07-13-2008, 05:14 PM
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What happen is rather simple. A few years back Fanhome merged with scout and they did nothing for the Fanhome people and after 2 years they break ties and as it happen is scout keep the Message Board and Fanhome started a new board.
And as it turn out is there was 2 groups there. one who didn't like how scout run it and the one that just posted there for it was a active board with alot of members. Well simply the later group just stick with scout for they didn't cure and the other group Fanhome didn't get many from for alot of them went to The Scoreboards Message Board that the number of members started up before Fanhome break ties with Scout. So basicly what happen is Fanhome only keep those who cure about the Fanhome name. Those who belive in the idea of what they wanted Fanhome to be. So stick around and Post and tell your freinds for Fanhome once was thriving and with a few commited to come and stick around it can one day again. |
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07-13-2008, 06:11 PM
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Thats is all there is to it, the ones here now just has to keep on posting, and we will grow.
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08-11-2008, 10:58 PM
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You lost me.
You have a thriving community... then You change things... then Obviously, most didn't like the changes... then people leave... then you expect another thriving community. Why was it felt that all of this nonsense was necessary? I was a member since April of 2000 and left for a year. I come back and its a shell of itself. |
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08-12-2008, 01:36 PM
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Here's my take on it...seeing as I had some inside knowledge.
Back when FanHome merged with TheInsiders servers costs were through the roof. Either a merger or some rich dude with loads of money was needed badly. Since no rich dudes came forward Kevin did the only thing he could think of to keep the community together...merge with TheInsiders (later to become Scout). Nowadays...server costs are more manageable and with the help of the renegades who formed TSB Kevin was able to help FanHome break free from Scout's grasp. But unfortunately Scout didn't let him contact everyone to let them know FanHome was going to be reborn. That's where it stands now. It will be a process, but I hope you'll stick around. Things will get better. I'm sure of it  |
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08-19-2008, 09:21 AM
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Quote:
 Although, honestly, I will say for me personally anyway (since I was one of the few to register on the site when it was first established in the summer of 1999), I was more upset over not just by the fact that the site was being soldout to TI (which of course as we know had forced the changeover in the boards software from good 'ole classic vBulletin v1, to EZBoards)... But, the fact that when the changeover had officially occured; they had promised all of us users that the old posts (we're not just talking about the post counts here, but the ACTUAL threads & posts themselves!) from the pre-TI/Scout days would be ported over in some form to the new merged TI site... It seemed like we had been waiting out for ages for this to happen, until we all just figured and accepted that those posts would never ever be seen again.  Fortunately however, www.archive.org did have some of those pages saved at the time. Not all, but some. And, I was lucky enough to save much of those archives onto a CD, before most of them would disappear. Personally, I was very heart broken over the whole changeover, as I was very much loyal, and dedicated to the original FanHome. IMHO, the site was undoubtably the best sports forums on the web (at the time). No one came close to the coverage FanHome had going. And, the userbase on there was just growing in the thousands! Ahh, the memories I tell you... :'( Oh, and another thing I remembered that was promised but was never brought back (although, not something I really cared for, but alot of other users seem to) was the chatroom. Though I'm not 100% sure on this, since I don't recall much of the post-TI days, but if I'm not mistaken, I think I remember it being finally introduced after about a year or so into the new site? |
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08-20-2008, 09:30 AM
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I joined up on some forum or other in the latter part of the 1990s. Don't ask me the exact date, I'm guessing @ 1997-98 and I don't remember the "name" of the forum [Insiders; FanHome?]
I've been on-board continuously since first joining up. I was aware of this thread but had never read it. Reading it this morning, I know less now thab i did before I started. Here's my chronology of experience: 1. I joined up focused on MLB, the Boston Red Sox, Strategy & Sabermetrics, Baseball History, General Discussion and Current Events in pretty much that order. Discussions were vibrant, interesting, sometimes a bit unruly but most often very engaging ... the message streams virtually hummed with activity. 2.The Scout merger came and I stuck with the merged Entity, with the same interests, NOT paying much attention at all to the underlying politics. 3. Scout, IMO, seemed to get very edgy, not knowing whether to over-moderate or under-moderate, and like the Three Bears, never getting it quite right. Well before the break-up, the pot shots started flying from both sides; and I decided to stick with the Fan Home trend. 4. I thought the divorce was old hat; but I have noticed for several months a feeling that familiar Mods have vacated the premises. I'm not a big fan of heavy-handed moderating; but I've seen a notable decline in the intelligent, civil and informed content of posts overall, bringing out some of the worst traits of some of Fan Home's most marginal contributors. Like Jack Cafferty's book title, "It's Getting Nasty Out There." 5. Still on-board and maybe less affected by some because of the boards I visit most often, but something is certainly undermining what used to be a better site overall; and I still have no clue as to the facts behind that. P.S. Not 5 minutes ago I reported a bit of pure advertising spam. I've noticed a sprinkling of this type garbage here recently with no action to delete it. I ask this as a matter of PC security concern. Much as I'd like to stay here, I have no interest inviting unwanted intruders on my PC system [as I had for two days until yesterday]. Last edited by nanwynn; 08-20-2008 at 10:27 AM. |
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