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OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

devildeac wrote:I have been relatively silent in all this for various reasons but will try to organize some thoughts/posts over the weekend at the coast with some free time on my fingers, err, hands.

Y'all are going to the beach AGAIN? Must be nice...

Mental/relaxation therapy. Haven't been in about a month or so.

wilson wrote: And I get that we don't "matter" in terms of ad revenue. But if DBR and its mods honestly don't think it's a problem that ~50 very active posters, with something like 125,000 collective posts under their belts, left so suddenly, well...pardon my French, but they can all kiss my ass.

I'm kind of curious how many posts we collectively did have both on the old and new boards - to say nothing of the post counts of other regular posters who left before our mass exodus.

colchar wrote:

wilson wrote: And I get that we don't "matter" in terms of ad revenue. But if DBR and its mods honestly don't think it's a problem that ~50 very active posters, with something like 125,000 collective posts under their belts, left so suddenly, well...pardon my French, but they can all kiss my ass.

I'm kind of curious how many posts we collectively did have both on the old and new boards - to say nothing of the post counts of other regular posters who left before our mass exodus.

I'll start:

about 5900 on DBR
about 400 here (so far) ;)

devildeac wrote:

colchar wrote:

wilson wrote: And I get that we don't "matter" in terms of ad revenue. But if DBR and its mods honestly don't think it's a problem that ~50 very active posters, with something like 125,000 collective posts under their belts, left so suddenly, well...pardon my French, but they can all kiss my ass.

I'm kind of curious how many posts we collectively did have both on the old and new boards - to say nothing of the post counts of other regular posters who left before our mass exodus.

I'll start:

about 5900 on DBR
about 400 here (so far) ;)

Since I was banned from DBR I can't access my old profile to see how many posts I had. I figure it was in the 1500-2000 range. I have almost 500 posts here and had roughly another 1500 on another board that grew out of DBR.

ETA: I just checked and I had 2,175 posts on DBR when I was banned (this does not include my totals before they migrated to the new board structure).

colchar wrote:
I'm kind of curious how many posts we collectively did have both on the old and new boards - to say nothing of the post counts of other regular posters who left before our mass exodus.

My above figure was the best I could do for a sort of conservative estimate. I figured 50ish posters at something like 2500 each (that's about what I have on TOWEL). Some of y'all have considerably more than I do, some less, but I think an estimated average of about 2500 is about right. Another note: I kind of include people like billybreen in the "defectors" camp, because even though he doesn't post here, I don't think he posts anymore at DBR, and he voiced lots of similar frustrations to ours before slipping away.

But the above mental calisthenics don't really mean a hill of beans to me; the substance of my beef with DBR is in my previous post in this thread. The focus on numbers is, to me, where DBR went astray and let the boards go far afield from their original aim of being like a "neighborhood bar."
Would they kick Norm out of Cheers?

You were officially banned colchar? Really? Permanently? What for? You don't have to answer.

colchar wrote:

Since I was banned from DBR I can't access my old profile to see how many posts I had. I figure it was in the 1500-2000 range. I have almost 500 posts here and had roughly another 1500 on another board that grew out of DBR.

ETA: I just checked and I had roughly 2,175 posts on DBR when I was banned.

Well, you beat me to the count.
Out of curiosity: what other DBR spinoff board do you post on?

colchar wrote:

devildeac wrote:

wilson wrote: And I get that we don't "matter" in terms of ad revenue. But if DBR and its mods honestly don't think it's a problem that ~50 very active posters, with something like 125,000 collective posts under their belts, left so suddenly, well...pardon my French, but they can all kiss my ass.

I'm kind of curious how many posts we collectively did have both on the old and new boards - to say nothing of the post counts of other regular posters who left before our mass exodus.

