ANNOUNCEMENT: Boards Closing May 5 (New Date)

[AsianRice]

Most of our mods are volunteered to do the jobs that not many of us want to do and they have done terrific jobs; I don't know how much it saves to close down the board.....it sounds like they force us to merge with FB.....

 

It's disappointing but nothing we can do cuz we don't own it.....

[Tank 92]

4 hours ago, Moderator 3 said:

In 2018.

I wish they would do the Navy Stadium practices again. Those were a blast and easy to attend.

[Boddiebroadus]

1 hour ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

Baltimoreravens.boardhost.com 

our own community made by some of our own posters.

Are we really moving here cause I don't want these boards to stop. Flex you are well respected in these forums u should make a topic about moving to these boards. 

[JO_75]

4 minutes ago, Boddiebroadus said:

Are we really moving here cause I don't want these boards to stop. Flex you are well respected in these forums u should make a topic about moving to these boards. 

I've sent a PM to @Admin 3 who started this thread to make one final plea to see if we can keep it open through the Ravens season. It may be a little late but I gotta try something

 

[Sami84]

thing is find really odd is that this board is active. It's very active in fact and people are joining quite consistently, if this were a ghost town i'd understand but i haven't seen any significant drop in traffic.

 

I really don't understand the need to close this board. It's costs nothing and its being used.

[allblackraven]

29 minutes ago, JO_75 said:

I'm already signed up on there, but I'm not giving up like that. If there is anything I can do to help keep this board up for the season then damn it I will try my best. If it doesn't work then it is what it is. 

Ah cool. Good luck with that but I'm thinking your chances aren't great.

[Dfence4champs2052]

No open practices, minimal access and shutting these boards down (shoutout to our fanmade boards now) seems contrary to connecting with the Ravens' fanbase. Maybe it's a case of taking 5 steps back to take 2 steps forward?

[arnie_uk]

53 minutes ago, Dfence4champs2052 said:

No open practices, minimal access and shutting these boards down (shoutout to our fanmade boards now) seems contrary to connecting with the Ravens' fanbase. Maybe it's a case of taking 5 steps back to take 2 steps forward?

They are out of touch from top to bottom. 

[Maryland]

I guess I'll be moving to reddit's r/ravens subforum. 

There's a learning curve involved, but it seems like a decent forum content-wise. Plus I know reddit has other forums worth reading. Maybe I'll see y'all there. 

[Tiznut]

3 hours ago, Sami84 said:

thing is find really odd is that this board is active. It's very active in fact and people are joining quite consistently, if this were a ghost town i'd understand but i haven't seen any significant drop in traffic.

 

I really don't understand the need to close this board. It's costs nothing and its being used.

https://invisionpower.com/

 

 

if it's like the niners mb it's not free to build, host, maintain.  

[GrimCoconut]

Perhaps the Ravens learned that we as a fan base are so knowledgeable that other teams use our scouting reports when researching draft prospects and when scouting and game planning against us. By closing the forum, this "makes us a better team" like when open practices at McDaniels stopped happening 

[JoeyFlex5]

7 hours ago, Boddiebroadus said:

Are we really moving here cause I don't want these boards to stop. Flex you are well respected in these forums u should make a topic about moving to these boards. 

The mods have stated that they don't endorse it because they don't wanna be associated with a fan made forum that isn't well established. Plus I think there are some threads out there. 

Theres a good number of users so far. Just come on over and spread the word

[Moderator 3]

There is a thread discussing alternative forums.  It is even pinned.

http://boards.baltimoreravens.com/topic/72491-a-new-forum-home/

 

[RayRayRaven]

well the mods that we have sometims bumpd hades wiff here do a gameday thread on scout. they are true raven fans and are relative broad minded to diveral opinon. we here hav waged opinon war and tho some of us hav been clearly more wright than othas on like wher da ravens find demselves and which playas hav been overdraffed and shuldna been draffed at all the mods here have general allowd da smartist postas who were wright most often to vocal thar diveral ops.  hostiles have developd in this exchang and those hostiles cant help but carry ovah to a cite run by postas that thang oz and decost can do no wrong and shuld stay, speccy when othas belief oz and decost must go before they sink us certain.  in the intarest of preservin bd diveralisty cites like Scout and Reddit shuld be favrd. Scout they are thar and it was the goin plac before here.  Scout for us

[RayRayRaven]

5 hours ago, Maryland said:

I guess I'll be moving to reddit's r/ravens subforum. 

There's a learning curve involved, but it seems like a decent forum content-wise. Plus I know reddit has other forums worth reading. Maybe I'll see y'all there. 

scout and reddit r the viabile optoins join both and see which grows best my opine here is to start at page 1 of this thread an link to the cites mentiond add each to favorights and join at ur timin.  at a glance u can see wich cites are bona fide and wich r gonna strugle.

