Are you bannned from the "other" huddle?

• Shane Falco

  Not banned but I'm not paying again
  
  New site= new name
• sleeper

  

  Go_Fast_Sports wrote: Currently there are 147,654 members on JJ's....
  
  I bet more than half don't post or only post once a year.
  
  With that being said.... $1 a month x about 50,000 members... = $50,000 a month x 12 months = an easy $600,000!!!
  
  WTF! Greed ruins this world.

  I don't think they are even close to getting 50,000 people to pay the fee. This forum has 275 members, and I'd be willing to bet that we have 1/3 of the actual activity base from that old forum. This whole thing is going to flop in their face and they will realize what a huge mistake they made. The question is, will any of us go back with this new site up? That remains to be seen, but I doubt it.
  
  Also, like I've said before, they make enough money to cover their server costs, but they have paid staff who want to make more than a couple grand a year writing pointless articles. I know of a similar forum that has about the same amount of members, and I think they paid around $300 a month for their servers. I'd say JJhuddle racks in about a grand a month in ad revenue and you can take that to the bank.
• ts1227

  

  I went out in style last night
• osu45804

  

  I am the last one to respond to the last 8 threads.. Can they ban you for replying to every single thread?
• v_falcons

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  Justin Incredible's site wont last. He is no where near moderator material. He was always instigating and calling people idiots who disagreed with him. His site is poorly organized and doesnt have enough bandwidth
• gorocks99

  

  v_falcons wrote: cavtensity
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  Justin Incredible's site wont last. He is no where near moderator material. He was always instigating and calling people idiots who disagreed with him. His site is poorly organized and doesnt have enough bandwidth

  Just saw this one. Vagtensity is approaching epic douche status. And LOL at "Justin Incredible"
• ts1227

  

  v_falcons wrote: cavtensity
  Huddle Legend Posts: 5,872
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  Justin Incredible's site wont last. He is no where near moderator material. He was always instigating and calling people idiots who disagreed with him. His site is poorly organized and doesnt have enough bandwidth

  JJ's doesn't have enough bandwidth either
• Fly4Fun

  

  Considering most of the prolific posters especially on the ST/I site are already over here... I think this site actually has a shot.
  
  What matters is will people continue to talk and discuss stuff once the JJ Hate dies down.
• sleeper

  

  ^^ This site has been up for less than 3 days and we have already doubled the bandwidth. With almost 300 members, I think he's dead wrong.
• Heretic

  

  Amazingly, Heretic is still on the Huddle. Even though I made multiple posts on the two stickied T/I threads about the change talking about how stupid it was. I think I brought up FFT getting banned because he made a negative comment about the content; how they're paranoid about any mention of "competition" and agreed with Keeperbeast that no one should even check out the free forum, so they don't even get hits from people.
• fan_from_texas

  Fly4Fun wrote: FFT, the most respected Huddler of all time... possibly the GOAT, BANNED? Seriously? Wow JJHuddle has lost their way.

  Yeah, the statement that got me banned was in the thread talking about whether people read the content, or whether they just show up to read the forums. QCB had stated that the content wasn't very good. I echoed his statement and said,
  
  "My thoughts as well. I've tried to read the content a few times, but from what I've seen, it's garbage. It generally reads like a washed-up high school jock attempting to stay relevant by throwing in ESPN-ish catch phrases and worn out cliches. Not only is the writing itself bad (and, from what I recall, could use some serious proofreading), the in-depth analysis is almost entirely lacking."
  
  Apparently, that was enough for a banning. I was on JJHuddle for more than 10 years (FFT was my second username). ~15,000 posts, moderator, never banned or anything. But noting that there were typos in the content I read and worn-out cliches was enough to put me over the edge.
  
  Good riddance.
  
  I remember back in the days of the free Huddle with the flaming posts. Things were good then, even if the rules were a bit tight. Then they switched over to the pay Huddle . . . things were still good, because people didn't want to have to re-register. Then came all the ads and the flood of members . . . then the Huddle dropped all the rules and opened up a new politics forum. At this point, things really went downhill. People would show up, make one or two stupid posts, get banned, and disappear. The Huddle went from being relatively civilized and having good discussion to being YAF (yet another forum). There are only about a million forums on the 'net, and what the Huddle had going for it was mature, meaningful sports discussion without all the namecalling and accusations.
  
