(09-19-2019, 07:56 AM)robillionaire Wrote: Just my two cents here, The Maven seems to be a somewhat shady company (they bought the SI brand 3 months ago) and before you know it they will turn around and sell the SI brand to somebody else who shutters the website just like what has happened with scout and 24/7 sports and fox sports next and all these other fledgling brands, and then once again it will be poof, bye bye community. I don't trust them. How many times do we have to go down this road jumping from company to company that eventually shutters and further splinters the community, this has been the failing model for the past 9 years, mavs fans who just want to talk about basketball need some stability in the form of an independent message board that is not connected to these organizations or one individual's personal financial success.
We can have the community select a couple fair and willing mods, it's not too busy yet so we probably don't need all that many, maybe expand as it becomes necessary, and then maybe write a basic FAQ with some simple common sense forum rules. Oh and we have to put our heads together and come up with a forum name and URL. Other than that we just kick back and talk about mavs basketball like always and let the good times roll. We can't rely on Magickian to do all this himself as he has a busy life, it has to be community driven
I dunno, just an idea, not sure how everybody else is feeling. Maybe it's already too late.
I am beginning to be 100% in your camp on this. This whole thing is SUPER sketchy right now and frankly not sure I am interested in being connected to it in any way.
Quote:[i]Sports Illustrated[/i] is now in the hands of James Heckman, the founder of Scout.com, a sports media company whose business model relies on unpaid and underpaid labor, and Ross Levinsohn, a former Tronc executive who has twice been sued for workplace sexual misconduct, as NPR reported last year.
I really, really hope this site Magick put together stays independent, but like you I fear it might be too late. It seems like something happened over night and we aren't being told what.