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Post by robotsmfc on Apr 23, 2010 16:42:40 GMT
There is no comparison between this place and Pyramid Portal. They are two different entities created for different reasons. Take your vendetta somewhere else.
This place is not dying, as much as you may want it to. Over the past season it has been more active than ever. My last word on the matter in this thread.
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Post by ifreakinrule on Apr 23, 2010 19:16:14 GMT
There is no comparison between this place and Pyramid Portal. really? both internet message boards populated by non-league football fans talking about non-league football and other general stuff. i'd say they are very much comparable.
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Post by ifreakinrule on Apr 23, 2010 19:18:12 GMT
also, people may say there wasnt a clique but i always felt on the outside of a lot of in jokes. it did kinda put me off and stopped me posting on here. thats just how i felt, i'm not saying thats the truth or anything.
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Post by robotsmfc on Apr 23, 2010 19:27:10 GMT
There is no comparison between this place and Pyramid Portal. really? both internet message boards populated by non-league football fans talking about non-league football and other general stuff. i'd say they are very much comparable. What I'm trying to say is that this place is not in competition or an attempt to reincarnate/outdo PP.
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Post by loy PRA on Apr 23, 2010 22:12:45 GMT
really? both internet message boards populated by non-league football fans talking about non-league football and other general stuff. i'd say they are very much comparable. What I'm trying to say is that this place is not in competition or an attempt to reincarnate/outdo PP. I find that interesting. One could argue that given it acquired the core of PP's posters, moderators, sent out personalised e-mails to half a dozen or so regulars and in the words of the creator writing on the rationale of Tinpot Terrace 'PP had had its day.'
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Post by bh on Apr 24, 2010 0:52:29 GMT
Social networking? Do you mean Facebook and things like that?? If so I devote some time to each, but as I can't socially network at work the U's site and this one generally get more attention.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 24, 2010 3:13:11 GMT
Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought that Pyramid Portal "had had it's day" because the originator, Joe Poppy, had pushed off to France, becoming very much an "absentee landlord" and the thing was just withering on the vine.
It became a bit of a fractious place, if memory serves, due to the hacking it suffered on a couple of occasions plus the "russchad" attacks. This kind of attack hit several boards, where person or persons unknown posted huge quantities of gibberish, spam.swearwords or whatever under the name "russchad." (The owner of a now defunct Conference North site i used to go on complained of having deleted 250+ such items in a single morning and was just thinking of jacking the whole thing in."
PP seemed to split between those of us who supported the mods efforts to get rid of this material and two PP members, Jase J and Gatesheadloy, who appeared to argue that the russchad stuff should not be deleted on the ground of freedom of speech.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 24, 2010 3:51:24 GMT
The magic of the old "Pyramid Portal" and, indeed, of this place not so long ago was that it was a place where put down their thoughts on any of the topics in a non-adversarial manner. The feeling of the places then was casual and cavalier, a bit like putting my favourite slippers on when i get home from work and settling down next to Mrs Sultan when she's in a good mood.
Once you get one or more members subjecting others posts to some kind of forensic testing, picking apart their opinions as if they were in a court of law it becomes far less comfortable. It takes patience and time to argue and issue rebuttals which defeats the object, somewhat, for the "casual" poster.
Thus it doesn't take too long for any adversarial types to drain the life out a board populated by casual sorts, because the latter are just going to think, "Sod this! I can't be doing with it!" and just drift off somewhere more restful.
Increasingly there's been occasions where i've hovered over the keyboard then though "Nah! I'll just get shot down in flames and can't be arsed arguing about it."
One thing i've found about people over the years is long after they've forgotten what you've said and done and how you said and did it, they never forget how you've made them feel. Me included.
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 24, 2010 18:38:59 GMT
Just to correct you on two things there, I am indeed registered and no, your e-mail address is not available on your profile. Not that I have any intention of e-mailing you, anyway Apologies - I can see my email on my profile, and it's listed as "public." Maybe you have to be logged in to see it, I'm not sure. Wasn't aware you were registered - is it under a different name? May I also put forward the radical suggestion to those who've posted solely negative comments about this forum that although you're welcome here if you keep to the rules and don't antagonise other users, you don't have to come on here if you don't like it, you know!
