Writing a paper on Saddoboxing

Hello my fellow Saddoians. I have to write a paper on a specific cultural group for my Cultural Anthropology class and I think I might write it on the culture of Saddo's - so I've posted this to solicit your opinions on what the culture of the forum would be and what roles certain posters play in that culture, gender divisions (if any), what the hierarchy would be, how are roles determined, taboo's, customs, rituals, etc - basically anything you can think of that would pertain to the culture of Saddo's.

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Shove those cc's up ya clacka ,You lazy prick you want us to do all your work for you. :)
Good thought.

It started with Saddo a lonley poster waining away on a dying boxing forum ;he found himself wanting to create a space in the world for his friends ,boxing fans and boxers to continue to have fun in.
A type of evolving space that wasnt and isnt available in any other boxing forums.
It started out from England originally but you'll find he has moved and its now ran from Englands old and worse enemy territories ...yes Saddo is now an SAS ;(saddo assimilating) working from behind enemy lines,just incase something starts up again,we can rest easily.

Well heres a quick rundown:

NaseemHamed forum > SaddoBoxing

Saddo himself used to post on the Naseem forum before when Naz lost to MAB the site pretty much got invaded by people trash talking and the site went down the drain. Saddo decided to create a forum where the legit people could go now that the Naz forum had been trashed. So he decided to create Saddo Boxing that I know of Mark_TKO used to post on the Naz forum I'm sure theres others who have posted here. As far as roles well wow! where to start theres used to be a lot of "What if Naz" threads early on here meaning what if Naz would have beat MAB, what if Naz was still fighting.... Those are the earliest debates I saw here at the same time there was a Klitschkos battles people who liked them vs. people who didn't. Then came Hatton vs. Tszyu and Calzaghe vs. Lacy..
Wow! talk about some heated debates there I mean threads were 10 to 15 pgs. long of GOOD debating with the occaisional idiot here and there talking nonsense.
As far as hierarchy goes It's pretty simple.
Saddo
everyone else
I mean he runs this place he calls the shots and he makes things happen. We're a community where we all pitch in and bring something to the table wether it's a link to an article or a good comment we all contribute somehow.

As far as gender division I don't think theirs one.
At this moment that I know of we have Katfight & gally as the only active female posters... I think *Starlet* is also a female but I'm not sure. Other female posters here that have made some kind of impact here have been:
Star
rebekah
jade2_uk
P.G.H. Angel Eyes
lisa_25
emma
OscarEllaHoya

As for rituals well theres the
Who are you?
Who arest thou?
Hope this helps.
CC
SC
Replace your flux capacitor.
That is all.
Silence you village idiot.

Thanks Andre and Mick.

Thats funny first time I came across Saddoboxing, I was searching Naseem Hamed on google and his forum had a saddo banner on it, or it was directly under it on the search page. Too many bongloads.....cant remember shit....

I think theres a place in here somewhere that has all the posters from No 1 onwards, the first 50 or so were all from Nazs original forum from the first couple of weeks change over ,after the final post and few emails spread around a mix came over to join Sad mon ,English ,Mex,Usa and Aussie,most of the smarter/funnier posters came over to Saddos; some of the originals can b found on HAttons forum which got its major boost and all its original help from Saddo himself . Saddo was aka Saddo lonely poster on Nazes; C I wasnt lieing.

Thats cool that your doing research on saddos!

There is sort of a hierarchial system in place here.

Saddo

Moderators

The Enforcers that keep the place in check

The "made guys."

(Guys that have a big rep here but not Mod-types i.e Bilbo VD)

The Hustlers

Guys on the way up....Me i guess...

Amateurs and newbies

Newbies are the freshest and often most active. However they may develop into the amateur poster who only posts very occasionally or sadly often leaves their Saddoboxing account neglected

Guests

I refer to them as "the others" The unseen sneaky types that lurk in the shadows of Saddos realm

Thanks for the info guys, I can email the finished paper to you if anyone actually wants to read it (which would surprise the hell outta me).

You should look into the trainer section. IT has evolved from an original thought between friends into a field of knowledge and attraction to many fighters. People from many fight styles share their experiences and ideas in there.

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You should look into the trainer section. IT has evolved from an original thought between friends into a field of knowledge and attraction to many fighters. People from many fight styles share their experiences and ideas in there.

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Yeah, the ask the trainer section is great. I used to look at it a lot more frequently than I do now, back when I was learning to box (just recreationally, nothing serious) for tips and advice.

Don't forget to mention the "cool-click" system of "checks and balances" and the built-in arcade room where Bilbo's reign was short and without audience.

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Don't forget to mention the "cool-click" system of "checks and balances" and the built-in arcade room where Bilbo's reign was short and without audience.

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Thanks BG, I forgot all about the arcade... I'm starting to think my paper is going to run well over the 7 page limit...

