SJ.com ratings going down?

Yeah, but how is it a response to what I said?

Even if it bugs him, I'm a member here, thus the "we".

 

Lots of candidates for next White House press secretary here.

 

Those 2007 stats are misleading.

80 percent of those thread titles include some combination of "SuperGenius YouTube Pull Chicks Bodybuilding 'Roids Party Villa Army." And 90 percent of the responses are some variation of "Nobody cares about YOU!!!" "Leave the Board!!!" "FRAUD!!!!!" or "Screw you! I'm done!" with the other 10 percent saying "Damn, this weirdo makes me laugh."

 

I'm one of the folks who briefly went over to The Other Board and was there along with being here. I soon nuked over there and stayed here.

I'm not going to go somewhere where I feel I'd be ostracized.

Are there things about this place that still piss me off? Absolutely. But all in all, this is the place where I want to be, even as we've lost some of the people who gave this place much of its charm.

 

Bubbler has the situation pegged exactly right, and approaches things just as I do -- at both sites, with the same user name at each place.

I do what I want. It has nothing to do with anybody else, and it never has. I try to contribute well -- or else, not at all -- to the threads that interest me at both sites.

That's really all there is to it.

 

Provably and demonstrably

 

Also, BYH didn't reappear until mid-May.

 

OK, I'll weigh in ...

As someone who's basically been a luddite and ignorant of technology his whole life, I stumbled upon this site in early 2009 while searching for info online about Lee Enterprises' bankruptcy problems (I know quite a few people who work/worked for Lee papers).

To my surprise, this site not only was a place to bitch/commiserate over the state of the newspaper world, but also a site to catch up on sports news, pop culture and vital issues such as which live album is the best of all time.

I see this site as similar to the conversations you might have after deadline in a newsroom, complete with all the b.s, exaggeration and laughs those conversations include.

The politics board? I used to scan over those topics, but I'm not going to convince someone to change their mind about, say, abortion or the Green Party on a message board. And neither are you.

Obviously, I haven't been here from the beginning, but in the past 18 months, SportsJournalists.com has been a fun place to visit for a laugh, information about other people/places in media, and the latest woes of the Cubs' bullpen.

Keep up the good work, moderators.

 

Actually, that month had the Imus story and the Va Tech massacre going, which both generated lots and lots of posts.

 

A few observations from a longtimer, about the State of SJ:

--Massive running threads have completely wrecked the ability to scan for hot/current topics....everything is hidden somewhere. Loved when you could glance at the board for newsy headlines, see what others thought, weigh in, move on. More running threads = fewer threads overall, if you're looking at the stat page. It's a message board...be bold, start a thread.

--The removal of not only the politics board but any thread related to politics (a topic that dominates much of our real lives) has been a real loss to the board, just my opinion, no disrespect intended to the brass. I understand it, I just don't enjoy it. I like hearing what others here think about things, even when I disagree, a lot.

--Significant decline of people employed in the journalism industry...and many of those still employed aren't feeling to good about it right now.

--Merciful decline in 'postpadding' threads, along with mysterious disappearance of various of posters who contributed nothing about sports or journalism, ever.

But at the end of the day, it's a message board. Not a country club, a fraternity, a union...it's not really even a bar, as we like to pretend. It's a message board. You get what you get.

 

I find it amusing that this thread was started by someone with multiple user names who hit and ran.