Also making the switch, but will visit both since I paid the $$ at JJ before I knew of this site. Those of us that did pay the $$, remember to cancel your membership before your year is up or it is an automatic renewal.

Good luck with that..I hear it's quite the pain in the butt to get anything canceled when it comes to Bucknuts.

Tequesta Redskin wrote: Also making the switch, but will visit both since I paid the $$ at JJ before I knew of this site. Those of us that did pay the $$, remember to cancel your membership before your year is up or it is an automatic renewal.

Just a word of caution to you
Do NOT say anything about this site on that site

I paid my $$ and in a post I mentioned this site

I got banned for life

and they will not return my e-mail

at least as of yet they have not

So be warned of the Free speech Nazi's over there!

Great Site.
Go Arrows!

AMazing that you can innocently mention this site and get banned! I can understand if we were just spamming for spamming's sake, but even if you make a reference to this site, or any other, as CONTENT, you are just banned.... No questions asked

No warning, no explanations.... just censored! Give me a break! I've never done anything to even come close to being banned, but now it's like if you make one mistake they just cut you off. Who does that????

Oh... and welcome Timbo! Glad you found it!

Waited a bit to see how it was going, glad to be here.

I sent it this way many times and so far no problem:




Forever since I talked to ya!
Really hoping you'll reply.
Everybody's doing well.
Everybody misses you.
How's things going with you?
Underneath it all I hope you're doing well.
Dare I say I hope you can read vertically.
Don't be discouraged.
Love it or leave it I always say.
Everyone hopes to see you soon
.
Come on!
Off to be with friends.
More to come later!

FanOfCats wrote: Oh... and welcome Timbo! Glad you found it!

Glad to be here! Away from JJ! lol

FanOfCats wrote: AMazing that you can innocently mention this site and get banned! I can understand if we were just spamming for spamming's sake, but even if you make a reference to this site, or any other, as CONTENT, you are just banned.... No questions asked

No warning, no explanations.... just censored! Give me a break! I've never done anything to even come close to being banned, but now it's like if you make one mistake they just cut you off. Who does that????

Nope! I never got a warning. I was a veteran over there (Over 500) posts and I never got in an argument with anyone. I promoted this site once-I will admit it I told someone else on there about this site.

And poof I was vapor! 2 days after paying my $$$ and four days after I had made that post.

You know what I say? Good Bye!
This site has the potential to be better anyways.
And if they keep that up over there, there will be no one left to post with anyways.

I was banned for creating this site. I hadn't posted since I created the site and then a few days later...poof...banned. Reason: account under review. Date ban lifted: never. Not that I care, I had no intentions of ever paying $12 or posting there again. I just found it funny.

Justin, you have a great site and we all appreciate what you have done. Look forward to it only getting better as we get more posters involved. Thanks again.

ManO'War wrote: Thanks justincredible.

My only advice is to keep it simple like it is. I thought JJ's lost it's vision and tried to do too much. People just want a place to post, we don't need feature stories, power polls, and all that other non sense.

Great post!

I was over on JJ for about 5 1/2 years and got gonged once and hassled a few times a couple of years ago. JJ had a good thing going, but I think they made a bad decision on how they handled the "pay to post" set up...I probably won't be as active as over on JJ, but I like this site and hope freehuddle.com becomes very successful.

here is the entire trans action-I am amazed they did this to be honest! all the e-mail transactions follow
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I just received this response
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Your subscription has been cancelled and refunded through PayPal.

JJ Huddle Staff
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I e-mailed them with this
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From:<My name and e-mail was here>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 8:11:59 AM
Subject: Want My Money Back

You guys went pay. I payed my money.
I'm pretty sure I know why I was banned it was because I mentioned that Free Huddle thing.
Someone said something to me about it and I said somethiong about it ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then I thought oh heck its only 12 bucks.And JJ's is really cool anyways, So I paid and never mentioned the Freehuddle thing again.

then I get this that is dated the 12th
Announcement: A Message From JJ
11-12-2009 JJ (Administrator)

You have been banned for the following reason:
Spamming

Date the ban will be lifted: Never
_____________________________
Just thought I would update you guys on what they did
I am surprised I got this much to be honest!
They banned me---BIG DEAL!!!!!---but they did man up and give me my 12 bucks back---so kudos for that much-ya free speech Nazi's

Way to go RoyalNut....you just cut their bank account in half.

