Panther Mish said:
Its mostly because I had a bad experience with someone on another teams section in LU.. he wasn't too friendly, seemed to dispise me and another friend on the forum which had us slightly paranoid at games at one stage.
Team sections are like sacred grounds especially in very active ones such as the Dragons, Sharks, Parra and Raider forums. You enter another teams section and you are automatically deemed a troll and will be treated as such until you can prove otherwise. Then there are the Rooster and Souths forums where it's mainly other fans and probably mostly from the abovementioned (believe it or not :crazy: ) who only ever enter to troll and there are not enough team fans to eradicate or control them. But then maybe that's changed now because I hardly ever go there and only do when I am given a link to it then I'm only probably looking at the pest ones.
Basically you don't ever take any thing to heart. If you like a team forum and want to be excepted then play by the rules, have plenty of patience and eventually they will accept you over time.
One thing you have got to keep in mind forums such as the Sharks, Raiders and the Knights don't have official forums so basically their section on LU has become the unofficial fans forum for those teams. Parramatta, I am under the belief do have an official forum but is poorly run so LU has become their unofficial fans forum.
As much as you all like to bitch about Penrith and their official forum, so far it's still there and will always be whilst ever Rob Weaver and other penrith officials who will put in the time to run it. They know about LU. They know about all other unofficial fan forums around, so I assume it would be better for the club to keep a forum running so they have the control over it. If ever Penrith's forum closed or become like other clubs mentioned above, another fourm will open by fans or the fans may choose to move in here since it's established and well run. There will never be an end to team forums.
Without sounding like I'm running down Rob, he often mentions closing PI, in fact in all the years I have been posting on PI I do not remember a year where he has not threatened us by it. To me it's become like an empty threat. It's to keep you all behaved. ;-) Generally PI is a good place to post especially for those who don't get too involved in it, it's politics, it's agendas, it's members/moderators and Admin and just go there to read the news and post their opinions. It's not worth the hassle in my opinion.
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