This place has officially turned into JJHuddle = a ghost-town

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Sep 11, 2015 2:58 PM
Pretty sad/depressing when you land on the Serious Business thread, and of the 19 new threads... 2 of them are "Moved:" and 6 of them are "Best and Worst..." started by the same poster. This is no slant at Belly, because I give Belly all the credit in the world for TRYING to keep this place somewhat entertaining, but the simple fact is the Trolls have ruined this place and it's been on life-support for quite some time now, and I feel like all these stagnant "Best and Worst of's" are perfect examples. Such a shame...

Normally I'd say I could give 2 sh!ts, but ElevenWarriors has damn near ruined their site too now by hiding comments and requiring users to click "Show All Comments". That place has become quite annoying as well now.
Sep 11, 2015 2:58pm
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Sep 11, 2015 2:59 PM
Go Find Yourself.
Sep 11, 2015 2:59pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:02 PM
But yes in general I agree. Message boards are dying a slow death and its no different here.
Sep 11, 2015 3:02pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:02 PM
It's a troll forum now. Accept it.
Sep 11, 2015 3:02pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:09 PM
I disagree. The trolls aren't the problem. The lack of active users is the problem.

This is really no fault of anyone but I will blame Obama before QO does.
Sep 11, 2015 3:09pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:12 PM
Active users ran off by nonsense. I still like it though!
Sep 11, 2015 3:12pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:14 PM
Scarlet_Buckeye;1749845 wrote:Pretty sad/depressing when you land on the Serious Business thread, and of the 19 new threads... 2 of them are "Moved:" and 6 of them are "Best and Worst..." started by the same poster. This is no slant at Belly, because I give Belly all the credit in the world for TRYING to keep this place somewhat entertaining, but the simple fact is the Trolls have ruined this place and it's been on life-support for quite some time now, and I feel like all these stagnant "Best and Worst of's" are perfect examples. Such a shame...

Normally I'd say I could give 2 sh!ts, but ElevenWarriors has damn near ruined their site too now by hiding comments and requiring users to click "Show All Comments". That place has become quite annoying as well now.
So what have you done to bring people to this site?
Sep 11, 2015 3:14pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:15 PM
Yep. Free entertainment with a nice combination of smartasses and dumbasses with the dumbasses generally operating under some degree of butthurt because the smartasses made fun of them.
Sep 11, 2015 3:15pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:16 PM
like_that;1749854 wrote:So what have you done to bring people to this site?
Movie reviews!
Sep 11, 2015 3:16pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:28 PM
Everyone is a dick on here that's why. Not even messing around with your buddies assholeishness either, just not very fun at all. Only thing that made it a little fun was messing with Indians fans
Sep 11, 2015 3:28pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:33 PM
Classyposter58;1749858 wrote:Everyone is a dick on here that's why. Not even messing around with your buddies assholeishness either, just not very fun at all. Only thing that made it a little fun was messing with Indians fans
Translation: I haven't posted much because the Tigers suck now.
Sep 11, 2015 3:33pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:34 PM
Classyposter58;1749858 wrote:Everyone is a dick on here that's why. Not even messing around with your buddies assholeishness either, just not very fun at all. Only thing that made it a little fun was messing with Indians fans
Translation: I have nothing.
Sep 11, 2015 3:34pm
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Sep 11, 2015 3:35 PM
Classyposter58;1749858 wrote:Not even messing around with your buddies assholeishness either, just not very fun at all
I don't have any buddies that articulate the absolute stupidity that you do on here. When you say the dumb things you do, you get shit for it. And not "messing around with you buddies" shit, but "you're a f'ing dumbass" shit.

Heretic had it perfectly. "Yep. Free entertainment with a nice combination of smartasses and dumbasses with the dumbasses generally operating under some degree of butthurt because the smartasses made fun of them."

