You know what really grinds my gears? - Operation Sports Forums

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know OS now has an official Discord that you can join right now. We’ve kicked around Discords for individual games in the past, but it felt like the right time to make it more of an official thing.

Steve and I have wanted to get this going for a bit because we obviously still hear from y’all who are unhappy with some stuff on the forums, plus when there are forum outages we still want to have a place for everyone to hang. My overarching goal for the longer term is to have both Discord and the forums ultimately work together. There are some logistical issues with the vBulletin forums that don’t allow things to sync right with Discord so there will be a little maneuvering as we try to get mods and forum members any proper roles/tags they need on the Discord, but we can work through that stuff easily enough as people join.

Our general goal is to give people more options to interact with OS community members, whether that’s Discord, the forums, this newsletter, or improved apps. If people want to stick more to the forums, that’s cool. If people want to stick more to the Discord, that’s also cool. In my perfect world, we do a lot of BSing and day-to-day chatting on the Discord about games and sports, and then more of the “in-depth” discussions or hefty things like long slider breakdowns or analysis of gameplay end up on the forums so that can act as a sort of “best of” area for anything OS community related. That said, you all will ultimately shape how the ecosystem shakes out, I just want to give you spaces you like so you can have a good time with other folks in the community.

The same general rules will apply on the Discord as they do on the forums, and we’ve brought most of the forum categories to the Discord as well so there should not be too much confusion as you navigate around.

With the Operation Sports and Discord announcement now out there, it’s also worth mentioning our OS premium newsletter, which quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. Built off the Not Just Another Roster Update newsletter, it offers a mix of retrospectives, guides, interviews and deeper dives into the sports gaming world—covering both current and classic titles.

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Gotmadskillzson

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06-28-2013, 03:40 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The rain, it has been raining every damn day since the middle of May up here. Very unusual weather for this state.
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gopher_guy

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06-28-2013, 03:49 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by SuperBowlNachos

That is the point of group texting.

I suppose I should have been more clear.

Yes, that's the purpose of a group text, but this is not a group text situation. It was a mass text just to let everyone know about an event. "Hey guys, hanging out and playing bags at 4!"

I got like 10 texts that were essentially RSVPs sent to my phone, like I said in my OP. Like shug said, I'm assuming these people just don't understand that they are replying to everyone when they say "Yeah!" or "Sorry, can't make it"

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06-28-2013, 05:23 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Blame the phone... rather, blame Apple. I have people with iPhones send me mass texts and then I get a half dozen replies from random numbers. I send out a mass text (on Android), and I've verified: no one gets random messages from other people; just me. I don't know if it is a setting or what.
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06-28-2013, 06:32 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by dochalladay32

Blame the phone... rather, blame Apple. I have people with iPhones send me mass texts and then I get a half dozen replies from random numbers. I send out a mass text (on Android), and I've verified: no one gets random messages from other people; just me. I don't know if it is a setting or what.

Hmm. The person who sent it out doesn't even have a smart phone. Maybe iPhones and flip phones are one in the same :P

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06-28-2013, 08:13 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by dochalladay32

Blame the phone... rather, blame Apple. I have people with iPhones send me mass texts and then I get a half dozen replies from random numbers. I send out a mass text (on Android), and I've verified: no one gets random messages from other people; just me. I don't know if it is a setting or what.

There is a group message setting on the iPhone. If it's on you receive it as a group message and then your replies go out to everyone. If it's off I am not sure if they receive it as a group message to where they can see all the numbers, but their replies only go to the sender.

I say blame the person being lazy and sending out a mass text.
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06-28-2013, 09:10 PM

iPhone users could just text back the person who sent the original text by going to their contacts and just texting that person

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06-28-2013, 09:25 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

So did we all just forget the point of group texting or what? People who use it wrong are the problem.

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jack1535

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06-28-2013, 09:36 PM

Originally posted by kingkilla56

So did we all just forget the point of group texting or what? People who use it wrong are the problem.

No we didn't

If someone sends a text to a group that says

"Party starts at 5 PM text me if you can make it"

You only reply to the person who sent the text.

There are group chats that people all talk together but if it is like my message above you don't text back everyone

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06-28-2013, 09:52 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by jack1535

No we didn't

If someone sends a text to a group that says

"Party starts at 5 PM text me if you can make it"

You only reply to the person who sent the text.

There are group chats that people all talk together but if it is like my message above you don't text back everyone

When I get a group message that needs my response I type response text to the message that was sent to me, I've never taken the time to pull up the individual who sent me the text and do a seperate one.

I never knew this was such an issue to be honest.

Any group message I've ever been a part of has been a group message for a reason but to be fair I've never been part of a group message sent out to a bunch of people about a party or something like that.
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06-28-2013, 10:25 PM

Originally posted by kehlis

When I get a group message that needs my response I type response text to the message that was sent to me, I've never taken the time to pull up the individual who sent me the text and do a seperate one.

I never knew this was such an issue to be honest.

Any group message I've ever been a part of has been a group message for a reason but to be fair I've never been part of a group message sent out to a bunch of people about a party or something like that.

IMO it's like hitting reply all to an email nobody else needs to see your email or text

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06-28-2013, 11:14 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by jack1535

IMO it's like hitting reply all to an email nobody else needs to see your email or text

Except on Outlook (at least), reply is the standard. Reply all you have to go out of your way to do. You'd think it would be that way with messages sent to more than 1 person. I know mine you have to go into the settings before you respond to reply to all instead of just the original sender.
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06-29-2013, 12:43 AM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Originally posted by jack1535

iPhone users could just text back the person who sent the original text by going to their contacts and just texting that person

The sender just as easily could have sent it to each individual.

I shouldn't have to go through a multi step process to reply.

In Outlook there are ways to set it up so that the reply all doesn't work. So that is on the sender too.
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06-29-2013, 08:39 AM

Originally posted by jack1535

IMO it's like hitting reply all to an email nobody else needs to see your email or text

It's not like that at all, when I'm reading a text and hit reply, I don't have the option of hitting reply all or just reply. I don't see how you can compare the two.
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06-29-2013, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by kehlis

It's not like that at all, when I'm reading a text and hit reply, I don't have the option of hitting reply all or just reply. I don't see how you can compare the two.

You have the option to only send it one person though you just have to do a couple more steps

If I'm sending a text to 20 different people I'm not going to go one by one. It's much easier for the person receiving the text to reply to the sender only then for me to send 20 texts out

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06-29-2013, 06:44 PM

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

AT&T's website. I have never had so much trouble ordering something online. I am considering switching to another provider based solely on this piece of ****ing ****.
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