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immamac

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  1. yeah, so it's not and stop making this about parties.
  2. put this in the correct thread?
  3. yeah, and it's not that it's "dying" it's that there's not any fresh blood/perspective and when things get stale they stagnate and when you stagnate you eventually shrink because of natural attrition, like when people actually die and stuff like that.
  4. left it in DT, but it was derailing the actual topic of the other thread. There's a different conversation that happens on flight maps and SOP for ATC + some of the more technical discussion and whatever the fuck this has devolved into because the president thought it was a good idea to just take over the news.
  5. Have you ever thought that no one actually wants you here and thats why they treat you the way they do? I don't think you have.
  6. add surly to any x embed and it'll embed. https://surlyx.com/user/status/12513258 will load up the tweet if it exists and paste a screenshot. Twitter embeds were shitty and terrible for site performance and I have had a mostly hate relationship with them for a while. Then the owner did a nazi salute and I don't associate with nazis.
  7. you are an idiot.
  8. QE wasn't welcome back to Texas.
  9. I don't shit on suggestions to make it better, I reject the completely moronic take that CR is the reason the site isn't growing. There's no data that supports that, and there's a ton of other data that supports what would lead the site to have more engagement and funny shit. read this thread.
  10. and then all of the sudden new people would just pop up out of nowhere that haven't already found this place after 7 years of existence when there is no real CR in the football or 9.95 boards which are the lions share of the traffic? You just say shit that makes no sense because the data doesn't support whatever stupid ass fucking narrative you have. No one is going to come to surly that is new because the news discussions here are just awesome. That's not what this site is, it's a football and recruiting board with some other discussions that happen because there's a ton of people here.
  11. this isn't political, this is in the DT. I'm going to start enforcing this pretty harshly. I don't want any more crying about CR in the DT - if you think something is CR report it. Do not report multiple posts, report a post and say that it's a political discussion derail, a mod will look at it and split into a CR thread if necessary. Elected officials injecting themselves into the news cycle IS NOT POLITICS. I missed the part where you weren't allowed to discuss anything and where this was in CR.
  12. this isn't gonna be the case this time. I think that the outrage and discussion about what it means politically is gonna be in CR and DT is gonna be a bunch of making fun of shit and hot takes that happen to be the main characters of this era's drama/tv/whatever. When politicians dominate the news cycle because the media is giving them airtime it's not politics it's just the news being dominated by elected officials. If they say stupid ass shit it's fair game.
  13. Please keep this thread to direct discussion about the crash itself, not the surrounding aspects of it. Just information, pilot talk, insights, and direct speculation into what could have been happening that would lead to a tragedy like this. All other discussion should go to this thread:
  14. Generally speaking we don't need ALL YOUNG PEOPLE to come here and post. We need people like @Tex48 etc. recent grads who have a good sense of humor, know how to use the internet and like to come and meet people at the tailgates. I don't even really know how he ended up here. If we had 20-50 new young posters per year who were fanatics about recruiting, football etc. that would be enough to really change the overall tone here. We aren't trying to chase thousands or millions of users growth we are trying to keep the conversation from getting stale and too serious/boring/bad. MM stats with a shitty Duke team weren't actually that far off from QE, and QE had a pretty meh year for the majority of the season, he really started to come on very late in the season. I still think MM is a good QB, I don't think he's better than QE, but I do think he wouldn't have been the dropoff that some of you think he would have been had QE gone to the draft. MM would also be done after last year and Arch would be starting next season so it all is moot at this point and just a fun "whatif" scenario.
  15. this should be a new meme
  16. I mean - there is a point here where the discussion isn't about the actual crash and just the surrounding media circus around the crash. there is a valid complaint that the thread has 2 clear divergent topics at this point, 1 that is the circus and 1 that is the event. The circus happens to be largely politically charged, well, because it happened in DC and a bunch of elected people are making this something they are getting in front of cameras about. I want to reiterate that there's a clear bifurcation happening here, and that it would be fine to keep this in DT, but split it into the media thread and the actual crash thread.
