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The charging bison may be the only logo in professional sports to have obvious genitalia dipicted.

That's weird.

Honestly, they are both Buffalo logos. The Bills aren't represented.

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The post I just deleted was extremely inappropriate.

I think this falls in the same category with those who said Ralph Wilson was tearing down to the team so he could move/sell it, ignoring the fact that he could have moved or sold it regardless.

Please stop doing this. The "IN" posts do not contribute to the community at all and are even worse than someone's honest attempt at discussing a topic. Thanks.

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The sports editor for the Buffalo news is going to hold a question and answer session for the community. I believe he's going to make a post in the morning and request that people who would like to know more about what is going on over at the news send him an email with their question. After that, he's going to gather them all the questions, answer them and post the responses here. This is your chance to speak to the new sheriff in a respectful way and let them know what you want to see from the Buffalo news sports section or have him address any concerns you have about the content or the pay wall they have implemented.

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Not picking on you specifically, but these countdown posts are really unnecessary. I have been hoping they would just get old and go away but they seem to be sticking around.

There are 30 articles currently on the front page. 20 are from different sources and 10 are from the Buffalo news. Yes, there are 10 in a row because our article poster posted them in a row as he went through the BN current articles for the day. This isn't that hard to understand.

Another Norman Einstein. Maybe it's because the hometown newspaper posts the most content?

There is really only one "admin" here in that regard. I am not being paid. I left your post. A moderator saw it differently and removed it. I restored it. Thank you for alerting me.

I would like to point out again, similar to what Rubes said above, the purpose of my thread was: 1. To inform readers that just because you run ads it doesn't mean you have a healthy, sustainable business. 2. To inform readers that after 15 years of free, that there is going to be a TREMENDOUS push to go back to a subscription model. This is because chasing pennies per click has failed local newspapers. Readers will need to adjust their opinions on what should be free and what will no longer be free. 3. That the grousing over $3 is absurd. You don't have to pay, but stop pretending this is some major imposition.

You should ask Josh Barnett. Right now, it isn't clear if this is going to happen with Sabres coverage also.

We don't promote ways to steal another business's product.

If you want to see something different at the BN then people should speak up. Subscribing doesn't mean they don't have metrics. Jerry and Bucky will get paid if people are reading their content, not just because they have subscribers. If the other columnists outperform them 10 to 1, then a properly run business will make adjustments.

No offense, but given the 100's of suffering publications in this country and the 10,000's of people employed - it's safe to say more than a few people have scratched their head's on the problem the last 15 years, given that their livelihoods depend on it.

Maybe we could slow the roll on the premium talk though? Again, we are talking $3 for a month. At 5 articles a day, I think that is 2 cents per article. So, I don't know - maybe if a stick of gum was $3 I would call it premium or maybe a 4oz yogurt. $3/month sounds like survival money to me.