  The problem, as I see it, is that JJs/BuckNuts believes the content is what drives people to the Huddle and differentiates them from every other forum out there. That isn't the case--it's the posters who give up their own time to contribute. And those good posters have posted less and less as (1) rules are arbitrarily enforced, and (2) lots of new people show up to post crap (especially on the college football and politics forums).
  
  Now the Huddle is wanting to charge people to post. We have already created their value for them by donating our time to engage in meaningful conversation there. It's not like they are providing a service to us; we were providing a service to them by allowing them to generate ad revenue. I'm not going to pay someone for the right to post on an ad-riddled, newbie-filled site overrun with nonsensical and inflammatory posts, owned and moderated by jerks . . . when I can 'walk down the virtual street' to a site that offers the same capabilities, minus the trash.
  
  The trick will be seeing if freehuddle.com can generate the critical mass of posters it needs to take off. I think this can happen (and its well on its way), but it may be a challenge to sustain the momentum of the post-JJ fallout.
  
  Best of luck, all.
• fan_from_texas

  Also, as an aside: is there any interest in generating content on this site that would provide "forum plus" value? E.g., we could run top 10 (or top 25) polls for each division. We could collaborate with the other forums (Yappi, RC) to compile a BCS-like ranking of OHSF teams. I can go back to generating power rankings. We could come up with a decent amount of information about high school football teams. Would it be worthwhile to see if MACAttack wanted to pair up? I know he's done a lot of the groundwork already.
  
  This isn't something that could be rolled out for this season, but with some work, we could be ready for next football season, if there's interest.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  fan_from_texas wrote: Also, as an aside: is there any interest in generating content on this site that would provide "forum plus" value? E.g., we could run top 10 (or top 25) polls for each division. We could collaborate with the other forums (Yappi, RC) to compile a BCS-like ranking of OHSF teams. I can go back to generating power rankings. We could come up with a decent amount of information about high school football teams. Would it be worthwhile to see if MACAttack wanted to pair up? I know he's done a lot of the groundwork already.
  
  This isn't something that could be rolled out for this season, but with some work, we could be ready for next football season, if there's interest.

  I would be in for this. We could select voters for our own polls, do our own computer rankings. I can write any software we need for computer rankings. I would definitely contribute to something like this where I don't have to go out reporting.
• Trueblue23

  

  They should close the forums for a month and see how much money they lose. The huddle isn't shit without the forum.
• Heretic

  

  The mods there seem to be running out of energy. On the "So Who Has Made It Their Entire Huddle Tenure Gong-Free??" thread, this post has been around for over 4 hours. Reads about like Banana-dude without the pics.
  
  tankthefrank
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  fvck the huddle an those 2 koksucking ..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+..^~+s matt an eric like i said before i hope they wear condoms when they fvck each other in their greedy a$$es
• Cleveland Buck

  

  I didn't really do anything except run some interference for the flameouts last night, but I am still surprised that I am not yet banned.
• Trueblue23

  

  Idk if there is any interest at all, but I'm a HUGE NBA junkie.. I watch about 10 full games a week and I know a lot about basketball. Idk if anyone would care what I have to say but I would be more than happy to contribute my NBA knowledge to a column or something like that.
• Fly4Fun

  

  Trueblue23 wrote: Idk if there is any interest at all, but I'm a HUGE KOBE junkie.. I watch about 10 full games a week and I know a lot about Kobe. Idk if anyone would care what I have to say but I would be more than happy to contribute my Kobe knowledge to a column or something like that.

  Fix'd
• Heretic

  

  Fly4Fun wrote:

  Trueblue23 wrote: Idk if there is any interest at all, but I'm a HUGE KOBE junkie.. I watch about 10 full games a week and I know a lot about Kobe. Idk if anyone would care what I have to say but I would be more than happy to contribute my Kobe knowledge to a column or something like that.

  Fix'd

  Oh lawls, you just done altered someone's quote. That's a beatin'!
• Trueblue23

  

  No I'm unbiased, I just love basketball.
  
  I ALWAYS give LeBron his props.
• krazie45

  

  Got banned yesterday for spamming.....date lifted: never
• Fly4Fun

  

  I know, I just had to tease you... and I wanted to be the first to fix'd quote someone!
• Fab4Runner

  

  Guess I am not banned after all...but I probably will be after my last post.
• osu45804

  

  I'm probably going to wait until later tonight to see some of the carnage before I go out
• rocketalum

  Thought I still had one username that hadn't been banned but just tried to log in....I was wrong.