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Post by bunnywailer on Jan 7, 2011 15:07:04 GMT -5
Well, to answer the original question. When Odin first took over as VT moderator, he had absolutely no life other than coming on VT and racking up 15000+ posts as a normal poster.
Then he actually got a life outside of volleyball, so now he probably only checks in occasionally or when one of his subadmins calls him up to complain that some doofus like me is causing problems on the politics board again.
Which brings us to a relevant side topic - Odin should have picked better subadmins. People who would really actually do a good, fair, and balanced job on VT. Not the dipweeds he has working for him now that spend all their time creating fake board personas and posting frivoluous threads on the forums to keep the traffic flowing on this site.
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Post by goGopherBill on Jan 7, 2011 15:24:04 GMT -5
Tell us how you really feel.. I get bonus warnings for anything and I am a swell dude ..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2011 16:03:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the support.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2011 16:05:27 GMT -5
There isn't a whole lot I wouldn't do to sit down with GSBB for an hour and talk to him about this site and it's history. He knows things.
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Post by USAFAN on Jan 8, 2011 11:35:06 GMT -5
Well, to answer the original question. When Odin first took over as VT moderator, he had absolutely no life other than coming on VT and racking up 15000+ posts as a normal poster. Then he actually got a life outside of volleyball, so now he probably only checks in occasionally or when one of his subadmins calls him up to complain that some doofus like me is causing problems on the politics board again. Which brings us to a relevant side topic - Odin should have picked better subadmins. People who would really actually do a good, fair, and balanced job on VT. Not the dipweeds he has working for him now that spend all their time creating fake board personas and posting frivoluous threads on the forums to keep the traffic flowing on this site. Agreed on most points. More than anything else I wanted to emphasize that there was a difference in the way things were previously run and how they are currently done today.
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Post by Barky on Jan 8, 2011 11:59:22 GMT -5
Well, to answer the original question. When Odin first took over as VT moderator, he had absolutely no life other than coming on VT and racking up 15000+ posts as a normal poster. Then he actually got a life outside of volleyball, so now he probably only checks in occasionally or when one of his subadmins calls him up to complain that some doofus like me is causing problems on the politics board again. Which brings us to a relevant side topic - Odin should have picked better subadmins. People who would really actually do a good, fair, and balanced job on VT. Not the dipweeds he has working for him now that spend all their time creating fake board personas and posting frivoluous threads on the forums to keep the traffic flowing on this site. Agreed on most points. More than anything else I wanted to emphasize that there was a difference in the way things were previously run and how they are currently done today. I agree also about there being a difference now. Roger really was the man. The warning system has been proven to be a joke and it's the norm for threads to turn south very quickly.
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Post by sashaminx on Jan 8, 2011 22:20:36 GMT -5
There isn't a whole lot I wouldn't do to sit down with GSBB for an hour and talk to him about this site and it's history. He knows things. There's quite a few people here that knows the history of this site. Especially those that came over from the dead and gone 24/7 days.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 23:32:39 GMT -5
There isn't a whole lot I wouldn't do to sit down with GSBB for an hour and talk to him about this site and it's history. He knows things. There's quite a few people here that knows the history of this site. Especially those that came over from the dead and gone 24/7 days. They hardly ever post though. M is gone, Wolfgang is gone, etc. GSBB is the only one around anymore.
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Post by romeo on Jan 8, 2011 23:50:40 GMT -5
There's lots more who have been here that long. I remember the 24/7 days. There are others too. They have changed their names, though.
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Post by sashaminx on Jan 9, 2011 2:22:53 GMT -5
There's quite a few people here that knows the history of this site. Especially those that came over from the dead and gone 24/7 days. They hardly ever post though. M is gone, Wolfgang is gone, etc. GSBB is the only one around anymore. "m" is back in New York, but should be back next month some time. If you want her email address, PM me and I'll get you it. Wolfgang still post, but I think you have to fish him out with anything on Colorado so it seems lately. Anyone that's handle is in a specialized colored font, are pretty much people that has been here since day one of this site. Ones off the top of my head and viewing the people that logged in the past 24 hours and are not "invisible" and with no specialized colored font handles that still frequent this board from pretty much the start of this board are... IdahoBoy, (R)uffda!, p-dub (I added his handle, since his original handle here was "pablo"), OverAndUnder, BeiBei, Rich Kern, Barefoot in Kailua, JustInCase, Murina, MarsH, hammer, Keystonekid, Phaedrus, snickers, BoilerUp!, Xplaya, just to name a few. Not all the ones that came here since day one created a handle for this site right away, so the dates of their membership can be misleading. And some deleted their original handle and created a new one later on. (R)uffda!, m and GB-Bob are examples of that. Hope that helped you in some way.
