Gymnastics blogs are normally one main voice, with one point of view.
Sure they have comments. And contributors. But on this blog, for example, you’ll find some very consistent themes if you assess the many hundreds of posts. If you like those themes, you might return to this site. If you don’t, you’ll be gone.
Forums are entirely different. That’s where people can go to brainstorm. To rant. To share. To flame. To have a conversation on different threads.
If you’ve never lurked or participated, check out one of these:
The Couch Gymnast blog recently shared some love with IG Online:
What I love most about the International Gymnast Online forum- aside from the fact that a lot of these people who frequent the forum seriously know their @#$%-is how frank and funny they are in giving their opinions. Here are some of my favorite funny-slash-brutally-honest moments in recent discussions. …
It’s true there are some amazing people on the IG Forum, Senor Nico, for example. I wish Senor Nico would start up a blog. Unfortunately I cannot subscribe only to Senor Nico comments. (Many of the other forum commenters are not nearly so smart and humorous.)
It’s easy to waste time on a forum. Waiting for the odd comment by Senor Nico.
One more complaint about the IG Forum: It’s got more comment spam than any other right now.
Why can’t they fix that problem?
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IG board is ran by the posters. It is a waste of time. If you don’t like Nastia’s gymnastics the mods listen to their friends like kitty and they ban you.
It doesn’t allow free speech. I find blogs are better because the owners are not as dictator like.
IG Magazine has lost several subscribers over the way they let the mods and the jerks that post at the forum run it.
IG is a public forum, which is more susceptible to spamming
I have found that just a quick as the spam is up one of the mods take it down. In terms of banning people it is only those who are only there to create trouble.
Thanks for informing us Peeps. I see the spam in my RSS reader. But I've never watched to see how quickly it disappears.
Perhaps there is no spam filter for forum software as good as exists for email (Gmail, for example) or blogs.
Not to be too blatantly self-promoting, I'd also like to mention the Tramp and Tumble Blog (http://trampandtumble.blogspot.com) – which is, of course, a blog – and the Tramp and Tumble Network (http://trampandtumble.ning.com) – a social network based on the Ning platform.
I started the blog to be just what you say, one man's (or a couple of people's) voice. The network on Ning, on the other hand is intended to be just what you describe for a forum:
"Forums are entirely different. That’s where people can go to brainstorm. To rant. To share. To flame. To have a conversation on different threads. "
We're up to 200 members from around the world, representing athletes, coaches, and parents (for the Jr. Olympic athletes). We're always looking for more.
suprised there is no mention of wwgym, ggmb (which is a complete dictatorship as evidenced byt the number of people they've banned for spurious reasons) and gymworld.de
Thanks Jess. I'll start drafting a post of "other" forums. Including those.
[...] you want to debate Nastia vs Shawn ad nauseum, head over to one of the gymnastics forums. If you want to get nasty about it, there are invitation only private forums. If you can find [...]
No IG is not fair and they have banned innocent people such as oldsckoolgymfan and Punki Korky. IG has also lied and said both these posters sent rude PM’s to people when that is a lie. I have talked to both people and both were banned for no reason. One of the posters even calls oldsckool a douche bad and that is allowed
I know of another person that was banned and told that they were banned just people other posters didn’t agree with them and they wanted to stop the arguing. Yes as in if you don’t like Nastia’s gymnastics you get banned.
The mods are the problem there they are friends with the posters off the site and they let their personal bias cloud their judgment.
Banning anyone for anything is a slippery slope. As “moderator” on Gymnastics Coaching I’ve only once or twice deleted posts. A few times edited profanity. Never banned anyone, not even TKO.
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Of course we have high class commenters on this site compared with forums.
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