Sammy Sofa
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How do you handle game threads?
Sammy Sofa replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
yeah. maybe the starting rotation/sign up can be brought back if the cubs are ever good enough to excite this board enough again and traffic gets to where it needs to get, but for now i'd posit that it's best to shelve it and go with an automated game thread post (assuming it's easy enough to implement). Yeah, I think automatic is the way to go, if possible. Then once the thread is up, let people figure out on their own what they want to do with gifs or stats and whatnot. -
How do you handle game threads?
Sammy Sofa replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Generally it was managed by one person, Fred (and then mostly me, I think, for a few years, though I quit after 2019); they'd put out a call for the season for people to sign up, and then the order the signed up was the order it went; person up created the thread ASAP after the last game, and did that until the Cubs lost, and then it moved to the next person on the list. The person "running" it would nudge the next person if necessary via email or PM, and then if the other person hadn't started a thread within a few hours of gametime, the next person on deck was up. We'd also keep a record for each game starter (the first post in the sign up thread was updated after each game to reflect this, and who was up and who was on deck. Pretty informal; Fred had a whole template, but post-him it got pretty all over the place. When the Cubs were good/there more people here, the first post would at least have the starting pitchers and their stats, and the lineups posted ASAP. When the Cubs suck, or people just aren't feeling it, they'd usually be "themed" threads instead (like, "oh, they won last game and we posted a bunch of Mad Men gifs. Well, now we're gonna deluge the thing with Mad Men gifs until they lose!") -
Brock, this game is a ton of fun, and Southpaw19 has been behind it and running it the whole time. We used to actually have a prize pool, and it could definitely benefit from some more exposure.
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Oh, horsefeathers, can we have extra giant profile pics now?
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That tracks with them just being dicks.
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To be fair, that name sounds totally made up and kinda sus, in terms of a username.
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The Great Forum Shuffle conversation
Sammy Sofa replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
This never made sense to me; like, why not just create the poll in the appropriate forum? As it stands, there's really not a huge difference between "social" and "rants." "Social" is used far more; "Rants" mostly gets play when people want to gripe about some kind of "this really grinds my gears" problem in their lives, but even then that often just ends up posted in "Social." I think it would make sense to just have a big "Non-Sports" forum, and then a few subforums within that along the lines of broad topics I mentioned: general chit-chat, politics, food, movies, music, travel (obviously people should sound off with what else they think fits along those lines; can't imagine we'd need too many). I think having a "serious topics" forum would be a good idea; we do get a fair share of posts where people are venting or want advice about something serious happening to them, and keeping that in an area where it would be obvious anyone entering that this was a "cut the bull horsefeathers" forum would help everyone. -
The problem with all the subforums it that you end up with a lot of inactive subforums. I would rather have broader forum categories with the activity consolidated. I agree, and that's why I stuck with pretty broad suggestions. Keep it as basic as the type of stuff I listed.
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Awwwww, the settings also still have slots for Google+, something called WLM, Yahoo Messenger and AOL IM.
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Please contact me via ICQ, thank you.
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Uh, not for non-sports stuff. There's "Social" and "Rants." fair. the off topic stuff was what i was mainly thinking of as the place for some megathreads. i guess it depends on how granular you would want to get with that stuff and how much the traffic does or doesn't warrant it. I'm kinda with you; I don't mind the megathreads, but would prefer more subforums. Like, one for politics, movies, music, food, etc.. Having a broader off topic forum still makes sense, and rants is fine. I think a "serious topics" forum is a decent idea, too. I know I'm biased, but I think the non-sports posters/topics have been doing a LOT of the legwork in keeping this place from being a ghost town.
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Uh, not for non-sports stuff. There's "Social" and "Rants."
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Personally, I'm not knocking any of this for any of the changes are inevitably coming; it's just how it is. Tim's not at fault for selling the place, and the buyers aren't at fault for wanting to try and turn their purchase into something along the lines of what has already worked for them. I just think the identity/environment of this place has been defined, for years now, by a bunch of weirdos spending way too much time on an almost forgotten message board, which doesn't exactly jive with any kind of business plan or whatever to make this an actually successful business venture. That's just how it is, and pretty much anytime I've seen something similar goes down it results in much of the original posters slowly posting less and less and then going away. If that's what happens, eh, that's life.
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do you think they're regretting this purchase yet This is becoming an awesome thread. One guy is trying to tell us all how great it's going to be while the rest of us are basically ignoring him and fixated on Kyle's former life and cracking wise about stupid horsefeathers. You can take the Tim out of NSBB, but you can't take the NSBB out of NSBB. Just taking it in while we can (though, TBH, even that sounds too melodramatic). But, really, this place is going to hugely change if all of this goes into effect, and a bunch of the current regulars will likely slowly disappear because of it. That's not some kind of ridiculous "threat" about flouncing or whatever; I'm sure we've all seen this happen countless times over with various boards or sites or blogs and whatnot. Whenever a plan is rolled out to "upgrade" something to get more eyes/clicks on it, the edges always get sanded off. A lot of the stuff that keeps a lot of us here (namely the non-sports topics and, quite frankly, what we're able to get away with) will inevitably be curbed or will just go away, and, eh, that's just what happens with these sorts of deals.
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Hey, quit stealing imb's thunder. Is this referencing what I hope it's referencing But of course. Made fatherhood even more impressive.
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Hey, quit stealing imb's thunder.
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Wait, I'm pretty positive the sliding into first guy was someone else, too. Thatsthejoke.gif
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yeah the gravy is 100% for sure not da bum. it was some rando We should credit Bum with all the great stuff. Da Bum hand-timed a bunch of his friends running 90 feet and proved that diving into first is slightly faster. Wait, I'm pretty positive the sliding into first guy was someone else, too.
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Totally; this place was even more fun when there was a ton of traffic. You end up with a little something for everyone.
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NSB or NSBB?
Sammy Sofa replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in North Side Baseball Issues & Suggestions
NSB is technically right, but a place this charmingly defective has always been and always will be NSBB. -
Yeah, but honestly, sometimes that's just more hassle than it's worth. Especially if I wanna watch it on an actual tv. Seriously, it's really simple so long as you've got an HDMI cable to spare. Let me know if you want to try it during the season.
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I think this is the year I’m back. I haven’t subscribed to anything that helped me watch games in two years. I’ve been in a doctoral program that finishes up in May, and they’ve just been uninteresting. Even the games I could watch were against the pirates with pirates broadcasters. Brutal. But maybe I’ll have more time, and maybe they’ll be watchable. We’ll see. Some interesting story lines anyway. Bellinger will never be an mvp caliber player again, but what if he returns to a 110 ops+? What if Nico takes another step forward? Will the young pitching really be a strength? Will one of Wisdom, Morel, or Madrigal take the job at third? Is David Bote still alive and who killed him? Their hope, mystery, and intrigue. Or meh. Hey, I'm willing to subscribe to something...MLB.tv...a Marquee streaming service. But what I'm not willing to do is pay a bunch of money for a live tv streaming service. I'm over paying for my tv in big groups of channels I don't watch. And since the Cubs are blacked out for me on MLB.tv (unless that's changed) and Marquee doesn't offer a streaming service that I can pay for, I'm out of luck.
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That was probably my favorite. The Netherlands is pretty nice too although I'm not crazy about the color scheme. Great Britain's hat is freaking awful. What the hell is that font? Cockney Rhyming Sans.
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Like, make America's a big sloppy cheeseburger, you horsefeathering cowards.
