Scoop... say it aint so!!!
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Check The very first thread on the page YA.
Scoop Has Left The Building...
quote:I am about to take on a significant career change. As part of this I have had to make a number of decisions about how to allocate my time. One of those decisions is to conclude my ownership and management of x4. I hope that I will not need to shut the site down but can instead transfer responsibility for it to someone else who is willing to pay the monthly bill and (presumably) collect donations from members periodically to cover costs. Please PM me if you are interested in doing that.
I am very grateful for the fellowship of this site over the past 5 years. It has meant a lot to me, as I know it has to some of you. I know that I will always count it as one of the best things that I did in my life. That might sound kind of idiotic (idotic?), but no apologies, that's how I feel.
I'm going to close this thread because I really don't want a spate of "don't do it", "you're the best" and "you suck" commentary. I'll feature it so that interested parties can see it and PM me.
Thanks to all of you. I've learned things from just about everyone here. Even those I disagree with have tested my convictions (and my patience) and that is a good thing too I think.
- scoop
Scoop, do you have a time frame?
Thanks for the memories, God's speed, and fair winds and following seas on your journey.
God Bless
Thanks for the memories, God's speed, and fair winds and following seas on your journey.
God Bless
Very few could have done what you have done scoop!! 
Care to fill us in on the career change? Are you going to have to relocate because of this?
Care to fill us in on the career change? Are you going to have to relocate because of this?
He's going into "pron". His screen name will be Buck Naked.
I'm not sure what's worse, the Packer season or the chance of this site going away. Thanks for everything, Scoop. God bles you. (doggone misfire)
Hmmmm......
Scoop, look for a PM from me
Scoop, look for a PM from me
I never would have thought being a male prostitute would be too time consuming to run an internet forum. I guess there's more to the job than just messing around. <--
I hope scoop knows how greatful I am for this place....but I don't know if he appreciates me adding onto a thread that he really didn't want made in the first place....oh well, you know me...always the scofflaw.
I hope scoop knows how greatful I am for this place....but I don't know if he appreciates me adding onto a thread that he really didn't want made in the first place....oh well, you know me...always the scofflaw.
FRZ, I hope that means you are stepping up.... I think. 
scoop - best of luck on your future endeavor... will you still be posting here or is this change going to take you to a land far away?
scoop - best of luck on your future endeavor... will you still be posting here or is this change going to take you to a land far away?
quote:Originally posted by justanotherpackerfan:
I hope scoop knows how greatful I am for this place....but I don't know if he appreciates me adding onto a thread that he really didn't want made in the first place....oh well, you know me...always the scofflaw.
Second that. Scoop, thanks for keeping up the site I visit (by far) the most frequently on the 'Net. SURE hope you don't disappear, even if you don't run the show.
Quote from Gone With the Wind:
But, what will I do? Where will I go?
But, what will I do? Where will I go?
Thanks Scoop, for all your time and effort in making this place the best Packer discussion board on the web.
I wish I had the time to volunteer for the X4 duties...sure hope somebody can though...
I wish I had the time to volunteer for the X4 duties...sure hope somebody can though...
Thank you scoopdapoop. If you're ever in Half Moon Bay, drop me an e-mail and I'll buy you a beer at the HMB Brewing Company. Or a lemonade spritzer if that's what you drink. 
Ok, scratch that, I've never bought a spritzer in my life and I'm not about to start now.
-CJS
Ok, scratch that, I've never bought a spritzer in my life and I'm not about to start now. -CJS
Scoop, Thanks for putting up with us. Good luck with the pron thing.
quote:Originally posted by Tooner:
I sense an opportunity for JJS.
quote:Originally posted by Shoeless Joe:
say it aint so!!!
Good thing you posted this SHoeless (as dumb as it sounds) I never pay any attention to the"stickied" threads.
Been a nice run Scoop. I know you didn't want
to turn this into any attaboy or tear jerker thread.....So F U
Seriously all I can really say is when I (not AL Gore)
discovered the Internet I hung around the old JSO board.
That was fun for awhile, however, there is a reason posters
have stuck around here.