Edited Tuesday at 12:41 PM by RayRayRaven

[allblackraven]

4 hours ago, GrimCoconut said:

Perhaps the Ravens learned that we as a fan base are so knowledgeable that other teams use our scouting reports when researching draft prospects and when scouting and game planning against us. By closing the forum, this "makes us a better team" like when open practices at McDaniels stopped happening 

Either that or Horitz, DeCosta and maybe even Ozzie raised a stink with SB, worried about their jobs.

[GrimCoconut]

20 minutes ago, allblackraven said:

Either that or Horitz, DeCosta and maybe even Ozzie raised a stink with SB, worried about their jobs.

Yeah it may be the Forum Mock. I mean, we've seen prices escalate there like in real life now and some of these trades now...wow. I'm thinking that's it. 

[allblackraven]

1 minute ago, GrimCoconut said:

Yeah it may be the Forum Mock. I mean, we've seen prices escalate there like in real life now and some of these trades now...wow. I'm thinking that's it. 

There you go - we're officially putting a blame for this disaster on @-Truth- and @Mt. Crushmore

[The Mom Gene]

I'm thinking there are several really valid reasons...  but hey, whatever seems viable.

[RavensFanMania]

1 hour ago, GrimCoconut said:

Yeah it may be the Forum Mock. I mean, we've seen prices escalate there like in real life now and some of these trades now...wow. I'm thinking that's it. 

The Best Forum Mock on the net.  Oh yeah, there are others, but none are run as well.  first most forum mocks only have the draft and some trades, but I've never seen one that includes free agency and salary cap.   It will continue on whatever board we end up using.  

BTW, when is sign up for Draft a Franchise!

[RavensFanMania]

1 hour ago, The Mom Gene said:

I'm thinking there are several really valid reasons...  but hey, whatever seems viable.

There is no good reason for shutting us down.  This is a great forum for bringing Ravens fans together from all over the world. 

[allblackraven]

24 minutes ago, RavensFanMania said:

The Best Forum Mock on the net.  Oh yeah, there are others, but none are run as well.  first most forum mocks only have the draft and some trades, but I've never seen one that includes free agency and salary cap.   It will continue on whatever board we end up using.  

BTW, when is sign up for Draft a Franchise!

@-Truth- said he'll start it soon after we're over on boardhost

[The Mom Gene]

29 minutes ago, RavensFanMania said:

There is no good reason for shutting us down.  This is a great forum for bringing Ravens fans together from all over the world. 

We can agree to disagree on that.  If there were no good reason, then they wouldn't be shutting it down.

 

I will agree that it was a great place to bring Ravens fans together.  The site isn't going away.  Just the forums are.

[McleanRavens]

Hi

[atomicfront]

2 hours ago, The Mom Gene said:

We can agree to disagree on that.  If there were no good reason, then they wouldn't be shutting it down.

 

I will agree that it was a great place to bring Ravens fans together.  The site isn't going away.  Just the forums are.

I blame AllBlackRaven

Edited Tuesday at 08:13 PM by atomicfront

[JoeyFlex5]

2 hours ago, The Mom Gene said:

We can agree to disagree on that.  If there were no good reason, then they wouldn't be shutting it down.

 

I will agree that it was a great place to bring Ravens fans together.  The site isn't going away.  Just the forums are.

The forums are the only redeeming quality of this garbage site. 

Their only reason is that they feel they have better avenues for this same type of discussion. But in reality those avenues are large crowds of idiots who think cutting flacco and hiring ray Lewis to coach is the solution to everything. 

We have real football talk here, they want us to rant and rave with the village idiots. There is no valid reason here.

[-Truth-]

1 hour ago, The Mom Gene said:

We can agree to disagree on that.  If there were no good reason, then they wouldn't be shutting it down.

 

I will agree that it was a great place to bring Ravens fans together.  The site isn't going away.  Just the forums are.

It is a mistaken notion to automatically presume that the judgment behind the decision is sound simply because the decision was made. It essentially implies that there are no miscalculated decisions, which is obviously far from the truth. The most likely explanation behind the shutdown is that it’s a cost-cutting measure that can now be written off under the guise of an expected natural progression of migrating conversations to the more current and popular social media platforms, i.e. Facebook and Twitter, an unspoken declaration of forums being an outdated means of discussions. If this is the expectation, then we have been woefully misread as a demographic. As a long-standing member on this forum, I can personally attest to the fact that I have zero interest in migrating my sports conversations to the wholly unmoderated platforms that are the physical manifestation of thousands of people standing in a single room and talking at the same time. I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but I would assume that this would be less than ideal for a sizable portion of other seasoned members.

