Quote ="nko11"No problems. We had a number of people trying to hijack the work we had already done. Attempting to push variations and just trying to be difficult. It takes alot to get people motivated to actually tag, they usually just dismiss it as pointless. But the exposure it brings to the game is priceless (and free).'"
I agree, I fear we are fighting more of battle than even you did.
We have had people trying to be difficult, especially at the end of last season. All manner of different tags were coming out, claims about how ridiculous the tags were. There was one person who was going round calling everybody idiots and stupid because Super League would want the sponsors name in it.
It's different now in that it is Super League who are leading the hashtags so there has been less complaint about their nature. People are less willing to argue with the boss. That said, SL aren't pushing it enough in my opinion, they aren't really using them that often in their own tweets. They should have left it to the grassroots as there are a number of people not really interested that enjoyed using them at the end of last season, many journalists for instance.
That's not to say that there hasn't been negativity. I can genuinely understand people that are indifferent to it and people that even think it isn't going to work and as such are unwilling to do it. What I cannot understand is the vitriolic attempts from some people to stop people using them.
It's hardly a life changing thing that is being suggested. It can have benefits as you have pointed out and I did on the blog but if it doesn't work and people don't like it it won't continue and absolutely nothing is lost. I firmly believe though if more tried it they'd see the point.
