Belly35;1749942 wrote:Belly theory create threads, creates interest which ends up diverting to a different interest within the thread, that creates additional followers and higher viewing. That is why Belly Matters.

You just created five nearly identical threads which netted 34 responses combined - many that were irrelevant to the original topic.

We've been saying for years we need new members but it's never going to happen. The "new" members are just older ones who quit or were banned. Everyone here is from JJHuddle and are just getting older and lack the time or desire to come here.

It's too bad we don't have some type of leadership or moderation instead of having the same idiots creating Cleveland State threads or whining to themselves on their own personal Browns thread.

I fully expect to log on one day and find the site to be shut down because Justin just said fuck it. In that case, I hope everyone goes and finds themselves.

The guy at least puts it out there.

I'm not a fly4fun fan but even at the time of the vote I knew he was fucked since most of the people who hated him had 10+ screen names and would vote against him.

I can't believe that dumbass poll is still being brought up.

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1749984 wrote:I'm not a fly4fun fan but even at the time of the vote I knew he was fucked since most of the people who hated him had 10+ screen names and would vote against him.

I must not have been around when he was running amok. But I'm also not missing the people who quit because they had problems with the moderation.

like_that;1749859 wrote:Translation: I haven't posted much because the Tigers suck now.

[emoji3]

Until the last day or so I haven't been on Serious Business in months. Even the Pro Sports has little for me. I can't contribute much on Cleveland stuff and while people look at the baseball stuff it's mainly just me posting.

friendfromlowry;1749975 wrote:You just created five nearly identical threads which netted 34 responses combined - many that were irrelevant to the original topic.

We've been saying for years we need new members but it's never going to happen. The "new" members are just older ones who quit or were banned. Everyone here is from JJHuddle and are just getting older and lack the time or desire to come here.

It's too bad we don't have some type of leadership or moderation instead of having the same idiots creating Cleveland State threads or whining to themselves on their own personal Browns thread.

I fully expect to log on one day and find the site to be shut down because Justin just said fuck it. In that case, I hope everyone goes and finds themselves.

What have you done to recruit members?

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1749984 wrote:I'm not a fly4fun fan but even at the time of the vote I knew he was fucked since most of the people who hated him had 10+ screen names and would vote against him.

Justin didn't count those votes. Justin was rooting for cry4fail. If anything he would have accepted the extra screen names for cry4fail.

like_that;1750003 wrote:What have you done to recruit members?

it's not the responsibility of users to "recruit" new members. smh.

MontyBrunswick;1750007 wrote:it's not the responsibility of users to "recruit" new members. smh.

Whether you like it or not a lot of forums gain members thru word of mouth. Especially if you consider how this forum was formed. It is a bit of everyone's responsibility to try and bring members. Justin just happened to be the guy with the technical skills to put the site together. We all collectively left JJ, as a fuck you and wanted to create our own "community." If you are going to bitch (not saying FFL is bitching... SB sure is though) about membership, then maybe you can help bring members in. Also if you do try to bring members to the site, make sure that person's personality would be a good fit for the site, otherwise he/she would leave pretty quickly.

friendfromlowry;1749975 wrote:You just created five nearly identical threads which netted 34 responses combined - many that were irrelevant to the original topic.

We've been saying for years we need new members but it's never going to happen. The "new" members are just older ones who quit or were banned. Everyone here is from JJHuddle and are just getting older and lack the time or desire to come here.

It's too bad we don't have some type of leadership or moderation instead of having the same idiots creating Cleveland State threads or whining to themselves on their own personal Browns thread.

I fully expect to log on one day and find the site to be shut down because Justin just said fuck it. In that case, I hope everyone goes and finds themselves.

In fairness, I've been extra lax on doing anything in recent times due to the impending (ish, maybe) changeover. But if it doesn't happen soon, I can see me just dumping Tiernan in the basement for until that moment comes and then just let whoever gets the place decide what to do with him. It's football season, which means his "trying to hard and failing" and "whatever the topic, I have to make things about me and my 'wealth' and 'wit'" deals is just getting more obnoxious. Iggy, on the other hand, is pure comedic gold. Even though it's 99.99% obvious that his persona is an act, just the thought of a person being such a miserable over-the-top bitch about everything all the time cracks me up consistently. It doesn't matter what the topic, but he'll be whining about it and acting like whatever just happened is a personal insult to his non-existent dignity. That shit is great! Of course, now I'm thinking I should do more to fuck with him, if for no other reason than to inspire one of his "Oh shame on you!" rants that read like they were written by someone's half-senile great-grandmother.

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1749984 wrote:I'm not a fly4fun fan but even at the time of the vote I knew he was fucked since most of the people who hated him had 10+ screen names and would vote against him.

My memory is a bit shaky on things, but I don't recall that being a real concern. I don't think Justin was overly keen on the idea of having the site vote on him when it was just a few vocal people calling for his head, but when a couple people who don't usually get into the drama stuff started complaining, it was decided that something should happen. I do recall alt accounts voting was a concern, so I think there was a decision made to not count votes by known alts and to watch out for votes coming from accounts we weren't familiar with (whether they be new names or old ones with zero or very few posts) in an attempt to try making things as legit as possible. I also can't remember if it was all mods or just me and/or some others, but I at least know I abstained from voting with the goal of making it a pure user vote so there wouldn't be any "We would have voted him out, but the mods backed him 10-0 and he won by 2!" complaints.

