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Hear Hear!🍺🍺🍺I have baggage and history. But this is the best Redskins/WFT/Commanders forum out there. It's the best for a lot of reasons, and fuck it - I'm going to list them for you:
1. Our staff. We have staff here who are staff because they've spent years as outstanding posters and members. They've contributed, either financially or otherwise, and they are wonderful people.
2. Our philosophy. We don't *moderate* our membership. We literally HAVE no moderators. Our membership is mostly 'self-moderated' - meaning if someone is approaching a 'line', usually our own membership reminds the member of where the lines are. Be nice. Argue - but always with respect. Talk to people like you appreciate being talked to. And it's okay to disagree, we are all fans. That is a pretty concise summary.
3. It's about the membership here, not about site owners or aggressive ego-driven mods. Our great members ... well, they make us great.
4. In an age where forums are dying and dwindling and wasting away, we are thriving. We believe in this format, we spend significant money on improving the site and user experience and yes - even advertising. We've been at this since 2009, and we are in it for the long haul.
As for other sites, it takes a lot more than slapping a former label on a site and co-opting a beloved logo (a label, btw, that the guys 'slapping' had zero to do with creating). Good luck with it. Eventually folks will figure out that what makes a site great is it's membership and the way those members are treated. I don't think there's a better representation of that than right here.
But hey, that's just me.
Did you experience a noticeable bump after ES shut down? I know I was never here before and I know I'm not alone but curious if it was enough new posters to notice.I have baggage and history. But this is the best Redskins/WFT/Commanders forum out there. It's the best for a lot of reasons, and fuck it - I'm going to list them for you:
1. Our staff. We have staff here who are staff because they've spent years as outstanding posters and members. They've contributed, either financially or otherwise, and they are wonderful people.
2. Our philosophy. We don't *moderate* our membership. We literally HAVE no moderators. Our membership is mostly 'self-moderated' - meaning if someone is approaching a 'line', usually our own membership reminds the member of where the lines are. Be nice. Argue - but always with respect. Talk to people like you appreciate being talked to. And it's okay to disagree, we are all fans. That is a pretty concise summary.
3. It's about the membership here, not about site owners or aggressive ego-driven mods. Our great members ... well, they make us great.
4. In an age where forums are dying and dwindling and wasting away, we are thriving. We believe in this format, we spend significant money on improving the site and user experience and yes - even advertising. We've been at this since 2009, and we are in it for the long haul.
As for other sites, it takes a lot more than slapping a former label on a site and co-opting a beloved logo (a label, btw, that the guys 'slapping' had zero to do with creating). Good luck with it. Eventually folks will figure out that what makes a site great is it's membership and the way those members are treated. I don't think there's a better representation of that than right here.
But hey, that's just me.
I was always a fan of Galdi, just not the wrestling part. I should listen, as I recall it had a clever name.
I'll give you points for this; I'm an avid Galdi listener and after 4-5 months of not going to ES and rarely checking reddit I had to refresh myself on where people ended up and first thing that popped into my mind was BGO from the spots I've heard on his podcast
