teef Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 11 hours ago, HOUSE said: I don't remember you the ***** you don't. i haven't read through this so i'm not sure if it was menntioned, but that savioredwards character...he's here and i think was recently banned as filthybeast. he's always around. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real McClappy Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) I joined BBMB after the ESPN team forum threads shutdown. That place was ran like North Korea at the end and I'm not even exaggerating. 90% of the threads and posters wouldn't not even exist here at TBD. If you criticized or challenged anything about the FO, your thread was deleted and or you got a ban. Very happy to call this place home since the 2017 merge. Edited January 26, 2023 by Real McNasty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternOHBillsFan Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I've been here since 1998 and I can't imagine being anywhere else... TBD also had old boards which are gone forever, so it's not exclusive to the OBD boards! Since then we've lost some members... RIP njsue.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streetkings01 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I was! I was part of the fire Donahoe crowd lol 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galept Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 17 minutes ago, teef said: the ***** you don't. i haven't read through this so i'm not sure if it was menntioned, but that savioredwards character...he's here and i think was recently banned as filthybeast. he's always around. I thought he migrated to another team's boards when TE. Dude just won't go away I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloSkills Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strethor Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I posted on the old boards at a much higher frequency then I do here. It was a special place, they shut it down without warning to enact different social media initiates - no archive. There was not much thought put into the shutdown which is very sad but they have one of the best social media teams of any NFL franchise so there is some good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaw66 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, Strethor said: I posted on the old boards at a much higher frequency then I do here. It was a special place, they shut it down without warning to enact different social media initiates - no archive. There was not much thought put into the shutdown which is very sad but they have one of the best social media teams of any NFL franchise so there is some good. Actually, I think there was a lot of thought put into. The Bills are all about two things: winning on the football side, and making money on the business side. The Bills were making more money on social media, and they figured out that the message board wasn't doing anything for them. It wasn't driving business for them, at all. It wasn't selling advertising. Nothing. And from time to time, some poster was unhappy and complained to the Bills about what he thought was mistreatment. On top of that, they saw that if they imposed stricter rules (something the mods wanted), they would irritate more people. So, they saw no upside to maintaining the board. It also didn't make sense to announce the shutdown in advance. That would just engender a lot of complaining. So, they decided the best thing to do was simply to pull the plug without notice. One morning, it just wasn't there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianmoorman4jesus Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 It was definitely more volatile over there. Maybe some of it was the drought and just nothing to be happy about but you had to be ready to roll up your sleeves after almost any opinion. Nobody was glossing over it. You were going to have to argue daily over things that (looking back) were much to do about nothing. That board enjoyed almost no success from a team standpoint. It was elbows up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderweb Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Not a mention of the Buffalo Range or BillZone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Who Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Just now, Spiderweb said: Not a mention of the Buffalo Range or BillZone? I was over there, too. One of the those got very weird, can't remember which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJBobby Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 13 hours ago, Floridagatorsbuffalobills said: Hey all, So I use to be a regular on the old official Bills message board when they had the message board on their actual website. They shut it down after the Pegulas took over and my message board days ended, but after that Bengals game I had to start looking for places to vent. Just curious if anyone in here was a regular on that board? Yeah I was, came here once that board became a tire fire near the end of its time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramza86 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I liked BBMB. I think the mods were less emotional over there. As long as you followed the rules they wouldnt bust your chops. Here....another story. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunPolice Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Tom Donahoe used to post on there under a pseudonym of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfandBills Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 BBMB was much better. The mods weren’t 5’4 with lifted trucks like they are here 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I liken the shut down of the BBMB to the Montreal Screwjob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 13 hours ago, Floridagatorsbuffalobills said: Hey all, So I use to be a regular on the old official Bills message board when they had the message board on their actual website. They shut it down after the Pegulas took over and my message board days ended, but after that Bengals game I had to start looking for places to vent. Just curious if anyone in here was a regular on that board? Yes many of inmates of that board migrated here. 2 minutes ago, GolfandBills said: BBMB was much better. The mods weren’t 5’4 with lifted trucks like they are here Board was better here before migration so I guess Mod decline is due to that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Success Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Anyone remember Chris66? He was a Pats fan who tried to torment us for many years on the old board, and I think I even saw him on this board for a few years. Very passive/aggressive - would never overtly troll, and always said he was here for the good discussion, but always took shots at the Bills. I always said he'd disappear as soon as we were good. