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Captain Cranks
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Rhythmdoctor
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I was going to post this exact same thing. Be careful what you wish for @Joe Bryantacarey50 said:
I was a long time member of the Hiddle and MANY of us left there to come here. The same can and will happen here. It’s not like FBG is the only FF content on the web. Ask David Dorey how much revenue he lost. If you lose the forum it WILL trickle into memberships. I promise.
Cowboysfan8
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acarey50 said:
Epic Problem
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I can handle the take it leave it attitude. Its the pandering 'we' crap that comes along with it that irks me. Its one or the other. Its what you want or what we want Joe. Pick one.
Epic Problem
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Joe Mammy
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It's like when the press was saying that the game had passed Don Shula by, next thing you know JJ is stepping in and the Don was put out to pasture...a time came when I thought the FFA had passed me by. At one time I was a double digit user here before the re-sign up back in the day.
Rhythmdoctor
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I can’t recall the specific details but one of the owners (not Dorey) started pulling a Joe Bryant, essentially. The Huddle is now a ghost town. Like for real! If JB and team think traffic doesn’t matter, they’re in for a rude awakening. I’m guessing their confidence stems from their partnership with Fan Duel. Maybe they’re right... maybe they don’t need all of us shlubs.
Captain Cranks
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Well if that's the case, they should take pride in making profits off something that ruins people's lives. That and keeping guys from making comments about women's physical appearance.
GoBirds
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Thanks for this info. I’ve never checked out the Huddle.
Maybe the bolded has required them to keep it more PC?
nirad3
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They started over-moderating - in the eyes of many - mostly related to political threads/posts. Mass exodus ensued.
Their version of the FFA was never as busy as it can/has been here, but was well-traveled for a good 5-7 years.
E Street Brat
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Think the huddle would welcome FFA refugees?
Epic Problem
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rustycolts
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Cowboysfan8
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I started there in '04 or '05. Alot of the regulars were there before me.
David's partner Whitney would stop by every once in awhile and act like an ###, tossing timeouts around.
Political threads were banned permanently eventually, Whitney pissed off a couple regulars to the point where most everyone said screw you and left for good.
Fwiw I never had any problems with Dorey, I don't think anyone did really, he seems like a good dude.
Also fwiw, I don't remember any mods at the Huddle ever having a problem with something as silly as who's hottest, over 50, yoga pants type threads
Rhythmdoctor
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Yeah. I post like 4x a year there now. Dorey is a good dude and his analysis is tops, imo.
Could the guys from Fan Duel had some feel for the gambling ruling & pressured JB? Coincidental timing of his message.
Re: traffic, I've been a long time member & early on only visited site during season. I finally stumbled into FFA & was hooked by the range of topics, characters, stories. There are countless times I was at my desk stifling a laugh & wiping tears reading responses from you guys to a certain topic. A truly great work distraction. And you know what? I'd also check into Shark Pool & other parts of the site I had previously ignored during offseason. Yes, traffic matters and I certainly can't see the new policy increasing it.
I probably checked into less than 10 Who's Hottest, and had been meaning to go through full Yoga Pants thread
, but I really just liked checking in on things like Arizona Ron exploits, Evil Grin concert stories or the 'Friday' thread. It was the interaction & responses in these threads that I found most entertaining.I could accept JB wanting to go more corporate by eliminating Hottest & Yoga. But cracking down on avatars was lame. Then he jumps into Cheating thread insisting responses only discuss the damage inflicted? As if there is no other side to the story? And worse, acting like Footballguys is a place where we posters can't police ourselves knowing when a topic is serious or worthy of flaming. I always thought of it as a place where like minded guys could virtually connect & bust ba**s or very touchingly be there for members that have lost someone. Like if bar you frequented for 10-15 yrs all of sudden said only topics discussed in here and way they are discussed are subject to consent of the owner. Sad.
GoBirds
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I had never checked it out, the non football especially on there looks like a ghost town. That’s what has been really cool over here is pop on FFA real quick and you’ve got at least a few cool threads to check out.....see what’s up with stocks, finance advice, who’s looking strong on the Offdee scale, and yes maybe some yoga pants.
