[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
I’m going to start the “I’m in the T-Cell and You’re Not!” thread.
Meanie!
Me?
HA!
I remember you as a child.
Haha…see, that’s why I can’t bring myself to long-distance force choke you. You make me laugh.
Man, I remember when you really rocked it at this birthday party. Those were some good laughs! You really know how to entertain the kids.
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You just brought back some memories.
Breaking character for a minute, I have a very similar picture from my childhood with Darth Vader. If I can find it, I should get it scanned in and post it.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
I’m going to start the “I’m in the T-Cell and You’re Not!” thread.
Meanie!
Me?
HA!
I remember you as a child.
Haha…see, that’s why I can’t bring myself to long-distance force choke you. You make me laugh.
Man, I remember when you really rocked it at this birthday party. Those were some good laughs! You really know how to entertain the kids.
You just brought back some memories.
Breaking character for a minute, I have a very similar picture from my childhood with Darth Vader. If I can find it, I should get it scanned in and post it.[/quote]
Even better than that birthday party was the summer vacation!
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
I’m going to start the “I’m in the T-Cell and You’re Not!” thread.
Meanie!
Me?
HA!
I remember you as a child.
Haha…see, that’s why I can’t bring myself to long-distance force choke you. You make me laugh.
Man, I remember when you really rocked it at this birthday party. Those were some good laughs! You really know how to entertain the kids.
You just brought back some memories.
Breaking character for a minute, I have a very similar picture from my childhood with Darth Vader. If I can find it, I should get it scanned in and post it.
Even better than that birthday party was the summer vacation!
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Do you realize how much I sweat when I hang out outdoors for too long? It’s not pleasant.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
I’m going to start the “I’m in the T-Cell and You’re Not!” thread.
Meanie!
Me?
HA!
I remember you as a child.
Haha…see, that’s why I can’t bring myself to long-distance force choke you. You make me laugh.
Man, I remember when you really rocked it at this birthday party. Those were some good laughs! You really know how to entertain the kids.
You just brought back some memories.
Breaking character for a minute, I have a very similar picture from my childhood with Darth Vader. If I can find it, I should get it scanned in and post it.
Even better than that birthday party was the summer vacation!
Do you realize how much I sweat when I hang out outdoors for too long? It’s not pleasant.[/quote]
There’s nothing like a dip in the pool and a cold beer to cool you off after site seeing during summer vacation.
[quote]makkun wrote:
I was one of the more vocal opponents of the T-Cell from the start, and before the re-start. So, here’s my take on it:
I must concede that so far the cell in its new form seems to have worked on one account at least - it has kept the focus of the discussion on training.
I also like the features on specific members by Prof X - I think this is interesting.
I browse through it occasionally only though - as it doesn’t give me the variety of views I find in the bodybuilding forum, or anywhere else on the site.
I still think it’s wrong though from the community perspective - as it has effectively split the T-Nation community:
It keeps posters out who may occasionally want to contribute to a training related discussion on it, but aren’t considered for membership by the few ‘sheriffs’. I always believed that multitude of opinion is a positive aspect of Internet forums, and on T-Nation in particular. This has been decreased by the addition of the T-Cell. Even with the sheriffs doing a decent job - and I don’t doubt they do so - lines of communication have been cut and a segregation has been established. Case in point is the ‘T-Cell: Success’ thread currently running in it (probably in answer to this thread here) - it’s safely located where outsiders can’t comment.
It keeps posters who are members inside the cell, as they, in some cases openly stated by themselves, view this as the only place worth posting in on T-Nation. That’s obviously not valid for all, but I think it’s sad somehow, as it fosters the separation mentioned above.
There were some pretty bad exchanges in the process of setting up the Cell and its reincarnation after the ‘cleanse’ - and it has left some marks. It would have been great to see a more argument centred discussion - rather than the heated pissing contest and vitriolic posts - slinged at some of the critics mostly. And I don’t mean only HH - who gave us his usual crazy and entertaining drama, but had a general point worth considering.
