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Is this board in any danger of a takeover

JohnShadows

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The Brady/Manning wars were SKRONG
i loved that place
I was a mod of this board when ESPN went down. Talked @HammerDown into starting a sub-forum called The NFL Lounge, that would be more conversational, rock-n-roll like ESPN NFLG was. We recruited during the phase Disney was shutting down, chose this guy RonBorges to be mod. A bunch of those guys joined.

Not one of my better ideas, it went dead quick. Some moved to PSR, others :noidea: The ones who stayed just assimilated into the rest of the site. I still see some around. Think SP was andy something over there. Hippie, Yoga and Dude are others. Hammer banned some guy Pimp of Elegance or something like that, always thought the guy was funny.

on edit: Lol, also the notorious BlueThroughItAll :L
 

Tomhusker

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You guys are not paying attention!
This board has already been taken over - by Patriots fans!!!!!
Nah, that was just a temporary interruption for the Rainbow Coalition parade. Gotta let the phegs be heard.
 

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Great now were gonna get invaded with more stupid newb posts on here....

" Hi I'm Orval and I lick Jerry Jones nut sack!" :L

Like we don't have enough of those dipshits already running around here!

Bring it on! Bring it all on!!
 

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Many of us on this board are expatriates of other message boards that closed down when the economics didn't work or when they sold the boards to other sites that later shut them down. So yes, the threat is legit and you should be in contact with some members of your community via email or some other social media just in case.

For some of us, this has happened multiple times over the past two decades and we have connected on new boards when it did. Some fans were on KFFL, and before that Mouth Off, Sporting News, etc. But every time, you do lose a fair number of people. Message boards are slowly dying as people use Facebook and Twitter to comment on things, or go to bigger, more diffuse communities such as Reddit.

Recently, I have seen a change in the forum/facebook world. Since Facebook had the identity issue that went in front the Supreme Court, I have seen a jump in traffic to most of my forums and including this one. There might be a change and it could be a temp change, but its nice to see the change happening.

Also, this forum will never close down as long as I own it, which could be forever.. ;)

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If I owned this site, would look at running some ads at Reddit on the NFL, CFB (if they have one), NHL and MLB boards. "Biggest sports forum on the Web", something like that. Unless it's cost-prohibitive.

Do they allow those type of ads? I'm not into reddit so I have now idea what the allow or don't allow.
 

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I was a mod of this board when ESPN went down. Talked @HammerDown into starting a sub-forum called The NFL Lounge, that would be more conversational, rock-n-roll like ESPN NFLG was. We recruited during the phase Disney was shutting down, chose this guy RonBorges to be mod. A bunch of those guys joined.

Not one of my better ideas, it went dead quick. Some moved to PSR, others :noidea: The ones who stayed just assimilated into the rest of the site. I still see some around. Think SP was andy something over there. Hippie, Yoga and Dude are others. Hammer banned some guy Pimp of Elegance or something like that, always thought the guy was funny.

on edit: Lol, also the notorious BlueThroughItAll :L
Yep I remember all that
 

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Once, when they banned me, I disputed it. When I filled out the the dispute, all I said was "Un ban me now." I was cleared in about 10 minutes.
Lol
They always s would.....towards the end I would get emails back telling me how terrible I was
 

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Nah, I'll just eventually get tired of using my Hammer/Ford/Shaggy/Mamba alts and just go back to being Ghost.
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