Rowbot Competition

by RockiesDave on Mar 12, 2009 10:11 PM MDT Comment 13 comments

Hey

I was looking on the Braves SB Talking Chop site today and they have a pretty cool competiion (here). It relates to people making predictions on game threads before the game . It is really up to the site managers so Russ and others what do you think about such thing happening here. If it's too much trouble to run something like that I understand. I think it could encourage further involvement in the game threads during the season.

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I'd be for it

Who knows, it might make me show up for Game threads :P

by oo_nrb on Mar 13, 2009 6:35 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I tried something like this early in the site's history

When we didn’t have a lot of people commenting besides yours truly and Russ and a couple of others, but it didn’t really take hold as well as I hoped. Now that we have a larger community, maybe I should break it out of storage.

by Rox Girl on Mar 13, 2009 8:02 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

prediction

This thread will only amass about 14 replies

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by Andrew Martin on Mar 13, 2009 9:18 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think

a lot of people let their eyes drift that far over. 10 max.

by oo_nrb on Mar 13, 2009 3:58 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sometimes I'll read 400 in a game thread I missed.

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by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 15, 2009 12:00 AM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Personally

I don’t really like the game aspect of those other threads. I watch the games and comment on here because I enjoy it and I like the community, I don’t need it to be a competition.

by Muzia on Mar 13, 2009 9:58 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Over at the Snakepit,

it’s always a friendly competition as to who’s going to post the most Gameday comments.

Believe it or not, I’ve actually been beaten once or twice.

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by DbacksSkins on Mar 15, 2009 11:52 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with muzia

I have not been involved on the Row very much until now and I don’t think a competition is necessary. That is what the “experts” are for in their pregame analysis. In the game thread we might discuss their predictions, before we get down to business.

I also think there will 10 comments in this thread.

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by jrockies on Mar 13, 2009 5:15 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm guessing 12 comments,

It’s good to hear your opinions on this, as it’s sort of what I’ve been thinking. Where these competitions help is that they do seem to do a somewhat effective job of getting people to open the gamethread and they definitely push up comment totals. This seems somewhat artificial to me, though, and I wonder if it might be too much of a distraction in the pregame period when we already seem to have no problem getting people conversing once the game starts.

by Rox Girl on Mar 13, 2009 8:34 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m guessing 12 comments

ditto.

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by PioneerSkies on Mar 16, 2009 10:42 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cheater!!

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by DbacksSkins on Mar 16, 2009 10:48 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not in favor of this.

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by Russ Oates on Mar 13, 2009 8:43 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Alright

sounds like the majority of people would not be in favor. Just an idea I thought I would throw out there. I think that you guys are right now that I have been thinking about it longer. Our game threads already seem pretty lively and why clutter theym with people that just want to make predictions in the begining.

by RockiesDave on Mar 14, 2009 12:27 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs