DraftPlanet is not closed.

Draft discussion is now encouraged in the Lounge. This format has been followed in the past and fell by the wayside.

We've had a discussion within this thread and reached a partial compromise. I don't know exactly what it looks like but I have a general idea of what I think would be positive for ChiefsPlanet. I'm looking to regular participants in DraftPlanet and The Lounge to help fill in the blanks with their own cool ideas.

The following is not yet etched in stone. There's a lot of pertinent discussion throughout the thread.
DraftPlanet will remain open until one week after the Combine. Draft gurus will be encouraged to start and/or ask for threads to be moved to the Lounge. We want to encourage football discussion in the Lounge and we hope Draftnits will seek to share their knowledge with the GenPop. Finally, DraftPlanet will remain open year around but new threads will be moderated by Draft moderators and moved to the Lounge or kept in DraftPlanet based on a yet-to-be determined criteria which is up for discussion.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

The CP draft experts are just going to have to deal with having all the peasants interfere with their Mensa group for a few draft months.

We're doing everyone else a favor by posting in there. Otherwise you'd hear people constantly bitching about mock drafts and the other shit that we post in there.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Can we make this any more complex? You started out with an excellent idea (re-merging draft talk into the Lounge). Compromising to let some hardcore draft threads stay in the Draft forum didn't seem necessary to me, particularly with our ability to filter with thread prefixes, but I get that you're trying to keep people happy so, fine. But I don't get why Direckshun and a few other apparently sensitive draft dweebs need special protection from the meanies that the rest of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Draft threads have nothing in common with prayer threads and they don't deserve debauchery free status, IMO. That's just asking for moderator-related trouble and unnecessary drama.

Sensitive draft dweebs? Seriously? We're not asking for special favors and considerations. We want the draft forum to stay the ****ing way it is right now.

Originally Posted by patteeu

Can we make this any more complex? You started out with an excellent idea (re-merging draft talk into the Lounge). Compromising to let some hardcore draft threads stay in the Draft forum didn't seem necessary to me, particularly with our ability to filter with thread prefixes, but I get that you're trying to keep people happy so, fine. But I don't get why Direckshun and a few other apparently sensitive draft dweebs need special protection from the meanies that the rest of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Draft threads have nothing in common with prayer threads and they don't deserve debauchery free status, IMO. That's just asking for moderator-related trouble and unnecessary drama.

There will no changes to the D.C. forum, sir.

Originally Posted by Pestilence

We're doing everyone else a favor by posting in there. Otherwise you'd hear people constantly bitching about mock drafts and the other shit that we post in there.

You're right. The average user of this site doesn't want to see 20 mock draft threads started in the Lounge every day. But we all share a common demographic and we're all at least moderately interested in who our respective team drafts in 2014 and beyond. We'll find a solution and we'll do it together.

[Anyong Bluth]

Appoint some Draft Mods. A few of the junkies that are level headed. They don't have to actively monitor it, just able to handle things if situations should accrue.

[Donger]

I don't think that I've ever ventured into DraftPlanet. I may have to now.

Is some reasonable knowledge of football and/or the draft a requisite for posting there? If not, will they be helpful in educating me?

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by Phobia

Isn't that what we did last year? I don't know how well that worked. I don't think I really clicked in it. Stickies tend to get overlooked unless they are high interest material. A sticky about Jovan Belcher's murder suicide was heavily trafficked that Saturday, for instance.


I agree if the person is a frequent violator but reposts are usually innocent gaffs and often because the first thread starter chose a poor title. I don't think reposts are a huge problem here any longer.

Agreed, mega thread is ripe for simply becoming a high value target for a mega cluster****.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Sensitive draft dweebs? Seriously? We're not asking for special favors and considerations. We want the draft forum to stay the ****ing way it is right now.

Yes. Please don't cry.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Can we make this any more complex? You started out with an excellent idea (re-merging draft talk into the Lounge). Compromising to let some hardcore draft threads stay in the Draft forum didn't seem necessary to me, particularly with our ability to filter with thread prefixes, but I get that you're trying to keep people happy so, fine. But I don't get why Direckshun and a few other apparently sensitive draft dweebs need special protection from the meanies that the rest of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Draft threads have nothing in common with prayer threads and they don't deserve debauchery free status, IMO. That's just asking for moderator-related trouble and unnecessary drama.

We'd love some debauchery. Of the right type. Unfortunately, is usually boils down to, "Meeehhhhhh you're not a GM or an NFL head coach so what could you POSSIBLY know?"

You're starting to see this shit already in this very thread by some posters.

Draft talk is awesome because people see different shit in game highlights and read different scouting reports. They have different vested interests in college games when they watch them during the year. They have different opinions about team needs and position value and the depth of the class. All that comes together to make for great discussion.

We're not asking for high-level academic writing here. Say you agree. Or say you disagree. Or say you think the draft is an ineffective way to build a football team. Just ****ing say something. Shitting on people's opinions because you don't like seeing a new mock draft every day or because a person with an opinion doesn't have an NFL scouting career is stupid, worthless, and shitty. And guess where it happens the most? In the Lounge. That's where most of those reeruns sit and fester.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Sensitive draft dweebs? Seriously? We're not asking for special favors and considerations. We want the draft forum to stay the ****ing way it is right now.

You want a special little room to discuss the draft the way you want. A room where you can all gang up on anyone who you don't approve of, with a special drafturbator mod of your own.

sounds pretty special to me

who else gets to avoid dealing with CP shit about stuff?

[Donger]

Wait, the denizens of DraftPlanet DON'T want draft threads in the Lounge? I would have thought the opposite.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by SNR

We'd love some debauchery. Of the right type. Unfortunately, is usually boils down to, "Meeehhhhhh you're not a GM or an NFL head coach so what could you POSSIBLY know?"

You're starting to see this shit already in this very thread by some posters.

Draft talk is awesome because people see different shit in game highlights and read different scouting reports. They have different vested interests in college games when they watch them during the year. They have different opinions about team needs and position value and the depth of the class. All that comes together to make for great discussion.

We're not asking for high-level academic writing here. Say you agree. Or say you disagree. Or say you think the draft is an ineffective way to build a football team. Just ****ing say something. Shitting on people's opinions because you don't like seeing a new mock draft every day or because a person with an opinion doesn't have an NFL scouting career is stupid, worthless, and shitty. And guess where it happens the most? In the Lounge. That's where most of those reeruns sit and fester.

You're a music teacher, not a GM or an NFL head coach, so what could you POSSIBLY know?

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

Appoint some Draft Mods. A few of the junkies that are level headed. They don't have to actively monitor it, just able to handle things if situations should accrue.

We already have this in place, no?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

You want a special little room to discuss the draft the way you want. A room where you can all gang up on anyone who you don't approve of, with a special drafturbator mod of your own.

sounds pretty special to me

who else gets to avoid dealing with CP shit about stuff?

Exactly. I occasionally stop by the Draft forum and read one of Direckshun's latest mocks or some other thread that sounds interesting. Just yesterday I opened up the Combine thread for the first time and found some of the regular draftniks shitting on a new guy because he didn't think a particular player would be very useful to the Chiefs for scheme reasons. Now we're talking about special protection for these guys.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by patteeu

You're a music teacher, not a GM or an NFL head coach, so what could you POSSIBLY know?

See? SEEEEE? DO YOU ****ING SEE?!