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Post by Roscoe, TFFN Reporter (Ret) on Apr 26, 2010 9:23:28 GMT
Portal's most active forum outside the regulars was the UniBond which had new people joining it on a weekly basis, such clientele were actively washed away in the Tinpot rains which drowned the once mighty Portal. Well here's another radical suggestion. Revolutions aren't just for destroying things - they're meant to rebuild or change things in a positive way. A quick google of Pyramid Portal shows that only the suffix ".org" has been registered so far, suggesting the continued availability of the the ".com" and/or ".co.uk" We are all well aware of your ability to sit out there and snipe at the rest of us, and quite frankly it's getting boring so how about taking it a step further and reviving Pyramid Portal yourself? Or would that be too much like hard work?
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 26, 2010 9:35:23 GMT
also, people may say there wasnt a clique but i always felt on the outside of a lot of in jokes. it did kinda put me off and stopped me posting on here. thats just how i felt, i'm not saying thats the truth or anything. I was amazed to read that because to my mind "Stortford Pitman" was one of the top contributors on here and i always used to enjoy the opportunities for a bit of "cross Chase" Stafford v Hednesford banter without the nasty edge which led me to abandon the "Rawnsley Ranger" moniker i used to use in other places. By the way, this worked both ways- i was equally disgusted by some of the more extreme SRFC posters on the old HTFC board. I used to have fun bantering the likes of Stortford, JonH, Lee and Ken, for instance. Top people, wonder what happened to them... Talking things HTFC good luck in the play-offs, maybe we'll cross paths again, barring us being shunted into Conference South to make way for you
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Post by davetscfc on Apr 26, 2010 10:51:43 GMT
Been a bit quiet round here myself, not sure why, though I do go through phases I've noticed. Facebook may be a contributory factor, our own forum has got a lot quieter lately, partly because our supporters club have tried to steer people towards their facebook group instead. Surprised to read of antagonism towards it though (was never on Pyramid Portal and have no idea what PRA stands for, so not aware of the politics there.) Always found the vast majority on here to be decent folk, and certainly the ones I've met in real life are. Wouldn't like this place not to be here even during my posting lulls.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Apr 26, 2010 12:58:54 GMT
PRA stands for "Portal Revolutionary Army" and comprises two of the more adversarial of the old Pyramid Portal members.
The old Portal had been paid for by it's founder Joe Poppy and when he went to France and stopped paying no-one else wanted to put their hands in their pockets to keep the domain name going so two of the mods here started again from scratch.
A series of emails went out to some ex-Portallers asking if they would be interested in joining the new board, where we would hope to go back to the friendly days of the "old" PP. I wasn't in the first wave of invites and some didn't get an invite at all.
Rather than looking at themselves and wondering if it could possibly be anything to do with the rude and confrontational way in which they often addressed fellow portallers, they decided to get bitter and twisted about it instead.
Putting aside the fact that they themselves weren't up to saving the PP themselves, they've often made little snidy attacks on the regular posters and were quick to deride the new Guilford contingent for being fans of the Sweeney, and stuck the boot into robot for instance. There have been several withering attacks made on Amber, too.
Perhaps i've spent too much time listening to George Noory's Coast to Coast AM lately, but i can't help feeling that there's a conspiracy theory here and that the PRA, annoyed at the demise of their beloved Portal which they loved so much yet didn't lift a finger to save think that they will have claimed some sort of "revenge" if they can make the Terrace an uncomfortable place to be and help it into oblivion, too.
Alternatively, "PRA" may apear simply because the swear filter has deleted the "T" from the end of the word... ;D
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Post by davetscfc on Apr 26, 2010 13:56:15 GMT
Wow, and there was me thinking this was just an internet message board!
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Post by loy PRA on Apr 26, 2010 17:00:03 GMT
annoyed at the demise of their beloved Portal which they loved so much yet didn't lift a finger to save think that they will have claimed some sort of "revenge" Despite the fact you've been trumpeting this supposition as veritas over the past few days, it is infact completely untrue. I had (and broadcast) several e-mail correspondences with JoePoppy about taking the portal on financially. He had not become an 'absentee landlord', that is also incorrect. He remained and remains active on Poppynet, where I initially found him when I wanted to take over the financial burden of PP. The information requested including the server info and running costs often came late, were later sharply revised or indeed often fell on deaf ears. By the time of the hacking there was something of a radio silence apart from one correspondence soon after the horse had bolted over here anyway. Defeating the purpose. I thank you and accept your apologies in advance.
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