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Originally Posted by CFH

Hello my fellow Saddoians. I have to write a paper on a specific cultural group for my Cultural Anthropology class and I think I might write it on the culture of Saddo's - so I've posted this to solicit your opinions on what the culture of the forum would be and what roles certain posters play in that culture, gender divisions (if any), what the hierarchy would be, how are roles determined, taboo's, customs, rituals, etc - basically anything you can think of that would pertain to the culture of Saddo's.

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I think for the most part you could make a comparison between Saddo's and the religions of the world. Basically, like all religions there are a hardcore of fanatics who will back their fighter to the point that they will trash talk any other fighter that is even suggested that could be better than their fighter. Those are your terrorists and suicide bombers, willing to die for their cause.

The majority of the forum falls into the fairly moderate category, boxing fans who have their favourites but are open minded to finding out about new fighters, and enjoy the sport of boxing, rather than just following the one fighter.

And then we have the freaks, geeks and loners, otherwise known as "Let's Get it On", the Adult 1000+post hidden board and the British forum respectively.

Personally, I do like to go to the Calendar section for a bit of Buddhist meditation and reflection. Nowhere like it for pure unadulterated peace and quiet.

Good luck mate!

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Hello my fellow Saddoians. I have to write a paper on a specific cultural group for my Cultural Anthropology class and I think I might write it on the culture of Saddo's - so I've posted this to solicit your opinions on what the culture of the forum would be and what roles certain posters play in that culture, gender divisions (if any), what the hierarchy would be, how are roles determined, taboo's, customs, rituals, etc - basically anything you can think of that would pertain to the culture of Saddo's.

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I think for the most part you could make a comparison between Saddo's and the religions of the world. Basically, like all religions there are a hardcore of fanatics who will back their fighter to the point that they will trash talk any other fighter that is even suggested that could be better than their fighter. Those are your terrorists and suicide bombers, willing to die for their cause.

The majority of the forum falls into the fairly moderate category, boxing fans who have their favourites but are open minded to finding out about new fighters, and enjoy the sport of boxing, rather than just following the one fighter.

And then we have the freaks, geeks and loners, otherwise known as "Let's Get it On", the Adult 1000+post hidden board and the British forum respectively.

Personally, I do like to go to the Calendar section for a bit of Buddhist meditation and reflection. Nowhere like it for pure unadulterated peace and quiet.

Good luck mate!

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Good points bro, if there's room in the paper I'll definately include that.
I'm still trying to get to 1000 posts just so I can see the ultra-hidden board. I should just create a post-count raising thread in the spam section like Bilbo did.

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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Originally Posted by katfight

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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As the rapper says....X gonna give it to ya.

and he does in his usual tasteful way ;D ;D ;D :-X

Mrs Memphis wrote a paper on Saddo's. I say saddos what it actually was was an article examining the difference between an amateur and a professional journalist. I was the amateur and the professional piece was written by some bloke at the Washington post.

Sounds really boring but when I got to read the finished article it was really interesting.

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Mrs Memphis wrote a paper on Saddo's. I say saddos what it actually was was an article examining the difference between an amateur and a professional journalist. I was the amateur and the professional piece was written by some bloke at the Washington post.

Sounds really boring but when I got to read the finished article it was really interesting.

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I don't suppose you've got a link to it do you? I've been on both sides of the fence, so I'd like to see what conclusions she's drawn. Cheers mate.

I'll mail it to you Rhun

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Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla

Don't forget to mention the "cool-click" system of "checks and balances" and the built-in arcade room where Bilbo's reign was short and without audience.

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:fyou:

And don't think I've forgotten about that Vlax trophy either. I'm just waiting until I've got some ultra longlife batteries for my wireless keyboard and then I'm setting that pogo maniac to jump up and down for 48 straight hours. I'll slaughter your score and have my coveted trophy back! :banllama:

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Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Thats cool that your doing research on saddos!

There is sort of a hierarchial system in place here.

Saddo

Moderators

The Enforcers that keep the place in check

The "made guys."

(Guys that have a big rep here but not Mod-types i.e Bilbo VD)

The Hustlers

Guys on the way up....Me i guess...

Amateurs and newbies

Newbies are the freshest and often most active. However they may develop into the amateur poster who only posts very occasionally or sadly often leaves their Saddoboxing account neglected

Guests

I refer to them as "the others" The unseen sneaky types that lurk in the shadows of Saddos realm

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nice way of putting it

not sure the mafia would be as feared if they had a hobbit as a made guy though.

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Originally Posted by katfight

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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The papers pretty much done Kat, so if you actually want to read it send me a message with your email acct. and I will email it to you as soon as it is complete. I'll warn you though, its not terribly interesting, its just about what makes Saddoboxing a social/cultural group and on how an anthropologist would study it.

