Brew_Poke said:
It sucked when McMackin took the board pay to post. The history of that board is awesome. It's one of the oldest sports message boards on the internet. A guy named Slider had it on his AOL account in the early to mid 90s before giving it to McMackin or whoever who took it to Rivals.
It was a business decision, and his to make - and frankly I was quite pissed having posted "there" for roughly 5 years. Honestly it wasn't the fact that it went pay-to-post, it was how it went pay-to-post. No warning, no solicitation, no information, no communication, just WHAM - pay or go away. That was lame. I don't care at this point one bit...as I am closing in on 5 years here (9/24/2008) - and for the most part, I have found this board just as (if not more in several ways) informative, yet much more entertaining and diverse.