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Hi, people. :nerd:
With Bonita's sudden departure the Forum Manager's job has fallen to me. She will be sorely missed, but I hope she'll drop in again and see us once in a while.
Don't expect any radical changes; I'll try to keep things going as Bonita would have wanted.
This forum is different from most others at Xtratime in at least two ways:
First, it has a potentially huge subject-matter in women's soccer - everything from club teams to national teams, and virtually every country, continent and soccer confederation on the planet. Obviously we can't cover it all, but we can cover as much of it as you the members want. This requires a perhaps higher degree of organization of threads than you find in other forums - otherwise chaos would ensue and nobody could find anything. So we will continue to try to establish major threads for the major tournaments and competitions, and make them as easy as possible to locate.
Second, it's hard to find women's soccer information and news on the internet, unlike the situation with men's soccer. What little there is is often out of date or simply inaccurate. Some of the best sources of information are in languages other than English. And so I think this forum has a big role to play in helping to share information that's hard to find elsewhere.
I would also like to say something about the occasional problem we have with trolls attacking this forum. I'm talking of course about those who think it's a bit of a lark to drop in to the Women's Soccer forum and try to provoke an argument by saying something ignorant about how inferior women's soccer is, or by making personal attacks.
I don't think we need to spend time in this forum trying to defend or justify the existence of women's soccer, or trying to compare it to men's soccer. Women's soccer is a sport in its own right, and it's here to stay. If you don't accept that, then you are free to ignore this forum.
That's the approach I intend to take.
With Bonita's sudden departure the Forum Manager's job has fallen to me. She will be sorely missed, but I hope she'll drop in again and see us once in a while.
Don't expect any radical changes; I'll try to keep things going as Bonita would have wanted.
This forum is different from most others at Xtratime in at least two ways:
First, it has a potentially huge subject-matter in women's soccer - everything from club teams to national teams, and virtually every country, continent and soccer confederation on the planet. Obviously we can't cover it all, but we can cover as much of it as you the members want. This requires a perhaps higher degree of organization of threads than you find in other forums - otherwise chaos would ensue and nobody could find anything. So we will continue to try to establish major threads for the major tournaments and competitions, and make them as easy as possible to locate.
Second, it's hard to find women's soccer information and news on the internet, unlike the situation with men's soccer. What little there is is often out of date or simply inaccurate. Some of the best sources of information are in languages other than English. And so I think this forum has a big role to play in helping to share information that's hard to find elsewhere.
I would also like to say something about the occasional problem we have with trolls attacking this forum. I'm talking of course about those who think it's a bit of a lark to drop in to the Women's Soccer forum and try to provoke an argument by saying something ignorant about how inferior women's soccer is, or by making personal attacks.
I don't think we need to spend time in this forum trying to defend or justify the existence of women's soccer, or trying to compare it to men's soccer. Women's soccer is a sport in its own right, and it's here to stay. If you don't accept that, then you are free to ignore this forum.
That's the approach I intend to take.