Burning Questions ...
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:06 pm
So Many Burning Questions ...
1.) Did UADevil & JMJ actually just pull this off in 6 weeks, transplanting 90%+ of the core of an existing online community into a new, fully functional corner of the interwebs? Or am I seeing things?
2.) How long before JS actually realizes no one is coming back and TOS Free Board in VBulletin format shuts down for good? New posts in ONLY 72 threads over the last 6 weeks (not counting the "spam" an hour or so ago), and ~5 out of every 6 "New Posts" (350/422, 83.3%) during that period being "GOAZCATS.com Headlines" posts do not an active board make. I give the Over/Under Date of November 15, when no one (besides the 5 screaming mimis still there) posts after the first UA BB game of the season. I don't think ego allows him to shut it down before then.
3.) Will Chicat or Merkin set the posting volume standard for all to follow? Chicat has an early lead (783-574 as of Sunday 7/20/14, 7:35PM MST), but will it last, or well Chi set a new bar that no one can assail?
4.) Is that 4Life guy 4 Real? I don't even think he's Percy either, but a new pernicious character. I would think making his "list" is a rite of passage for this board ...
5.) Who will be UA's QB come Game 1? My money's already on Scroggins, but I'm hearing that money may be lost with Solomon coming on ...
6.) How many of the classic TOS threads do we really need to transplant or regrow here? I think we all know that they won't be preserved in amber on TOS, but as someone else suggested (can't remember who, but proper credit is owed), it's the future content more than the past content that will stabilize and grow this community. I see most of the main ones on UA FB & BB recruiting have been started (although someone should migrate the Old School BB Thread in it's entirety, good work there that shouldn't be lost), and I'd like to see some topics restarted/continued here, such as a Beer thread (can't believe no one's started that yet), the various liquor-related threads, Tucson restaurants (phenom5 doing good work already), various restaurant & travel guides to other cities, and a few other GD & non-UA sports gems that were still active this year on TOS, but many of the "classic" threads should probably remain "classic" on TOS IMO. In any event, I'll probably be adding a few threads that were started on the other site with some updated thoughts and content here, but I promise I will show restraint, and am generally looking forward to the development of this board.
7.) Why am I using almost every gardening and plant growing analogy possible?
8.) How long before the Idi Amin of Arizona Message Boards (I won't name him here) attacks both this site and the ashes of TOS?
9.) Who is next to commit to UA Basketball? Rabb? Comanche? Swanigan? Trier? Briscoe? Zimmerman? I have my thoughts, but I'll save them for later ...
10.) Has anyone told Jessie Wildcat of this place?
11.) When can we have some of the UA & ASU-themed smilies here? Is that on the agenda?
12.) Is this forum the death of the Multi-Quote?
13.) In retrospect, how did this happen? I mean, I know how it all happened, but really, would any of you have ever believed that the all-time GOAZCATS Meltdown would have been perpetrated by none other than the founder? I've never seen anything like it, and for me it rivals German 7:1 Brazil as the most shocking event of this summer.
14.) Finally, how long does the Honeymoon last here? I'm willing to let bygones be bygones with the few selected message board posters with whom I've had guff, buck, flapdoodle, quarrel, quibble or other forms of internet malevolence, but my sense is that at the first sign of discord long memories will return. I come in peace, conviviality and esprit de corps with my fellow UA fans and other sports fanatics. My sincere hope is that everyone else does the same ...
Always,
Rey
1.) Did UADevil & JMJ actually just pull this off in 6 weeks, transplanting 90%+ of the core of an existing online community into a new, fully functional corner of the interwebs? Or am I seeing things?
2.) How long before JS actually realizes no one is coming back and TOS Free Board in VBulletin format shuts down for good? New posts in ONLY 72 threads over the last 6 weeks (not counting the "spam" an hour or so ago), and ~5 out of every 6 "New Posts" (350/422, 83.3%) during that period being "GOAZCATS.com Headlines" posts do not an active board make. I give the Over/Under Date of November 15, when no one (besides the 5 screaming mimis still there) posts after the first UA BB game of the season. I don't think ego allows him to shut it down before then.
3.) Will Chicat or Merkin set the posting volume standard for all to follow? Chicat has an early lead (783-574 as of Sunday 7/20/14, 7:35PM MST), but will it last, or well Chi set a new bar that no one can assail?
4.) Is that 4Life guy 4 Real? I don't even think he's Percy either, but a new pernicious character. I would think making his "list" is a rite of passage for this board ...
5.) Who will be UA's QB come Game 1? My money's already on Scroggins, but I'm hearing that money may be lost with Solomon coming on ...
6.) How many of the classic TOS threads do we really need to transplant or regrow here? I think we all know that they won't be preserved in amber on TOS, but as someone else suggested (can't remember who, but proper credit is owed), it's the future content more than the past content that will stabilize and grow this community. I see most of the main ones on UA FB & BB recruiting have been started (although someone should migrate the Old School BB Thread in it's entirety, good work there that shouldn't be lost), and I'd like to see some topics restarted/continued here, such as a Beer thread (can't believe no one's started that yet), the various liquor-related threads, Tucson restaurants (phenom5 doing good work already), various restaurant & travel guides to other cities, and a few other GD & non-UA sports gems that were still active this year on TOS, but many of the "classic" threads should probably remain "classic" on TOS IMO. In any event, I'll probably be adding a few threads that were started on the other site with some updated thoughts and content here, but I promise I will show restraint, and am generally looking forward to the development of this board.
7.) Why am I using almost every gardening and plant growing analogy possible?
8.) How long before the Idi Amin of Arizona Message Boards (I won't name him here) attacks both this site and the ashes of TOS?
9.) Who is next to commit to UA Basketball? Rabb? Comanche? Swanigan? Trier? Briscoe? Zimmerman? I have my thoughts, but I'll save them for later ...
10.) Has anyone told Jessie Wildcat of this place?
11.) When can we have some of the UA & ASU-themed smilies here? Is that on the agenda?
12.) Is this forum the death of the Multi-Quote?
13.) In retrospect, how did this happen? I mean, I know how it all happened, but really, would any of you have ever believed that the all-time GOAZCATS Meltdown would have been perpetrated by none other than the founder? I've never seen anything like it, and for me it rivals German 7:1 Brazil as the most shocking event of this summer.
14.) Finally, how long does the Honeymoon last here? I'm willing to let bygones be bygones with the few selected message board posters with whom I've had guff, buck, flapdoodle, quarrel, quibble or other forms of internet malevolence, but my sense is that at the first sign of discord long memories will return. I come in peace, conviviality and esprit de corps with my fellow UA fans and other sports fanatics. My sincere hope is that everyone else does the same ...
Always,
Rey
Hail, Di Tuto!