My 2 cents on the current state of the get big board

[HowieW]

It seems to me that a lot of the board has become a place of juvenille, smear attacks and retarded back and forth pissing contests. Sadly, poor Ron , Issac and Chic can't really do much to weed out of this idiocracy. Get Big could be a great BODYBUILDING fan site and we need not be like the ladies garden club.
Funny , witty and clever is GREAT.
Dumb , shallow and without merit is a bore.I suspect some here are so clueless they will think me the A-hole here, which is fine. Good luck , I will be back from time to time to keep up with the sports latest, but find many of threads pretty lame and useless here now.

[Sarcastic Deity]

oh, please don't go 

[Alex23]

Howie, I disagree about "can't really do much to weed out of this idiocracy"... plenty could be done. I told you before I respect you and admire your great sense of humor and am now kissing your ass officially. Makes it even more sad to see a positive guy like you coming to this conclusion.

[Stark]

This board here has a extremely delicate balance, police it too hard and it will go down the same road as the getbig board.
It's extremly hard for Ron and Co. to find the right balance at getbig I suspect.

One thing that i have briefly seen on bb.com is that people put a *Serious* quote in their Thread header, the rule here is that Only serious replies are allowed.


And Alex that was a cheap shot, promoting your board in here

[HowieW]

Howie, I disagree about "can't really do much to weed out of this idiocracy"... plenty could be done. I told you before I repsect you and admire you great sense of humor and am now kissing your ass officially. Makes it even more sad to see a positive guy like you coming to this conclusion.

You should try http://bignationradio.com/smf/index.php as an alternative; only a week old but show plenty of potential.

I have been over to your site and think it has promise. the thing is I really like Ron and have huge respect for what he has done. Thanks for the positive words , but the vast majority here are just way too negative and it ceases to fun when it is chlidish and dumb.Most of the posts are senseless bashing, reminds me of a Jr HS class

[Stark]

In facto what you are doing Alex is to use this golden opportunity where Ron and Getbig is furn able to get people to "move" over to "your" board, that's quite cheap and I in fact I cannot believe you were doing so.
I love what Jason have build up so far, I'm a member on big nation as well, but I think this was extremely cheap, you basically stabbed Ron in the back here.
Well done big guy.

[Alex23]

And Alex that was a cheap shot, promoting your board in here

Here we go... calm down sweetie. I'm now officially the Getbig antiChrist. Wait, Ron's Jewish so doesn't make any sense. I wish I could lay it out to you in german living in Dublin but fact is we never intended to compete; more of an extension. We've also raised the shit spam issue to Ron many times but nothing gets done. Pretty much every person of interest has stopped posting on here.

It's a pattern on the web; a good subject specific forum with a a very libreal approach gets highjacked by clowns who makes it their little battleground.


If getbig has jumped the shark, be it. There has to be a sucessor.

[Stark]

Here we go... I'm now the official antiChrist. Wait, Ron's Jewish so doesn't make any sense. I wish I could lay it out to you in german living in Dublin but fact is we never intended to compete; more of an extension. We've also raised the shit spam issue to Ron many times but nothing gets done. Pretty much every person of interest has stopped posting on here.

It's a pattern on the web; a good subject specific forum with a a very libreal approach gets highjacked by clowns who makes it their little battleground.

First of no need for German I understand you perfectly well you know that, next thing what do you mean with "here we go?" I wasn't bashing you, I simply think this wasn't fair to Ron and believe me I'm not the once sending you pm's calling you traitors, THAT is childish.

Got to go to work, but I'm very interested in your reply.

But there is a time and a place for advertisement especially when you are talking about direct competition here,

[kiwiol]

Getbig's the only forum worth reading and it's just as good as it's ever been. Howie, if we ban all the gimmicks and trolls and what not, this place is going to suck. When it's contest season, lots of threads on bodybuilding crop up. When it's in between, people BS about other things just for a laugh.

And Alex, releasing members' IP addresses isn't cool for a website's admin to do. That leads me to believe you also check out people's PMs in the database, since you obviously have no respect for privacy. Good luck getting people to believe you guys run a legit board which is all positive - there's just as much bashing in your board as there is in Getbig.

[Alex23]

Getbig's the only forum worth reading and it's just as good as it's ever been. Howie, if we ban all the gimmicks and trolls and what not, this place is going to suck. When it's contest season, lots of threads on bodybuilding crop up. When it's in between, people BS about other things just for a laugh.

And Alex, releasing members' IP addresses isn't cool for a website's admin to do. That leads me to believe you also check out people's PMs in the database, since you obviously have no respect for privacy. Good luck getting people to believe you guys run a legit board which is all positive - there's just as much bashing in your board as there in Getbig

Those are pretty strong accusations junior. Can you back this out? We have no access to the DB brother. An interesting coming from the guy who begged to mod a board over there. Your name is still listed as a mod...

We do know how much emotions you put into those PMs.. what makes you think they (Isaac, 240, chick & others) don't you think they read it on here?

[kiwiol]

Those are pretty strong accusations junior. Can you back this out? We have no access to the DB brother. An interesting coming from the guy who begged to mod a board over there. Your name is still listed as a mod...

