The Carolina Huddle

[strato]

17 minutes ago, TD alt said:

It used to be connected to the Panthers web site. They got tired of all the "bad spiritedness," and decided to shut that sucker down. They gave us a heads-up though. In the meantime, Jeremy started the Carolina Huddle  and was allowed to tell people on the old one that there was a new place that we could go, so the Huddle was born and thrived. 

I am having trouble remembering that one. The one I remember was the Observer/Charlotte.com

[TD alt]

9 minutes ago, strato said:

I am having trouble remembering that one. The one I remember was the Observer/Charlotte.com

Well hell, maybe it was the Observer one that I'm thinking about. Sorry, y'all.

[strato]

13 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Well hell, maybe it was the Observer one that I'm thinking about. Sorry, y'all.

No big thing. Long time ago.

[ladypanther]

11 hours ago, TD alt said:

ladypanther probably doesn't remember, but when I was green young Huddler here, I got upset about being trolled, and she basically told me to "chill out" in so many words or that I wasn't gonna make it here taking things so personally. Well, I reflected on it, observed and learned the culture,  and here I am after all these years. So, in a way, y'all can thank ladypanther for my decades of, sometimes provocative, content.

lol...I don't remember that.  Although recalling what I had for breakfast yesterday is sometimes a challenge.  Hope it was a positive thing.

[LinvilleGorge]

I came over from the old Panthers Insider site. When Fox Sports bought that platform it slowly just started dying plus the guy who ran that site was dealing with some pretty significant health issues so the whole thing just slowly fell apart. Quite a few of us migrated over here. Not sure how many are still around. 

I miss that place. It struck a nice balance of having enough active posters to keep productive conversation flowing but didn't have so much traffic that you end up with a lot of trolling BS.

This place is getting there though since we shutdown new registrations but at some point we're going to have to open it back up or we'll watch this place slowly die off too as posters fall off for one reason or another. We just have to figure out a way to filter out the spam bots. It was a never ending battle to ban the spam bots to keep then from overrunning the site. You'd think they'd be a little more strategic. I mean, if you fill a site with nothing but spam people are just going to stop coming so it's not a sustainable model. But nope, every one of them makes dozens of duplicate threads filling up pages upon pages as soon as their account goes live.