Some love from Matt Park

[SWC75]

On his "In the Booth" show he mentioned that Syracuse.com is getting rid of it's 'comments', (he didn't say 'forum'), and that he wouldn't miss it due to so many bad takes and bad grammar.

He cited Syracusefan.com as a contrast to it, saying that he's friends with some of the posters here, (including me) and that the posting here is much more impressive than Syracuse.com.

Such a conclusion would, of course, be obvious but it was nice of Matt to say it.

 

[bballbeadle]

Maybe we will get some new board members from this. Good ones, good ones!

 

[dasher]

Maybe we will get some new board members from this. Good ones, good ones!

Well, our mods will have a job of keeping the whack jobs out

 

[Fly Rodder]

Maybe we will get some new board members from this. Good ones, good ones!

Several years ago I used to post at the now defunct River Ave Blues, a Yankees blog. A few years before RAB closed down, LoHud (a NY Newspaper with an online forum) shuttered their comments and directed everyone to RAB - it was a disaster and everything went to hell as the clowns from LoHud overwhelmed the existing members.

 

[721Comstock]

Well, our mods will have a job of keeping the whack jobs out

They should institute mandatory 6 month waiting period before being allowed to post.

That should allow them to lose interest and move elsewhere.

 

[skurey]

Do the Syracuse.com forums still exist? I used to troll so hard back in the day.

 

[orangefog]

This thread was not what I was expecting after reading the title.

 

[Cheriehoop]

The comment section is being eliminated from articles Syracuse.com writes. We got many of their wackos when their forums died a few years ago. Hopefully we get good ones who never knew we existed here.

 

[rrlbees]

Several years ago I used to post at the now defunct River Ave Blues, a Yankees blog. A few years before RAB closed down, LoHud (a NY Newspaper with an online forum) shuttered their comments and directed everyone to RAB - it was a disaster and everything went to hell as the clowns from LoHud overwhelmed the existing members.

they must have had poor mods and admins.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Well, our mods will have a job of keeping the whack jobs out

Like we're doing a great job of that now.

 

[bballbeadle]

The comment section is being eliminated from articles Syracuse.com writes. We got many of their wackos when their forums died a few years ago. Hopefully we get good ones who never knew we existed here.

I was posting on Syracuse.com back in 2003 and our own Shenexon saw my posts and highly recommended I come on this board instead. I have never looked back!

 

[Toga]

Maybe we will get some new board members from this. Good ones, good ones!

Come over to the off topic forum if you rookies can find it. We'll take real good care of you over there.

 

[orange79]

Come over to the off topic forum if you rookies can find it. We'll take real good care of you over there.

She's over there.

 

[orange79]

I was posting on Syracuse.com back in 2003 and our own Shenexon saw my posts and highly recommended I come on this board instead. I have never looked back!

You're forgiven.

This time.

 

[bballbeadle]

She's over there.

Dear merciful god, I am. And Toga knows that! He may have been referring to Not Me.

 

[SWC75]

They should institute mandatory 6 month waiting period before being allowed to post.

That should allow them to lose interest and move elsewhere.

I got my first computer for Christmas 1998, discovered Syracuse.com, (which is where the originators of this forum were posting at the time) before the end of that basketball season but never posted until the following September. My first post was how I hoped we could become part of the Big ten, which was a bad idea but i survived the onslaught and am now finishing my 21st SU season, (FB + BB), of posting .

"What was your first ever post about?" might make an interesting thread.

 

[SWC75]

Like we're doing a great job of that now.

Thanks to the hard-working administrators of this forum who have given us a civil place to exchange views without limiting what we say, even if there must be rules about how we say it.

 

[Shenexon]

I was posting on Syracuse.com back in 2003 and our own Shenexon saw my posts and highly recommended I come on this board instead. I have never looked back!

Should I not get a bunch of trophy points for that?

 

[orange79]

Should I not get a bunch of trophy points for that?

Ah, saving up for the microwave, I see.

 

[Toga]

Ah, saving up for the microwave, I see.

Trophy points are the new green stamps.

 

[Shenexon]

Ah, saving up for the microwave, I see.

Well...I was hoping to see the catalog first...

 

[bballbeadle]

I got my first computer for Christmas 1998, discovered Syracuse.com, (which is where the originators of this forum were posting at the time) before the end of that basketball season but never posted until the following September. My first post was how I hoped we could become part of the Big ten, which was a bad idea but i survived the onslaught and am now finishing my 21st SU season, (FB + BB), of posting .

"What was your first ever post about?" might make an interesting thread.

DO IT.

 

[jgeorge322]

Overrated

 

[OttoMets]

...

"What was your first ever post about?" might make an interesting thread.

No idea, but more likely than not it involved defending Scoop Jardine's play in response to some mouth-breather's hot take.

 

[pfister1]

On his "In the Booth" show he mentioned that Syracuse.com is getting rid of it's 'comments', (he didn't say 'forum'), and that he wouldn't miss it due to so many bad takes and bad grammar.

He cited Syracusefan.com as a contrast to it, saying that he's friends with some of the posters here, (including me) and that the posting here is much more impressive than Syracuse.com.

Such a conclusion would, of course, be obvious but it was nice of Matt to say it.

I’ve been posting since before the 2000-2001 season, which I only know because I remember complaining about a feature that highlighted the score of the last game on the basketball forum landing page. It was a fine feature until the last game got “stuck” on a 29 point NCAaT loss to Kansas. I guess I was posting my drivel for some amount of time prior to that.

I would love for somebody to post the Board’s history and different iterations since inception as well as the timeline associated with those iterations.