Not sure if I agree with this 100%, but it is definitely worth thinking about, and I thank you for posting it,
Anyone else not making the move to On3 ?
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I may not have always agreed with you politically, but I’m always respectful of the way you stated it. Go Gamecocks and best of luck to you!
Thanks, you're very kind. But I won't miss any of that by not being here.
wait. I must have missed something. What is On3? Is FGF leaving again? I've been a member since it was gamecockcentral.com
Nevermind. I just went over and looked at it. Looks like you have to pay to view content. I see they have an FGF and an insiders forum but you have to pay to view either one of them.
Nevermind. I just went over and looked at it. Looks like you have to pay to view content. I see they have an FGF and an insiders forum but you have to pay to view either one of them.
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That worked for me. When I first registered it looked like I had to pay to view. And Rod is over there if anyone has missed him. LOL
From what I understand, this site will stay but the moderators will be from "off." I don't know about the Insiders Forum because GCC staff will be over there as well so I don't know where the good info will come from. I just cannot understand why people cannot give up $1 for a year. I'm over there, too, and I haven't experienced a single issue. Most members of the Insiders Forum stay away from FGF because of all the lurkers, false information and such. I guess it's too bad that Cocky Talk isn't around anymore for those searching for a free site. I'm a poor man living on disability payments that would scare you, but I love the Insiders Forum and gladly pay the $99/year for it. To each his own. Most of us won't miss you!
I use the same name over there and even the same emoji. BTW: From what I understand, the $1 for a year ends tonight at midnight. After that, it will be $99.
You better pay the $1 before midnight tonight or it will be $99 to move. What do you lose but $1. You can cancel anytime before the year is up to stay free over there.
No you don't. Even if you do, it's only $1 for a whole year of everything over there plus all the reporters from here. If you don't want to pay the $1 by midnight tonight, good luck because if you change your mind after that, it'll be $99.
I think the bigger problem is that regardless whether you were a democrat or a republican... liberal or conservative... you could still have a healthy conversation or discussion on differences.
People have lost their minds living in their own echo chambers and lost empathy toward other people that might have a difference of opinion.
Agree.
It's because folks can now listen to people repeating what they want to hear 24 hours a day.
The outlets that get the most viewership/listenership on both sides are the ones that describe folks that don't agree with them as something close to evil. Too many people now believe that.
My wife is a teacher, She isn't political at all. She was talking to someone recently and they asked her if they taught CRT at her school. My wife wasn't really familiar with CRT or it's political context but the lady gave her definition for it and my wife told her that she spent her time at school teaching the SC standards. They didn't talk about anything like CRT or anything remotely like that. The lady, out of the blue, accused my wife of lying. My wife was very upset, and confused. I explained the entire thing to her about how this was now a big issue and if it comes up again just don't engage someone like that.
The world has gone absolutely nuts. My wife is now considering leaving teaching after 17 years to do something else.
Agree with this.
It started off as Republicans entered their own echo chambers. Now my fellow Democrats have entered their own echo chamber. So we are at quite the impasse these days.
If she teaches in this state see if she can tough it out. She’s only 10 more years away from drawing a pension. I know it’s hard but so is starting over too. Then again it’s hard to blame any teacher that wants to bolt at this point.
Don’t let one stupid person ruin her joy. There are stupid people in all aspects of society.
We can do our part by being civil to each other and avoid inflammatory language, whether or not it's directed at any person or group.
I know but I'm pushing her to leave teaching too. She was born to do it (her grandma was a teacher, her grandpa was a teacher and principal back in the 50s and 60s, her mom was a teacher). But A LOT of her fellow teachers are leaving at the end of this year or left last year.
They are barely getting any new teachers in because people are not going into education in college like they were before. The numbers are down a lot.
