Which of you boys Royally Screwed the Pooch?

[MotownGator]

Was away in Asia for a few months and on my return found that GSMB forums were shut down for good. That forum in its multiple incarnations existed for close to two decades. Now, it is gone. Scoured all forums to see where Bullock and his Brood were hiding. Found a few posters on other forums and luckily found this one with most of the resident varmints.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

GSMB took a dirt nap, and I mean a hard one. Board was royally flucked the last few months and due to GS sucking a fat one and having no money for repairs/upgrades it finally went the way of the dodo bird. GS main page had some lame excuse about temporarily being shutdown due to potential offensive content but the truth was is the whole thing just flatlined and wasn't worth resuscitating. I think you'l find this board much better. No glitches, screwed up post orders, and many more and modern features. Cheers.

 

[NavetG8r]

Bottom line is they had issues and didn't want to spend the money to make it work like it should. Now, there is another popular conspiracy theory that says it's all bradgator's fault for constantly harassing Halifax Media Group, demanding outrageous upgrades. I'm leaning towards the latter myself.

By the way, welcome to GatorChatter. I think we got the bulk of the regular GSMB posters and expect many more to find us when football season gets closer.

 

[VulcanAlex]

My take on what happened is this - There were many technical issues with the board and some members actually emailed members of management. They became aware of our little world and annoyed that anybody would actually try to hold management accountable. One female in particular was offended by some content (it was not that bad) and then management decided it was not worth the trouble and as usual came up with a lame excuse. I might be wrong but I did see the entire thread and have some experience with corporate types. Welcome this board should be much better when most people find it and arrive for football season.

 

[oxrageous]

My take on what happened is this - There were many technical issues with the board and some members actually emailed members of management. They became aware of our little world and annoyed that anybody would actually try to hold management accountable. One female in particular was offended by some content (it was not that bad) and then management decided it was not worth the trouble and as usual came up with a lame excuse. I might be wrong but I did see the entire thread and have some experience with corporate types. Welcome this board should be much better when most people find it and arrive for football season.

To be accurate, NO ONE (at least to my knowledge) actually emailed anyone at Halifax. It was all a joke.

 

[divits]

I'd be very curious to know how much traffic to the Sun's website has declined after the destruction of the GSMB. And is it really THAT expensive to maintain a chat site? I really don't know.

I think the muckitty mucks were just pissed that they were being made fun of on their own site so they childishly decided to take their ball and go home.... even if it was detrimental to the vitality of their paper's website. The person I feel most sorry for in this thing is Zach. It has greatly diminished his exposure.

 

[WobbleGator]

Damn you Brad!!!

 

[URGatorBait]

Damn you Brad!!!

It's only a matter of time before he takes this place down! :headshake:

 

[TheDouglas78]

I'd be very curious to know how much traffic to the Sun's website has declined after the destruction of the GSMB. And is it really THAT expensive to maintain a chat site? I really don't know.

I think the muckitty mucks were just pissed that they were being made fun of on their own site so they childishly decided to take their ball and go home.... even if it was detrimental to the vitality of their paper's website. The person I feel most sorry for in this thing is Zach. It has greatly diminished his exposure.

Short term I don't think they will feel it. The cost of upgrade would be more than the software portion of the upgrade, and would be a decent amount for a failing newspaper. But they will start to feel it during football season, where the click through profit from ads will not be realized, now it wouldn't be that great. Come August is when it will really hurt them.

 

[oxrageous]

It's only a matter of time before he takes this place down! :headshake:

I already banned him in advance.

 

[Durty South Swamp]

I already banned him in advance.

(sorry, been looking for an excuse to use this one :cool:)

 

[NavetG8r]

It's only a matter of time before he takes this place down! :headshake:

I already banned him in advance.

Poor Brad...

 

[bradgator2]

C'mon.... That wasnt nice.

 

[NavetG8r]

C'mon.... That wasnt nice.

Apparently isn't as powerful as we thought.

 

[VulcanAlex]

My take on what happened is this - There were many technical issues with the board and some members actually emailed members of management. They became aware of our little world and annoyed that anybody would actually try to hold management accountable. One female in particular was offended by some content (it was not that bad) and then management decided it was not worth the trouble and as usual came up with a lame excuse. I might be wrong but I did see the entire thread and have some experience with corporate types. Welcome this board should be much better when most people find it and arrive for football season.

To be accurate, NO ONE (at least to my knowledge) actually emailed anyone at Halifax. It was all a joke.

Good to know but then how did management even know about the issues. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[TheDouglas78]

C'mon.... That wasnt nice.

The gerbil is more powerful than the mod.

 

[bradgator2]

C'mon.... That wasnt nice.

Hamsters. Actually, I made a borderline-inappropriate gerbil joke in my last fake email to the IT director. The site was pulled down about 10 minutes later. It's too bad too... because that post was MUCH better than my first one.

Damn I cant wait until football starts.

 

[-THE DUDE-]

I'd be very curious to know how much traffic to the Sun's website has declined after the destruction of the GSMB. And is it really THAT expensive to maintain a chat site? I really don't know.

I think the muckitty mucks were just pissed that they were being made fun of on their own site so they childishly decided to take their ball and go home.... even if it was detrimental to the vitality of their paper's website. The person I feel most sorry for in this thing is Zach. It has greatly diminished his exposure.

Well i for one have only been to the site 2 times since we switched over here...and i normally read everything everyday that i was posting which was a lot...so if everyone else is very similar im sure they are down a ton

 

[oxrageous]

Good to know but then how did management even know about the issues.

Management of the Sun knew about the issues because I sent them an email. However, I was told that the IT department was working on things that were of a higher priority.

 

[NavetG8r]

I'd be very curious to know how much traffic to the Sun's website has declined after the destruction of the GSMB. And is it really THAT expensive to maintain a chat site? I really don't know.

I think the muckitty mucks were just pissed that they were being made fun of on their own site so they childishly decided to take their ball and go home.... even if it was detrimental to the vitality of their paper's website. The person I feel most sorry for in this thing is Zach. It has greatly diminished his exposure.

Well i for one have only been to the site 2 times since we switched over here...and i normally read everything everyday that i was posting which was a lot...so if everyone else is very similar im sure they are down a ton

Yep, same here. Only time I go there now is if I'm duped into going there by our news section.