3 Months In: Do you consider The Root a failure or success (Poll)

[Kenny West]

Mods just need to show a lil better discretion on which TLR race threads go to the bushes and which to the root. When you put TLR's trash in the root it hurts it's legitimacy. Otherwise they doing a good job.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

2.0

 

[Flay Mayweather]

A lot of people hated separating TLR from race threads because they wanted the attention(dap & rep) instead building a forum dedicated to those threads.

It's cool how The Root turned out.

 

[J-Nice]

The Root had a great start to it, then fell off for a bit. But it still has the makings to be a great section of the forum as long as trolls aren't allowed to post there and the Gender war bait threads don't

become the norm.

 

[J-Nice]

Whats with this whole you must be an activist to talk about race issues shyt that is so pervasive now? It's a messageboard for crying out loud. If we required people to show and prove everything we post about here, this site would lose 95% of it's members.

 

[Auger]

TLR has gotten even worse now which I didn't think was possible.

meh, at least it's a little less repettitve

 

[mrken12]

meh, at least it's a little less repettitve

Nope.

 

[At30wecashout]

Yo I was about to make a thread similar to this today.

But to answer your question yes it is successful because it has moved race topics away from TLR, which was it's purpose.

I personally don't like it because everything is negative and no real knowledge is being given, but it's not horrible like Race Track.

This. I thought it would help foster good conversation. Popping into a thread with 20 responses and seeing 20 different ways to say "fukk cacs" isnt exactly meaningful conversation. Not all the threads are like that, but a great many are. Amazing that the most productive threads recently have popped up in the locker room (one about trades that convinced me to go full steam into HVAC this fall).

Im all for people having conversation but threads with depth expose a lot of these posters. Always ready to vent, rarely an original or productive thought. @bdizzle dropped some gem threads that spoke in depth about issues and the people you would expect to be in there dont contribute, but if a thread about something bad happening to black people comes up, here they come.

 

[Vonte3000]

the root is a dumping ground, all threads regarding black people are moved there

That was the point

We complained about the race track so they gave us the root and yall still wanna bytch?

What more is needed? You need to recognize not everyone is going to want to participate in these discussions and having these convos in TLR opens up the door for all types of trolls and lames to derail threads. It's like HL AA edition.

 

[Auger]

Nope.

You're right

 

[mrken12]

That was the point

We complained about the race track so they gave us the root and yall still wanna bytch?

What more is needed? You need to recognize not everyone is going to want to participate in these discussions and having these convos in TLR opens up the door for all types of trolls and lames to derail threads. It's like HL AA edition.

People like @LadySimone and @bcrusaderw are creating negative anti-black male threads and posts in The Root as well. Along with @Yup and the rest of the "female" trolls. The Root is not supposed to have that kind of negativity.

 

[MoonGoddess]

Like any other section you have to filter through the crap to find the gems. I like reading the post and artickes in this section. I don't participate as much because i dont want to look stupid lol. Ive juf been kinds soaking in the knowledge. I appreciate this section and the fact that these guys dont just post about whats going on in black american but things that effect black people globally.
I really hope it doesn't get thrown in the bushes.

 

[Vonte3000]

People like @LadySimone and @bcrusaderw are creating negative anti-black male threads and posts in The Root as well. Along with @Yup and the rest of the "female" trolls. The Root is not supposed to have that kind of negativity.

From what I see this is a childish back and forth where men make an anti bW thread then they make an anti BM thread in retaliation and vice versa. If everyone used some common fukking sense and stopped Falling for obvious bait threads and troll posters that shyt wouldn't happen. It's that simple and the reason I'm never in those hilariously obvious troll threads.

 

[Yup]

People like @LadySimone and @bcrusaderw are creating negative anti-black male threads and posts in The Root as well. Along with @Yup and the rest of the "female" trolls. The Root is not supposed to have that kind of negativity.

I think you tag me more than I ever spoken to you. I never see you mention the anti-black female threads or posts posted on here though.

 

[Yup]

I like this section.