Classy, you fit into the dumbasses category. No wonder it's not fun for you.
Sep 11, 2015 3:35pm
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Sep 11, 2015 4:07 PM
Dude, who posts reviews of twilight and then has the nerve to say this place is pathetic? Twilight....
Sep 11, 2015 4:07pm
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Sep 11, 2015 4:15 PM
i quite like it here, it's got a little bit of everything.

senile old men, morons buying $400 coolers, delusional millenials, etc.

anyone else surprised that belly had time to make those moronic best/worst threads but didn't make a 9/11 post this morning?
Sep 11, 2015 4:15pm
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Sep 11, 2015 5:00 PM
Twitter happened. Not trolls. I go to Twitter first for almost everything. This place is still fun for Cleveland sports.
Sep 11, 2015 5:00pm
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Sep 11, 2015 5:05 PM
ZWICK 4 PREZ;1749874 wrote:Twitter happened. Not trolls. I go to Twitter first for almost everything. This place is still fun for Cleveland sports.
I agree with Zwick. I think this place is still pretty good when it comes to sports (specifically football and basketball and more so for anything Cleveland/OSU related).
Sep 11, 2015 5:05pm
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Sep 11, 2015 5:24 PM
The biggest draw of JJ and this place was the ST/I and the Serious Business. But, now with Twitter, and the fact the majority of us are now in our late 20s or older and not early 20s anymore, we dont come here for breaking news.

I have never really been bothered by trolls or lack of users, however, I have about 1/3 of the amount of time I used to have for online forums. Maybe less. Im pretty much on here late at night, or when I am traveling and have a layover/delay/whatever. Very rarely do I have time to be online from 10am-2am like I used to.
Sep 11, 2015 5:24pm
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Sep 11, 2015 5:57 PM
Fly4Fly ran quite a few posters off coupled with his ridiculously idiotic modding, and no oversight from Justin. That coupled with twitter/everyone growing up etc... explains the site traffic being down. We need more early 20s/older ppl whose kids are out of the house to sign up to keep traffic going.
Sep 11, 2015 5:57pm
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Sep 11, 2015 6:06 PM
coupled with his ridiculously idiotic modding
The moderating of this forum as a whole is rather shameful and unbecoming of what this site was supposed to be.
Sep 11, 2015 6:06pm
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Sep 11, 2015 6:48 PM
Heretic is spot on. This forum was divided between the easily butt hurt (i.e. cry4fail) and people who like to fuck with other people/dont let the feelz get in the way like me. I think the vote to take down cry4fail did it in. Justin most likely thought it would be a landslide win for cry4fail, but unfortunately it wasnt. I recall over 60 posters voting in that poll and the "feelz dont get hurt easily" people took it by 3-4 votes. After that vote the hurt feelz crew slowly disappeared, because they no longer had cry4fail over stepping his boundaries and targeting people. The exact opposite would have happened if cry4fail remained a mod (cry4fail already drove off good posters). In fact we had a group of 18+ posters who were ready to boycott.

Take that event and add in the other reasons already stated here (forums are dying, we are getting older, etc) and this is what we have. I still enjoy it though, because i never took it too seriously. The ones who left took the OC as seriously as their lives. I will be here until the site officially goes down.
Sep 11, 2015 6:48pm
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Sep 11, 2015 6:56 PM
Also, I never really used the OC or JJ Huddle for my news. I used it to discuss the news. I would still take the discussion here over any comments section on any media source. If we think our threads are a shit show, just read the comments to ESPN articles.
Sep 11, 2015 6:56pm
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Sep 11, 2015 6:57 PM
Letting cry4fail run amok had pretty horrible long term implications. We lost several good posters (DW, Hoops, KR) due to him being a POS and Justin wouldn't listen.
Sep 11, 2015 6:57pm
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Sep 11, 2015 7:03 PM
For those who are fans of The Wire, the OC was like Hamsterdam when it first started. Nobody had to worry about JJ's policing and it was a organized shit show. Then ad sense got ahold of it and the OC was forced to send idiots like cry4fail juke the stats.
Sep 11, 2015 7:03pm
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Sep 11, 2015 7:10 PM
like_that;1749888 wrote:For those who are fans of The Wire, the OC was like Hamsterdam when it first started. Nobody had to worry about JJ's policing and it was a organized shit show. Then ad sense got ahold of it and the OC was forced to send idiots like cry4fail juke the stats.
Yep. DW, Hoops (good posters) infracted and ran off by QQ4Fail. Meanwhile dipshits like dynasty were allowed to run free sending threatening PMs.


Anyways, enough QQing. Either get more ppl to the site or pray for the Browns to make the playoffs.
Sep 11, 2015 7:10pm