To newer McCovenites
Before you start a new FanPost of FanShot about recent developments (trades, roster moves, etc.), make sure to check that one hasn't already been started. With the large number of users on this site, chances are you aren't the first one to break the news.
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AngelWillSaveUs
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Oh crap!
I posted this as a fanpost!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
by groug on Aug 7, 2009 3:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Sorry
But before an hour ago, I had no idea FanShots even existed. Yes, I was one of the morons who posted a FanPost without knowing that a FanShot has been posted. Seems a little redundant, in that many (not all) of the FanPosts are nothing more than comment starters… which seems to be the case with FanShots. Can somebody explain to a new guy when something should be a FanShot vs. a FanPost? Just don’t want to screw up and incur the wrath of the McCoven again. Thanks.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 7, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree with you that they do seem a little redundant.
I personally think of FanShots as the place to post links or pictures or anything that doesn’t need much comment from the poster.
FanPosts are more for users to post original content or to let the poster expand on the topic a lot.
In this case, it’s not that the Rios post couldn’t have been a FanPost (it fits either place, IMO), it’s that there was already a thread going on the subject in FanShots.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 7, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Okay
Clear as mud. (Kidding, of course)
Thanks for the tip.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 7, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t the mods have the ability to eliminate them? Not only that, but the original Rios post should have been a fan post and not a fan shot. That way it would have been noticed by everyone. If you read this site on your mobile phone like I do a lot of the time, you don’t even see the fan shots.
Proud new dad of Edgardo errr Edgar Renteria!!!
by rxmeister on Aug 7, 2009 3:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I’ve already deleted two or three Rios related Fanposts in the past hour.
by Natto on Aug 7, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can you also delete the Rios waiver claim?
by KrazyKrabMeat on Aug 7, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
??
Not only that, but the original Rios post should have been a fan post and not a fan shot.
I don’t get this comment. It was, and should have been, a fanShot, because it’s main thrust was a link to original content from another site (ie. breaking news on the Rios waiver claim). How is that supposed to be a FanPost?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
by Fla-Giant on Aug 7, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fan shots are for stuff you just can’t coherently generate a 75 word missive about.
by Merope on Aug 7, 2009 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fanshots are from Mars, Fanposts are from Venus.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 7, 2009 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
80 WINZ FRONT RUNNER BANDWAGON /includes self
by shanghaijim on Aug 7, 2009 3:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
It makes me happy to see posts like this gain support.
by positiveuphemism on Aug 7, 2009 3:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Will n00bs know what a “McCovenite” is?
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 7, 2009 3:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Bowkermania is back again, brother...for real this time.
by rightcenterfielder on Aug 7, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I lol’d
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 7, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought MCovenite was the religion that was sorta like Amish, but they can travel on airplanes.
AMIRITE?
Sir Alex Omar Hinshaw: It's not right if it's not left.
by The Enchanter on Aug 8, 2009 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
109
Jesse Foppert: I Still Believe. Maybe a little less now.
"I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." ~Bob Lemon,
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 7, 2009 3:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
duplicate Bowker/Aurilia post!!!
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 7, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poor Natto.. you’re busy today.
You want to see a walk? Then go watch the mailman.
by SeeingStars on Aug 7, 2009 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I dont get it
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by CB30 on Aug 7, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I found out your comment count doesn’t go down if you comment in a fanpost that then gets deleted.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Aug 7, 2009 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dear visitors to this site
scroll down
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 7, 2009 4:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
So, FanShots are to Fresno as FanPosts are to San Francisco. Got it.
Is there a secret handshake too?
/Looks around to high-five another nOOb.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 7, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
noobs dont hang out in the fanshots
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 8, 2009 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Run along , the both of you.
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 9, 2009 2:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's some of us
that no matter how much we look after finding a neat article just can’t find anything similar posted. I think I’ve had most of my fanshots deleted. I search and search and search, see nothing, hit post and all of a sudden there are two or three that have been there for hours. Sorry mods, I guess I have selective seeing when I’m ready to post.
by paboperfecto on Aug 10, 2009 5:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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