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BigAttitudes on footy's biggest forum

By Matt Marsden on Sat, 14/08.2010

Sporting forums are a great way to for supporters of teams all over the world to come together to share their opinions with like-minded people. The largest Australian Rules Football forum has offered a place for people to vent to those who need it for a decade now, but over that time the accomplished forum has changed in a not so positive way.

The relationship with BigFooty can be one of love and hate. It makes following your team a whole lot easier if you want to get all of the inside information about the team that you love, but you also have to plow through the ton of idiotic statements made to find what is fact and what is fiction. You could go as far as saying that nobody really enjoys BigFooty, but it's a machine that keeps on churning out information that we can't bypass, so we come crawling back time after time.

Not so long ago, BigFooty was a place that could be enjoyed by all with only the odd loony here and there. It was a friendly environment that you were drawn back to because you enjoyed the time that you spent on there. In more recent times, one has as reason to be afraid of being belittled and ridiculed for comments that are by no means out of this world. It is a very hard place to find anyone to agree with your opinions.

BigFooty is not the kind of place that is ideal for finding information about your favourite sport but the controversy that occurs on the forum is what draws its crowd. Away from the sport talk where the passion and opinions spew out through one's mind onto the computer, BigFooty is a friendly environment where self-help question are happily responded to. For what the forum is designed for, conversing about various sports, the forum has attracted one too many idiots to be enjoyable.

If you're looking to share opinions about something that you are passionate about then the safest option would be to shy away from BigFooty all together and find a smaller sports forum to share your thoughts with. You will most likely find that the smaller forums are closer with one another and offer a more friendly environment.

If it's big attitudes and big antagonists you're after, mixed in with a learned few, Bigfooty is the place.

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Bigfooty (bigfooty.com/forum) is currently the largest Australian Rules discussion forum - many TBT contributors are currently members of its community. The influence and popularity of the site can be gleened by various mainstream media
references by respected journalists.

 
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anonymous user's picture

bigfooty has almost become

bigfooty has almost become its own worst enemy. its not a place to promote discussion...thats for sure.

Davage's picture

I have seen the sudden

I have seen the sudden decline of Bigfooty I joined up there in 2003 as well as Nicks, there were trolls there but the trolls were kept under control and such. But there has been a rapid decline, I used to love discussing local football on there, used to enjoy discussing Collingwood, and AFL there...but that's all changed now.

I am an admin of another site now, but before the start of that site I had started to shy away from Bigfooty, I am posting more on Nicks BB now, but had also stopped really posting there for awhile before this season too.

A good read though, it showed a lot about the forum now, the forum has been banned by some clubs around the country and sites in general because of the crap posted of them.

I guess if you want to be friendly and be nice you have to be on another forum.

anonymous user's picture

agree that Big Footy is not

agree that Big Footy is not as user-consumer friendly as it use to be anymore.

anonymous user's picture

I've never been able to get

I've never been able to get into BigFooty... I read demonolgy every day and get lots of inside info that you'd never get otherwise. But apparently the guy who is the administrator has been sick for a few years, so I've tried to join many times but its never happened so I can't contribute.

Regardless, I agree... stick to the more focused forums.

anonymous user's picture

Every forum goes through

Every forum goes through stages where it declines.

Matt Marsden's picture

BigFooty has been in a

BigFooty has been in a declining stage for a long time now. It's not getting any better.

anonymous user's picture

tl;dr

tl;dr

anonymous user's picture

Amen. I am not a snob by any

Amen. I am not a snob by any means, and also appreciate that very often Big Footy is the news breaker, however you need to filter through a world of crap on each post. Often the most interesting titled stories degenerate into a bitch fight about another issue between two disgruntled people.

Matt Marsden's picture

Very true Bryan. A lot of the

Very true Bryan. A lot of the topic tend to go off topic and touch on subject that have very little relevance to the thread.

anonymous user's picture

this is extremelly correct!!!

this is extremelly correct!!!

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