Welcome to Roughing the Punter

[Jon in Oakland]

Thanks to everyone that has come to view and register for our new forum here at Roughing the Punter. We hope this will become your message board of choice.

We will have our first two in-game threads tomorrow for the NFC & AFC Championship games. Scroll to the bottom of the home page for those rooms.

We will also have a Super Bowl Prop forum open for the next two weeks moderated by Prop Man. A great place to visit for all your Prop questions and comments.

[WarDekar]

Is there any way you can turn off the having to click Quick Reply to use the Quick Reply? I've never seen that functionality on vBulletin before, and it's kind of annoying... Since no one uses threaded view anyway it doesn't really matter what message I'm replying to if I don't want to quote it, and it just adds an unnecessary complication.

Also, default theme ugly enough? I'm sure we can change it in the settings, but again a lot of people either won't think to do it, don't know how, etc. so it'd be nice if the default was a bit more aesthetically pleasing.

EDIT: Actually I don't even see where to change the theme in the CP. I'm sure I can with just modifying the CSS within Firefox or something btu that shouldn't really be necessary. Also maybe turn on images by default for users? I feel like you may get a lot of people with issues not being able to see images and wondering why not realizing they're turned off in the CP.

[PerpetualCzech]

Also, default theme ugly enough?

CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT.

These are our three main goals. Colours and bells come 4th and 5th.

Are we clear? :)

[ahearnb]

Are we clear? :)
"Are we CLEAR?!"

Crystal.

I agree with everything said above. As he would say, "obv"

[daringly]

I already like it. The site is fast :)

I'm curious... here's a question for PC and Jon. Is your main goal traffic, followed by advertising? Or just get a bunch of really smart people together? Or something else more sinister?

[Always+EV]

Jon, my suggestion would be to have a suggestion thread.

Forum looks great, although I like the idea of just being able to use quick reply without having to click something else first.

[PerpetualCzech]

I already like it. The site is fast :)

I'm curious... here's a question for PC and Jon. Is your main goal traffic, followed by advertising? Or just get a bunch of really smart people together? Or something else more sinister?

Sinister? LOL I can't offhand think of any possible sinister motives for opening up an internet forum. Can you give me an example? :)

I really don't have a good answer for you. Jon and I have been kicking around the idea for a long time and finally last month Jon made some moves to get it off the ground (site would never happen without him, it probably would happen without me FWIW). As we talked more it became more and more of a fun project and then it happened. That's about it.

[Jon in Oakland]

Is there any way you can turn off the having to click Quick Reply to use the Quick Reply? I've never seen that functionality on vBulletin before, and it's kind of annoying... Since no one uses threaded view anyway it doesn't really matter what message I'm replying to if I don't want to quote it, and it just adds an unnecessary complication.

Also, default theme ugly enough? I'm sure we can change it in the settings, but again a lot of people either won't think to do it, don't know how, etc. so it'd be nice if the default was a bit more aesthetically pleasing.

EDIT: Actually I don't even see where to change the theme in the CP. I'm sure I can with just modifying the CSS within Firefox or something btu that shouldn't really be necessary. Also maybe turn on images by default for users? I feel like you may get a lot of people with issues not being able to see images and wondering why not realizing they're turned off in the CP.

Quick reply is enabled.

Not aesthetically pleasing? I designed it myself! All I was trying to do was to get it to look different enough than Beyond Capping that someone toggling back and forth between forums would know which was which. We use the same software they do (vbulletin) and they pretty much went with the default color scheme so it was up to us to add a splash of color, though we kind of look the Ravens fan site. Perhaps if this takes off we can look into a more professionally done design.

I'll take a look at the images default.

[Royals]

Cool forum. Well done guys. Count me in on the vote to 86 the purple.

[The Chaperone]

Haha. I'm colorblind and just found out that the Ravens color is purple. Seriously? This is almost as bad as when I heard the LAKErs color was purple. I mean what lake is purple?

[PerpetualCzech]

Haha. I'm colorblind and just found out that the Ravens color is purple. Seriously? This is almost as bad as when I heard the LAKErs color was purple. I mean what lake is purple?

