Keerock
Footballguy
Yeah... prolly not PC to ask any of those questions any more.I made this joke reference somewhere recently and they didn’t get the reference.a/s/l?
Ah, what a glorious place the interwebs used to be.
Yeah... prolly not PC to ask any of those questions any more.I made this joke reference somewhere recently and they didn’t get the reference.a/s/l?
Ah, what a glorious place the interwebs used to be.
Yeah... prolly not PC to ask any of those questions any more.I made this joke reference somewhere recently and they didn’t get the reference.a/s/l?
Ah, what a glorious place the interwebs used to be.
Have a seat right over here.Yeah... prolly not PC to ask any of those questions any more.I made this joke reference somewhere recently and they didn’t get the reference.a/s/l?
Ah, what a glorious place the interwebs used to be.
unless you're looking to meet up with Chris Hansen.
I did lose my low number (but for the life of me can't remember what that number was) but I was a 3 digitity. Now, I have to mingle with the masses. It still hurts.Yea, but do you remember the gnashing of teeth when there was a message board change and all the OG 3 digit and lower ended up with high numbers like all the plebs.
Oh yes. The gnashings of teeth all sort of blur together but I definitely remember that one.
Coming down to your floor to meet you and guessing who you were while awkwardly saying Keerock in a loud whisper
We have a group do a Del Mar weekend every year. Hope to do it again. Usually in August. Beer on meI couldn't even entice him to go to Del Mar on opening day. He never even replied. jacket will be missed.Had a chance to hang out with him when he came through Chicago. Great guy and he loves to have fun. So weird he just disappeared off the radar. :(Sonny lubbick blow up doll was good peeps too. He had ins at Del Mar. he took my 7 year old daughter into the paddock during the prerace shenanigans so she could meet the jockeys and pet the horses. Good dude
I’ll be in Nashville April 14-17 if anybody is around. 6 or 7 couples coming to town for a concert + food and Broadway debauchery. Beer on me.Your last statement isn't exactly true, though. The way this forum is moderated is way different than it used to be. I like the way it is now - but let's not pretend it's run the same as it was 20 years ago.
I don't think anyone is pretending. As I said, what is acceptable in 2023 in society is different than than what was acceptable in 2003. So the bar is different. But it's run pretty much the same way.
I'm going to speak now as small business owner to small business owner.
What would probably be helpful was if you just ignored the criticism you get about changes you've made. There are good people on these forums. There are also toxic people who want their own personal little clubhouse for their cliques and "in group" at your expense and don't care if they drive away subscribers and thus are stealing food off your children's plates.
But what will be more effective is uplifting the posters you see who bring good value to the community.
( I am excluding myself from that part of the discussion and from any future engagement on that matter. I don't require external validation. Also it would just increase the number of personal attacks I get and the number of personal attacks you get in total. But the core issue to this is most other people won't brush it off like I do, they'll just leave. )
For example,
@IvanKaramazov
@Chadstroma
@Shula-holic
@Boston
@Snotbubbles
@Ditkaless Wonders
Are some of the guys I see who are consistently high value quality posters who add positive and thoughtful discourse to the community. ( I think someone said Ditka is very ill, which is unfortunate, I wish him well and wish him good health moving forward)
You see guys doing the "right thing" and doing right by the community, then point them out. Cite them as examples to follow. Invite them into threads. Send them a free T Shirt. PM them occasionally and tell them how much you appreciate them.
Reward your good people. Punish and massacre the toxic ones. Don't ask for civility. Enforce your will when people become unreasonable. If they hate you for it? Well, apparently, they don't care enough about being civil enough to ensure your children have food on the table, so why care about what they think about you?
I've said this before, from a small business owner perspective - You can't feel bad about firing someone if their behavior indicates that they've already quit. There are people who simply quit on being civil productive elements in this community. So if they need to be "fired", that's simply confirming how much open disdain they have that you are just trying to earn a living.
But again, uplift, acknowledge and reward your best contributors. Send @Faust some of those hot sauces from @Hot Sauce Guy or something like that. You'll get more mileage that way in setting effective boundaries in the kind of tone you want for this place.
Thanks @GordonGekko I'm with you that we have a bunch of excellent folks. That list plus tons more. We should have a BBQ and Wing Cornhole and I'll get @Hot Sauce Guy to handle the wing sauce!
USA beating ELS by only 1 goal?Just to be clear, are we not allowed to talk about that thing that happened yesterday on here anymore. I don't see a thread, made me wonder. Thx
I dvr'd it. Thanks Francis.USA beating ELS by only 1 goal?Just to be clear, are we not allowed to talk about that thing that happened yesterday on here anymore. I don't see a thread, made me wonder. Thx
I totally played this out in my head like it was an episode of the office or parks and recComing down to your floor to meet you and guessing who you were while awkwardly saying Keerock in a loud whisper
faust is like the a robot from the planet awesometron who just posts so much info in the shark pool that it should probably be named after him take that to the bank bromigosI’m in!Thanks @GordonGekko I'm with you that we have a bunch of excellent folks. That list plus tons more. We should have a BBQ and Wing Cornhole and I'll get @Hot Sauce Guy to handle the wing sauce!