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBoots8 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I’ve liked it here since BBMB went down. Sure you have the reactionary crowd on gameday but nearly all of my interactions have been pleasant. I think I joined the day it closed down or very shortly after. I can’t remember when I joined the BBMB but safe to say I was either in my late teens or early 20’s so hopefully people don’t remember me from there (I probably said some dumb stuff from time to time 🤣) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blainorama5 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Yup, was on there for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ren1701 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 14 hours ago, Floridagatorsbuffalobills said: Hey all, So I use to be a regular on the old official Bills message board when they had the message board on their actual website. They shut it down after the Pegulas took over and my message board days ended, but after that Bengals game I had to start looking for places to vent. Just curious if anyone in here was a regular on that board? I was - I am OG. that was a great board as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 that was the only bills board i was never an active poster on. bills range, bills zone (i think range came first, and zone and TBD broke off of them, but it's hazy) really did get nuts! the job johnson flutie wars lasted for years. god we had an awful awful team for so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaw66 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 53 minutes ago, Ramza86 said: I liked BBMB. I think the mods were less emotional over there. As long as you followed the rules they wouldnt bust your chops. Here....another story. I think you have this wrong. I was a mod on BBMB, and the Bills wouldn't give us authority to deal with the bad actors. As a result, there were days when it was pretty chaotic, and there was a lot of misbehavior. People said a lot of nasty stuff to each other. Moderating isn't easy, and the moderation here isn't perfect, but the mods here have authority and exercise it in ways that keep the place civil and keep the conversations going and on point. You can tell the moderation here is good because (1) there's active discussion and (2) people aren't leaving. 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I came over from there after the great purge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleezoid Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Yeah, me too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Brown Eye Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I was under a different username, before I became a proctologist. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Arnold Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Never heard of it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinatraSinger Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Me too, over there I was known as "Flea". I enjoyed those boards and actually miss them. I preferred the less moderation, but that's me. I am also not a fan of all the threads being merged. Like some posters have said, you end up with oodles of pages that are hard to scroll through. Then you get multiple people saying the same thing over and over and over because no one actually reads through the pages. But like I said, that's just me. I'm here now and it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 27 minutes ago, Shaw66 said: and (2) people aren't leaving. There was actually a 10+ page long thread a month or so ago about people saying they were leaving because of mod actions. I stuck up for the mods in that thread but there were definitely people upset about something or another. I honestly think the moderating here is pretty darn good. My only concern with the mods is the mass-merging. They merge everything lol. Just last week a mod merged a guys post about a really cool Bills mural into a thread about jerseys. It is so odd and random haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einstein Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 1 hour ago, colin said: that was the only bills board i was never an active poster on. bills range, bills zone (i think range came first, and zone and TBD broke off of them, but it's hazy) really did get nuts! the job johnson flutie wars lasted for years. god we had an awful awful team for so long. Buffalo Range was THE message board back in the day. Thousands of active members, contests, ticket giveaways, etc. It was incredible. Sal Cappaccio (Bills reporter) actually started on the Buffalo Range. He posted there for like a decade, then started doing mini-shows in his basement in Florida, then he got the members of the forum to petition WGR to hire him, and the rest is history. But the owner of that place (Rick) was not a great guy sometimes and just ruined the place. Its a shell of what it once was. Two Bills Drive blows it out of the water now. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzboy54 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 That entire board moved over here. I did, the way they cut that off cold turkey wasn't great. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) I'm a BBMB transplant. (Same username, same profile pic.) When it disappeared, I looked at several other message boards and liked this one the most, so I signed up. Since moving over here, I've found that TBD has a much better signal-to-noise ratio than BBMB. Edited January 26, 2023 by WhoTom 2 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 TBD is the only message board/fan site I've ever frequented. Lots of good posters seem to have made there way here from BBMB. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Fixit Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 16 hours ago, Floridagatorsbuffalobills said: Hey all, So I use to be a regular on the old official Bills message board when they had the message board on their actual website. They shut it down after the Pegulas took over and my message board days ended, but after that Bengals game I had to start looking for places to vent. Just curious if anyone in here was a regular on that board? No. None of us. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
145B4IDIE Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 🙋♂️Present I think my first day here I received an infraction 😁 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figster Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Shaw66 said: I think you have this wrong. I was a mod on BBMB, and the Bills wouldn't give us authority to deal with the bad actors. As a result, there were days when it was pretty chaotic, and there was a lot of misbehavior. People said a lot of nasty stuff to each other. Moderating isn't easy, and the moderation here isn't perfect, but the mods here have authority and exercise it in ways that keep the place civil and keep the conversations going and on point. You can tell the moderation here is good because (1) there's active discussion and (2) people aren't leaving. I think you guys also had a real tough time defending a franchise that had struggled for many years. BBMB had inside connections that leaked sensative Bills intel. Myself personally, this is what brought the house down in my humble opinion. Edited January 26, 2023 by Figster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaL0L0k0 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 16 hours ago, Floridagatorsbuffalobills said: Hey all, So I use to be a regular on the old official Bills message board when they had the message board on their actual website. They shut it down after the Pegulas took over and my message board days ended, but after that Bengals game I had to start looking for places to vent. Just curious if anyone in here was a regular on that board? Welcome! if you mean the billsdaily com stuff, I was there, but for me it was more an news article / summary venue than a true message board like this, so I don't miss it much, IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Junction Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Also a transplant. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I was there. Goganious, then Logic. Toward the end, it got really out of hand. Still, my hands can still type "boards.buffalobills.com" into the URL box incredibly quickly. I spent farrrrrr too many hours on that forum. Then there was the "but" forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 3 hours ago, teef said: the ***** you don't. i haven't read through this so i'm not sure if it was menntioned, but that savioredwards character...he's here and i think was recently banned as filthybeast. he's always around. Oh wait, it's all coming back now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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