Alaskan
The 1st Round Pick
Hey Om and Co. I have some suggestions/comments if you guys are serious here. I'll PM if you are, I feel like I'm sucker punching ya in the gut publicly otherwise.
CounterTrey
Hey Om and Co. I have some suggestions/comments if you guys are serious here. I'll PM if you are, I feel like I'm sucker punching ya in the gut publicly otherwise.
CounterTrey
I just wanted to give another compliment to this site. With this whole McNabb trade going down I have seen every side of the coin when it comes to our organization/players/and McNabb and everyone has really stepped their game up to make intelligent and passionate statements.
this is a testimony to how this site is ran. good product = good people. good on ya gents..
Funny you should mention it, but I've been impressed with the great conversations going over the past 24 hours. Not everyone is in agreement, but everyone is heard and we haven't had to turn the water hose on anyone yet
That's what having a great membership does for you
I don't really care what the site looks like. It already looks fine to me.
What matters is ensuring that the quality of the posts (and, more to the point, posters) remains high. I'm not sure how that is being or should be done, but that's the whole enchilada. (And, for what it's worth, I think the site needs perhaps twice as many posters to reach critical mass, but I tremble for the day when the hordes descend, as happened elsewhere.)
The part I've bolded above is very much reflective of the spirit in which BGO was conceived. The market was already ripe with Redskins communities, but we didn't feel there were any legitimately dedicated to the proposition that the internet can in fact offer a haven of civility, respect, humor and intelligence to grownups who happen to be passionate about their favorite football team.I used to post on CPND and in the past it was a special site. There was a core group of posters, some mods, some not, that basically set the standards for everyone else while the owner, Stephen Miller kept a light hand on the rudder. Not only was the football discussion top notch, there was this friendly competition to see who could be the most entertaining in their posts. Posters would often weave references from culture, history or literature into their posts and it was an endless source of humor. You had the feeling that you were out with a bunch of friends, having a beer and shooting the ****. New posters who fit into that culture became part of the core and reinforced the board’s standards. Those that didn’t fit in soon dropped out and consequently the ratio of worthwhile posts to white noise was very high. Sure we got trolls and sometimes we would play with them before sending them on their way and fans from other teams that just wanted to talk smack were treated the same way. But serious fans from other teams were always welcome.
But over time CPND changed. The white noise began to overwhelm the worthwhile stuff. But I’m not gonna tell you why that is.
IMHO, this site is not where CPND was. But it is new and has the potential to be very special. All the elements are there and I think it just needs time. If it does I certainly want to be part of it.
Edit: by the way, as far as the "friendly competition to see who could be the most entertaining in their posts" ... we commend one and all to BG Overdrive, a one-of-a-kind feature still in its infancy but, we believe, potential to be something special.
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