I'll start:

about 5900 on DBR
about 400 here (so far) ;)

Well I just posted post #3336 over there. I had a couple thousand or more on the "old" DBR boards (those were pre-PWing). So put me down for 6,000 to 7,000 total.

wilson wrote:
My above figure was the best I could do for a sort of conservative estimate. I figured 50ish posters at something like 2500 each (that's about what I have on TOWEL). Some of y'all have considerably more than I do, some less, but I think an estimated average of about 2500 is about right. Another note: I kind of include people like billybreen in the "defectors" camp, because even though he doesn't post here, I don't think he posts anymore at DBR, and he voiced lots of similar frustrations to ours before slipping away.

Oh I knew the number you gave was just a guesstimate but it did make me wonder what the real number might be. Everyone here can see their post totals on their profile at DBR so it might be fun to waste some time adding them all up.

But the above mental calisthenics don't really mean a hill of beans to me; the substance of my beef with DBR is in my previous post in this thread. The focus on numbers is, to me, where DBR went astray and let the boards go far afield from their original aim of being like a "neighborhood bar."
Would they kick Norm out of Cheers?

I agree wholeheartedly with your beef(s) with DBR.

I've got 1569 and counting on the DBR but I don't post there as much as here now.

wilson wrote:
Out of curiosity: what other DBR spinoff board do you post on?

The Begging to Differ board that McGrupp set up quite a while back.

colchar wrote:

wilson wrote:
Out of curiosity: what other DBR spinoff board do you post on?

The Begging to Differ board that McGrupp set up quite a while back.

Never heard of it before now.

I have 2353 DBR posts (nice number, eh, Miles? ), plus a good thousand on the previous iterations.
Is someone keeping a tally?

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:
Never heard of it before now.

Seriously? Or are you being facetious?

colchar wrote:

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:
Never heard of it before now.

Seriously? Or are you being facetious?

FWIW, I've never heard of it either.

wilson wrote: Is someone keeping a tally?

Let the thread go a day or two and then we can tally it all up. I call 'not it' for tallying it up.

Because this thread became what it is...here's the Reader's Digest version of a private FB message I sent to a DBR mod (the one that annoyed me second most) several months back. I never received a response.

The claims that it's a "neighborhood bar" are baffling. Apparently I've only hung out at a different kind of "neighborhood bar". The bars that I frequent don't chastise you because you accidentally spilled a drink or happened to order a beer that they don't serve. At the DBR, such actions are fair game for being told what a moron you are--by a mod who apparently isn't subject to the lack of civility rules. In reality, the DBR desperately wants to be an exclusive club in which only people with the right jobs, clothes and girls on their arm get in. The problem is that it hasn't found out the best way to enforce that policy (and several moderators would fail its "basketball PhD" requirement). I suggested that the DBR require an application process to determine who is and is not worthy of posting (and who is and is not likely to--dare I say it--critique the powers that be). Posters' credentials would be reviewed by the mods prior to having an invite. And with less noise, the mods could get back to the mental masturbation that is discussing basketball as if it were an exact science (in which every answer must view Duke in a positive light or else be deemed "destructively negative"). I don't say this tongue-in-cheek. I fully believe it is the best way to achieve Duke basketball utopia sought out by the Duke Basketball Report, Limited Liability Company.

Oh yeah, I vote for calling it the DBR. That is what it is. I won't let the DBR's general counsel annoy me so much that I refuse to call it something else.

2595 there, 527 here.

rockymtn devil wrote: And with less noise, the mods could get back to the mental masturbation that is discussing basketball as if it were an exact science (in which every answer must view Duke in a positive light or else be deemed "destructively negative").

I LOVE that sentence.

CameronBornAndBred wrote:

rockymtn devil wrote: And with less noise, the mods could get back to the mental masturbation that is discussing basketball as if it were an exact science (in which every answer must view Duke in a positive light or else be deemed "destructively negative").

I LOVE that sentence.

+1. Your whole post was quite well stated, rockymtn. Welcome to crazietalk, where we can goof off in peace.