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HF rant thread

Well that's why we have this board here .... the REAL hockey fans talk hockey here. HF is for hockey fan boys and "Mike from Woodbridge" kind of fans :)

Seriously, remember the exodus from HF (Or was it another forum?) to here? I remember I was a mod, and I got my mod status removed over a nothing issue over night ... so I left, and I found this board to be so much better.
 
number17 said:
Well that's why we have this board here .... the REAL hockey fans talk hockey here. HF is for hockey fan boys and "Mike from Woodbridge" kind of fans :)

Seriously, remember the exodus from HF (Or was it another forum?) to here? I remember I was a mod, and I got my mod status removed over a nothing issue over night ... so I left, and I found this board to be so much better.
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I can't believe I actually remember this, considering it was internet drama that happened what---10 years ago? But yeah, that was "Thescoreboards.com".

The people who ran the site (particularly a few admins/mods who happened to be Canuck fans) took issue with our hands-off moderation style, the fact that we liked to discuss off-topic stuff on the Leaf board, and that we were all mostly just posting heavily on the Leaf board instead making a part-time job out of actively going around and helping them generate traffic on other team & general message boards on the site.

So, they stepped in without warning, removed all you Leaf mods, started strictly moderating the board, banning people who objected & generally being condescending dicks. So, we all left en masse and came to this site "temporarily", since the Hab board from the old site had already left a year before and set up ForumIce after having their own disagreement with site management, and the Leaf board here was mostly empty. And here we've stayed ever since.

As for "The Score Boards", I'm pretty sure it shrivelled up and died within a year after that.
 
...and thescoreboards was just a short stop after Scout which is where many of us posted together for years prior to that.
 
LeafGm said:
I can't believe I actually remember this, considering it was internet drama that happened what---10 years ago? But yeah, that was "Thescoreboards.com".

The people who ran the site (particularly a few admins/mods who happened to be Canuck fans) took issue with our hands-off moderation style, the fact that we liked to discuss off-topic stuff on the Leaf board, and that we were all mostly just posting heavily on the Leaf board instead making a part-time job out of actively going around and helping them generate traffic on other team & general message boards on the site.

So, they stepped in without warning, removed all you Leaf mods, started strictly moderating the board, banning people who objected & generally being condescending dicks. So, we all left en masse and came to this site "temporarily", since the Hab board from the old site had already left a year before and set up ForumIce after having their own disagreement with site management, and the Leaf board here was mostly empty. And here we've stayed ever since.

As for "The Score Boards", I'm pretty sure it shrivelled up and died within a year after that.
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Yeah, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. They seemed to think it was our job to grow their site for them. Within a few days of them moving threads to the "appropriate" board, we all picked up and left. Job well done boys.

It's not like we didn't warn them and try to work with them either, they just dickishly told us we were being selfish by staying on the Leaf board and not discussing a the random shit we come up with on the "appropriate" board.
 
My memory is a little fuzzy on the details....but I believe it was originally "Fanhome"....then became Scout.com when they signed a partnership deal....then things slowly went downhill after that.

Think it was a mod issue there as well......but I recall they f*cked with the layout/software of the board itself, which really pissed people off.
 
MindzEye said:
Yep, that's where I found this group.

I forget why we left Scout.
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That I do remember, since I was a mod on the site back then, and unlike zeke, hadn't yet started smoking far too much weed.

Basically, Scout was a US-based company (maybe even affiliated with Fox, I think) that bought out the all-sports message board site we used to post on. They immediately made it pretty clear to everyone behind the scenes that they had purchased the site because they wanted the baseball, basketball & football content, and that they had no interest at all in maintaining the hockey section of the site. In fact, it looks like Scout is still around today, and while they have boards for the NFL, MLB, NBA the NCAA---even fishing, hunting & golf, the NHL doesn't exist on that website.

So, after Scout hockey spent a while dying of neglect, the hockey admins started up their own site (TheScoreBoards) and had everyone move over there. And then, as mentioned, within a year they drove off the two most populous boards on the site (Habs first, then Leafs), and died a fairly quick death of their own.
 
I had a site for awhile after scout, called Metroboards. Some of you posted there for a bit but it never really took off. Too bad. Can you imagine a site with me as the admin? Absolute perfection.
 
LeafGm said:
The people who ran the site (particularly a few admins/mods who happened to be Canuck fans) took issue with our hands-off moderation style, the fact that we liked to discuss off-topic stuff on the Leaf board, and that we were all mostly just posting heavily on the Leaf board instead making a part-time job out of actively going around and helping them generate traffic on other team & general message boards on the site.

So, they stepped in without warning, removed all you Leaf mods, started strictly moderating the board, banning people who objected & generally being condescending dicks. So, we all left en masse and came to this site "temporarily", since the Hab board from the old site had already left a year before and set up ForumIce after having their own disagreement with site management, and the Leaf board here was mostly empty. And here we've stayed ever since.
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I felt like I was on the Titanic - saw the iceberg approaching - but there was little I could do about it (I was just a low level mod)...
 
I remember LeafGM msgd me about FI I think a few months after everyone moved here. Thx LGM. Glad I found out about this site.
 
I always thought thescoreboards exodus was MAJOR butthurt.

Oh no...OT topics must go on another board. Let's bounce!

Whatever happened to metroboards?
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
I always thought thescoreboards exodus was MAJOR butthurt.

Oh no...OT topics must go on another board. Let's bounce!

Whatever happened to metroboards?
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It was really active for a while.. All boards except the Leafs really. The Leafs board kind of semi got it going at one point but it never took off - zeke, mbow, and many others started posted there but it was never the full gang. At a certain point the momentum across the rest of the site just slowed down for whatever reason and it kind of faded away into obscurity. We shut it down pretty soon after.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
I always thought thescoreboards exodus was MAJOR butthurt.

Oh no...OT topics must go on another board. Let's bounce!
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You honestly don't see the inconvenience for the user to sit there and think about which topic I'm discussing and what board it belongs on? Go and look at our board right now and ask yourself how many of the threads would be tossed onto other boards. I have no desire to be moving all over the site to discuss politics, etc. If I was going to do that, I'd just find a politics board to post on.
 
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