Baseball premium
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I think it's hilarious. They are trying to get all this traffic on the board right now to go premium knowing full well the baseball board is going to die down big time very soon. In other words sucker posters in. Well, in over 20 years Ive never felt the need for premium and I never will. The old board baseball board is free and has way more traffic than here so I'll keep posting and reading for free there.
I get having premium baseball content—sure. But there isn’t such a heavy volume of inside information circulating on IC that paywalling the forum makes any sense. Especially since IC is so close to the actual baseball program and is kind of the digital front porch of Carolina baseball, you’re cutting off a lot of what made the old free board great which was new people getting into the community of Carolina baseball casually and then developing as fans from there. It’s pretty disappointing especially after the reassurances less than a year ago when the move to On3 happened that all the forums from the previous site would continue to operate. Killing the public basketball and football board sucked, but there’s so much insider stuff I understand it as a way of protecting IC’s reporting. Doesn’t make sense for baseball.
I support protecting the content created by the IC team. Just not sure about locking the content from all the posters. IC certainly does not need to protect anything I have to say. Protect your content and posts about your content. But open up all the posts by normal folk... and that is my opinion for all the forums, not just baseball. I paid the subscription for years until I realized that most of what I was paying for was to read all the bickering between posters who thought they knew more than the others.
Thank you for the feedback. Understand the concerns.
Decision was made in response to the flood of subscriber requests from the influx of opposing fans, but also as our staff is creating and sharing more paywall content and inside team info on the baseball side, it will keep getting more difficult to manage that. And then there's the matter of the increased resources IC is putting into baseball coverage now.
Decision was made in response to the flood of subscriber requests from the influx of opposing fans, but also as our staff is creating and sharing more paywall content and inside team info on the baseball side, it will keep getting more difficult to manage that. And then there's the matter of the increased resources IC is putting into baseball coverage now.
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And it takes 5 minutes for anything I click on to open when I'm on my laptop which is most of the time. No problem when I'm on my phone but eye disease prevents me from being on the phone for any length of time. So I sit and wait and wait and wait for a link to open. Not about to pay for that either. Slowest damn site on the Internet regardless of what browser I use. Even slower than 247.