OS Site History.....

[ryan36]

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The contributor only forums!


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Knight165

Lol well they were uh... interesting.

[NYJets]

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I know Steve has responded to this question before in depth, not sure where. But yea someone else owned the site and Steve joined the staff and eventually bought it when it was still really small. Guys like Steve, Clay, TCrouch, fsquid, peter, bdoughty, and some others I'm forgetting were on the staff either at the very beginning or very early on. IIRC, there was a mass exodus from the IGN forums when they made them insider only. Some of the guys who posted at both places invited the IGN only guys over. I never really posted then but I checked IGN occasionally and saw people mentioning OS so I came over here.

There were a few versions of the forums before this. Much smaller, a lot less different categories. Like there used to be just one forum for anything related to football, ie madden, 2K, college football, pro football. Eventually the site got too big for that and fanboys got too annoying so each game got a forum, and then those got split up even more into subforums. The mods were always pretty strict, in a good way imo, from the beginning about keeping the nonsense out, just less strict about permanent bans. A lot more warnings, or short term bans. More people who were able to consistently push the tos to the edge for a long time before getting banned. More drama, hell bdoughty was probably one of the biggest trolls of them all. He eventually quit the staff and then kept posting porn until they would ban him. Now the site's just too big to mod that way, you mess up, you go.

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The Classic Threads could use a bump, 23!

If these aren't in there already, please share.

OS used to be on another forum platform so I can't

Which reminds me.....

Anyone remember ubbcode?

There were 2 admits here

Boughty and ubbcode .....very interesting and classic times

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[TheShizNo1]

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He eventually quit the staff and then kept posting porn until they would ban him.

Wait...what?

[NYJets]

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Wait...what?

Your confusion is understandable but I don't have an explanation that will make it make sense. Guy just had a meltdown.

[Beantown]

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The mass celling by Clay_OS

Hell, "The Cell" itself is one that only vets know about these days.

As a member of the group who was mass-celled by Clay, that was a fun few days. I remember a few of us having an AIM chat about whether or not we were going to back down and apologize and everything instead of serving our sentences. I think I ended up being celled for a week. That sucked.

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Hell, "The Cell" itself is one that only vets know about these days.

As a member of the group who was mass-celled by Clay, that was a fun few days. I remember a few of us having an AIM chat about whether or not we were going to back down and apologize and everything instead of serving our sentences. I think I ended up being celled for a week. That sucked.

Really dating yourself with this reference Beantown

[Beantown]

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Really dating yourself with this reference Beantown

Ha, I thought that'd give away just how long ago that situation was. Seemed like the best reference point.

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Lol oh man the guys who were in there all alone who had to hold conversations by themselves for days


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[Beantown]

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Lol oh man the guys who were in there all alone who had to hold conversations by themselves for days


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During my short time as a mod, witnessing some of the melt-downs that happened in The Cell was hysterical.

[dickey1331]

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During my short time as a mod, witnessing some of the melt-downs that happened in The Cell was hysterical.

How longer were you a mod? I remember you being one when I first joined.

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During my short time as a mod, witnessing some of the melt-downs that happened in The Cell was hysterical.

Have to say it was quite effective until the site got too big for that kind of thing

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[BurghFan]

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I'm pretty sure my original join date was 2002 and my original handle was KingV2k2...

I intended to change every year, until I found out my post count would reset, so I bailed on that "one and done" style in 2003...

So, you were planning to create a new account every year. Yeah, good thing you bailed on that.

The Classic Threads could use a bump, 23!

If these aren't in there already, please share.

Well, there is the stickied "Classic Threads" thread. Some of the threads you speak of may be linked in there, though a lot of the links from the early days of that thread no longer work.

OS used to be on another forum platform so I can't

Which reminds me.....

Anyone remember ubbcode?

There were 2 admits here

Boughty and ubbcode .....very interesting and classic times

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Well, there is the stickied "Classic Threads" thread. Some of the threads you speak of may be linked in there, though a lot of the links from the early days of that thread no longer work.

Yeah, there are references to their antics in the early pages of the aforementioned "Classic Threads" thread.

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Can't remember if that was the original thread.

We used to have someone every single year say they had NBA 2k early when I fact none of them did ever and they always ended up banned after giving pages of false impressions.

I used to say with the diversity of people here you could find out almost anything. Got questions on your taxes someone knew the answer. ..... needed advice on buying a car someone had an answer for you. It was always great



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[DamnYanks2]

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The NBA forum used to be a damn trip. When DC and GSW got going on something it was too good to miss.

Cebby used to kill me too, he told it like it was.

I joined in 07, it's changed alot since then.

Edit: I still remember the Will Bynum and Anthony Morrow infatuation's LMAO, it's hilarious seeing how that panned out.