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@cornelius_blackfoot
velocio, I think you need to reapply the logic of the forum to the football thread, it maybe full of bile and hate, but it's football thread bile and hate, and those that post within it, to a certain extent understand the parameters of it. There is bile and hate throughout the forum, and personally I take umbrage at the football thread being singled out. We are just as much a forum community as polo, or the compass beers, and we have our own injokes and name calling, and putdowns.
The fact that tags have been used in a namecalling way has nothing to with it, and is more to do with the way tags have always been used, in a childlike and scattergun manner. Why should it be any different, or treated any differently, or made the posterchild for all that is wrong with tags, when tags and they way they were co-opted and used was around before it existed..
You do the football thread a disservice, by constantly making it appear to be the epicentre of all that is perceived to be wrong with social tag interaction here.