The Ravens are my 2nd favorite team (2000 was tough for me), but I get the sentiment. However, if people wanna mention football, i’m cool with it. It shouldnt be the main topic, but we talk about things that dont even have anything to do with sports, so i’m quite fine with the Raven’s talk. We all need our vices to get through the season.

I mostly point and laugh at people. :)

I KID!

Yea saw the warning sorry about that video. I didn’t know it was strickly just oriole stuff. I am sort of new to the sight. I did post one on the ravens blog as well. I was just trying to get people to give the video. Sincerly apologize and i defintily won’t do it again.

Just do so in the thread topic and not in a brandy new fan post.

And please dont take this too critically. Something like this would be more appropriate on the thread your complaining about (and its not an fair complaint). Being more selective about what warrants its own post improves the quality of the whole site. People can find new content much quicker and related discussions stay confined to one page.

I’m just responding. And it’s a little bit of an exaggeration to say it’s everywhere, don’t you think?

to maybe make you think about why I responded the way I did.

You want to read about baseball, right? How is this fanpost complaining about someone talking about football any more appropriate than the fanpost that talks about football?

Im struggling to see where Ravens are “everywhere” on this site. Maybe the mods deleted some of the content, but I check this site pretty regularly and the only Ravens related post I recall recently was comparing Ravens fans to Orioles Fans — which would still be relevant to an Orioles blog.

I love that the O’s bring in outside fans in a way the Ravens don’t. I don’t come across many Ravens fans that are also Yankees fans or Red Sox fans, but I know several Steelers fans that are O’s fans (including my fiance and a one of my closest friends — yes football season can be painful).

Its the eagles fan in you being bothered! Although I think a lot of people here agree, occasional football or other off topic talk is fine (as long as its not politics or religion or something that will get people going) but most the time there are separate blogs for people that all want to talk about separate topics. So go to one of them for that.

she’s an Eagles fan.

I live on the eastern shore, and it’s about equal parts Ravens and Eagles fans. So I have never really minded the Eagles. But it seams that every single Eagles fan I bump into abhors the Ravens. Being an Eagles fan yourself I was wondering if you could explain this to me? They are in two different conferences and only play each other once every four years, so its not like we have a “rivalry”.

Wow can’t belive this post got so much attention. Yes I am an Eagles fan but don’t hate the ravens, I just went off and wow, big response.

it takes time.

Ravens didn’t start until 1996. Lots of people might have had other NFL teams to root for. Sure, with every expansion or city move, many folks from that city start rooting for the new team, but not everyone.

Because there is no baseball team that plays in NJ and I wasnt about to follow the herd and become a yankees fan. I’m only a Giants fan because they play in NJ, despite what their logo says. And I am, of course, a Devils fan as well.

I think I’ll be missing a misconception when it appears.

There is too much nonsense on here for me to handle it anymore.

We need to cut down on the silly navel gazing fanposts.

And I’m a sloppy writer. Much apologies.

The content and commenters are still here. Stacey has been doing an incredible job by basically replacing SC as primary content provider for this site, and everyone who made this place special is still here and still making great contributions.

But when SBNation started supplying content to Brash and Yahoo (or however these deals work), the unwashed masses took notice and began to show up. This can either be seen as a positive or a negative; I personally view it as incredibly positive. This site, and others, is special and really provide community-generated content that rivals anything found anywhere else. Camden Chat did kick serious ass – and when the posts started showing up on Yahoo, people who would otherwise not find this site were able to share in the experiences here.

Camden Chat started as a community of both web- and baseball-savvy folks who actively sought out a community full of like-minded people, but now there is a conduit funneling traffic from a web giant that makes this site much more visible to everyone else. And the fact that there does seem to be an increase in new posters and posts, regardless of their quality, indicates (to me, anyway) that Camden Chat is doing something right.

There is a culture of quality here at Camden Chat that will keep it from devolving into the mess that Orioles Hangout is and always has been. I’m not talking about proper punctuation and grammar here – I’m talking about a community that attracts like-minded individuals and polices itself. Obviously some posters will arrive here, attempt to contribute, and find out that this is not the blog for them. Others will arrive and feel right at home. The point is that to get good users who will “stick”, you gotta sift through those who won’t. I don’t know what sort of ban list this site has, but I assume it’s a small number (based on previous comments by SC et al) and most posters who didn’t fit in have left organically due to the policing of the users. Most people here are incredibly lenient towards infractions that are strictly forbidden on other sites. Some people aren’t going to decipher the feel of the community overnight. Those who feel that this site is worth contributing to – they’ll shape up. Others won’t, and they’ll eventually move on.

I’ve been visiting this blog off and on since 2005 and there are many users here that I respect and whose posts I look forward to reading, and those cherished members have been steadily growing in number. To say that a few rambling posts that contain grammatical errors, or a few users who don’t seem to “get it”, or a few users who don’t seem to understand how to operate the commenting/posting functions properly – to say that these few folks are ruining a once-great site is pure hyperbole. Camden Chat is still a great community that attracts the participation of other excellent O’s bloggers who take the time to post here on top of their own blogging duties (Andrew @ TLC and BaltimoreSportsReport are the only one I can think of off-hand, sorry everyone else).

I’m sorry that a few crappy posts have dampened your enthusiasm about this site, but even if you think the shit is piling a little too high for your tastes, the quality content is worth wading through it. And if you’re searching for a better Orioles community on the internet, I hope you’ll let us know about it when you find it, because I don’t think it exists.

How many times did you re-read that to make sure you didn’t spell anything wrong? :-)

I have to agree in part.

I’m fully aware that posters have every right to make fanposts concerning any random topic, but three line threads about someone finding cool shirts only drags down the blog as a whole.

I’m in complete agreement that this website just a few months ago contained almost exclusively informed posts and literally never strayed from the bottom line.

I don’t want to single any one poster out, but I will anyway.

I’m really started to get annoyed by this. It seems like very year we get worse against the Sox and Yanks. meanwhile we get better against the rest of the league.

And you know what I’m pretty angry about this.

Who here is tired of Fenway Park South and Let’s Go Yankees being echoed at an Orioles game.

Well I am.

 I feel much better now.

The above remarks were pulled from a fanpost in which the writer included no actual analysis, no interesting insight, and a lack of proper grammar.

I really don’t even want to condone something like this in fanshots, but if anything, a completely arbitrary and uninformed side comment belongs in the bottom bracket.

I guess I’m going to come off as an asshole and intranet elitist, but that’s my opinion in brief.

This was written before I read Phil’s dissertation, so I apologize if there is any repetition.

I havent hit the proper reply button to comment on a comment…sorry guys.

Just helps keep the site a little more organized.