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Same hereNVGator;n257 said:I quite readining after I saw, "Lord Sid and The Round Table"
Same hereNVGator;n257 said:I quite readining after I saw, "Lord Sid and The Round Table"
Delg8tor;n244 said:Thanks for the explanation Ox, and for setting up the new board. I saw the reference to the hamster joke but your addition makes more sense. I guess my mind was in the gutter because I was thinking the "hamster" joke was somehow sexually inappropriate. Oh well. $hit happens I guess.
WobbleGator;n270 said:That Gator country board looks like it is filled with a bunch of stuck up *******s.
It will be remembered fondly as The Reign of Terror, when we all lived in fear of the word 'Bye' :)oxrageous said:I love the perception about how I banned people right and left. The number of people permabanned in 3 years could be counted on one hand.
If your post was the reason for the shut-down, I'm pretty sure it would have happened eventually anyway. It's pretty clear the new folks in charge at the Gainesville Sun/Gatorsports don't care about the Florida Gators, nor do they have any interest in funding a free message board for Gator fans. We would all have been looking for a new home eventually, at least this happened in the off season so we could all find each other on a new board before football season started up. Once again, THANKS OX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bradgator2;n458 said:Whoops....
bradgator2;n476 said:For the record, the email exchange was 100% fake. I posted another fake exchange with the IT manager (which was MUCH better) and the site was taken offline about 10 minutes after that. I ****may**** have used an inappropriate hamster joke in that one.
The only time I ever read anything on Gatorsports was when Zach posted a link on the board. I imagine their page views are going to take a hit, and in a time when newspapers are becoming obselete I dont think this was a very smart move by the higher ups.The Original DC;n479 said:Overreactive, knee-jerk, hot-headed, ridiculous move by GSMB. This has to kill the visitors to their site, I certainly wasn't going there for Dooley, et al, and I follow Zach on FB and Twitter.
The Original DC;n488 said:I'm guessing a few weeks from now, when someone at Gatorsports realizes "hey, we don't seem to be getting the volume of traffic, we don't seem to be getting the clicks on our articles anymore," someone will point out, "yeah, it's because you pissed off all the fans and ran everyone off by discontinuing their forum and pissing on their free speech rights."
I thought about getting upset about it, but in the end I decided to shrug it all off. The fact is, here we are. We'll know over the next few months whether this board is here to stay or will go the way of the Dodo. It's all about the size of the membership. Forums with no members suck.Himey;n515 said:Why the hell are they pulling the racist card on Ox....I cannot think of a single thing he did that was racist. The only thing I can figure is that Sid liked to call anyone racist that called him out on his race baiting.