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Put the "official" board to sleep!

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by rutan74, Oct 18, 2011.

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  1. edog55

    edog55 Well-Known Member

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    Guys that I miss are deljzc, SteelHack, PWP, Joey 15215. Those guys make the board real interesting. Can anyone else list some of the great people from the other board? Lets get those people over hear!
     
  2. numbah58

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    All four of those guys as well as TSS have PM's in their mailbox. Ray D went over and actually linked this MB site in a post. :roflmao: I'm very interested to see how long that stays up. He poo-poo'd their rules right in their face. :grin: Now that's FUNNY!
     
  3. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    Oh I'm sure they are long gone, it's like those old west ghost towns where a saloon door lazily swings back and forth, no one in sight, tumble weed blows by. The fact that TTF original thread is still up is proof :rotfl:
     
  4. Ray D

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    As I said over there: they don't even have a code of conduct anymore. Seriously, go try to read it. It's not there.

    And nobody is paying attention. They're gone. We've basically been squatting on an outdated, abandoned piece of software.

    I'm not worried about getting banned. If I get banned, then we know someone is watching and we can raise holy hell.
     
  5. Busman

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    Imagine the havoc that could be created over there if there is nobody manning the forum.. Oh wait. You cant post lol.. At least I could never post.

    What I don't get for the life of me is how the board and as a consequence Steeler fans were treated with such disdain and contempt.

    If they are not going to run a quality forum/message board and it was all for naught then what was the point over the last what 10 years? ( I dont know how long message board was in service and I believe I joined like 7 years ago and it was lively then)

    The Steeler organization usually runs a pretty tight and respectable ship but they dropped the ball ( no pun intended) on this one.

    Bman
     
  6. Ray D

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    Maybe it just became too much of a hassle to them. They used to have someone working full time on the board, fan zone, etc. But it seemed like a lot of work for one person.

    Remember when registration was easy, and we got spammer, trolls, and sock puppets galore? Seemed like every game, there would be 20-30 new users who served no purpose than to disrupt the board. They would make 20, 30, even 50 threads to bump all the good threads way down, abuse members, use a ton of profanity, post links to pornographic sites, etc. Poor Teresa. She couldn't keep up with the deluge.

    That's why they made it so you couldn't register on gameday, and all new registrations required approval. Then they put in that asinine auto-censor. Yet, still they had problems.

    And the board would crash...a lot.

    So we can almost pinpoint when they abandoned the board. It was the day after the last approved registration. :grin:

    Perhaps they even figured that they couldn't keep up with the private boards. Even the Tribune had a message board (that for a time, seemed more robust than even the "Official" board. Maybe it even still is. I haven't visited in a loooong time). Maybe they figured, "Hey, it's one less hassle, and the fans who want a message board have other options."

    If that's how they want to run it, fine. I'll always find a board to discuss whatever I wish to discuss. Long before even the Official board, I was a regular poster on usenet forums. Now THAT was the wild west. It was fun, but it was not moderated, and as such, it wasn't family friendly AT ALL. :roflmao: Thankfully, better web based forums (like this one) all but killed usenet. I hadn't been in there for years. I went back 2-3 years ago just to see how it was and it was nothing but bots for the most part.

    In the end, this place serves my purposes very well. If they pull the plug on the old board (assuming they even know it's still - kinda - functional), I still have a home. :cool:
     
  7. numbah58

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    You're right, there is no code of conduct that I can find.

    Might as well ban me, I can only post once a day sometimes a little less, sometimes more.

    What a joke..

    Oh well, I'm home now. :yahoo:
     
  8. Somathus

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    Took me a long time to get over a thousand posts on the old board, but I am tired of the drama. Damn emoticons still won't work with Firefox... :cry:
     
  9. Busman

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    Welcome Somathus. Yeah its turned into a real poop hole over there. I have over 3300 posts . This is the best place to be in my estimation :)

    Bman
     
  10. edog55

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    Thanks for that info numbah58. Thats good news. I hope those guys in addition to TSS hurry up and get here.
     
  11. santeesteel

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    I want to see Drunkhilbilly and pimplydan! :herewego!:
     
  12. Da Stellars

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    Finally decided to join...

    I always liked deljzc and Vrab since they were the most informative. Del is probably not coming back...he started his own Blog, but I don't even think he posts on his own blog a lot.
     
  13. numbah58

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    Del PM'd his blog to me last year.

    He hasn't written on his blog since the Colt game.

    I'm not sure what's going on with him. I sent him a PM but haven't heard back from him. Maybe I'll try sending him a message through his blog comments section.

    Vrabinec is a pretty busy guy from what I understand. I expect him to meander his way over eventually. Probably not until TC next year though is my guess.
     
  14. mac daddyo

    mac daddyo Well-Known Member

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  15. Blast Furnace

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    Glad you made it Mac! :thumbsup:

    There's still a few others on that sinking ship, I think they might go down with it :doh:
     
  16. numbah58

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    SteelCity NB made it, jeh should be here soon, still looking for TSS, Deljzc, gpguy, PWP, Joey, Steel_Elvis, DraftAntaj and a few others.
     
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