Also, it's tough for me to get the site up sometimes. I know that we have ads and stuff to make sure that the site works. I'm not complaining! I know that it's a must have.
Just kind of tough sometimes. If the team feels competitive, I think you'll see a lot coming back.
Bow Em
If you build it they will come...……. I mean when they start winning, more will come !!!
Go Dawgs !!!!!!!!!!
Back in the day, I always said that the greatest recruiter for SalukiTalk wasn't anything we did with features we added to the site. It was winning. And we hit on the perfect stretch for football and basketball. It will come. Just gotta win first.
I still lurk! It's just tough for me to post on IE, so I use Chrome or Firefox now.
??? Works fine on Chrome, which is what I use, or Firefox or Microsoft Edge. No one should use older versions of IE - serious security problems. There is an IE 11 for backward compatibility, but MS recommends Edge.
Underdawg quit posting after some nasty comments from some of the posters on here who were evidently trying to emulate a troll who never missed an opportunity to put down Underdawg on the old sites. It's true that I couldn't understand UD's affection for BBQ, but he always had some good information. Do all posters always have to agree? I hope not. A little disagreement here and there creates interest, as long as it doesn't get ugly!
I've certainly had to bite my keyboard a few times after reading posts by Morris, but I wouldn't deny his right to have wrong opinions!! LOL! I even liked the posts from the silly Notre Dame fan who got kicked off here for some mysterious reason. Good fodder for wisecrack replies!
Actually, I lurk a lot to see what's new in recruiting & now being "in season" what the sites are for watching the games. I'm really excited about this new era. I agree w/ you guys, as success returns, so will the posters …. and lurkers. I really appreciate all Barkeep & company do to keep this site up & running. Great job guys.
We have a decent amount of traffic but post are down a bit. I do think social media is some of it. It is also true we ran quite a few people for being idiots. I think once basketball gets rolling you will see more . Losing MSN alone cut the post count in half lol. But hey Bobber is back
Underdawg quit posting after some nasty comments from some of the posters on here who were evidently trying to emulate a troll who never missed an opportunity to put down Underdawg on the old sites. It's true that I couldn't understand UD's affection for BBQ, but he always had some good information. Do all posters always have to agree? I hope not. A little disagreement here and there creates interest, as long as it doesn't get ugly!
I've certainly had to bite my keyboard a few times after reading posts by Morris, but I wouldn't deny his right to have wrong opinions!! LOL! I even liked the posts from the silly Notre Dame fan who got kicked off here for some mysterious reason. Good fodder for wisecrack replies!
Underdawg quit posting for a different reason than that . If you don’t get why the ND goofball got booted I can’t help you lol
Maybe the previous 4-5 years has beat everyone down. At the least, many have just lost interest.
This, I went from Salukitalk/insider as my first click in the morning and my last stop at night to attending zero games in the last 4 years and only watching 1 game in total last year. The change gives me a little hope but it will take a lot to change my apathy back to anything beyond marginal interest. Still always pulling for them but hard to invest time anymore.
I didn't want to say this, but I fear the Salukiinsider vacuum is being filled by ................................................................................................................................................................................................. Pornhub!
LOL!
There is a lot--a LOT-- of information still to be found on this site. The difference is that the chaff is gone. I guarantee you that anything of serious import will still be found here, possibly even found here first.
A LOT of the "insight" provided by some posters of yore was garbage PR crap, spoon-fed from the previous regime: "OMG, Jeff Early has apparently been DESTROYING people in the shirts v. skins games!" "Treg Setty is apparently giving Sean O'Brien all he can handle in practice." Etc., ad nauseum. (Always "apparently" because practices were closed.) Fun, I suppose, if you're a fan of claptrap.
But it was all so pointless in the end, and let's face it: not real info, and I don't miss that BS at all. People got tired of that; people also got tired of people being tired of that: there were many layers of annoyance, all of them valid.
I am looking forward to discussing the emergence of this team. I really think people will come drifting back now that SIU basketball is interesting again.
In the meantime, rest assured: anything meaningful that might happen will be covered here.
(Inflammatory political snark)
Agreed, just the fact that we have Bobber back with his excellent stories and antidotes is worth the price of admission ...
There is a lot--a LOT-- of information still to be found on this site. The difference is that the chaff is gone. I guarantee you that anything of serious import will still be found here, possibly even found here first.
A LOT of the "insight" provided by some posters of yore was garbage PR crap, spoon-fed from the previous regime: "OMG, Jeff Early has apparently been DESTROYING people in the shirts v. skins games!" "Treg Setty is apparently giving Sean O'Brien all he can handle in practice." Etc., ad nauseum. (Always "apparently" because practices were closed.) Fun, I suppose, if you're a fan of claptrap.
But it was all so pointless in the end, and let's face it: not real info, and I don't miss that BS at all. People got tired of that; people also got tired of people being tired of that: there were many layers of annoyance, all of them valid.
I am looking forward to discussing the emergence of this team. I really think people will come drifting back now that SIU basketball is interesting again.
In the meantime, rest assured: anything meaningful that might happen will be covered here.
We do tend to be way way out in front of everybody that is fact
I'd post something, but I really don't have anything useful to add. Mostly I just lurk.
