Chief Fans thoughts on Bengals

[Johnny Cupcakes]

(01-05-2022, 12:05 PM)Memphis_Bengal Wrote: I think that's kinda weak. We should let a limited number of other fans join and then the job of the moderators is to weed out the trolls. If we don't let opposing fans post here we would never have people like Packerbacker. 

I'm 50/50 on agreeing with you here. 

We have some super solid posters on this very board that are fans of other teams, and I don't think that it's necessarily a bad idea to have them post in Jungle Noise. Letting fans of other teams around to join in on the commentary can bring in higher level conversation about your team and your opponent. In theory, it's great. In practice, it just doesn't work all that well. People get butthurt too easily, and the conversation gets away from talking about the Bengals and their opponents, and moves on to personal attacks. And a high percentage of the new ones that join will be here just to troll and cause a problem. 

Some of the most fun that I've had talking about football, and reading others' opinions has been on Reddit's NFL pages. The main NFL sub is well moderated, and has fans of all 32 teams actually discussing each team, and generally being friendly with one another. Even each individual team's sub will have fans of other teams come in, and it doesn't get shitty most of the time. It's odd that this happens on Reddit of all places, where most subs are full of gatekeeping dickholes, but it somehow works with football.