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Post by maarts on Jul 27, 2007 19:17:06 GMT -5
You gotta admit though that the forums there in the last year of its existence were overrun by trolls, spammers and hackers. RS made the conscious decision to leave the boards in the hands of the posters and look what happened. A jolly fine mess was made of it. RS volume 2 wasn't much better, those boards were a pain to manoeuver through too. RS left themselves wide open for all sorts of things happening there that were a danger to themselves; the server of the website experiencing major difficulties because of hackers, the opinions (read: flamewars) being vented straying far from what the boards were initially all about and degrading in quality and importance all the time.
It would take a full-time day job to monitor everything.
I wished that RS would've let us know that they were gonna shut down the boards so we could have rescued some of the inventory but their careless and cheap-ass attitude bit them badly and they took the easy way out.
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Post by phil on Jul 27, 2007 19:43:47 GMT -5
one, that had so little regard for their membership of faithful regulars that they didn't provide even the shortest of advance warnings that they were going to wipe the forum,
Bloody hell ! There's a bunch of stuff I would have liked to save
before it disappeared into cybernothingness !!
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Post by strat-0 on Jul 27, 2007 19:50:37 GMT -5
True points, Maarts, but it was well within the means of RS to hire a couple of full time IT people to monitor and administer the boards, along with any number of interns and part time helpers; they just chose not to do it. Message board templates were not as robust then as they are now, for sure, but they could have controlled it with just a minimal amount of manpower. It's not like they couldn't afford to do it.
"RS volume 2" was a complete joke, though. It was pathetic.
Yes, it would have been nice if at the original boards they had let us know what was coming, not just to rescue some of the inventory, but also some of the contacts - many of which were lost forever by people who figured, "Yeah, I can always get so-and-so's email address later - there's too much else going on right now."
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Post by strat-0 on Jul 27, 2007 19:51:19 GMT -5
Agreed, Phil.
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Post by ScottsyII on Jul 28, 2007 22:44:54 GMT -5
I'm still waiting for the pie and chips..... :-(
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Post by Ryosuke on Aug 2, 2007 0:15:33 GMT -5
It looks like someone from Sedaka edited the wikipedia entry...
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Post by maarts on Aug 2, 2007 6:21:31 GMT -5
Immediately following the forum's deletion, two independent and unaffiliated spin-off message boards were formed. The semi-private 'Neil Sedaka Clique' currently hosts a majority of the still-interested members of the now defunct message boards. It can easily be seen as an upgrade to the failed Rolling Stone experiment. A smaller community called Castaways was also created and can be generally thought of as a "farm team" for the 'Neil Sedaka Clique' big leagues. Through a grassroots email campaign, word of that forum quickly spread. The small backwater community of only about 30 members still keeps many traditions of the original Rolling Stone message boards alive.
LOL!
Someone really is jealous.
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Post by phil on Aug 2, 2007 7:03:50 GMT -5
Bah! There could be hundreds of those "communities"
in cyberspace that came to life after the RS.Com demise ...
Whatever ...
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Post by phil on Aug 2, 2007 7:05:19 GMT -5
16 guests ... ??
LOL !!
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 2, 2007 8:56:53 GMT -5
I was wondering what took so long.
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Post by Galactus on Aug 2, 2007 10:30:59 GMT -5
C'mon, that's just funny.
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 2, 2007 11:30:05 GMT -5
lighthearted...
neurotic...
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Post by maarts on Aug 2, 2007 15:17:56 GMT -5
It is funny! And true.
We are so not worthy of you.
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Post by Galactus on Aug 2, 2007 17:33:37 GMT -5
You're too kind.
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Post by shin on Aug 2, 2007 18:03:50 GMT -5
*sits quietly in third-base line seat, with radar gun and notepad*
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