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Nuts McClanahan

Nuts McClanahan

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Apparently the criticism of management, continual rule breaking and general dumb assery by regular contributors was no longer worth the trouble.
 
TwinsRRUs

TwinsRRUs

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HuskerO58 said:
Did On3 get rid of the free Husker message board? All I can see is the Red Sea Scrolls pay board...
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Yes. Here is what Sean Callahan has said about it in the past:

Sean Callahan said:
I'll be curious what the status of the free boards will be? I don't have that answer.
We were told not to have one when we launched because of the bots and spamming that happens on them, along with other issues.
So we did just one board here to simplify the discussion.
We obviously had the Open Scrolls, and that also had plenty of issues.
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Sean Callahan said:
Yes. Very few sites if any have them do to the spammers/bots and other moderation issues they cause.
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Huskerland Prep has had plenty of spam/bots in the past, so there is actually some truth to what was said about the free boards.

IMO, On3 gets more paid subscribers by doing this, since more people want to either voice their opinion, or simply read other's opinions.
 
Sean Callahan

Sean Callahan

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Nuts McClanahan said:
I always thought that free message boards got people onto your website and that traffic helped advertising. But I guess On3 doesn't have much for outside advertising.
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It actually creates more problems. Between bots, trolls, spam posts, and political posts, it creates several moderation issues. Then you have issues with other fan bases coming on the free board and causing issues as well. Hope that all makes sense. When we came to On3, we had a free board, btw, at first, and it got no traffic. 99 percent is on the premium boards. We had an off-topic board, and it just got ugly with politics and other issues, so we had to get rid of it.
 
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Truewooper

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Sean Callahan said:
It actually creates more problems. Between bots, trolls, spam posts, and political posts, it creates several moderation issues. Then you have issues with other fan bases coming on the free board and causing issues as well. Hope that all makes sense. When we came to On3, we had a free board, btw, at first, and it got no traffic. 99 percent is on the premium boards. We had an off-topic board, and it just got ugly with politics and other issues, so we had to get rid of it.
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That's because that free board existed while other did. If you force 2 choices for people and one offers nothing new and the older is familiar. They'll chose to keep the one they are used to.
 
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