From what I gather, there's been a slight bother surrounding FM-Base recently, what with people having negative opinions of the site. Apparently, it's been quite a furore. This has rather passed me by. I'm a pretty new member of this site, and this is a post that probably shouldn't be being made by such an insignificant member of FM-Base, but I want to voice my opinion.
Honestly, FM-Base is one of the best forums I've been on. As a community, the single best thing about it is its general friendiness. When I first arrived, people were eager to make me welcome, treat me as an equal alongside older, more established members of the site. This is a site dedicated jointly to Football Manager, and football in general. Football is a subject about which it is easy to become emotional, yet in this community there is a healthy atmosphere, where banter and joking is taken in good grace. Of course, there are some that try to destroy this happy environment, which leads me neatly onto my next topic of praise.
The moderators on this site are absolutely superb, and second to none on the internet. Honestly, you'd be hard pushed to find such helpful, friendly and effective moderators. They seem to know instinctively where someone has crossed the line and hold the power to sort it out, yet are also very much part of the community. Take the "Moderator Requests" thread: how many other sites' mods are willing to devote the time to sort out, let's be honest, fairly trivial little problems. The good grace and politeness in which the mods work in FM-Base is the framework that makes the site so good.
There is very, very little in this site to find fault with. Free downloads of the highest quality, kit request threads, challenge of the month, request a player screenshot, request a sig threads. The list is endless and the level of discussion in most threads is pretty **** high. There isn't a more rounded community around, and I'm extremely happy I stumbled across such a welcoming, fantastic site and community.
This is just a post to make my feelings known, and I'm sure most of you on FM-Base feel the same way as me. I'm saying this as the antithesis of all these anti-FM-Base posts that have been arriving. I don't know whether this is an appropriate thread, but I'll leave that up to the impeccable judgement of the mods.
In short: isn't this site great?
Honestly, FM-Base is one of the best forums I've been on. As a community, the single best thing about it is its general friendiness. When I first arrived, people were eager to make me welcome, treat me as an equal alongside older, more established members of the site. This is a site dedicated jointly to Football Manager, and football in general. Football is a subject about which it is easy to become emotional, yet in this community there is a healthy atmosphere, where banter and joking is taken in good grace. Of course, there are some that try to destroy this happy environment, which leads me neatly onto my next topic of praise.
The moderators on this site are absolutely superb, and second to none on the internet. Honestly, you'd be hard pushed to find such helpful, friendly and effective moderators. They seem to know instinctively where someone has crossed the line and hold the power to sort it out, yet are also very much part of the community. Take the "Moderator Requests" thread: how many other sites' mods are willing to devote the time to sort out, let's be honest, fairly trivial little problems. The good grace and politeness in which the mods work in FM-Base is the framework that makes the site so good.
There is very, very little in this site to find fault with. Free downloads of the highest quality, kit request threads, challenge of the month, request a player screenshot, request a sig threads. The list is endless and the level of discussion in most threads is pretty **** high. There isn't a more rounded community around, and I'm extremely happy I stumbled across such a welcoming, fantastic site and community.
This is just a post to make my feelings known, and I'm sure most of you on FM-Base feel the same way as me. I'm saying this as the antithesis of all these anti-FM-Base posts that have been arriving. I don't know whether this is an appropriate thread, but I'll leave that up to the impeccable judgement of the mods.
In short: isn't this site great?
