Two boards is not better than one

Anyone from the other board is welcome to join us here. No one has any ill will toward most of those on the other board. We have philosophical differences with the way moderation should be handled. We have multiple moderators who have over a decade long track record, posted board rules, and will ban troublemakers. We have a moderators forum and discuss issues when they arise. We haven't banned you as you haven't overstepped rules here. We also have a somewhat active social media presence with more followers than members here, and plans to expand to a "Rivals" type site once we have sufficient writing staff. It is a slow process, but it is a process.

We own the gojaxstate.net URL and won't let it evaporate like the .com did. I tried to purchase the .com but can't get a response from the owner who has it parked.

I wouldn't say either board has more meatier information. We had the stadium renders and knew who the coach was going to be earlier... though the latter wasn't posted on the open forums.

If you feel there should be one board, invite folks there to post here and we will deal with any problems or issues with riff-raff. There are quite a few quality posters who will never go back there. This board wasn't created because of B4B and the other troublemakers, this board was created because so many people were leaving or had already left because of them. Those people still wanted a place to talk about JSU related things.

...oh, and no Uggs or Goosefeathers are allowed

Moved to the General Discussion Board.

I honestly didn't realize i had wondered back over there. I can browse two boards i guess.

That was for the best. I considered it, but I get accused of being a totalitarian enough as it is

Apparently Funkychicken is still upset about my editing his post when he suggested an offensive name for our board. He implied that he had been banned, which never happened. His status was moved to "warned" after it happened, but he was never banned and is welcome to return and post.

If you insult someone on their forum, you shouldn't be surprised if the post gets edited... the only surprise was should have been not being banned. The rules are what they are. Certain things will result in instant ban... insults to religious beliefs, racism, etc... no warning. Personal attacks or political posts will be addressed but aren't insta-ban.

I can't remember my password for the other board!

Now What!

It should be the same login as this board.

Log in here, then go over to the old board and click the log-in button there. It should be automatic.

(All the logins are handled centrally by ProBoards... they don't have different logins for each site, unless you created a different username for each.)

Back to the O.T. ... I was one of the moderators on the old site. I quit the site when moderating became a (non-paying) full-time job. I felt like I was constantly babysitting a bunch of twitter babies shouting insults at one another. Screw that.

I should've screenshotted some of the moderator notices we received on the Admin side. You'd see how hopeless it was.

"I've got a few minutes to burn. I'm going to go over to GJS and talk about sports ball for awhile..."

[YOU HAVE 27 NOTIFICATIONS.]

"She's a troll." "He called me names." "Misinformation." "He insulted me." (repeat 23 more times...)

Sweet Jesus.

FREAKING BABIES.

So I think, "Hey, I'll go on and tell them to act like, ya know, adults."

Then I get posts and notifications accusing the moderators of being "snowflakes".

SCREW YOU GUYS. I DON'T GET PAID FOR THIS $#!*.

And I left. For a long time. And my mental health improved tremendously. Almost as much as when I dropped political twitter and stopped posting politics on my facebook and blocking the hell out of friends who did.

Every now and then, I'd venture back over to GJS to lurk for a bit, and would quickly be reminded of why I left. So there was really no reason for me to go back.

I'll skip the several private conversations I've had with other admins and site owners, but I have since posted in limited amounts on GJS again, and I post here. And I try my best to ignore the children on both sites who learned their social skills (apparently) on social media.

It really makes me wish ProBoards offered a "snooze" or "block" button for individuals, a la facebook and twitter, but I know that would only solve part of the problem. I can hide (or ignore) immature assholes just as easily as the next guy, but there's nothing stopping a new visitor (or a fan from another school) from seeing such asinine idiocy.

So the good people get run off quickly. And the only ones who stick around are the ones who say, "Ah! The sweet song of my people!" and dive in face first with an ever higher level of trolling.

I freaking hate the Internet.