One word:

MINNESOTA

[PerpetualCzech]

Cool forum. Well done guys. Count me in on the vote to 86 the purple.

Jon and I fought for days on the purple issue. I almost quit in protest.

[BuckyBadger]

Good Luck on the new site

[Samo]

Congratulations and good luck. Look forward to it.

[2w2p2s]

GL w/ the site guys.

[rams03]

Nice forum. Good job guys.

Question: Will any you be posting at LVA anymore? (sorry if this was covered elsewhere)

[Colin Caster]

Good luck, RTP!

CC

[Samo]

Google is not yet aware of your site.

[Jon in Oakland]

Google is not yet aware of your site.

Any advice?

[PerpetualCzech]

Nice forum. Good job guys.

Question: Will any you be posting at LVA anymore? (sorry if this was covered elsewhere)

Can't speak for the others but I do plan on checking in every now and then, at least for now.

[wansfell]

Good luck on your site gentlemen,OT Jon,is that the Steam Donkey at Pinecrest Lake,
22 miles from where I now write this

[the bhead]

Good luck Jon, hope this goes well....

I'll do what I can to supply more than basic sarcasm, which is all I'm good for anymore at LVA.

[Jon in Oakland]

Good luck on your site gentlemen,OT Jon,is that the Steam Donkey at Pinecrest Lake,
22 miles from where I now write this

Yes sir! Do you live in Twain Harte? We camp at the Lair every summer.

[wansfell]

Twain Harte/Soulsbyville area,although 90% of my is in the east bay.I work mostly in
the Lafayette/Orinda area but last year completed alot of work at Lake Merritt in Oakland

[Samo]

Any advice?

Problem solved. Guess it just takes a little time.

I googled it earlier today, and I couldn't find your site listed there.

Tried it just now, and it's the 3rd listing.

[Jon in Oakland]

Problem solved. Guess it just takes a little time.

I googled it earlier today, and I couldn't find your site listed there.

Tried it just now, and it's the 3rd listing.

Yeah! We're ahead of twitscoop.com and are gunning for allexperts.com. You're going down allexperts!

[martidani]

Had to get away from le rookie over at fezziksplace. Also, my bj21 membership expired after 8 years. Needed a new forum so hopefully this one makes it. Using my real handle also, retiring all my handles that I use to specifically attack chaperone (fleazzik, darkwing duck, etc etc).

[LVHCM1]

Had to get away from le rookie over at fezziksplace. Also, my bj21 membership expired after 8 years. Needed a new forum so hopefully this one makes it. Using my real handle also, retiring all my handles that I use to specifically attack chaperone (fleazzik, darkwing duck, etc etc).

¿'Cómo está usted?

[Mr. Pink]

Let's all keep this forum productive!

[admin]

I already like it. The site is fast :)

I'm curious... here's a question for PC and Jon. Is your main goal traffic, followed by advertising? Or just get a bunch of really smart people together? Or something else more sinister?

Hi Daringly! Sorry I forgot to respond to this. It's good to have you here. So far the site is fast and I've been very pleased by our hosting company. I hope that continues to be the case as we grow.

Nothing sinister here. Quality followed by traffic, followed by advertising pretty well sums up the thought process at this point.

Jon

[Tim Patterson]

Hello Jon.

[Jon in Oakland]

Hello Jon.

Hi, Tim.

You may need to step it up a bit from a content point of view.

[Tim Patterson]

LOL, Jon.

I spent Sunday in Reno at a sportsbook with Computer Bob.
That's how I found out about this new site.

Tim

[ComptrBob]

I'm spreading the word over two states... LOL

[Richkas]

Looking forward to participating.

[The Chaperone]

looking forward to participating.

richkas in da house!!!

[The Chaperone]

Oh come on Jon, you're no fun. That post definitely deserved all caps. LOL

[Tim Patterson]

I'm spreading the word over two states... LOL

Bob makes his first post, LOL...

[gambleballs]

Hola!

OK, Im new and I know this has been brought up in other threads, but the colors suck man.
JSUK

[Jon in Oakland]

Hola!

OK, Im new and I know this has been brought up in other threads, but the colors suck man.
JSUK

Once your cornea heal it's really not so bad.