Although it has to hurt them, not only losing the Blazers forum, but also losing the Nets and Bulls forums, both of which were larger than the Blazers forum over there. That site's problem is that they are too much about promoting their moderators, and not about the posters in general. Worse than realgm. A site like bullspodcaters has it right, by having no moderators, and the admins in the background, conversing, and not running the site like they're the king and everyone there is their slaves.
I was speaking of the large Blazer contingent that used to be there. In the Blazer forum right now, there are a total of zero members, six guests and three mods--the night before the draft! 0/6/3 Currently, this forum has 49/53/3 (I guess we need more mods)
Hey Wheels, can you imagine the entire olive community moving from site to site like nomads? I see a couple from there here, but most still post there as well, myself included.
I posted as RiggoDrill on O-Live pretty regularly (maxiep was killed in an unfortunate foray into the mlive.com Pistons forum), then most of the people I liked to coverse with either went to other sites or stopped posting altogether. With the new delay in posting there, I'd love it if the decent posters moved over here. As for the amehl's of the world, I'm glad they're in my rearview mirror.
That would be cool, I miss you guys like SPD, and Lanny, Reduni.. etc (sorry cant fit all you guys in this thread) I post there once in a while just to say hi, but its still super difficult at work for me to follow a conversation, its too slow paced with the log. Try and get peeps over here.. I miss those guys!
The Bulls and Nets forums were not bigger than the Blazers forums. Sorry. I agree, though, that losing their three biggest team-related forums really has to hurt. They have a reasonably strong general NBA fan base, seemingly, but they really isolated and drove off the Bulls, Nets, and Blazers fans pretty ridiculously. One of their key issues, I think, is the quality of some of their moderators. Some of the people that were greens over there when the Blazers' exodus took place clearly had emotional immaturity issues and didn't respect posters that had more experience online and in real life than they did. It was a bad job of promoting the wrong people and, at least in the case of the Blazers community, it cost them thousands of posts and tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of page views. Ed O.
Rocketeer, More page views/visitors to their site = more $ they can charge for the ads on the site. If money doesnt matter to them, then sure, I guess they dont miss us.
There are quite a few poster here that were at O-live back in the mid-late 90's, when the fake Laker Lanny ruined the place. I never went back.