We do know how much emotions you put into those PMs.. what makes you think they (Isaac, 240, chick & others) don't you think they read it on here?

I was talking about your thread in the Y where you posted Mars' IP address. And No, I never asked to be made mod or anything. I don't even mod the V anymore. I was asked to sign up and so I did cause I know all you mofos, that's all.

[kiwiol]

Here, I was talking about this

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=202092.msg2782516#msg2782516

And I agree about my accusation of breach of privacy being baseless - if you got Mars' IP addy through some other means from Getbig, then I'll take back what I said about BigNation's privacy policy. No big deal either way cause no one cares

[Stark]

Here, I was talking about this

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=202092.msg2782516#msg2782516

And I agree about my accusation of breach of privacy being baseless - if you got Mars' IP addy through some other means from Getbig, then I'll take back what I said about BigNation's privacy policy. No big deal either way cause no one cares

You don't need to "scan" the db to get the IP address, Ron would be stupid to give anybody apart from himself access to the db, Alex has most likly no access to the db, but there is maybe an option for mods to see the IP address under peoples posts, I know you can do that with vbulletin, it's simply an option.
Sof if Mars has been posting in one of the boards Alex is modding and the option is on, he could have seen the IP like that, and traced it simply with an IP tracer.
Come to think, there is actually no way why the db should "store" or output the ip address of a user, the db stores the users nick and other settings but not the IP address

[polychronopolous]

Oh, Alex is gonna "crowbar" his site in every second that he gets a chance too.

[kiwiol]

You don't need to "scan" the db to get the IP address, Ron would be stupid to give anybody apart from himself access to the db, Alex has most likly no access to the db, but there is maybe an option for mods to see the IP address under peoples posts, I know you can do that with vbulletin, it's simply an option.
Sof if Mars has been posting in one of the boards Alex is modding and the option is on, he could have seen the IP like that, and traced it simply with an IP tracer.
Come to think, there is actually no way why the db should "store" or output the ip address of a user, the db stores the users nick and other settings but not the IP address

Alex doesn't mod any board here and the mods here can't see someone's IP addy - I'm a mod myself. Only admins can. Which is why I thought Alex might have gotten Mars' IP when he posted in big nation (assuming Mars posted there).

[Stark]

Alex doesn't mod any board here and the mods here can't see someone's IP addy. Only admins can. Which is why I thought Alex might have gotten his IP when he posted in big nation (assuming Mars posted there).

Oh I though he was mod of one of these Z Y C boards or what ever, but seriously mate, if he is not a Mod he has obvioulsy no access to the db, any Board/Page Admin would only give his SubAdmin access to the db.
But there are a lot of other ways to get an ip address as well.

[kiwiol]

Oh I though he was mod of one of these Z Y C boards or what ever, but seriously mate, if he is not a Mod he has obvioulsy no access to the db, any Board/Page Admin would only give his SubAdmin access to the db.
But there are a lot of other ways to get an ip address as well.

He was modding the Y for a while, but got de-modded cause he was promoting BigNation here in Getbig. And Yeah, I realize mods don't have access to the database man - like I said, I'm a mod here myself!

[webcake]

You are in the "gossip & opinions" section. My opinion is current pro bodybuilding is a god damn joke. Bodybuilding on a personal level is one of the greatest pursuits to me. If you can't handle that or others opinions....leave. Getbig would really suck if you had it your way.

um...he isnt talking about what you think about bodybuilding, he is refeering to the fact that every second thread here is seemingly hating or negative on bodybuilding in some way. It amazes me how many people here have 1000+ posts yet appear to hate bodybuilding.

[Stark]

He was modding the Y for a while, but got de-modded cause he was promoting BigNation here in Getbig. And Yeah, I realize mods don't have access to the database man - like I said, I'm a mod here myself!

I know I'm just wondering how he got the IP address

[kiwiol]

um...he isnt talking about what you think about bodybuilding, he is refeering to the fact that every second thread here is seemingly hating or negative on bodybuilding in some way. It amazes me how many people here have 1000+ posts yet appear to hate bodybuilding.

True that. I can understand bashing specific individuals who have done something disgusting or unacceptable, but a lot of the peeps here just bash bodybuilding in general and everything it entails

[webcake]

True that. I can understand bashing specific individuals who have done something disgusting or unacceptable, but a lot of the peeps here just bash bodybuilding in general and everything it entails

For the most part i just ignore it, but its things like the people who go through an entire post and highlight the word "athlete" or "sport" and rolleyes and say oh brother...

I don't know, just get sick of it after a while.

[Stark]

True that. I can understand bashing specific individuals who have done something disgusting or unacceptable, but a lot of the peeps here just bash bodybuilding in general and everything it entails

I think everybody here has some form of love for bodybuilding, but I also think that a lot are disgusted at what they see "their" sport turn into.
And they air their concerns, that doesn't mean automatically that they hate Bodybuilding quite the difference somebody who criticises should be valued.

[Dreadlord]

I think you're taking things a bit too seriously mate. Chillax.

Now go out and do something nice fr yerself.

[webcake]

I think you're taking things a bit too seriously mate. Chillax.

Now go out and do something nice fr yerself.

Nice contribution

[Meso_z]

oh, please don't go 

who the fuck is that guy now.