Is this the end of T-Nation? No. Could it have been dealt with better? Probably not, as there was enough of a critical mass of vocal and influential customers lobbying for a more private area in the face of the site’s strategy of widening participation on the site (speak: encouraging newbs to join). To this Biotest reacted brilliantly, by keeping both the newbs and the seasoned customers happy. If it were my site and long term customers were threatening to leave I’d probably do the same. I still think this was the driving force from the site owners, and on that account, it has worked very well. From a community point of view though, I think we all lost a bit.
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This is a very good post. I totally agree and would also say that in retrospect it might have been a better community approach to start with everyone in T-cell and then start to weed them out after a few inappropriate posts; meaning obnoxious and ride, not just a disagreement. This way it might offer more value to all members, not just a few.
This is a very good post. I totally agree and would also say that in retrospect it might have been a better community approach to start with everyone in T-cell and then start to weed them out after a few inappropriate posts; meaning obnoxious and ride, not just a disagreement. This way it might offer more value to all members, not just a few.
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We tried that…it didn’t work…the Cell as is is the reboot version.
This is a very good post. I totally agree and would also say that in retrospect it might have been a better community approach to start with everyone in T-cell and then start to weed them out after a few inappropriate posts; meaning obnoxious and ride, not just a disagreement. This way it might offer more value to all members, not just a few.
We tried that…it didn’t work…the Cell as is is the reboot version.[/quote]
Agreed. It was quite clear there are many, many people that shouldn’t be posting there. And Mak, this has nothing to do with eliteism or anything like that. They simply couldn’t talk about training seriously.
This is a very good post. I totally agree and would also say that in retrospect it might have been a better community approach to start with everyone in T-cell and then start to weed them out after a few inappropriate posts; meaning obnoxious and ride, not just a disagreement. This way it might offer more value to all members, not just a few.
We tried that…it didn’t work…the Cell as is is the reboot version.
Agreed. It was quite clear there are many, many people that shouldn’t be posting there. And Mak, this has nothing to do with eliteism or anything like that. They simply couldn’t talk about training seriously.[/quote]
In four pages of Mak’s posts, there isn’t even ONE post in a forum about lifting weights. NOT ONE.
The people complaining the most are also the ones who contribute the least to any forums that have to do with what this website is supposed to be about.
Elitism is not why that forum was created. In fact, if anyone is still in the dark about why the T-Cell was created, maybe they should avoid discussing it. It simply makes them look very clueless.
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
Also, there are plenty in “TCA” who have most likely made minimal, if any, purchases of “Biotest” products. It never has been, nor will be, a criteria for entry.[/quote]
I buy Biotest, but because I buy Biotest NZ, my purchases don’t show up.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
…And Mak, this has nothing to do with eliteism or anything like that. They simply couldn’t talk about training seriously.
In four pages of Mak’s posts, there isn’t even ONE post in a forum about lifting weights. NOT ONE.
The people complaining the most are also the ones who contribute the least to any forums that have to do with what this website is supposed to be about.[/quote]
Slow down boys. I wasn’t complaining. I read the T-Cell on occasion and pick up some pretty interesting information. I don’t need to be posting there.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Professor X wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
…And Mak, this has nothing to do with eliteism or anything like that. They simply couldn’t talk about training seriously.
In four pages of Mak’s posts, there isn’t even ONE post in a forum about lifting weights. NOT ONE.
The people complaining the most are also the ones who contribute the least to any forums that have to do with what this website is supposed to be about.
Slow down boys. I wasn’t complaining. I read the T-Cell on occasion and pick up some pretty interesting information. I don’t need to be posting there.
[quote]I couldn’t hear from the Air Force jets flying over. How’s that again. Prof? Or maybe it was ‘the Wind’?
Let’s see…a guy who gets booted from the Air Farce, comes on here with his lamentations about it, then acts like the sanctimonious little boy he is. You never grew up, Prof.
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