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Post by schlager7 on Mar 10, 2006 11:48:51 GMT -6
This poll is simple and to the point.
Most of you know that, in addition to this forum and my local fencing history site, I have been running an unofficial website focussed on the Gulf Coast Division.
The site was begun just under 4 years ago (202 weeks according to my site records), in the spring of 2002. I started it out of frustration that, at the time, the Gulf Coast Division's official site had gone without any updates since the fall of 1999.
I titled it the "rogue" site because I was not an official representative of the diviison and I had no interest in turning my site over to any one party line. (Like many divisions, ours had/has rival elites vying for a controlling voice).
I found the following definitions of the word rogue, and I presumed various folks might find one or more appropriate to desribe me and my upstart site:
1 - An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal. 2 - One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp. 3 - A wandering beggar; a vagrant. 4 - A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd. 5 - An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
These days, the division does have a fully functional and completely official site, and has for some time. My question is whether there is any longer a need for the rogue site. I've toyed with shutting it down in the past. If it still serves a purpose, I don't mind keeping it going. If its time has passed, it won't bother me to pull the plug, either.
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Post by fox on Mar 10, 2006 12:58:25 GMT -6
I, actually, seem to see most of what you post on the rogue site on this forum, first. So, for me, the rogue site rarely offers much that is new.
That said, it is usually far and away more informative than the official site and the pictures are sometimes pretty good. More importantly, I think it would be inaccurate to presume that everyone that reads the rogue site comes here, as well (like me). No doubt there are people who read it but avoid forums.
So I voted that, unless it has become just too big a pain in the old glutious maximus, it should continue.
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Post by nemo on Mar 10, 2006 13:23:55 GMT -6
I mostly use the forum. If you want to pull the plug, by all means. I'm happy here. OTOH, I would definitely support
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Post by Geezer on Mar 10, 2006 22:55:39 GMT -6
Please, I'm sorry, it's not the forum, it's me! I'm just boring and I don't have anything to say right now...(sign). Maybe when the space ship arrives with my new brain....
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Post by LongBlade on Mar 10, 2006 23:27:40 GMT -6
That said, it is usually far and away more informative than the official site and the pictures are sometimes pretty good. More importantly, I think it would be inaccurate to presume that everyone that reads the rogue site comes here, as well (like me). No doubt there are people who read it but avoid forums. So I voted that, unless it has become just too big a pain in the old glutious maximus, it should continue. Me, too.
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Post by phincer on Mar 11, 2006 11:04:54 GMT -6
Although the GCD does have a website, I find all my information comes from the Section website, the Rogue Site, and this forum. The GCD site isn't exactly timely or complete.
Unless we can get you in charge of the official GCD site, there is still a need for the Rogue site.
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Post by vraptor on Mar 11, 2006 13:21:17 GMT -6
We already have an example of the value of the Rogue site this last week. I would never have heard of the Senior Olympics competition if it hadn't been for the Rogue site. And we can all remember when the division was in an unqualified shambles. The Rogue site had a role in helping to get that cleaned up. Our division now functions more or less normally. Well, all right. It's still a group "with many needs" but it's parsecs ahead of where it was.
And the site provides a soapbox for opinions and ideas that might not be popular to point out, but are absolutely necessary if the sport is to progess. An example of this is the day the Rogue site pointed out that Rice was taking credit for the NCAA competitions being in Houston, but they put their own fencing club in a broom closet.
But the bottom line is not what it's done. We should keep it for the same reason that we keep stuff like the Bill of Rights. It's not what it's said in the past. It's for what it will say in the future.
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Post by captain jon on Mar 12, 2006 1:26:54 GMT -6
These days, the division does have a completely official site. My question is there any longer a need for the rogue site. You have got to be kidding. Does anyone even go to the "Official" site? Do people in china read the "official" Government-run newspaper to learn whats going on in the real world? I haven't seen an update worth noting on the "Official" site in so long I've quit checking altogether. I hit askfred, this forum, and the rogue site and get all the info I'll ever need. I think the real question is why hasn't this site been adopted as the "Official" site instead of starting a new, un-updated site again. You rock, Schlager. Keep it keep it keep it.
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Post by kd5mdk on Mar 15, 2006 12:46:41 GMT -6
I rarely visit either website, just this forum. When I go to the GC website, I'm looking for official information on their policies, referee pay, stuff like that. If I want to know what's going on, I'd go to the Rogue site. However, most of my time is spent on f.net or here, not websites.
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Post by Prudence on Apr 11, 2006 23:53:21 GMT -6
I always get something out of the site and I find this forum highly entertaining. I'd be sad if you destroyed it. Oh and BTW.. I like the "One who is playfully mischievous" hehe ;D
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Post by kd5mdk on Apr 12, 2006 0:07:40 GMT -6
I have to say that the commentary on th Rogue site is nice, and I have the impression all of it doesn't make it over here. If it were closed down, I'd like the news and stories to be posted over here instead, then.
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Post by schlager7 on Apr 24, 2006 8:37:22 GMT -6
Later tonight I'll likely sit down for the usual Monday/Tuesday update of the Rogue Site. This week that site turns four years old. (There was a brief incarnation for about two months on another site).
I'd just like to thank all of those who have visited it and encouraged me to keep plugging away, often when I could see no point to it, myself.
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