So yeah, ive been working on a new site.

After getting banned and looking at the other forums around.... i realized they all pretty much sucked.
Actually some decent ones, but just didnt have that old time PSD feel, you know before they started to suck the fun out of PSD.
So i decided that i was done being a backseat driver... no more bitching to an Admin about fixing something or upgrading the site, etc...

My problem with the Admin at PSD was that he would not take user and mod input/idea seriously, or at least he didnt have the power/technical ability to actually do pretty much anything.
Time for Ruven to put his money where his mouth is.

So i did.

No, the site is not nearly ready, its why i havent said anything to hardly anyone.
I have a main site that is in the preview stage and its already looking better than what PSD currently offers... at least aesthetically.
It just needs content of course, my time has been devoted on making everything work first, then ill deal with the content later.
Ive only put in about a weeks worth of double shifts :D

Anyhow, the forums are up live, they look krappy as its all default images at the moment.
I havent set up all the teams and havent set up any features.
Really am making sure that everything is ok on the back/tenchnical end of things.

Wrigley already knows.
Some people already found out and signed up, somebody must have told Wrigs.
Its ok, im not about witch hunts, whomever spilled the beans... its ok, it was bound to come out anyway.

Now to clear some stuff up.... NO we did not spam PSD.
I only told Tex to inform a couple of guys i asked them NOT to say anything to anyone.
I neededed some testers.

The guys i told Tex to contact are guys that have been previously banned/demoded for my "cause" or whatever.
Over AIM, not on PSD, and only a very small amount of guys.
I asked them not to tell people, but some told the PSD guys that they were close to i guess. People like to share... when i asked them and posted on the new site for them to NOT share.
These are guys that i dont need to "spam" to.
Guys that have supported me in the past, saying that im "Spamming" to them because they are also members of PSD, is pretty dumb.
PSD needs to remember that i brought and helped them maintain a small portion of their membership.
If some of that small portion decides they want to try out what i am doing, its not because im spamming them, its because they like what i have to say, they like how i deal with them, and and want to be a part of whatever is next as well.

I havent even told more than two or 3 of my fellow Laker and Dodger people, they gonna be pissed i didnt tell them sooner..... sorry guys :)
I wanted to keep a close circle on things, for exactly this reason.
I didnt want the PSD Admins to start throwing the "SPAM" card, which i know they have.

No one here has spammed PSD, on the contrary i have pleaded with them to STFU about stuff, i wasnt ready to launch anything yet, im still deep into testing stuff out and i just wanted a handfull of guys to help.
Someone jumped the gun.

This site having sucess or not, has NOTHING to do with PSD or any other site out there.
Something i tried to tell the PSD Admins time and time again.

We dont own the posters, we arent a pro sports team and they arent our players.
They can belong to as many forums as they want to, and hell they can make their own websites if they want to as well.
This idea that admins can control/force/dictate what their users do is just.... RETARDED!

I dont know how else to put it.
Maybe paranoid, insecure about your own product, or simply a megalomania... i dont know.

I just know that everyone is welcome to come check out the new site when its done.
But its not done yet, there isnt even many team forums (there will be by tomorrow morning, im going to work straight through the night).
[Not anymore, have to travel out of the country in a few hours, GRRR.]

Im being told Wrigs believes i have been working on this for months hehe.
I didnt even start right after i was banned, it took a few days, plus i went on vacation for a bit and got so sick i couldnt work another few days.

Ive put about 8 days of work into the main site, and a couple of hours work into the forums. Those have been 14-16 hour days, but still only about 8 or so days.
When i put my mind on something i dont easily let go, im sure folks in the mod forum can attest to that :)

So do i mind putting in full days in front of my keyboard, staying up all night coding this stuff up and trying to rememebr the stuff I WENT TO SCHOOL FOR 12 years ago... Nope, not one bit, im loving it actually. [Its a lot more rewarding than what i do for a living]
THATS why i have made decent progress in a short amount of time.
I have had some help, i did hire a guy to help me out with some small issues had been holding me back, he did quick work and i was back in the saddle.

Hopefully for those of you people that are going to stick with PSD....
This new site will hopefully soon be much better than your current version PSD, and that will most likely spur the new owners to invest and finally make all those changes i have been telling the Admins to do for the past few years.
Easy changes that wouldnt take a lot of money or a lot of technical expertise.
Changes that i and others have asked to be allowed to do for free, but never given the opportunity.

I was originally hoping to ask Andrew for some tips, specially since he was selling the business.
We have never had any problems and i always thought him to be a classy guy, a good Admin and leader for PSD.
It was a bit disappointing not receiving any sort of notice from him when i was demoded and then banned.
I have no link to the current leadership on PSD at all, so no feel or need to give them any sort of heads up to what i was doing.
Hell im a banned member, im considered an enemy of PSD in their eyes, why on earth would they expect me or anyone associated with the new site to give them a "heads up".
They believe its shady that i did this... well i believe its shady that they banned me for krap reasons.
Fair ?

PSD is a large mountain to climb, it was once a great site that is getting bigger, but not better.
The sports fan market on the internet is HUGE, and if our site is just a small piece of that market, i will be fine with that.

I dont need to topple PSD or whatever, i dont need to be bigger than them.
I do strive to be better, and if better turns out to be bigger too, then great.
This isnt me trying to be vindictive and out to hurt PSD, thats also ridiculous.
Do you guys know how many sites that are basically the same thing as PSD and DSP?
Tons... we are just going to be another mouth eating at the giant pie known as sports fandom.

I was at PSD for years and did all that i could to help it.
I have put my stamp on nearly every part of that site.
From pushing for Moderator Accountability, Village of the Banned/Infraction and other punishment control systems, the TM system, the need for more Mods/TM's than the Admins wanted to carry, Rulesets used in the Mock Offseason games in all sports, Team Colors/Icons and other visual improvements, More than just the Core Four sports being represented, tougher/higher standards of posting quality for users and mods, better main site, Idea for a PSD Logo, + many other things i just cant remember anymore.

I was dumped and blacklisted even before i was banned.
When a HoF area was being talked about for ex mods... the only stipulation the Admin had was that I could not be included.
I some how did not meet the HoF quota that some other mods met?
I wasnt sweating that, but when i then got banned.... i felt like i needed it was time to start my own website.

Fail or Succeed i had to try out my own ideas.

What else was i supposed to do,go to RealGM?
:laugh: (miss the smileys)


Oh and PS.... the best and only person who has all the facts on this is me.
Tex knows some of whats going on, he has helped me a bit since i dont really enjoy getting on AIM much (it keeps me from getting stuff done), and Ala has been in University Land so much that we havent really connected on this much since i last saw him a few weeks ago. (when he came to LA to visit his sister)

Ala is foreign so he sometimes comes off a little strange, and Tex is drunk half the time :D
One is very diplomatic, the other brash... im in between.
(weird when IM the normal one) :D

They both might say things that dont exactly jive with what im saying, doesnt mean we are in disagreement, just that we arent on the same page at any given moment.

What will always be the 100% current situation is what you see me type.

Happy Labor Day!

I havent been ignoring your comments guys, just decided to take a little mini vacation for a couple of days.

Went down to Baja for some fun in the sun, came back home to find that its even hotter here than in Mexico.
Damn heat wave is making the AC work extra hard.
Guess there is no Labor Day for the AC :)

So whats new with the day to day of PSD... anyone else get banned/demoded/quit/runoff/scapegoated/etc.... ?