NCAA Football Board

The NCAA Football Board has been discussing college football since the board started. The NCAA Football Board has formed a close knit community unlike any other game board found on IGN. Many of the users have formed friendships that stretch beyong the regular bounds of posting on an internet message board. The NCAA Football Board has such a special community because it's been allowed to discuss both the game and real college football. The mods already tried to lockdown the NCAA Board once and direct all college football talk to the still new College Football Board. What you had was the immediate insane slowdown of the NCAA Board to a near crawl and a few extra posters on the College Football Board. You can not simply expect a tight knit community of users to simply transplant itself at the whim of whenever the moderators decide to enforce the rules. It didn't work the first time the NCAA Football Board was locked down and it won't work again.





You say that you can't allow us to not follow the game board rule because it wouldn't be fair to the other game boards. Here is the thing. We ARE the exception. We have a community unlike ANY other game board on IGN. I doubt you hear complaints from the Smackdown Board or Madden Board about the NCAA Board being allowed to talk about college football.





Once again, the reason the NCAA Board is so great is because we are allowed to discuss the game AND college football. That's the reason the board stays alive 2 months after the game has been out. That's why we have such a close group of users. That's why our board is still active during the off season. We are the third highest posting game board. We are the exception to the rule. Do we need a mod like most boards to limit trolling, flaming, and spamming? Of course. But should our board not be recognized as something special and not be given a simple exception to a rule? No. We have plently of good posters who could keep the board in line if modded. But, once again, if you do not allow the NCAA Football Board this small exception, you are losing a great IGN community, you are going to lose Insiders who won't post anymore because you're ruined the only board they post in, and you are going to lose the best game board on IGN.





I really hope, for once, that you can take into consideration the people who are on the board.





If the NCAA Football Board is allowed to discuss college football, it in now way has a negative effect on any IGN user. However, disallowing this simple act is going to ruin a great online community.





The game is ENTIRELY based on college football and hence discussing college football should not be deemed as "off topic." College football effects every single aspect of the game.








I sign this petition for the sole purpose that the NCAA Football Board on the IGN Message Board system should be allowed to discuss college football.