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Post by sashaminx on Jan 9, 2011 2:26:52 GMT -5
Forgot one more and I feel is one of the posters that post A LOT of useful volleyball related topics is "BearClause".
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Post by azvb on Jan 9, 2011 10:45:05 GMT -5
Curious, when did this forum start and who started it?
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Post by sashaminx on Jan 9, 2011 13:10:24 GMT -5
Curious, when did this forum start and who started it? It started I do believe in 2002. First there was a message board called Volleyball 24/7 which was being run by a person going by the handle ModJoe. The board was a type where posts would eventually fall off the page due to it not being able to hold more than about 40 post. Then ModJoe decided he could no longer run the board, so he handed the keys over to a person name Roger, with the promise of Roger to continue the message board. Roger ran Volleyball 24/7 for a couple of months (If that) then asked the people if they would be interested in a newer type of message board where posts never fell off the page, since people were complaining about it. Pretty much everyone that were frequent posters agreed to a newer type of message board after going to a link provided by Roger to show how the board would look like. So then Roger registered with Proboards, and linked everyone from Volleyball 24/7 to here, which took a few days for everyone from that board to come here. Roger basically did this to please both posters of Volleyball 24/7 (Not all of them wanted a new board for some reason) and to continue to fulfill ModJoe's wishes. Roger ran this board for maybe a year and for some reason could not continue. He then put out a bulletin on this board to see if anyone would want to take over. It took a while before he made his decision, but once he did, Odin was born. Odin ran this board for a while on his own, but I feel he was having a hard time keep up with the traffic of posts and threads that were being posted each day, so he selected posters here as his helpers. I should note that the men's board at the time of the birth of VolleyTalk didn't exist until Odin became the new board owner. Although some are complaining about how Odin has been running this board, they should remember, Odin started to separate the men's threads and women's threads by giving each their own sections on this board. If it wasn't for that, it would be all jumbled up in one section, with probably more fireworks than we see today on this board. I should also note, when Roger started VolleyTalk, one didn't have to register in order to post. Odin was the one that changed that after a while of taking over, where now one has to register to post. The colored font handles started (Not all the fans of certain schools wanted their handle changed to a certain school's color, only some did), maybe about a year after Odin took over. It was to help people here identify which poster was a diehard fan of a certain school. There use to be a thread of a list of all of the NCAA (D1-3) volleyball schools where people could say who they were a fan of, and Odin would add them to those schools' list. That ended and so did the colored font handle when more and more people started to come to this board. The only schools of fans that had the option of colored font handles were, Hawaii, Minnesota, Stanford, Florida, Long Beach State, Nebraska, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, USC and Santa Barbara, since they were the bulk of posters here on this site. Washington fans were the last to get the colored font handles. My sister "m" got pink, for reasons her and Odin knows. "swingaway" got the white colored font handle on the men's board, since he is the monitor elect there. The posters' status e.g. All-America and Fab 50 and such was also created by Odin. The logo for this site was voted on by the posters here after Odin decided this board needed a logo. Hope this helped a bit in some of the basic history of this board.
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Post by sashaminx on Jan 9, 2011 13:16:28 GMT -5
I forgot to state, the blue colored font handles was for those that had exception contribution to this site, such as Rich Kern and p-dub for instance.
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Post by Barky on Jan 9, 2011 13:39:59 GMT -5
Couple of corrections since we are going in to such detail here...
There was originally a different board run by ModJoe before 24/7. It evolved into 24/7.
Roger did take over the board from ModJoe as a favor and ran the 24/7 board for much longer than a few months.
He did look for a better system and decided on proboards. The majority of posters were actually reluctant to change but it did turn out for the better.
When Roger decided it was too much work to moderate this board, he asked for applicants to take over. He ended up tentatively deciding to hand it over to one of the boards most prolific posters even though he had reservations because that particular poster had been famous for trolling at times and had even been suspended as a poster. That person lived on this board and seemed like a good choice because he was very knowledgeable about the sport and spent most of his time here. The new moderator got other regular posters to help moderate the board.
The board changed immediately under new moderation and Roger even posted at one point that he regretted the choice he made to hand it over to this new person.
Odin did do better over time and did institute some very good changes to the format. The traffic to this board has probably increased astronomically which may explain a lot of the nonsense we now have to shift through and the new problems facing the moderator.
IMO, the moderation over the last couple of few years leaves a lot to be desired and there definitely is a much different feel to the board. GSOBB is correct that it may be due to the moderator having a life now and not spending as much time on the board.
I still agree with the original post that the board could be better regulated.
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