Welcome to the Show, the Show that never ends my friends! Somewhere, at any given time, 24/7, day or night, male or female, young and old and all ages in between find themselves participating in the Show. What is the Show you ask or better question, why is it a Show? The Show, as it’s called by its proper name is the CBS Sportsline Community Message Board. The why? It’s a Show comprised of the fabrication of mostly sports chat from a wide variety of people, some who are extremely knowledgeable, about a wide variety of sports topics and issues. But many turn out to be actors, characters; cynical extremists or so fanatical they turn sarcastically mean and hurtful to the beginners, the amateurs and rookies or others who have less knowledge.
OH! I can’t forget about the TROLLS - those whose only objective is to disrupt the Show, using profanity, nonsense posts and giving out zero ratings that can affect the reputation of those who really take the Show seriously. Thanks to CBS administrators for changing the rating process to hopefully leave the Trolls without an opportunity to hurt the true cast of the Show.
Anyone can join the Show as long as you have access to the World Wide Web. After you sign up with the Show you will be assigned a reputation and ranking, which will be as an Amateur, Your reputation gives you only limited roles and acts in the Show. You can increase your rating points by responding to threads or posts with comments that adds or contributes to the topic being discussed. The other actors in the Show can help you by rating your post. As mentioned earlier, the rating system, which has just changed and still being Tweaked, is 1* to 5* and 5* being the highest.
The next reputation level you can achieve is Rookie. When you are an Amateur or Rookie it can be very frustrating. It was for me. So don’t get discouraged, keep casting for the Show. I make it a point not to over look members in the Show who have something to contribute.
Your overall rating is made up of 4 Parts. Connections, Value, Participation and Skills. Your score in each level are combined to determine your community level’s overall score. The “Part” that impacted me the most was Connections where I was chosen as a favorite by others. In one of my posts I said, “You made my day.” Now you know why - I will not mention your cast name.
And of course, you have your Pros, All-Stars, Superstars, Top 10, 100 and 1000! An honor to achieve any of these levels.
If you are a sensitive person I’m warning you the Show is not always hunky-dory. A lot of hatred exists between rival teams, rival conferences, rival posters and rivals between rivals. The Show‘s cast members take this very seriously, just like heated competition in sports; the poster’s can be just as competitive.
What was my point in this blog? Just to say, welcome to the Show, the Show that never ends my friends!
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