I hope the right kind of person with the right kind of attitude can take
it over. If not life will go on.
I know someone with time on his hands and maybe some extra cash bilked
from little old ladies
Been a nice run Scoop. I know you didn't want
to turn this into any attaboy or tear jerker thread.....So F U
Seriously all I can really say is when I (not AL Gore)
discovered the Internet I hung around the old JSO board.
That was fun for awhile, however, there is a reason posters
have stuck around here.
I hope the right kind of person with the right kind of attitude can take
it over. If not life will go on.
I know someone with time on his hands and maybe some extra cash bilked
from little old ladies
Thanks for the Packer community, Scoop!
You and X4 will be missed...
You and X4 will be missed...
Scoop would it helped if I begged for you to stay? If not thanks so much for all of the work you have done on this site for the last 5 years.
OK, I did look back and read the other thread.... Sorry for the duh moment...
Thank you Scoop. As an ex-pat Wiscosinite, I've come to depend on this site for Packer chat and insite.
As an IT geek, I truly appreciate the time and effort you've put into this site.
Thanks and again and good luck.
As an IT geek, I truly appreciate the time and effort you've put into this site.
Thanks and again and good luck.
Thanks for all your hard work, Scoop! I can understand how life can change one's priorities and I know this isn't easy for you.
I will always cherish the lesson I learned while I was one of the "chosen" ones...with power comes responsibility. And a lot of *****in' and ****in' and moanin'. Wow, I kicked in the censor.
I will always cherish the lesson I learned while I was one of the "chosen" ones...with power comes responsibility. And a lot of *****in' and ****in' and moanin'. Wow, I kicked in the censor.
Wouldn't you all just crap if I took up the site?
Not that I'm going to but I'd keep it exactly the same, maybe even ban myself.
Thanks Scoop.
Sincerely,
The "trying" guy.
Not that I'm going to but I'd keep it exactly the same, maybe even ban myself.
Thanks Scoop.
Sincerely,
The "trying" guy.
Thanks Poop. You've been great. Hopefully we can carry on in your memory. I can't do it, as I don't know how to work these darn computer thingys.
As another ex-pat Wisconsinite, I would really hate to see this site die!!! Best of luck, though, Scoop! You've created one heck of a community!
quote:Originally posted by Henry:
Wouldn't you all just crap if I took up the site?
Not that I'm going to but I'd keep it exactly the same, maybe even ban myself.
Thanks Scoop.
Sincerely,
The "trying" guy.
Yeah, go for it Henry!!
PS As the First paid member when the site went pay for a short time, I'll wait until the 'retirement party' to make my sappy post to Scoop
quote:Originally posted by justanotherpackerfan:
I never would have thought being a male prostitute would be too time consuming to run an internet forum.
could it be that Scoop is really ........
Fred Garvin, male prostitute????
Yeah, where and when, is the retirement party? 
Now that Scoop is a lame duck, I wonder if he is going to tell us what he REALLY thinks about all of us. I get the sense he has held back his thoughts from time to time.
quote:Originally posted by Henry:
Wouldn't you all just crap if I took up the site?
Actually I don't think the site needs anyone to "take it over". I'd personally rather see someone just take the reigns of the financial and infrastructural side of x4 and leave all of the moderating to the excellent (and I'm not just saying that, I believe it) moderators this site has. There's too much balance here right now to see someone just launch in and yank the site in a whole new direction or send it down a bad one-way road like a certain other site which will remain nameless.
When you think of the people a site like this has and will impact, any transferrence of ownership cannot be something that is taken lightly. scoop needs to find the right person or this place will just go down the tubes.
JMO.
I agree. In a perfect cyber world, if there was a willing "geek" to take over the computer issues and collect the money, perhapse the 3 moderators could act as a tribunal to handle content and user issues. It would be hard to expect another to match scoop's even handedness as he oversaw everything.
I doubt many of us know just how much or how little time and technical knowledge is required to keep the site running.
I doubt many of us know just how much or how little time and technical knowledge is required to keep the site running.