Agree, some of the posters are completely nuts. It’s a free site and they’re complaining about a bunch of old posts. Are there that many frans in the group. I don’t care if any of the old posts get moved over, just start new. If Tom doesn’t want a WBB board because the sky is blue then Tom has the right to not have a WBB board.
They said they were moving all the posts over. That is what they said they would do. Your right Tom has the right to do whatever he wants here. I also have the right to stop coming here to post. I had been a paying member for nearly a decade, with the possibility of becoming one again. This really doesn't help the marketing of trying to increase your paid membership when I am deeply considering quitting posting altogether.
Lots of great recruiting information shared on that board. The recruiting threads were great. No clutter. Everyone used them.Tom, I’m not bitter. Honestly I saw the women’s forum as an excellent addition on rivals . To me it’s more like you may being a little stubborn, and that’s just an honest observation and I’m not trying to be petty. The suggestion was brought up before and yes the forum never got created for whatever reason. So you should be able to understand some skepticism when it appears you are trying to push it out for a month utiliIng a metric that may be difficult to measure women’s or men’s posts. I was a paying member for a little under a decade but stopped when I had kids. I still enjoy coming to a community to cheer on Hawks, and the best forum for that the last 3 years was the women’s free forum. You had 20-30 fairly active posters that were pretty level heads with not a lot of BS. There may be difference of opinion but these are your fan forums. Your company purchased the rivals site to increase usership. 1. I would think it’s prudent to be welcoming even if you think we are being snarky 2. Be willing to try it. I understand there is likely a lot of work with the transition, and would understand it that argument had you made it. I struggle to see how you can monitor traffic and that’s all I was saying. At least you have active free boards again.
You’re right, they did say they would move the posts over. But as others have said, just give them time. But as someone who has been through multiple software changes at work, the new software is never the same as the old software, some good, some bad. I imagine the same will be here. We just have to get used to it and/or accept it. I’m just glad there’s still a free board. I’ve had an on3 subscription for two years prior but recently didn’t renew because of personal issues with time. That may change in the future, I’m hoping.
Thank you for being reasonable about it. I was just saying lets see how things go in the next few weeks. Were several months yet from basketball cranking up for the Hawks anyway. I totally understand your thought on learning to do without. I still haven't cut the cord on my comcast and its costing me plenty with adding the B1G network, and Peacock. I'll be retiring about this time next year, and will be taking a hard look at what I spend for the whole sports on TV, social media etc... Not having the option to attend games this is like a lifeline of sorts. For the most part I enjoy the connection here as well, with a few exceptions.....
If what I posted is "badgering" someone, then they need to get a thicker skin. All I said is lets wait a few weeks and see what happens. They've only had this rolled out for 4 days since the conversion actually happened. That doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
This conversation has been 4+ years in the making, even Tom admits that. So it’s not just the transition.
Okay then. He did suggest that the posters should contribute multiple threads and posts about womens basketball and that might be advantageous to getting that request fulfilled. Should we take that advise or just assume that it won't happen regardless of anything we do?
Read his post on why he created the basketball forum. I think you got to read his words as well in the situation. Remember he states he could create a womens forum fairly easily and it no extra cost, his words. The request in this thread was June 14th, plus other request prior. So ultimately this is fully his decision whether to do it or not. Then he throws out a threat that he will eliminate all the free boards. Again those are his words. Like I said, I used to really like the guy, even friends with him on facebook. This just seems really weird. I wasn't involved with the requests on Hawkeyereport. I just really enjoyed the womens forum on Hawkeyereport. Ultimately if he wants traffic, this traffic for this thread should count as well so I am getting a double advantage. Ultimately its not going to matter. This is the offseason you won't be able to manufacturer enough board posts for him to say, yeah I think we need one.
You make a solid argument Bunsen. I guess we'll just hope that a some point we'll see that womens forum. Certainly there is interest and if Jans team progresses this year and the next I'm sure there will be plenty of posts showing that interest and calling for its addition.....
Fine. You win. Lets just kick off this new site by going down these same rabbit holes. argue, argue, argue. Whatever. I'll leave you to it. I try to say just give it some time, and you think I took the guy out and dragged him behind my truck. You obviously have a need to build some ongoing controversy. I'll just let you do it alone. Enjoy......
Since the request we are 6 days out. Do you really think anything is going to change? The reason the WBB forum worked so well is you didn't have the rifraf from the mens basketball or football forum. They are better posters.
A little exaggeration there, and don't get so worked up about little stuff.
I don’t know whether a WBB forum will be added or not, it’s all speculative at this point. Preemptively bitching about a decision not yet made is sort of futile IMO.
If you were going to do it, it would be easier to do it in the transition. Randomly saying you are going to do it 30 days later, and based on a metric that is not only hard to measure but also during the slow season seems as if they are predisposed to leaving it as it is and just trying to get individuals to let it go and say see this worked.
I’m in the camp to bring back the WBB too. How much can it cost?
Also came here to check out the new WBB forum from rivals only to find it doesn't exist. Back to the r/IowaWBB and r/Hawkeyes subreddits instead.
Its sad that you have 50-100 posters who really found a community on the women's board and it just doesn't appear they want to try to create an accommodation for that group. Even though they state it would be incredibly easy and no extra money involved. It really makes no logical sense to me.
He acted like money wasn't a consideration not to do it and that it would be easy to do, I specifically asked him those questions. But then said its a headache having to deal with individuals wanting the forum. Then the question is if you got individuals who want it, you are getting grief for not having something they have been used to, and some questioning that Tom never wanted a womens forum, it creates 1 question. Why not just create a the womens basketball forum? Seriously why wouldn't you do it. Instead they threaten to take the free boards away.
lol that’s the equivalent of going to the grocery store for a loaf of bread and learning that it’s been moved one isle over and then deciding to drive to another grocery store instead.