  17. holy shit this page is so much faster without twitter #justsaying
  18. bunch of free loaders who never donate, never pay, have never seen ads sitting here telling me about anything is also a fucking take. Don't participate in NIL, etc etc.
  19. You guys think this place just magically exists and have opinions that are really actually just wrong, they aren't well formed, they are drive by and they are completely based on incorrect data and a very myopic point of view. The attitude I have in this thread is that I'm stating what is happening and you are sitting here telling me NUH UH I DO A LOT FOR THE SITE YOU ARE JUST FUCKING IT UP CUZ YOU ARE AN IDIOT AND LET THE CLOAK ROOM HAPPEN LOLOL(OLOLOLOLLOLOLOL like shut the fuck up.
  20. You guys realize one of the best threads of the year was me having a heatstroke at a tailgate and promoting a pair of shoes that were sponsored, right? You also realize some of the other funniest things that happened were from me posting my adventure to the Michigan game with my family and the "sea monster" image was pretty funny. If you can't have a sense of humor, you can't figure out that none of this is really for anything but some brevity and a good laugh then don't talk to me about what the problem is. The problem right now is I'm not a single man who can just make the content that I know works all the time because I have a family and it's really hard to do this stuff when you are juggling these experiences with a wife and kids and not just producing content. Last year in NOLA we did a ton of stuff with Will, people are really into it. There's a lot we can do here, but it takes time and effort and that's something that shouldn't be all on a single person. Everyone thinks the bar for creating content is high, it isn't - it's extremely low especially if you are just genuine and open to everyone poking a bit of fun at it. Hunting adventures, shit you cook, fun vacations you went on, memorable experiences at games, funny bar night stories, stories from work events, etc etc all that is a huge driver.
  21. this is the issue, people think there's something to discuss, there's not really anything to discuss it's very obvious what is happening and the data supports it. There is no new posters, posters are dying, posters are moving on in life etc. that leads to growth stagnation. Now that there's no fresh blood, everyone becomes less anonymous because you have a history of interacting with them very frequently and now that you are older things are not as silly/funny as they used to be and poof here we are. This isn't some difficult and convoluted problem, it's a very plain and simple problem and I don't need a bunch of discussion on what or how it's become this way from a bunch of people whining about "people on the internet being mean to me" "people doing middle fingers to me even though it doesn't matter at all"
  22. This isn't a discussion. I'm not sure how many people came and stayed because of Thujone - there's a few people who did, but most people "went back home" and didn't "rehome" to shaggy/surly. Now, I do think that there's a complete lack of new people who come in, and that's what the main issue is. This used to happen because Google and search engines, because there's tons of content here. Now if you don't spend on SEO and run Googles ads (we don't) then they just derank you to irrelevance. We have by far the most content/biggest thread for quinn ewers anywhere. We get no web traffic from that, we get no web traffic from a lot of stuff and the top incoming traffic comes to the "Lauren boobert" thread, because people search lauren Boebert boobs and we rank at the top there because of the funny thread name. Remember the joke about craig james killed 5 hookers while at SMU? and how that boosted the search engine etc? Yeah well that doesn't happen anymore when someone does something shitty - everything is different on organic traffic acquisition. Now you have to do in person activation or have peer invitations etc. People don't just stumble on message boards anymore like they used to.
  23. I didn't ask for your feedback, I am telling all of you what is happening. This isn't a "help me I need this site to succeed and grow" thread, this is a this fucking site is dying and twitter embeds and generally the internet has really fucked up how places like this site survive.
  24. rep wasn't a problem on shaggy, wasn't a problem here forever etc etc. all of the sudden it's a problem? Oh wait every fucking board on the internet has rep? NO WAI they should take it away cuz it's a problem. Oh wait, crowdsource bans only happen to shitty trolls, morons from other fanbases that come to troll and fucking toxic pieces of shit? WEIRD IT SEEMS LIKE ITS WORKING. Getting a neg here and there when you have 45918 rep isn't the problem jesus fucking christ.
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