why no one commenting live matches?

It was decided earlier in the year that the tennis forum would be better
if there were no live threads about tennis at all
and just one thread mainly about baseball and cats

it works better this way.

forum sleeps with the fishes
cats love fishes

Blame aaronh, he runs the show around here.

Everyone's free to create match threads, out of last night's matches 8 matches there were match threads for 5 of them. If someone had bothered to create one for Serena/Ana I'm sure there would have been discussion in it. I think what happened here is that this was a very onesided match on paper, so noone really thought it was thread worthy and by the time it got interesting all the discussion was already in another thread. But again, if you really want match threads, be proactive and start and participate in them instead of complain about the lack of them and they will likely get posts if matches are interesting enough.

i was wondering cuz other years there were always around 200 replies for such a match

I don't get why people are so bothered about the Dawaj thread. There isnt enough people for it to matter anyway. Even in the Dawaj i can post 20 times in a row without reply. I like the fact that there is a section on this forum (tennis or any other) where we can talk about all sports.

caramba you are having a bubble, when there have been match threads, there have been simultaneous in-play discussions on the mega thread, not only is it a pain to read the two, but makes you feel a lot less inclined to bother posting, don't mind a mega thread personally, but not for big matches - even smaller matches though used to have a lot of posts on them.

i can't even load the thread properly on my laptop ..it's always 40 posts behind

horrendous

And also in reality there is only about 8 people who have racked up all the posts on Dawaj (Me, WW, SMB, edy, aaron, n88uk, jin_kazz and Caramba). You lot are all welcome too make your own threads and i'll try to contribute.

AND MAP I FORGOT MAP

Jan 19, 2014 -- 7:11PM, mesmerised wrote:

caramba you are having a bubble, when there have been match threads, there have been simultaneous in-play discussions on the mega thread, not only is it a pain to read the two, but makes you feel a lot less inclined to bother posting, don't mind a mega thread personally, but not for big matches - even smaller matches though used to have a lot of posts on them.

Don't see how I am in a bubble, I was among the first ones here to speak up against the mega threads. But they're here now and not going anywhere. I will agree that mega threads have hurt match threads, but as recently as this week we had an almost 500 posts long match thread and there have been some 100-200 long ones so if threads are made and matches are interesting enough they will often generate posts. I've also noticed that people tend to post where others are posting, with the exception of those who are boycotting the mega threads. Again, putting up match threads are encouraged around here.

Jan 19, 2014 -- 7:14PM, attitude adjuster wrote:

i can't even load the thread properly on my laptop ..it's always 40 posts behindhorrendous

switch to live view and it should help.

The 2 main reasons for the mega thread are firstly there simply aren't enough users week in, week out. It's ok during grand slams when there is lots of interest, but on non-grand slam weeks you don't have a lot of posters anymore, least until they re-open the forum. Secondly, others might not agree with this point, but match threads are way too annoying to keep up with early on in grand slams. If you are following several matches at once and just want to discuss everything. There will also be people wanting to discuss other matches, and alert people to events going on elsewhere. If you just had 10+ simultaneous match threads it wouldn't work imo.

Match threads only work right now imo on major matches, matches where everybody is watching that 1 match.

Jan 19, 2014 -- 7:28PM, caramba wrote:

Jan 19, 2014 --  7:11PM, mesmerised wrote:caramba you are having a bubble, when there have been match threads, there have been simultaneous in-play discussions on the mega thread, not only is it a pain to read the two, but makes you feel a lot less inclined to bother posting, don't mind a mega thread personally, but not for big matches - even smaller matches though used to have a lot of posts on them.Don't see how I am in a bubble, I was among the first ones here to speak up against the mega threads. But they're here now and not going anywhere. I will agree that mega threads have hurt match threads, but as recently as this week we had an almost 500 posts long match thread and there have been some 100-200 long ones so if threads are made and matches are interesting enough they will often generate posts. I've also noticed that people tend to post where others are posting, with the exception of those who are boycotting the mega threads. Again, putting up match threads are encouraged around here.

having a bubble = bubble bath = laugh, you are having a laugh, sry assume your Spanish?

I like the mega thread, but if we have some memorable matches, they will be gone forever into the Dawaj abyss and none to bump in future - like the isner-mahut or mugs bunny one.

The real blame is closed registrations, people come and go and when people are no longer allowed to come for the best part of 18 months I believe, it doesn't help.

Some say I'm Mexican, although I really am Swedish and had never heard that expression before
I do agree with everything you said in your latest post, especially about memorable matches being buried in mega thread and unbumpable.
According to arrong registrations will be opened soon, so hopefully that will bring some new life to the forum.

If something truly legendary happened like those moments, I am pretty sure a separate thread will appear.

If you look, when the big matches occur, eg. grand slam finals, big match threads appear.

Definitely Murray winning Wimbledon had a big match thread.

A Wimbledon final will, but matches that are not memorable on paper, like Isner vs Mahut, Wozniacki vs Kremer or Serena vs Ana, might not.

the mega thread started after wimbledon iirc.

thanks for the advice caramba re the live thread.

Jan 19, 2014 -- 8:49PM, attitude adjuster wrote:

the mega thread started after wimbledon iirc.thanks for the advice caramba re the live thread.

this one (Dawaj) did, but there were other mega threads before that, the first one was started a year ago.