Things Are Getting Bad on the Other Huddle

• vdubb96

  

  Good info redrider!!!! Your always on top of it!!!
• Nate

  I highly doubt this pay to post thing will last long over there. I just hope no one gives in to them if they do.
• Heretic

  

  Keebler wrote: I highly doubt this pay to post thing will last long over there. I just hope no one gives in to them if they do.

  I won't be. I'm a GODerator here. There, I'm just a peon who's been IP-banned on my home computer.
• Nate

  Heretic wrote:

  Keebler wrote: I highly doubt this pay to post thing will last long over there. I just hope no one gives in to them if they do.

  I won't be. I'm a GODerator here. There, I'm just a peon who's been IP-banned on my home computer.

  I just think there is so much bad blood with the new gay gay rulers that it's slowly going to go down like the Titanic.
• se-alum

  

  Your always on top of it!!!

  Ahhh....that's what she said!!
• RedRider1

  

  se-alum wrote:

  Your always on top of it!!!

  Ahhh....that's what she said!!

  Missed it...good one alum.
• Free_is_better

  se-alum wrote:

  Your always on top of it!!!

  Ahhh....that's what she said!!

  wrong. Want to know what she really said? Nothing because her mouth was full.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  se-alum wrote:

  Your always on top of it!!!

  Ahhh....that's what she said!!

  GONG!
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  Free_is_better wrote:

  se-alum wrote:

  Your always on top of it!!!

  Ahhh....that's what she said!!

  wrong. Want to know what she really said? Nothing because her mouth was full.

  GONG!
• vdubb96

  

  I was waiting for either one of you two get that one!!! Good work!
• Apple

  

  7:00 pm on Friday during the playoffs and avatars are still turned on...
• tiger1990

  Apple wrote: 7:00 pm on Friday during the playoffs and avatars are still turned on...

  
• Al Capone

  Since around high noon:
  freehuddle-1450 posts
  jjhuddle-500 posts
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  Things are moving over there.
• justincredible

  

  Al Capone wrote: Since around high noon:
  freehuddle-1450 posts
  jjhuddle-500 posts

  They're on FI-YAH!
• tcby99

  yeah
• dwccrew

  

  FREEhuddle as in FREEdom. JJhuddle as in communist bastards!
• wes_mantooth

  

  I think I need to quit this forum and just pay the $12 over there. I need discipline in my life!!!
  
  This "anything goes" type of forum has got me on the edge of madness.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Just pay JC $12 and he'll ban you for a month.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Cleveland Buck wrote: Just pay JC $12 and he'll ban you for a month.

  I wouldn't give that son of a bitch a nickel of my money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Al Capone

  Al Capone wrote: Since around high noon:
  freehuddle-1450 posts
  jjhuddle-500 posts

  Thats the good news. The really good news is I think I will be getting banned tonight.
• Curly J

  

  Happens to the best of us Al !
• darbypitcher22

  

  this place is cruisin'.... especially if we have more traffic than JJ...
• Soccerstud01

  Wow JJ got pwn3d.
• gut

  The stupidity behind such business decisions is interesting.
  
  One other huge mistake they made was blocking access from even reading the forums. They figured people would care enough about hearing some info about their local/old high school but there's no hook when they can't read what is there. And to top it off that place is dead.
  
  They had to have data on the last time that place temporarily went subscription. I know I didn't pay but somehow eventually stumbled onto the fact I had access to post for free again. They had to know they were going to lose a high percentage of the regular posters, and as any half-way intelligent highschool kid could tell you traffic is the key to generating eyeballs. I probably checked in there 10 times a day which generates as much ad revenue as probably 100 of your average lurker/infrequent posters. Gee, just one nickle a day from ads off me would be more than $1 a month, huh?
  
  Enough people feel sufficiently po'd here that even if JJ invites everyone back for free I don't think they will recover enough critical mass to bring back people who otherwise don't care. But I won't pronounce their death sentence yet. I suspect they will re-focus their positioning as a family-friendly site for Ohio highschool sports. that's a serious setback and they will have to scale back a lot of the content, but as mentioned no one really cared about that, anyway.
  
  Someone making this decision wasn't too bright. The way to increase revenue and grow that site was to drive traffic to college and pro sports, leveraging the existing poster base because, as mentioned, the hardest part to having a site is getting a critical mass of posters to create enough quality traffic to draw interest. You were tied into an entire state and its highschools - that's a practically unrivaled foundation that gave JJ a legit shot to expand into one of the premier sports social networking sites. Morons dropped the ball.