Questions about BDJ/BB.

[MonkeyCheese]

I agreed with what Snake had said earlier. But it got me to thinking about it and I had a few questions/thoughts.<div>

• If it's basically a "handshake deal" right now between Wardlaw and Rivals but not finalized, why encourage everyone to move over to BB and stop posting on BDJ? It seems that this deal could still go sour. If it does, where does it leave all the BDJ members?
• And no way I believe the line of "if they waited until the deal was done it'd be a big mess." No one would force BDJ to close down shop immediately. There could be some instructions and handholding to make it a smooth process. But it would take communication and effort.
• What about people who have paid monthly or yearly or another "non lifetime" membership? What are they getting for their money? Nothing at all. Because anyone can sign up right now and read the stories, the interviews, the articles, and the message boards (all but one...but hardly any BDJ member can read it either). Will people get a few months credit added to their subscription for this?
• Does anyone like Rivals' message boards? I don't think anyone who has used vBulletin does. Or Scout.com's. Or any Yuku board. Sure, you can still post words/sentences/paragraphs like before. But there's no PM. There's no way to subscribe by email notifications. There's no "new posts" button where you could press that one link and you'd be shown everything from every forum on the site that had new activity. That way you didn't have to go to each individually to find new stuff. And it looks fresh out of 1998.
• Will the improvements actually take root? Because now that it's a network site, won't changes have to be made network wide? So how does one site get to push changes on the entire network?
• And what improvements? The promise is always spouted, "when all is said and done, you'll all be pleased." Why not share a few of the pending improvements? What would that hurt?
• Where is Michael? He hardly ever posts. He's posted less than once a day in the last week. Can we get an update on how the merger is going?
• Who is going to actually own/run the place? Will it be Logan? Or will Logan now work for Michael? And to be honest, Paul seems to be the hardest worker at BB/BDJ.
• Truly, what are the added benefits of moving to Rivals for the subscriber? Is it simply a database of recruits with stars by their name? Because isn't the reporting the same, the interviews the same, etc? Sure, there are articles now by Logan too. That is a plus, but did many BDJ members find that niche missing?

<div>But the biggest question is why doesn't Wardlaw reply to people? Why doesn't he respond to emails or PM's or phone calls? The product has been good. But coupled with piss poor customer service makes for a bad cocktail that many people will not want to drink.</div></div>

 

[dawgstudent]

as best I know.

• As far as I understand it, the deal is done. It just has to be signed off by Yahoo officially. Rivals has even approved of the merger from what I have been told.
• You might as well move people early. It's a lot easier to do this before it's official. Plus, there was no way to merge BDJ's user database with the rivals user database. I think that was the easiest path to take to avoid any huge complaints.
• To get around the movement of all the users, they had to let everything be free for the time being. I don't know if you realized this, but every article was free on the old site when he did the redesign. The only thing premium was the message boards which everything will be premium once the merger is complete.
• The message boards are behind the times. No other way around it.
• No idea about improvements.
• Benefits of move - I personally like the idea of being able to read other teams news on the Rivals network. If Rivals had a better message board, I don't think anyone would have had a problem with the merger.

 

[MonkeyCheese]

as best I know.

• As far as I understand it, the deal is done. It just has to be signed off by Yahoo officially. Rivals has even approved of the merger from what I have been told.
• You might as well move people early. It's a lot easier to do this before it's official. Plus, there was no way to merge BDJ's user database with the rivals user database. I think that was the easiest path to take to avoid any huge complaints.
• To get around the movement of all the users, they had to let everything be free for the time being. I don't know if you realized this, but every article was free on the old site when he did the redesign. The only thing premium was the message boards which everything will be premium once the merger is complete.
• The message boards are behind the times. No other way around it.
• No idea about improvements.
• Benefits of move - I personally like the idea of being able to read other teams news on the Rivals network. If Rivals had a better message board, I don't think anyone would have had a problem with the merger.

<div>Thanks, DS.</div><div>
</div>I still don't understand how this was the "easier" way. But I guess I'll have to take yours or Wardlaw's word for it. Don't know if I realized things were free before after the redesign. But if all thesubscriptiongot you was a premium board, then that's not being offered right now. So what are the subscriptions being applied to?<div>
</div><div>I agree that being able to read other teams' news will be a plus.</div><div>
It seems that if the message boards had an update and if the Customer Service was even close to average, most people who are griping wouldn't be griping. Again, thanks for the answers. Are you pretty tight with Wardlaw/Jones?

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[The Peeper]

here lately about his customer service or lack thereof, the old BDJ would be toast. I have considered off and on subscribing in the past but no way now.

 

[dawgstudent]

and he is a good guy. Sucks he is taking a beating on here and I try to help him out when I can but it is what it is.