i have never seen a forum die like this one.....

[Biggin]

dude please dont make us lose our usernames haha, it took me like two years of fighting to get Biggin back and I dont wanna lose it now. I dont wanna have to bring Bama_Man or Jesus out of retirement. Ive been posting here for a decade now, as has a lot of the older guys. We cant let a decade of work just disappear.

but this place is super dead now, nobody ever posts. Ive been posting here since I was in the 8th grade, Ive grew up in front of yalls eyes. Its sad to see this once great forum go thru such a rough spot. Ill never forget some of the craziness on here.
China cabinet guy (who challenged me to a fight at the Park in BSG but never showed), he who shall not be named, the very first Islam Wars between Freddy and myself, the drama with HWSNBN, R13 (or Burton13 hah)'s explosion on here, the weedeater/pac-man era, etc... Im sure theres a ton more im missing.

but we cant let this place die. There are too many good posters who know a **** ton about sports for this place just to die. Weve lost quite a few but there are still some here. Lung still lurks, PVFAN, CC, hell even mega lurks. We need to get this place rocking again.

[MikeJones]

Nobody post probly cause its over modded. Post about a news caster losing his job and you get cussed in a pm for not putting it in political. A thread about osama getting killed is ok in general. Go figure. Posting should be simpler

[1inStripes]

Nobody post probly cause its over modded. Posting should be simpler

hahahaha

[CoeburnCane]

Nobody post probly cause its over modded. Post about a news caster losing his job and you get cussed in a pm for not putting it in political. A thread about osama getting killed is ok in general. Go figure. Posting should be simpler

If you want to moderate somewhere else and then have people like you second-guess every move you make, then be my guest. I'll take heed to the above only after you do that. It sucks. Were it not for the other 99% of posters on here who don't complain and try to understand how crazy things are here, I'd have left a long time ago.

I'd be willing to put up a poll to see what moniker people would give the "news caster" you called Glenn Beck. Either "news caster", as you put it, or political pundit/entertainer--as he's been self-described and as most I'd wager would call him. Thusly...that got moved to politics. It was my judgement call to moderate it since we had a politics board, and I never backed down from it. Only you, seemingly, had an issue with that. I didn't get a single PM or message from anyone else with a problem with that.

I let the Bin Laden thread go because of it's national significance to everyone. That was the only Bin Laden thread created. Had we had 10 million pop up and they started getting out of hand politically, I would have had to do more. And, once again, it seems only you had an issue with how I handled that...no PM's saying "move the Bin Laden thread elsewhere, please".

Let's open up the conversation--Everyone else not named MikeJones or CoeburnCane: if you have a problem with the way I handled either situation above, then speak up. It will either a) be a learning time for me as a mod and validate MJ's complaint, or b) settle MJ's beef with me. Either way, I'd like to have that resolved instead of having stuff thrown back in my face a month after the fact.

[SunTzu]

Still here since Jim's original board . Seldom post but check in regularly . More of a way to keep up with the happenings back home . We have had some real characters on here during those years , the Good , the Bad and the Ugly !

[basketballguy]

I have been around since the black and green days... granted i was young then. I have had my fair share of experiences here. My other name got lost in the transfer so this was my extra name. The forum has def. died out here as of lately. I usually check this thing daily but rarely post.

[SWVA-Football]

[Ironlung]

Lung still lurks, PVFAN, CC, hell even mega lurks. We need to get this place rocking again.

I'm still here everyday. It's just the ****season and not much to talk about. This place isn't as dead as everyone says. The other day when Rocky made this post I looked at the main page and there were over 30 people viewing at that time. On Fall Friday nights there are still over 100 on about 10-11 pm. When this umpteenth version of hostboard came up a problem arose that wasn't a problem with the old board. It was opened to the public and anyone can read. The last format you had to be a registered user to read which made it easier for someone who didn't intend to post to end up posting anyway.

Regardless, Hostboard is a huge pile of dog**** and I hope they rot in hell. Can't wait till I never have to visit a hostboard site again. My only suggestion is that when the transition takes place send a mass email, put a link on the other forums (G-Man's, the CD, and the CMD site), and leave the link to this forum open for a month or so with a redirect link to the new site.