All in all, it might not have been a perfect system, but at least it had more transparency than your typical judicial dealings with politicians, pro sports leagues, etc.

Heretic;1750026 wrote:In fairness, I've been extra lax on doing anything in recent times due to the impending (ish, maybe) changeover. But if it doesn't happen soon, I can see me just dumping Tiernan in the basement for until that moment comes and then just let whoever gets the place decide what to do with him. It's football season, which means his "trying to hard and failing" and "whatever the topic, I have to make things about me and my 'wealth' and 'wit'" deals is just getting more obnoxious. Iggy, on the other hand, is pure comedic gold. Even though it's 99.99% obvious that his persona is an act, just the thought of a person being such a miserable over-the-top bitch about everything all the time cracks me up consistently. It doesn't matter what the topic, but he'll be whining about it and acting like whatever just happened is a personal insult to his non-existent dignity. That shit is great! Of course, now I'm thinking I should do more to fuck with him, if for no other reason than to inspire one of his "Oh shame on you!" rants that read like they were written by someone's half-senile great-grandmother.



My memory is a bit shaky on things, but I don't recall that being a real concern. I don't think Justin was overly keen on the idea of having the site vote on him when it was just a few vocal people calling for his head, but when a couple people who don't usually get into the drama stuff started complaining, it was decided that something should happen. I do recall alt accounts voting was a concern, so I think there was a decision made to not count votes by known alts and to watch out for votes coming from accounts we weren't familiar with (whether they be new names or old ones with zero or very few posts) in an attempt to try making things as legit as possible. I also can't remember if it was all mods or just me and/or some others, but I at least know I abstained from voting with the goal of making it a pure user vote so there wouldn't be any "We would have voted him out, but the mods backed him 10-0 and he won by 2!" complaints.

All in all, it might not have been a perfect system, but at least it had more transparency than your typical judicial dealings with politicians, pro sports leagues, etc.

This is all accurate. Also, if you want to dump tiernan to the basement, I say start with his one month ban for his bet against me...http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/showthread.php?46858-Tiernan-or-Like_that

Yes, I am still bringing it up.

like_that;1750003 wrote:What have you done to recruit members?

Nothing. But I think recruiting people to the site to make it more worthwhile is a pipe dream.

Heretic;1750026 wrote:... But if it doesn't happen soon, I can see me just dumping Tiernan in the basement for until that moment comes and then just let whoever gets the place decide what to do with him. ... Iggy, on the other hand, is pure comedic gold. Even though it's 99.99% ...

Reps when you do regarding Tiernan. And I agree about Iggy. I just can't imagine my life being so pointless that I'm posting several times a day - paragraphs long - whining to myself, even if it's trolling or serious.

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1749874 wrote:Twitter happened. Not trolls. I go to Twitter first for almost everything.

Yep.

Laley23;1749877 wrote:the fact the majority of us are now in our late 20s or older and not early 20s anymore,

Another huge point.

GOONx19;1749898 wrote:I still read everything. I used to post everyday in class when I got bored about 5 minutes into each lecture. Now I'm at work from 7-5, and it's hard to find time to post regularly. I still like to read about Ohio sports on here and enjoy most of the banter.

Once college ended, my posting went downhill quick.

I blame posters like Said, but more specifically, Said. He's the worst.

We're all a bit of the blame but it's 2015 and what do you expect from a message board?

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.

It was both. Social media was the shot that maimed it (and most message boards), and the rest of the horseshit here was the additional kill shot.

ernest_t_bass;1750096 wrote:I blame posters like Said, but more specifically, Said. He's the worst.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself . Louis Nizer

ernest_t_bass;1750096 wrote:I blame posters like Said, but more specifically, Said. He's the worst.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself . Louis Nizer

Ironman92;1750127 wrote:We're all a bit of the blame but it's 2015 and what do you expect from a message board?

: thumbup:

Fly4fun... Matters

ALL posters matter

Heretic - you balless blow hard...without me up top delivering the goods this whole thing collapses. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it...You Need Me On That Wall!

The site has lost members in my humble opinion because of the handful of posters who constantly brigade and demean other posters with personal insults. There are plenty of other places to go so why put up with it?

A perfect example in my opinion would be Manhattan Buckeye. I thought the guy was probably an insufferable douche in non-internet life but I at least found his posts to be entertaining in that I often got a laugh out of the things he would post - many of which I considered to be over-the-top/ridiculous, etc. I disagreed with him on probably everything but would consider him to be a quality poster who was driven away.

The guy would dish it to others and very obviously did not like it when that group of individuals started hammering him all of the time. There were times when I would banter with him and quote silly things he had written in the past to mess with him but it got to a point where he couldn't make a post without people attacking him. And so, he probably figured, why stay when there are a million other places to go and not put up with this?