbage that gets posted here now by some members, not naming names but it is pretty obvious who, would have been called out and shut down by their own fans as much as by opposing fans. 

Now, it is literally a situation where it is 75% trolling and just "ya momma" type of comments. Our guy is dirty but your guy is dirtier....oh boy...such smack. And..."what have you guys ever won" Oh boy...such smack...how did we not realize this team never won a Super Bowl....just weak and pathetic type of garbage now. 

It was fun..... doubtful it ever will be again. It's why most of the people who used to be highly active in smack (Beaker, The Bat, StealyJ, 34, etc, etc, etc) have all either kinda stopped or just didn't move over here. 

Hell, my own posting style in here anymore reflects how much this place has gone down hill. I really view most of the opposing fans who post here as bored trolls, most mind you. There is still some that come here and can be rational and some from the old board, but they are the minority.

(10-22-2017, 11:49 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: This, this, and some more of this. 

I'm not even sure that some of the trolls are bored.  I think some of them are so sincere in what they say that they aren't even aware of their own trollish-ness.  I'll take the high road like you and not name names, but of course we know who they are. 

It's almost as if for some there is an actual psychological need to sincerely attack the other team and their fans and make them look bad and belittle them, and not in a good-natured-jest kind of way.  There are examples of that type of smack from just about every fanbase represented here, but those will only ever recognize it in the smack of opposing fans because their homer blinders are on.  And not only that, but they'll project their own use of that style onto their perception of fans that aren't even doing it - "Typical Steeler/Bengal/Ravens fan!", etc..  Oops, did I give some identities away there?  

At any rate, we need more guys like the ones you mentioned.  Bat, SteelyJ, 34 ... okay ... maybe not Beaker so much.   Of course, I'm only saying that because I know he still visits the boards occasionally... but don't tell him that!  ;-)
It sure would be nice if we could get some of that back. 

(10-22-2017, 11:53 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: The more I think about it the more I remember that one of the things that made it great back then was that some trolls were actually fun in that atmosphere. Remember Steelman, the man of 1000 aliases?

(10-22-2017, 03:31 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Ironic you are trolling someone called Lovenuts in your sig.   Yet, you call others trolls.

(10-22-2017, 08:51 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Right on cue, there's good 'ol Birthdefect stomping with both feet on a PIT player....but he's not the dirtiest player in the league, by far, or anything.