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(06-01-2015, 02:21 PM)BritishBengal Wrote: [ -> ]I prefer this message board. Genuinely do. At the end of the day this is a sport and something to be enjoyed, just have fun with the team.

Me to ! I really don't miss the old board at all since we have this one.

(06-01-2015, 09:13 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: [ -> ]If it were literally a kick in the nuts, I'd forego attending one game for that opportunity.

Would Denny still be attached to them?

(06-01-2015, 09:13 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: [ -> ]If it were literally a kick in the nuts, I'd forego attending one game for that opportunity.

Hmm, perhaps.  Then again my ol' man has been dead for 3 years so take that into consideration either way.  I could see being FOR that, or being against it (I'm thinking Monkey's Paw on this one).

(06-01-2015, 02:44 PM)eoxyod Wrote: [ -> ]For real. The Bengals' in game experience is absolute crap. I enjoy going to games with my sister or mom once a year, but that's only because every game I've been to has been nuts (20-19 last second Texans loss 2012, Packers win 2013, Panthers tie last year). If it weren't for that I wouldn't have any fun at all

I enjoy going to games with your sister and mom too.

(06-02-2015, 10:05 AM)Benton Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoy going to games with your sister and mom too.

My sinuses could have been seriously injured had I been drinking milk or, heaven forbid, a carbonated beverage when I read this.

The food, parking, souvenirs etc of one person going to 5 games a year is probably enough to cover at least 1 month for that website. And that's a conservative estimate. If just 12 people were offended by the message boards closing (again, very conservative estimate), the losses they would incur from closing the forum would have outweighed the cost of the message board.

I am unsure how much bandwidth that forum had, but high bandwidth forums can go for anywhere from 200 to 400 dollars per month.

I can't imagine it would be advisable to potentially alienate several hundred fans just to save a couple hundred bucks a month, so let's assume it was the ritziest of the ritzy servers, for whatever reason, and it cost them 1000 dollars per month to maintain that website.

They just told anywhere from 100 to 1000 active users to go **** themselves when they closed the forums. That is 100 to 1000 people who could potentially stop going to games or buying merchandise (as in the OP's case) purely out of spite for them closing the message boards.

Now, I also know there was some beer advertisement at the top of the message boards that I would occasionally accidentally hit, so that is more revenue that they threw away for seemingly no reason when they closed the message boards.

All this tells me is that it was not a financial reason for closing the forums.

Unless I am severely underestimating how expensive that website was, or severely overestimating how much a consistent advertisement from a major beer company (I want to say Miller?) would bring in.

My guess is some player or owner or some type of upper saw the website, was offended by some of the things on it, whether they be about the team or in the P&R section of the forum, and decided to shut the website down.

But I don't think they'll notice people not going to games, because that obviously was not part of their reasoning to begin with.

(06-01-2015, 02:44 PM)eoxyod Wrote: [ -> ]For real. The Bengals' in game experience is absolute crap. I enjoy going to games with my sister or mom once a year, but that's only because every game I've been to has been nuts (20-19 last second Texans loss 2012, Packers win 2013, Panthers tie last year). If it weren't for that I wouldn't have any fun at all

So they are 1-1-1 when you are there. That's impressive.

Call me naive to believe their reason for closing the board, but i do. I just think it was a pure marketing decision. Probably a financial one also. I just think their beliefs are/were misguided.

(06-01-2015, 02:44 PM)eoxyod Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoy going to games with my sister or mom

I enjoy doing things with your sister and your mom also.