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Haha well you're about to get way too much info on Nexus message boardery but...
It started on Rivals, obviously a pay board. Now I and others have issues with paying to talk about sports but this is besides the point. Rivals lives off access to the program so in turn they pump out fluff pieces in a you scratch my back I'll scratch yours sort of way. I believe in 2004 someone discovered that there was a "secret" board where content beyond fluff pieces was being talked about. Only certain members were allowed entry. Someone found the secret board said WTF on the main board, his post was deleted and he was banned. It was this constant struggle by members who were already frustrated to pay for garbage to expose the secret board. The secret board was run by Christopher Zander. Eventually enough were frustrated thinking what are we paying for? And moved to scout.
Everything was fine there for a couple of years we were able to mix our BC sports talk with guy talk and always skirting the edge of internet acceptability.
You think you have bad neighbors in Stoors? BC's are 2000% worse. If you've never been, BC is in Chestnut Hill essentially a made up area but is part in Brighton, part in Newton. Newton is a Darien, Greenwich, etc & Brighton is a town varies between a college town and a slum. Brighton neighbors hate us for many reasons. BC started an expansion campaign and the town meetings got very ugly. That carried over to the internet community:
Here: http://atleagle.blogspot.com/2008/01/neighborhood-battle-takes-unexpected.html
Here: http://brighton-community.blogspot.com/2008/01/anti-semitism-and-misogyny-in-boston.html
And got written about in newspapers.
It eventually drew the admins at scout to establish a full time rule. It turned from the wild wild west to Stalingrad. We reluctantly adapted. Then someone hears an interview with the head of BC's scout site who is.... Christopher Zander! And a similar posting of link to prove who new admin is, deletion, and banning cycle took place.
The scout site is now a ghost town.
I might've missed some things as it was strictly through memory.
I just read all that, and the only thing that registered in my brain and was logged in memory....is...
the ACC sucks.