TB is banning en masse

[secretlyevil]

Jan 14, 2015 9:29:54 GMT -5 humpty said:

Jan 14, 2015 8:19:45 GMT -5 KateAggie said:

Well, aren't they....original.

Their original domain name was bumpiebitches (not great either, but whatever) people were having issues with it not being suitable for work so they changed it. GBCB was a popular saying on TB just like GBCN was for TN. They didn't come here because they didn't want to invade on your already established community and wanted to make a place of their own. Obviously you guys had an impact on that decision to create a proboards forum. 

it would have burned TB's britches more if you came here. I'm sure EllieArroway or y4m would have put the boards up.

[meshaliuknits]

How long until we get the 2nd exodus on the wiki page?

[Deleted]

Jan 14, 2015 9:39:10 GMT -5 humpty said:

When I'm hungry

[eclaires]

Jan 14, 2015 11:48:05 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

How long until we get the 2nd exodus on the wiki page?

There needs to be a battle over Pampers.

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 14, 2015 11:56:23 GMT -5 @evelynrichards said:

Jan 14, 2015 11:44:39 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I'm also curious if they can make more with retargeting ads and tactics based on analytics for the site and emails. Message boards seem best suited for retention but if they don't get much value from repeat customers (or catering to them) then it might be a wash.

Forums are a huge amount of work for very little monetary return. In order to have a successful forum, you have to have people very, very invested in keeping it running well -- not just on autopilot. One of the sites I blog for used to have a forum as part of the page. It was constantly overrun by spam. 99% of people who went there popped their head in, saw not much was going on, and never returned. It's very difficult to keep a loyal following, and generating a new audience on your own is even harder.   

It accounted for 1.5% of my revenue, so you can imagine how much time I wanted to spend on it. It simply wasn't worth it, and I leapt at the chance to delete it when my boss offered.

Even if they can up their web revenue via new tactics, it's still going to be pennies when you look at the money they're generating with other methods. And every media company in the country is looking for new, different ways to generate revenue because websites sure as shit aren't going to do it. 

As much as we like to gleefully note their dropping web traffic (if that's accurate), it likely doesn't mean squat for their bottom line. Which, really, is fine because they are clearly terrible at maintaining forums and should be in another line of work.   

This is why Patrick rocks. And why he loves us!

[ringstrue]

Jan 14, 2015 11:56:23 GMT -5 @evelynrichards said:

Jan 14, 2015 11:44:39 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I'm also curious if they can make more with retargeting ads and tactics based on analytics for the site and emails. Message boards seem best suited for retention but if they don't get much value from repeat customers (or catering to them) then it might be a wash.

Forums are a huge amount of work for very little monetary return. In order to have a successful forum, you have to have people very, very invested in keeping it running well -- not just on autopilot. One of the sites I blog for used to have a forum as part of the page. It was constantly overrun by spam. 99% of people who went there popped their head in, saw not much was going on, and never returned. It's very difficult to keep a loyal following, and generating a new audience on your own is even harder.   

It accounted for 1.5% of my revenue, so you can imagine how much time I wanted to spend on it. It simply wasn't worth it, and I leapt at the chance to delete it when my boss offered.

Even if they can up their web revenue via new tactics, it's still going to be pennies when you look at the money they're generating with other methods. And every media company in the country is looking for new, different ways to generate revenue because websites sure as shit aren't going to do it. 

As much as we like to gleefully note their dropping web traffic (if that's accurate), it likely doesn't mean squat for their bottom line. Which, really, is fine because they are clearly terrible at maintaining forums and should be in another line of work.   

What about advertisers? They'd probably be less likely to want to keep their ads on those pages if the traffic drops significantly for a sustained amount of time?

[humpty]

He better hurry with that bucket.

[Alyssa]

What is up with the One Direction posts?   36 pages? 


Are they all 13 years old over there?

goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/16/larriest-thread

[eclaires]

Jan 14, 2015 13:14:20 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

What is up with the One Direction posts?   36 pages? 


Are they all 13 years old over there?

goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/16/larriest-thread

A few weeks ago, I picked up my neighbor's girls (they are in high school) and as we were leaving the parking lot we were behind the school stud. I said, "his hair looks like that guy from that new direction group."

And they laughed and laughed at me.

/old

[josieposy]

Are they Larry shippers?

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 14, 2015 13:14:20 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

What is up with the One Direction posts?   36 pages? 


Are they all 13 years old over there?

goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/16/larriest-thread

Oh!  Is that what "larriest" refers to?  

[ajj]

Jan 14, 2015 13:14:20 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

What is up with the One Direction posts?   36 pages? 