Where teaching is really going to face a serious problem (other than the one it already faces) is folks like my 14 year old daughter. My wife use to really want my daughter to grow up and be a teacher because it's family tradition. But my 14 year old daughter has seen and heard what it's like and the one thing she says she will not do is be a teacher. The kids her age, for the most part, don't see teaching as a valuable or worthy job anymore.
It's just not worth it. That, plus the disrespect from the overall population is just too much for her to bear.
Your wife is too nice. I believe in being civil and fair, but your wife was accused of lying when she was absolutely correct so I would have given this woman a “dog cussing” in a way that she would avoided me for the rest of her life.
I wish your wife would reconsider. Trained teachers are sorely needed. Teachers are being hired now that have no degree. We need to hold on to those who can educate as long as we can.
I agree. It’s a tough spot. On one end you hate to see someone give up something they love. On the other end, if they can’t come home and be happy life is way too short!
You’re right about the future generation. I’ve already told my kids before they think about teaching as a career they’re going to sit down and have the talk about what I do behind the scenes. If they still love it after knowing all that I will support them but honestly I don’t suspect they will.
Today I had an after school meeting for a recertification class. Tomorrow I will give up my lunch for a department meeting and then after school I’ll have a faculty meeting. All these are technically during my “free time”. That’s in addition to all the other stresses that come with the job.
If I weren’t on the same year as your wife, I would have bolted. I’m trying to squeeze ten more years out of it. Honestly there have been days I’ve told my spouse I’m not sure I can do it. Same talk.
I appreciate all you do to speak up for public education on this site.
You nailed it. I need to try to do better when someone goes on the offensive against me. I concede I have room for improvement in this category.
One of my New Year's resolutions is to do something that is very hard for me: "to turn the other cheek". So far, so good.
By the way, nothing wrong with being on 2 sites.
In 1995 I had just returned to SC from what I refer to as my exile from football country (to NC).
Along with my brother, we acquired "The Gamecock Football Web" from a guy in Augusta, that I wish I could credit. We are techies and felt a shortened domain name would be more "appropriate." Thus was born "usccocks.com." I borrowed a script from Matt Wright to get an interactive web board on line. The second revision of that script allowed us to "lock out" the aholes and it lived under the moniker "the duece." 1998 was the origen of gff as my brother and I were raising kids and could not keep up with the demands of some of our users.
I had to do the same but they will lose subscribers left and right if they dont fix this issue. Peeps are very short fused on dealing w/ internet issues.
I tried, but pictures/graphics/avatars don't show up on my PC. I've emailed back and forth with their tech support several times and nothing works. Everything still looks good here.
What was wrong with Rivals that precipitated On3? Or is it strictly a money play?
What was wrong with Rivals that precipitated On3? Or is it strictly a money play?
And yet here you both are.....posting on 2 forums. Surely there are fewer people if you only post on one?
Hypocrite much?
I don't agree with that logic at all. As someone said earlier on the thread, there's nothing wrong with being on two boards at once. And both might be better off with less people on each. They are not contradictory stances.
Owning my own business made me a strict conservative.
If you have children and grandchildren, you're a fool if you're not a conservative.
I'm so confused. Where am I right now? I thought this board was moving, but it was just the name that was moving? I didn't post on here because of the name.
Who are the mods now? Who owns this thing?
Who are the mods now? Who owns this thing?
Well, I have 3 children and I am no conservative. My oldest is quite liberal. I don't consider myself or my oldest a fool either.
I don't subscribe to the beliefs of any one political party or political ideology. Personally, I think that requires checking your brain at the door to do such a thing.
Life is complicated. People are complicated. Ascribing opinions, ideas, beliefs, dreams, etc to a political ideology seems absolutely ridiculous to me.
I know people that are very liberal that are very successful in life. I know people that are very conservative that are very successful in life. I know people that are all over the board, depending on the issue, that are very successful in life.
So to me it's quite clear that just 1 ideology doesn't have all the answers (except the diehards of their own favorite ideology all think they alone are right - they do have that in common).