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Originally Posted by katfight

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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The papers pretty much done Kat, so if you actually want to read it send me a message with your email acct. and I will email it to you as soon as it is complete. I'll warn you though, its not terribly interesting, its just about what makes Saddoboxing a social/cultural group and on how an anthropologist would study it.

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Definitely post it up mate, I'm sure a lot of us would find it interesting. I'd certainly like to see what our group is like from an anthropological point of view.

What would be really great is if we could find Britkids body. His fossil skull would certainly shed light on the human ability for processing pointless information and anal statistics.

He would be like the Lucy skeleton of Saddo's and you could be Don Johansson. 8)

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Originally Posted by katfight

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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The papers pretty much done Kat, so if you actually want to read it send me a message with your email acct. and I will email it to you as soon as it is complete. I'll warn you though, its not terribly interesting, its just about what makes Saddoboxing a social/cultural group and on how an anthropologist would study it.

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Definitely post it up mate, I'm sure a lot of us would find it interesting. I'd certainly like to see what our group is like from an anthropological point of view.

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Actually, I believe that he was using his archaeological skills when it came to your part of the saddo's society. ;)

Quick question: How can man study himself? That is what antropology is isn't it? Man studying his own behaviors? Once they come upon some unfavorable revelation about themselves, wouldn't they change and therefore alter to purpose of the study? ???

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Quick question: How can man study himself? That is what antropology is isn't it? Man studying his own behaviors? Once they come upon some unfavorable revelation about themselves, wouldn't they change and therefore alter to purpose of the study? ???

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Psychology:
My mate is doin it.
Apparently the great problem of Psychological examinations is the difficulty in which the psychologist finds himself when examining his subject. Us human are too easily swayed by emotions and opinions and this prevents us from being able to analyse the brain and other humans as accurately as an emotionless, fact-fuelled computer would...

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Psychology:
My mate is doin it.
Apparently the great problem of Psychological examinations is the difficulty in which the psychologist finds himself when examining his subject. Us human are too easily swayed by emotions and opinions and this prevents us from being able to analyse the brain and other humans as accurately as an emotionless, fact-fuelled computer would...
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I'd have thought thats a pretty single eyed point of view from one sector isnt it? I'd have thought its a difference most prefer in an analyst checking into your emotional and mental state ??? Thats the difference between us and computers we can feel what others tell us about their past or their future view of things which are the major stems of any problem;fear of one or the other, occuring or repeating.

Don't know if I can be much help and not sure what sort of things your paper requires but i'll give you a few notes on some observations of saddo

1. It's got members from all over the world communicating almost as one unit. i.e. race, colour, nationality, gender does not really play any part in heirarchy of the site. No one gets any more or less respect or credit for these things. Anyone can come here and be on an even plane from the start.

2. One thing i've noticed about this forum and it's community is that everyone actually does have an unspoken respect for each other.. Some of us display it in very very strange ways but I think that no one on here really earns people disliking him. This is the only forum and possibly the only community i've known where their isn't a certain number of people who try to show off, or act better than others or things like that. It's hard to put into words, but I think it may come back to the fact that all our origins are rooted in some way to boxing and the type of sport it is. It's very raw, primal, competitive, you on your own with only yourself to protect you, toughness of mind and body..... I think being involved in this sport commands a certain amount of respect from others. And it reflects on here. No one feels they need to "impress" anyone here..... When in fact that type of behavoir is very very important and prominent in real life,,, though here it does not seem to exist much at all.

3. The respect and possibly "admiration" for others that is displayed here makes for a great platform for people to discuss person issues or problems, have everyday discussions, tell jokes, shoot the sh!t, and just about anything else...
There just seems to be a pre-concived eveness of field on here.... Everyone perhaps attempts to meet on the same level in some way, and it works very well and makes this a place worth coming back to and sharing experiences on...


Ummm, yeah sh!t i dunno what i'm saying, that's just my notes... If your teacher gave you any guidelines or requirements of the paper or just any notes at all or background of the specifics you've been studying, you should post them up so we have a little better idea what sort of crap you want us to talk about....



I'm with the person who said your a lazy ba$tard and wanted us to write your paper for you... brilliant idea none the less though....

I would have done the same paper on the seduction community based on that book "the game"... That would have been very interesting for the teacher to read..

But anyway, hope some of my throughts were relevant in some way. Good luck with it.

Oh, I wrote my post before seeing that you had nearly finished the paper.. Good work anyway.



A book you might find very interesting is called

"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins

It talks about how our Gene's are designed ultimately for survival & replication,,,, and every feeling and emotion we have can be traced back to that, and it discusses very deeply and interestingly how it all relates... I'm not a huge fan of that type of stuff, but I stumbled upon that book and I literally couldn't put it down and my mind was just blown so freakin wide open by the million and one interesting facts and discussions in that book...
You can find it in share programs, but if your truley lazy, just shoot me off your e-mail and i'll send you my e-book copy of it... It's seriously worth reading if your even 1/1000th interested in psychology..