Are they all 13 years old over there?

goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/16/larriest-thread

I really don't know. They started becoming obsessed with them when I left a couple years ago. I thought it would just be a phase. Lol. They are actually a really fun group. There was a lot of AE drama for a bit and was why I stopped posting. Not that I really posted with any regularity. Probably even less than I post here.

[twotrue]

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

[mbcdefg]

Jan 14, 2015 13:50:48 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:14:20 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

What is up with the One Direction posts?   36 pages? 


Are they all 13 years old over there?

goodbyecb.proboards.com/thread/16/larriest-thread

Oh!  Is that what "larriest" refers to?  

This makes me think of that Ben Folds song, except now I'm singing it in my head, "That iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, the larrrriiiest ..."

[zoegirltx]

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

wowzers...too much drama for me!

[MrsAxilla]

Jan 14, 2015 13:55:57 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:50:48 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Oh!  Is that what "larriest" refers to?  

This makes me think of that Ben Folds song, except now I'm singing it in my head, "That iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, the larrrriiiest ..."

I don't know that one, but I do know an REM song that goes "I aaam, I AAAM, I AM SUPERMAN..."  And now I have stuck in my head.

[secretlyevil]

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

uh huh, sure they were.

[LoveTrains]

Jan 14, 2015 13:55:57 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:50:48 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Oh!  Is that what "larriest" refers to?  

This makes me think of that Ben Folds song, except now I'm singing it in my head, "That iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, the larrrriiiest ..."

FYI the luckiest was my wedding song!

[mbcdefg]

Jan 14, 2015 14:16:53 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:55:57 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

This makes me think of that Ben Folds song, except now I'm singing it in my head, "That iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, iiiiiiiiii am, the larrrriiiest ..."

FYI the luckiest was my wedding song!

Sometimes I sing it in the "voices" I use for my cats, and I sing, "iiiiiii am, the fuzziest ..."

[elleblue]

Dood. Where are the mods on TN? There's a ridiculously obvious spam post just hanging out - and it appears to have been there for over a week. link

[pixy0stix]

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

I just let out a donkey bray of a laugh. SUUUUUUUURE they do.

[pixy0stix]

Jan 14, 2015 15:01:52 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Dood. Where are the mods on TN? There's a ridiculously obvious spam post just hanging out - and it appears to have been there for over a week. link

I don't think any of the mods are left. We're all here.

[twotrue]

It gets better you guys. They IP banned someone (I can't figure out if it was on purpose or a mistake) and somehow Bump May got caught in the ban too. LOFL!

[pixy0stix]

Jan 14, 2015 15:14:04 GMT -5 twotrue said:

It gets better you guys. They IP banned someone (I can't figure out if it was on purpose or a mistake) and somehow Bump May got caught in the ban too. LOFL!

What if it was Bump May? Dun dun DUN!

[andrealynn]

Jan 14, 2015 15:14:04 GMT -5 twotrue said:

It gets better you guys. They IP banned someone (I can't figure out if it was on purpose or a mistake) and somehow Bump May got caught in the ban too. LOFL!

I mean, presumably BumpMay posts from her work computer, so they banned their own IP address. lol.

I can't decide if I should go delete all my posts there or not. Sometimes I think I should, but it seems like a lot of work.

[pixy0stix]

Jan 14, 2015 15:17:19 GMT -5 andrealynn said:

Jan 14, 2015 15:14:04 GMT -5 twotrue said:

It gets better you guys. They IP banned someone (I can't figure out if it was on purpose or a mistake) and somehow Bump May got caught in the ban too. LOFL!

I mean, presumably BumpMay posts from her work computer, so they banned their own IP address. lol.

I can't decide if I should go delete all my posts there or not. Sometimes I think I should, but it seems like a lot of work.

Do you know how many posts I have there?! There's no way. Plus a lot of them are archived anyway.

[KateAggie]

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

Dammit, North Korea. IS NOTHING SACRED?

[meshaliuknits]

Jan 14, 2015 14:13:49 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

uh huh, sure they were.

Or maybe they just "upgraded" again?

[redheadbaker]

Jan 14, 2015 15:14:04 GMT -5 twotrue said:

It gets better you guys. They IP banned someone (I can't figure out if it was on purpose or a mistake) and somehow Bump May got caught in the ban too. LOFL!

BEST. INTERNET. FAIL. EVER!

[debatethis]

Jan 14, 2015 15:02:51 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Jan 14, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5 twotrue said:

So now TB was hacked. 1000s of posts on Parenting were deleted and it wasn't from inside XO. They have the IP addresses of who did it. dun dun dun....

I just let out a donkey bray of a laugh. SUUUUUUUURE they do.

I smell BULLSHIT!