Rocovich thread deleted. List of bans just handed out ...
@Windows NT: permanent. You've had 50+ posts deleted over the years. Not sure why I kept you this long.
@JRHokie: permanent. You've had about 20 posts deleted as well (I'm shocked it's not more), and you rarely add anything substantive to the discussion, just snide, vague comments.
(This one was difficult, folks, because I've known JRHokie personally for many years, I just don't want to put up with his posts anymore.)
@Gobbler-100: permanent. You've had 80 or so posts deleted over the years. EIGHTY.
(Also difficult. Gobbler-100's dad was very generous with me, and that's why I gave him a long rope. Enough is enough. 80 is a big number.)
@VTFinance10: permanent. You've also had 20 posts deleted over the years and dabble in political discussions frequently. No more.
@Blueboy: permanent. 20 posts deleted over the years for a multitude of reasons.
If any of you were subscribers, then you would know from my postings on the subscriber board and from my comments in my recent Friday Q&A that I am done with the message board BS. DONE. I've always tried to be a nice guy, but I'm not being a nice guy anymore. A cleanup of the boards is long overdue and now ongoing.
Add value to the boards and avoid political discussions, or you're gone. It's pretty simple.
** Edited by Will Stewart at 6/12/2026, 11:21:52 AM
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1mo
I get they provide community but seems getting rid of them (current and upcoming new one) would also go along way towards eliminating the off topic (non-sports) posts. Does the message traffic and clicks on the Lounge help that much financially?
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1mo
Just not at the ridiculous level that some do
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1mo
I am pretty confidant Will said that one time.
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1mo
The Lounge gets a 3x quality factor. It's science.
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1mo
Is that right? If so, maybe the basketball fandom is higher than we think ?
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1mo
About how horrible the team is, how horrible the officiating is, how horrible the coach is, and it is all babcocks fault.
** Edited by Virtual Hokie at 6/15/2026, 3:59:04 AM
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1mo
If you switch the dates to 7/1/2025 through 12/31/2025, you get:
Virginia Tech Football Board: 49,396
Virginia Tech Basketball Board: 10,820
So there you go.
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HokieNL
1mo
Virginia Tech Football Board - 59,850
Virginia Tech Basketball Board - 33,679
I wonder how this less than 2-1 ratio, compares to monies invested.
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1mo
The subscriber board is very busy during football season.
So, it's WAY more than a 2-1 ratio.
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1mo
Or, just less busy, relatively, on the Subscriber Board, during the season, compared to Football?
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HokieNL
1mo
Not really a fair comparison, until the end of the year.
Amazed at the Softball numbers!
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Arachnid
1mo
The wild world of unregulated internet posting. Actually one of my favorite sites.
Link:
Soapbox
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1mo
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1mo
There needs to be a board of shame. Addition by subtraction.
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1mo
I'm not sure how it works today but back in the day when server admins had much more control over gaming servers, we would ban players from a server and then we would add a blanket IP ban on them to keep them from simply creating another account to cause further chaos. It wasn't perfect but it helped keep many of the problem players at bay. We never ran into an issue where someone who was in good standing had their IP blocked due to being similar to the problem player.
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1mo
But I have other tools for sniffing them out as well. I don't always see them right away, but re-registrants usually reveal themselves over time.
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posting instead of observing. Heck, some may even return to the subscriber's board.
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1mo
no value to TSL. The pressure is on.
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1mo
"We simply must return the boards to VT-related posts, particularly VT sports-related posts."
The subscriber board is largely a medium sized clique of fellas musing on multiple topics unrelated to the above, ranging from various ailments (God bless them all) to old-man-yells-at-clouds stuff. Maybe that will change as we get closer to FB season.
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1mo
I've said multiple times, including in that article, there's going to be a subscriber lounge created, and that I will have the ability to move post from onr board to another easily. That's going to take care of that problem. There's no sense raising a stink about it now until we get the new boards launched.
If the new site and new boards are delayed until after football season, then I will raise a stink about it and take care of the problem now. But we anticipate launching the new site in a month or two, and I don't see the point in doing it right now.
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1mo
As the survey party told me, "Even an earthworm knows to not cross sandpaper 3 times!"
Reading is Fundamental
** Edited by TomTurkey at 6/12/2026, 6:23:13 PM
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1mo
;)
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1mo
I love the way you came out with all of the receipts, haha. Eh...I guess I'm on "The List", so...
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1mo
I don't know if it counts if a thread a commented on gets deleted or not.
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1mo
But one of those was because it was posted on the wrong board.
It's really easy to find out ... click your username in a post (which loads your profile) and scroll down to the Deleted Posts section.
It can get a little confusing, and here's why: if I delete a post and type in a reason, then every response to that post also gets deleted, with the same reason. So the offender might actually be someone else, and you got caught up in the shrapnel.
But if there's a political thread going on, and you partake in it, and the deletion of someone else's posts results in your response being deleted, well then, you should have stayed away from it in the first place.
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1mo
I think you are right on my humor should still get a ding.
Rulz is do not make any response in a thread that is going political or already political.
Good tough love for me and I should know better.
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was that I posted the initial news of the firing, and that got deleted seemingly because some of the comments in response had political undertones to them.
I deliberately avoid bringing in my personal opinions, particularly since moving half way across the country.
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1mo
...in the Keys.
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1mo
That wipes out the scores of political comments below it, even if your particular post wasn't political.
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1mo
As no admin., the ad hominem posts can be slightly humorous and entertaining for a few exchanges.
How they keep track of each other baffles my feeble memory ability.
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** Edited by TomTurkey at 6/12/2026, 12:39:18 PM
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1mo
my friend
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1mo
but nothing else.
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1mo
In the new message board system on the new site, I believe I've coded it so that users can see their deleted posts (but other users can't) and can see their ban history (as opposed to just the latest ban occurrence.)
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1mo
It's how the rap sheet/leper's colony feature has always worked on Something Awful. So when you see a person has dozens of various probations and bans, it's easier to decide to just not engage with them in the first place, if they're always posting in bad faith, or if they're Just That Way.
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1mo
of the political posts and not political in of themselves.
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1mo
Not exactly the same thing, but it would still give you some idea of who the board consensus view as pariahs. Can't remember exactly why it was removed, but I think some folks were abusing it.
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1mo
feature to signify they simply didn't agree with the post. While others were using it to signify a poster could be a "problem poster." There may have even been some posters who used the feature for both functions.
I don't believe those functions should be used to represent the same thing. The danger with having both functions mean the same thing is the board runs a greater risk of only certain views and ideas will be expressed on here. Instead of a free flowing exchange of different views and ideas which is supposedly one of the core principles this country was founded on. If Will wants to structure TSL so only a limited number of views are allowed to be expressed on here, then he has every right to do so. However, that business decision will likely come with consequences that he will need to be prepared to accept.
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1mo
Some of us are non-conformists (weird?)
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