Maybe it is the partnership with Fanduel where they have to toe the line a little closer? I get it, except how do you reel in discussion of females which is good natured yet allow the one sided political bashing and anger PSF go?
The FFA is a great thing, especially compared to the couple other sites mentioned.....hopefully they can find a good balance that works.
Cowboysfan8
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The tailgate used to be pretty busy. Tighter knit group than here imo, but probably because it was smaller
NotSmart
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bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
I'm sure that a ton of people pay for the subscription and don't bother to post here ever and/or just lurk
PlasmaDogPlasma
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BoltBacker
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I think the bigger question may be are message boards dying, full stop. Not just this one.
Much easier for the participants to go to some nonsense like Twitter/Facebook where you can filter who you interact with and simply reinforce your own world view. These "free" services stand to gain a lot more $ by scraping your data and packaging you to advertisers than the profit Joe ever got by providing these boards.
Joe is a genuinely good guy from what little I know of him. I have no problem if he turns off the PG-rated-porn spigot.... we are all on the internet for god's sake. I always thought it was kind of quaint anyone thought any of this stuff was all that "sexy" in the first place. You can thumb through a sportswear catalog at a dentist's office and see things just as racy. (... and yes that is a dig at Dentist because we all know he wouldn't pay for a subscription to a magazine for his waiting room)
I just think the broader problem is that we as an audience feel like we are only comfortable spending time around folks that agree with us online. Agree where "the line" is between vulgar and not. Definitely agree with regard to politics. The world is becoming a more and more polarizing place and the death of message boards is only contributing to that. The only "discussion" that may happen between people that disagree in the near future are in the comments of Youtube and people using a megaphone on twitter because people should listen to them as they pay no attention to all the other people that only want to use twitter as a megaphone.
The problem isn't with Joe and the fact he feels uncomfortable facilitating some of the things that are posted here. The problem is with us as a community for getting indignant that we are somehow "owed" a backroom with a beaded door... at a site created to talk football. There are lots, and lots(oh and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots) of places to go where you can get cleavage shots(AND MORE!) all day long. Maybe we should just have two bookmarks on our browser instead of just one. A "football forum" bookmark and a "boob forum" bookmark.
Much easier for the participants to go to some nonsense like Twitter/Facebook where you can filter who you interact with and simply reinforce your own world view. These "free" services stand to gain a lot more $ by scraping your data and packaging you to advertisers than the profit Joe ever got by providing these boards.
Joe is a genuinely good guy from what little I know of him. I have no problem if he turns off the PG-rated-porn spigot.... we are all on the internet for god's sake. I always thought it was kind of quaint anyone thought any of this stuff was all that "sexy" in the first place. You can thumb through a sportswear catalog at a dentist's office and see things just as racy. (... and yes that is a dig at Dentist because we all know he wouldn't pay for a subscription to a magazine for his waiting room)
I just think the broader problem is that we as an audience feel like we are only comfortable spending time around folks that agree with us online. Agree where "the line" is between vulgar and not. Definitely agree with regard to politics. The world is becoming a more and more polarizing place and the death of message boards is only contributing to that. The only "discussion" that may happen between people that disagree in the near future are in the comments of Youtube and people using a megaphone on twitter because people should listen to them as they pay no attention to all the other people that only want to use twitter as a megaphone.
The problem isn't with Joe and the fact he feels uncomfortable facilitating some of the things that are posted here. The problem is with us as a community for getting indignant that we are somehow "owed" a backroom with a beaded door... at a site created to talk football. There are lots, and lots(oh and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots) of places to go where you can get cleavage shots(AND MORE!) all day long. Maybe we should just have two bookmarks on our browser instead of just one. A "football forum" bookmark and a "boob forum" bookmark.
Don't Noonan
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flapgreen
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grateful zed
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the huddle died because they included the boards in their premium content.
Aerial Assault
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I don't think message boards in general are dying.
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