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Psychology:
My mate is doin it.
Apparently the great problem of Psychological examinations is the difficulty in which the psychologist finds himself when examining his subject. Us human are too easily swayed by emotions and opinions and this prevents us from being able to analyse the brain and other humans as accurately as an emotionless, fact-fuelled computer would...
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I'd have thought thats a pretty single eyed point of view from one sector isnt it? I'd have thought its a difference most prefer in an analyst checking into your emotional and mental state ??? Thats the difference between us and computers we can feel what others tell us about their past or their future view of things which are the major stems of any problem;fear of one or the other, occuring or repeating.
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That was precisely my point Andre, our ability to assess ourselves is restricted by our emotional involvement with the subject.
When a psychologist or psychiatrist undertakes an examination of a patient or subject, they must actively try to remain impartial and unattached from the subject. Should they succeed in remaining unaffected by the persons emotion or their own emotion, they also have to struggle with another conflict of interests. The opinions/mindset/morals and attitude may conflict with those of the person performing the analysis and this will alter the chemistry between the two people.

Comical example:
Psychologist is a PAC Fan.
Subject hates PAC.

Subject: I hate Manny Pacquaio and i wish he would die.

As this conflicts with the beliefs, emotions and sentiments held by the psychologist it may be diagnosed as.

Psychologist:

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Psychology:
My mate is doin it.
Apparently the great problem of Psychological examinations is the difficulty in which the psychologist finds himself when examining his subject. Us human are too easily swayed by emotions and opinions and this prevents us from being able to analyse the brain and other humans as accurately as an emotionless, fact-fuelled computer would...
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I'd have thought thats a pretty single eyed point of view from one sector isnt it? I'd have thought its a difference most prefer in an analyst checking into your emotional and mental state ??? Thats the difference between us and computers we can feel what others tell us about their past or their future view of things which are the major stems of any problem;fear of one or the other, occuring or repeating.
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That was precisely my point Andre, our ability to assess ourselves is restricted by our emotional involvement with the subject.
When a psychologist or psychiatrist undertakes an examination of a patient or subject, they must actively try to remain impartial and unattached from the subject. Should they succeed in remaining unaffected by the persons emotion or their own emotion, they also have to struggle with another conflict of interests. The opinions/mindset/morals and attitude may conflict with those of the person performing the analysis and this will alter the chemistry between the two people.
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Comical example:
Psychologist is a PAC Fan.
Subject hates PAC.

Subject: I hate Manny Pacquaio and i wish he would die.

As this conflicts with the beliefs, emotions and sentiments held by the psychologist it may be diagnosed as.

Psychologist: subject showing strong irrational homicidal urges toward a true sporting hero and monument of modern boxing
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Originally Posted by katfight

hahahahaha except posts on the spam board dont count towards ur post count


if u cant write about 1000 post board just write about the anticipation of getting there,the excitement the wonder,the fear(of anything X related hehehe)

good luck

id love to read the finished paper

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The papers pretty much done Kat, so if you actually want to read it send me a message with your email acct. and I will email it to you as soon as it is complete. I'll warn you though, its not terribly interesting, its just about what makes Saddoboxing a social/cultural group and on how an anthropologist would study it.

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thanx for sending me that it were brill i really enjoyed it i've given u another cc thanx ;D

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Saddo of OZ makes this place great. He knows how to run a forum ;)
One could never accuse Saddo of being an absentee landlord.

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:lolhaha:

Saddos is a man behind a curtain. ;D

The paper is done, so thanks for all the help and advice. Everyone in the thread will be CC'd.

Dizaster - you had some really good ideas, I wish I'd read that post before I handed the paper in, but I think I had already incorporated some/most of the things you wrote about. You had some good insight man, you should consider becoming a useless arts student like myself ;D

Kat - I'm glad you enjoyed reading the paper, its not my best work and the editting was really half-assed, but thank you very much for taking the time to read it and for giving a your opinion on it.
I guess in the future I should probably erase my name and student number from the paper before I start sending my university papers out to strangers on the net ;D

If anyone else wants to read it just let me know, I'll send it to ya and you can tell me how much my work sucks.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain :gluur:

hahahahahaahah funny stuff Danny ;)

and CFH you not gonna post it ?

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and CFH you not gonna post it ?

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The boss man himself visiting my thread... I'm honored :allhail:

I haven't posted it because its about 8 pages (double spaced) long, so I don't really know where/how to post it, because it would be too big for a thread, wouldn't it?

I have no problem posting it on here if people want to read it, I just don't know how... I guess I could just post it in its own thread or something - I'll give it a shot after work.