Some Buckets gold
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Tagged old favorite @dynomitehawk in a comment, and I clicked on his name. For those not familiar, he (she?) was a very entertaining commenter with a memorable catchphrase “Hide yo kids” at the beginning of every game thread. When I selected his name I saw a game thread against Duke from Nov 2016. A lot of us been around a long time here it appears. It was fun to read. Here it is.
https://kubuckets.com/topic/4301/hide-yo-kidz-ku-duke-live-chat/418?_=1764294142596
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That game thread had almost 700 comments! Our game threads don’t approach those numbers these days.
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So many good people left this board and won’t ever comeback due to politics. Several I know personally, several guys I miss @HighEliteMajor @stupidmichael @cragarhawk @jaybate-1-0 to name a few.
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@kjayhawks just not true. Hem left because he was a dick. Jaybate left because others were dicks, or he may have died
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Natural attrition imo, this board spends zero on advertising and our indexing and ssl aren’t right leading to low search ranking (and of course google is enshittified and big corporate entities have a leg up)
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So I will bring up again what i brought up in a thread yesterday where I asked whether people are ok with restarting the board with latest and greatest everything. This will improve our search rankings and fix image uploading. We would lose our data but i could leave the old board up but maybe lock all threads
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@approxinfinity I won’t argue but one is my brother and one is my cousins so whatever
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@kjayhawks hem and jaybate are your cousins and brother?
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@approxinfinity I don’t quite know what that all means but do what you think is best. We appreciate you a lot for keeping us together!
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Thanks @wissox i think it would be best. Will do.
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@kjayhawks my point is that it rubs me raw when people try to blame discussing politics as the reason this board isnt as populous as it was. Thats just not fair. It happens that this country is very political and divided and having discourse is a solution to that fracture, we just got couched in parties too much snd ideas too little.
Jaybate was very open about discussing social issues. He saw the relationship between big business and basketball. he saw analogies between basketball and war.
Were we good at discussing politics? No, not really. Are we better now? I do think we are better at social discourse and of that i am proud, and think by being open to discussion we got there. Would i trade in any of our history if i could? No.
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@approxinfinity said in Some Buckets gold:
So I will bring up again what i brought up in a thread yesterday where I asked whether people are ok with restarting the board with latest and greatest everything. This will improve our search rankings and fix image uploading. We would lose our data but i could leave the old board up but maybe lock all threads
So all old posts would be lost?
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yeah. well, I mean I coudl keep the old board up with a link to the new one @BShark, and lock writing new posts on the old board.
People’s rep and avatars woudl be lost too, but I think that part is fine?
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@kjayhawks sorry, its a sore spot and something i have strong feelings about. We did what we thought was right at the time. Remember we went through a pandemic together? That kind of affects things right? And very likely we are talking about correlation not causation regarding attrition and the discussion of politics
If you look around the internet I think you will find that an old school independent board like this with no monetization or surveilance capitalism is a bit of a unicorn. There are more populous places, but they may come at a price.
Still, i think we may be able to attract more users with a board reboot and better seo.
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As i’ve said before, KU Buckets is the kinder, gentler board. Many thx for that, @approxinfinity and his invisible assistant.
It’s hard to believe people still post on that other site with all the daily douchebaggery.
I’m sure we all have posters over here that push our buttons a bit, to each is own, but not even in the ballpark of other sites.
And i’m thankful for that today
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@rockchalkjayhawk back atcha. back atcha
