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Serious Business... What happened to This Site?!

  • Get Some
    This site used to be awesome. Great posters. Great threads. Volume... Activity...

    Now... this is place is a near ghost town! You visit this site now and you're lucky if you find 5 new threads in Serious Business and 2 new threads in College Football.

    Serious question here.... Did the trolls (we all know who you are / YOU know who you are) ruin/kill this site?!?!

    I say so. It was only a matter of time before people got fed up with the douchery on this site and left. You have ignorant trolls/internet-bullies who always have to 'flex their internet testicles' and cyber bully other posters; and now I think what you've found is a ghost town of 'internet hardasses' left to troll themselves.

    So sad. Used to love this place and it was 1 of my 2 go to sites. Now sites like Eleven Warriors where you can actually hold an intelligent conversation with other posters and discuss differing opinions have left this site in the dust. It's sad... Because all this site needed was a little moderation (this isn't a shot at Justin... 1 man can't police this site), but had the trolls been dealt with early on, I think this site would still be a metropolis.

    Signed, saddened poster who once loved this site
  • JD413
    lol. As soon as I figured out this place was full of try-hards that thought they were as deep as an ocean, I hardly visited.

    A good forum needs a couple good trolls. Unfortunately, everyone here thinks that they're the good one.

    Carry on, OC. The march into oblivion is an arduous task.

    Hope this helps.
  • salto
    Get Some;1689180 wrote:This site used to be awesome. Great posters. Great threads. Volume... Activity...

    Now... this is place is a near ghost town! You visit this site now and you're lucky if you find 5 new threads in Serious Business and 2 new threads in College Football.

    Serious question here.... Did the trolls (we all know who you are / YOU know who you are) ruin/kill this site?!?!

    I say so. It was only a matter of time before people got fed up with the douchery on this site and left. You have ignorant trolls/internet-bullies who always have to 'flex their internet testicles' and cyber bully other posters; and now I think what you've found is a ghost town of 'internet hardasses' left to troll themselves.

    So sad. Used to love this place and it was 1 of my 2 go to sites. Now sites like Eleven Warriors where you can actually hold an intelligent conversation with other posters and discuss differing opinions have left this site in the dust. It's sad... Because all this site needed was a little moderation (this isn't a shot at Justin... 1 man can't police this site), but had the trolls been dealt with early on, I think this site would still be a metropolis.

    Signed, saddened poster who once loved this site
    You love this site but have six posts. OK, got it.
  • Rotinaj
    Its been around for over 5 years. Im guessing that is longer than most random message boards.
  • Glory Days
    salto;1689183 wrote:You love this site but have six posts. OK, got it.
    Followed up by a guy who hasn't posted in 4 months. Sounds like trolling to me.
  • lhslep134
    JD413;1689182 wrote: Unfortunately, everyone here thinks that they're the good one.
    Ah the good ole pot calling the kettle black.
  • TedSheckler
    Get Some;1689180 wrote:This site used to be awesome. Great posters. Great threads. Volume... Activity...

    Now... this is place is a near ghost town! You visit this site now and you're lucky if you find 5 new threads in Serious Business and 2 new threads in College Football.

    Serious question here.... Did the trolls (we all know who you are / YOU know who you are) ruin/kill this site?!?!

    I say so. It was only a matter of time before people got fed up with the douchery on this site and left. You have ignorant trolls/internet-bullies who always have to 'flex their internet testicles' and cyber bully other posters; and now I think what you've found is a ghost town of 'internet hardasses' left to troll themselves.

    So sad. Used to love this place and it was 1 of my 2 go to sites. Now sites like Eleven Warriors where you can actually hold an intelligent conversation with other posters and discuss differing opinions have left this site in the dust. It's sad... Because all this site needed was a little moderation (this isn't a shot at Justin... 1 man can't police this site), but had the trolls been dealt with early on, I think this site would still be a metropolis.

    Signed, saddened poster who once loved this site
    You won't be missed, nor were you.
  • SportsAndLady
    No one knows who you are dude
  • Commander of Awesome
    New threads doesn't equal quality. This thread is a great example.
  • Heretic
    lhslep134;1689199 wrote:Ah the good ole pot calling the kettle black.
    lol, yeah. This was the dude that started piggy-backing off Tiernan for a bit, right? Two "not good ones" does not equal "the good one" under any situation.
  • Pick6
    Yeah this place has really kicked the bucket. I've found myself spending more time on other places recently.

    Merry christmas.
  • thavoice
    Site is pretty much the same as it was from the beginning, a lower level Minor League site.
  • 4cards
    ...seems to me that this site got popular when JJ huddle started charging people to post and eventually moved on other sites like Yappi and the OC. There is a lot more sports activity on Yappi, so a lot of people then migrated there while others found a home here and have more things to talk about than just sports...IMO
  • Spock
    you guys just made the Op point. This place has more trolls than quality posters.
  • thavoice
    4cards;1689297 wrote:...seems to me that this site got popular when JJ huddle started charging people to post and eventually moved on other sites like Yappi and the OC. There is a lot more sports activity on Yappi, so the migrated there while others found a home here and have more things to talk about than just sports...IMO
    True. It was hopping when it was FreeHuddle and then Justine got intimidated into changing the name.

    The HS sports talk on this site is non existant. On yappi it isnt too bad. Yapp has surpassed the puddle on being the place for talk of HS sports statewide. Both suck though in the every day and pro/college talk. OC does a better job in that respect.
  • IggyPride00
    There is a small but vocal band of trolls (with a handful of moderators in their back pockets) that have destroyed this place with their coordinated campaign to silence any and everyone that isn't in their little tribe.

    With moderator muscle behind them they have been given carte blanche to bully and silence everyone into submission.

    We know who they are, and what they have done to the site is disgraceful.
  • thavoice
    IggyPride00;1689306 wrote:There is a small but vocal band of trolls (with a handful of moderators in their back pockets) that have destroyed this place with their coordinated campaign to silence any and everyone that isn't in their little tribe.

    With moderator muscle behind them they have been given carte blanche to bully and silence everyone into submission.

    We know who they are, and what they have done to the site is disgraceful.
    We need more people like you on this site.
  • lhslep134
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    STFU crybaby
  • queencitybuckeye
    IggyPride00;1689306 wrote:There is a small but vocal band of trolls (with a handful of moderators in their back pockets) that have destroyed this place with their coordinated campaign to silence any and everyone that isn't in their little tribe.

    With moderator muscle behind them they have been given carte blanche to bully and silence everyone into submission.

    We know who they are, and what they have done to the site is disgraceful.
    You have been mistreated badly. You really should consider leaving.
  • Ironman92
    The site is the same....but fucking Maziel overwhelms the site and bring out 3 miserable trolls.

    Sleeper is the only worthy troll on here.
  • Ytowngirlinfla
    Ironman92;1689355 wrote:The site is the same....but fucking Maziel overwhelms the site and bring out 3 miserable trolls.

    Sleeper is the only worthy troll on here.
    That's because sleeper bangs a ton of chicks, makes the other "trolls" jealous.
  • GOONx19
    I don't follow high school sports anymore, so it has everything I really need.
  • Glory Days
    GOONx19;1689361 wrote:I don't follow high school sports anymore, so it has everything I really need.
    This.
  • steubbigred
    some of the mods are trolls like gochiefs .. you can't start any conversation without being trolled and called all kinds of names .
  • GoChiefs
    steubbigred;1689368 wrote:some of the mods are trolls like gochiefs .. you can't start any conversation without being trolled and called all kinds of names .
    There's a difference between trolling and calling you out when you're being an idiot. Learn the difference. It's not my fault you get all butthurt about it.