Well, here I am. I have continued to post on JJ on the Bleachers site.
I will not pay over there but will continue to post on the free page simply to bug them...lol

As I have said before, I was on another message board (not sport related) and they tried this same thing. People were furious and a site similar to this one was created. The people on the first site furiously deleted any posts that mentioned the new site and banned people for even mentioning the founder of the new sites sn on the old site.

The situation got worse and worse. Then they began banning people who even posted on the new site and made any derogatory words about the moderator of the old site.... they were monitoring the new site and using what people said on the new site as grounds for banning them on the old site. There became a running tally of those sent to "banned camp" (as we called it). I was given a "week long" ban from the old site for mentioning the new site and while I was banned I posted several negative comments about the moderator on the old site (well she was fat in her picture....) and wham... I was banned for life. Pretty good to get permanently banned while being temporarily banned from posting...lol.

In the end, a person threatened a class action lawsuit against the old site because they were attempting to enforce their rules based on another site. (I guess that is illegal.) I never did hear what happened because I stopped posting over there.

The pay site lost so many members that after a few months they were forced to once again open up to all at no cost or not have a viable site. Although most of our old SN's were still banned, we were able to re-register under a new SN and could once again post... WITHOUT PAYING.

If you look at the time stamps on the pay to play boards you will see far fewer posts and some boards that sit there for hours or days with no new posts.

It appears that the new rulers of JJ Huddle have decided that they want to make a little more money and think that their perceived importance is greater than it really is. That forum was started to be a community who could discuss issues and engage in conversation about sports. They have changed it to become a bastion for second rate sports writers like Natali and Frantz to try and show off their extremely poor journalism skills. That is not what was intended when that site was began. Arrogent and pompous Matt Natali believed that people would follow what he wanted to do...but that is the way he is. I actually got to meet him in public just over a year ago and he is just as arrogent and stupid as he comes across on the huddle. Of course, he made for some good jokes later that evening..lol

Great post Full_Count. Unfortunately, I paid for a subscription at the other Huddle, and it has become very boring. And, anytime that we try to discuss it, our threat gets deleted. The censorship is ridiculous. Unfortunately, JJ Huddle will not last. Their poor treatment of its #1 customers has doomed them.

Welcome home Full Count. I was wondering when you'd make the trek over to the light side

It took me a while to get here but I am glad to be here! Great site!!! And like another poster said, just keep it simple!

Full_count wrote: while I was banned I posted several negative comments about the moderator on the old site (well she was fat in her picture....) and wham... I was banned for life. Pretty good to get permanently banned while being temporarily banned from posting...lol.



It appears that the new rulers of JJ Huddle have decided that they want to make a little more money and think that their perceived importance is greater than it really is.

[size=x-large]PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good post![/size]

I got sucked into buying the years subscription to the Ohio High magazine just to gain access to their heavily hyped playoff preview magazine. It turned out to be a total joke. One page per Division. One small (and I mean small) paragraph per region. No team analysis or anything. It was a total ripoff.

knight56 wrote: I got sucked into buying the years subscription to the Ohio High magazine just to gain access to their heavily hyped playoff preview magazine. It turned out to be a total joke. One page per Division. One small (and I mean small) paragraph per region. No team analysis or anything. It was a total ripoff.

We could do a team analysis thread here. My only problem with that. Is I'm looking through Royal Blue and Silver glasses. I see NO WEAKNESSES! LOL another problem is we are playing Norwalk St. Paul. I have seen them play. I did not see any weaknesses there either. YIKES!

oops=off topic-sorry

Glad to be here. I to, made the switch. I was a member @ JJ since 2003 and I wasn't going to pay anymore. I'm not much of a poster,more of a reader. I even changed my moniker for the new site. Good luck and thanks.

RoyalNut wrote:

knight56 wrote: I got sucked into buying the years subscription to the Ohio High magazine just to gain access to their heavily hyped playoff preview magazine. It turned out to be a total joke. One page per Division. One small (and I mean small) paragraph per region. No team analysis or anything. It was a total ripoff.

We could do a team analysis thread here. My only problem with that. Is I'm looking through Royal Blue and Silver glasses. I see NO WEAKNESSES! LOL another problem is we are playing Norwalk St. Paul. I have seen them play. I did not see any weaknesses there either. YIKES!

oops=off topic-sorry

did someone say my name... lol i love this site