And if you ever want to get @Faust a set of sauces, I’ll do it for cost + shipping. Dude’s a machine.
Sorry bud. Let me help you out more. The USA players got rugby tackled a lot and looked like crap in the first half. Then they woke up after some subs and there were some decent shots. ELS doesn't really have any players worth a damn.I dvr'd it. Thanks Francis.USA beating ELS by only 1 goal?Just to be clear, are we not allowed to talk about that thing that happened yesterday on here anymore. I don't see a thread, made me wonder. Thx
faust is like the a robot from the planet awesometron who just posts so much info in the shark pool that it should probably be named after him take that to the bank bromigosI’m in!Thanks @GordonGekko I'm with you that we have a bunch of excellent folks. That list plus tons more. We should have a BBQ and Wing Cornhole and I'll get @Hot Sauce Guy to handle the wing sauce!
And if you ever want to get @Faust a set of sauces, I’ll do it for cost + shipping. Dude’s a machine.
Wait... why do you care how many profile views you have?I once wrote a script to increase my profile views here, circa 2006. It worked, but it wasn't working fast enough for me. Once I unthrottled it I believe the FBG IDS spot banned my IP. For quite a while I was banned.
If I remember correctly, this was in rebuttal to LHUCKS' nonsense about being a quality poster that everyone looks up to....after all, look at my profile views.Wait... why do you care how many profile views you have?I once wrote a script to increase my profile views here, circa 2006. It worked, but it wasn't working fast enough for me. Once I unthrottled it I believe the FBG IDS spot banned my IP. For quite a while I was banned.
LHUCKSIf I remember correctly, this was in rebuttal to LHUCKS' nonsense about being a quality poster that everyone looks up to....after all, look at my profile views.Wait... why do you care how many profile views you have?I once wrote a script to increase my profile views here, circa 2006. It worked, but it wasn't working fast enough for me. Once I unthrottled it I believe the FBG IDS spot banned my IP. For quite a while I was banned.
I remember have double digit number on FFT, like #27 or something. I joined FBG in like 2000ish? and was here for the reset in 2003? I had alot of fun with Finless in the DM's, and I will never be remembered as the guy who solved the mystery of Stoner Claus. Dudes in here said they would have shot him, lol. As someone who drunk passed out in the wring room, I knew. Then he became a poster for a short time. That was cool.
I'm old enough to remember Smack Off
What I remember was some schtick about who had the most profile views. I was going to win and was going to cheat the system doing it.Wait... why do you care how many profile views you have?I once wrote a script to increase my profile views here, circa 2006. It worked, but it wasn't working fast enough for me. Once I unthrottled it I believe the FBG IDS spot banned my IP. For quite a while I was banned.
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Aug 4, 2011
hey, JAA. still in the Boston area? cuz i'm moving from NM to Billerica in the fall & you still owe me a Denny's/Hilltop's from my story thread yrs ago.
i see u linked your grief thread - my sympathies, btw - into a thread in which ive made most of the posts. there's a lot to process in your thread & a couple of months since - i was wondering if there was something you wanted to say/ask specifically of me about where your grief/fear issues are at presently.
i took dialogues with ##### & ##### resulting from that thread off the page & into PMs cuz most of this not everyone's business & you've only to ask for me to do the same with you. if not, no biggie. all the best -
We still had our names next to our posts at ol' yeller so it didn't make any sense there either.
- J
LAUNCH
Im sure. youre right. I dont remember why I thought it was blue. I think I just continued to do it from the olden days.
I thought it was real. The way it played out. Too well done to be fake. The guy coming in later and posting could have been fake I guess. But the initial incident had to be real.I remember have double digit number on FFT, like #27 or something. I joined FBG in like 2000ish? and was here for the reset in 2003? I had alot of fun with Finless in the DM's, and I will never be remembered as the guy who solved the mystery of Stoner Claus. Dudes in here said they would have shot him, lol. As someone who drunk passed out in the wring room, I knew. Then he became a poster for a short time. That was cool.
Wait, that was all real?!?!? I remember all of it but I always figured it was made up.
I used to put in every post I made for years. Started on FFT. When the Latin pmp incident happened and they got a new bored, they added back the old :angry back just for me. I wonder if it's still there...
That’s terrifyingCant forget "tree" mail. I still have all of them somewhere.
Wasnt that "couch" or something got translated to jumpy quote ?as long as we are walking down memory lane here can someone tell me what the jumpy and quo thing was about i remember it happening but i dont remember what it was about take that to the bank brohans
Gmail doesnt forgetThat’s terrifyingCant forget "tree" mail. I still have all of them somewhere.