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Does Fan Forums Improve Your Overall Fan Experience?

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Does fan forums, like Finheaven, and sports talk radio improve your overall fan experience or does the negativity and constant struggle between fans and fan critics have a toxic effect on your experience? I was debating this with some fans recently and I have to admit that I'm up in the air with the advantage of having some extra knowledge gained having merit but the toxic nature also pulls the other way. There are times that I watch a game and start thinking about how people here are going to respond to a players performance. The games themselves are a three hour experience, but the constant bantering back and forth is a 7 days a week, 365 days per year experience. It's also highly addictive, if you've been around a fan site long enough it's hard to just put it down or cut back. Somebody suggested that even if you don't buy into all the negativity of a fan base, just being overly exposed to it can lessen the fan experience in general. Just wonder want people think. Is there something to the "ignorance is bliss" train of thought? Were you a happier fan during the pre-forum days?
 
This isn’t for everyone. I have a few friends that are over the top Dolphans, but Finheaven is too much for them, and will rarely listen to Dolphin talk radio. For me it’s a need. I think, myself, and most of the people here, would be in the 1-5% of insane fans. Where being a fan turns in to obsession. If it wasn’t for Finheaven and listening to talk radio I would feel bad for my fiancé and friends who would have to listen to me rant.

The negativity on here doesn’t bug me. It’s so easy to not read a post or thread. I do get annoyed with our options for Dolphins talk radio. Joe Rose is such a homer, and rarely has any interesting insight. Big O is the other end of the spectrum. He is so negative, and an ego maniac, he is next to impossible to listen too. He has experts on, and talks over them or changes the subject because he doesn’t agree. He does have some insight occasionally.
 
I need fan forums because if everyone agreed on everything it wouldn't be that fun. I like knowing people disagree with me just as much as I like when people agree with me. I used to get upset when I thought people were just dead wrong on something. Now it doesn't bother me because I've accepted the fact that I am not always right either.

You need that balance. Positivity doesn't exist without negativity.

Sports talk radio is another animal all together. Most of the people who call in to talk on the radio aren't calling to drop knowledge. I know that I've spent countless hours of my life over the last 20 years on message boards. I've never once called a radio show despite the urging's of those close to me to do so. There is no gratification with the radio. I like the written word.
 
yes - for me - absolutely

i have my opinions swayed and insight gained all the time by discussion on these forums

negativity is everywhere in today's media-focused, twitter enhanced world. if you can't deal with it on a forum you might as well flush your phone and tv down the toilet too.
 
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Does fan forums, like Finheaven, and sports talk radio improve your overall fan experience or does the negativity and constant struggle between fans and fan critics have a toxic effect on your experience? I was debating this with some fans recently and I have to admit that I'm up in the air with the advantage of having some extra knowledge gained having merit but the toxic nature also pulls the other way. There are times that I watch a game and start thinking about how people here are going to respond to a players performance. The games themselves are a three hour experience, but the constant bantering back and forth is a 7 days a week, 365 days per year experience. It's also highly addictive, if you've been around a fan site long enough it's hard to just put it down or cut back. Somebody suggested that even if you don't buy into all the negativity of a fan base, just being overly exposed to it can lessen the fan experience in general. Just wonder want people think. Is there something to the "ignorance is bliss" train of thought? Were you a happier fan during the pre-forum days?
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I've found nothing better than FH. Posts here provide links to tweets, articles, video, I don't have time to find on my own. Some here are quite knowledgeable on evaluation, some on stats. A broad spectrum that enhances the experience. Yes, I grow weary of those on either extreme who see no shades between black and white, but I skip those as lack of sufficient intellect to have opinions I value.

Living in WV, there are few Fin fans and even fewer who know anything other than the names of 10-20 players. FH may not be for everyone, but for those with little access to Fin news/fans, it's a godsend.
 
It is a double edge sword. You have the guys who are all doom and gloom and think they are a gm but have no. idea wnat they speak of (like me), and then you have some posters like CK, UK, Vaark, and a handful of others who give a uniquely genuine insight into the team that you can't gets from sports anchors who. dont have a passion for this team.
 
I'm here everyday by choice, nobody forces me to sign on, so I would say I'm getting something out of the experience or I'm a masochist. I started the thread based on the idea that some say over exposure to fans and fan critics banter creates a sense of numbness over time and fans with less attachment/ exposure seem to have more pleasure with their experience and less frustration.
 
I don't think it changes my 'fan experience' at all. I would still be a fan without finheaven, I would still probably be incredibly pessimistic, I would still have a slightly irrational hatred for ex-Jet Mike Tannenbaum, and I would still hate all the terribly biased officiating we often get when we play against certain teams. Browsing the forum is just the way I get news about the Dolphins and an entertaining way to pass some time reading whatever threads I find interesting.
 
Yes.

I get a lot of player and team specific information not available anywhere else. The one negative thing about the forum is I have to put up with the "negative Nancy's", but on the plus side, they have to put up with an optimist like me.
 
I think that when we lose is a little easier as I can come here to vent instead of driving my wife crazy. The hardest thing is how people seem to be watching a different game than the one I was watching but I guess everyone has their point of view. Anyway, it's cool to be able to talk to other Dolphins fans about our team.
 
It improves my fan experience for sure, reading different points of view is refreshing and a learning experience for me personally. I tend not to get caught up to much in overly negative fans.
 
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