I’m on multiple social media sites, have been and will be. From personal experience, I can tell you that the vast majority of the football discussions that occur in the comments are a barren wasteland of misinformation, uninformed opinions, and arguments which turn into poo-flinging contest and personal insults that immediately stream away from the main topics of discussion. This is mostly because a great deal of sports fans are relatively casual observers, thus the bar set for general insight is significantly lower. Couple that with the lack of repercussions for trolling or steering off-course, and in reality, the aforementioned result no longer comes as a surprise. And ironically enough, although we do debate on other platforms under our real names and profiles, the fact that we are unlikely to see the same faces in other discussions considering the infinitely-deeper pool of participants makes the ordeal less personal in comparison. The entire reason of most members joining forums is because they have a vested interest in the details of the sport that is generally greater than that of a casual observer. It has a sense of community where there are long-term residents, so you can choose whom you gravitate towards and whom you gravitate away from. And there are rules for everyone to abide by that ensure that the overall sense of integrity is protected, that this remains a place for intelligent discussions. That doesn’t mean that you won’t see head-scratching concepts or ill-informed ideas tossed around. But it’s still a far more ideal experience than that of the other platforms. These are the points being missed in the migration. Instead, it's treated that if we like X, we must like Y. What’s being lost on whomever is pulling the plug is that most members will either cease to hold their discussions on the internet, migrate to another forum, or go through a progression from the first to the second. It is of no surprise that other forums were immediately explored once the news broke. And I personally hope to see the familiar faces there.

[The Mom Gene]

13 minutes ago, -Truth- said:

It is a mistaken notion to automatically presume that the judgment behind the decision is sound simply because the decision was made. It essentially implies that there are no miscalculated decisions, which is obviously far from the truth. The most likely explanation behind the shutdown is that it’s a cost-cutting measure that can now be written off under the guise of an expected natural progression of migrating conversations to the more current and popular social media platforms, i.e. Facebook and Twitter, an unspoken declaration of forums being an outdated means of discussions. If this is the expectation, then we have been woefully misread as a demographic. As a long-standing member on this forum, I can personally attest to the fact that I have zero interest in migrating my sports conversations to the wholly unmoderated platforms that are the physical manifestation of thousands of people standing in a single room and talking at the same time. I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but I would assume that this would be less than ideal for a sizable portion of other seasoned members.

I’m on multiple social media sites, have been and will be. From personal experience, I can tell you that the vast majority of the football discussions that occur in the comments are a barren wasteland of misinformation, uninformed opinions, and arguments which turn into poo-flinging contest and personal insults that immediately stream away from the main topics of discussion. This is mostly because a great deal of sports fans are relatively casual observers, thus the bar set for general insight is significantly lower. Couple that with the lack of repercussions for trolling or steering off-course, and in reality, the aforementioned result no longer comes as a surprise. And ironically enough, although we do debate on other platforms under our real names and profiles, the fact that we are unlikely to see the same faces in other discussions considering the infinitely-deeper pool of participants makes the ordeal less personal in comparison. The entire reason of most members joining forums is because they have a vested interest in the details of the sport that is generally greater than that of a casual observer. It has a sense of community where there are long-term residents, so you can choose whom you gravitate towards and whom you gravitate away from. And there are rules for everyone to abide by that ensure that the overall sense of integrity is protected, that this remains a place for intelligent discussions. That doesn’t mean that you won’t see head-scratching concepts or ill-informed ideas tossed around. But it’s still a far more ideal experience than that of the other platforms. These are the points being missed in the migration. Instead, it's treated that if we like X, we must like Y. What’s being lost on whomever is pulling the plug is that most members will either cease to hold their discussions on the internet, migrate to another forum, or go through a progression from the first to the second. It is of no surprise that other forums were immediately explored once the news broke. And I personally hope to see the familiar faces there.

too long for the average member to want to read.  That said.  If you're not sure of the reasoning or believe what the have said is the reasoning, as it doesn't fit your ideas, then you really cannot discount their reasoning. 

[RavensFanMania]

3 hours ago, The Mom Gene said:

We can agree to disagree on that.  If there were no good reason, then they wouldn't be shutting it down.

 

I will agree that it was a great place to bring Ravens fans together.  The site isn't going away.  Just the forums are.

Cost will be there reason, but bringing good fans together for civil conversation should trump that.  

[The Mom Gene]

4 minutes ago, RavensFanMania said:

Cost will be there reason, but bringing good fans together for civil conversation should trump that.  

Which got to be very difficult lately.