What things did you like / hate the most about WWE Club?

[MotorCitySaint]

Since this thread has focused mostly on dislikes (almost all of which I agree with), I'll post a few things I liked.

- The Sports forum in general. I thought that forum consistently had the most active/interesting topics (granted sports are probably my #1 interest). The NFL Picks was great as well.

- NoDq's threads in the movie/tv discusiion threads were great, as were PorkChop's threads in the off topic discussion.

- The WWE-Club's 30/40/50 greatest ___ lists were usually fun too. They were usually easy to jump into and could lead to debates.

There are more things I liked about the old site, but those are the three that popped in my head when I sat down to write this.

[DBSoT]

Loved:
1) The sports thread was incredibly active and included intelligent sports fans. I can't explain enough how annoying it is to talk to sports fans who sounds like morons. I wasn't totally active on this section till later, but that should change on this site.
2) The live chat feature was cool. Not always full of users, but it did allow for good discussion during WWE shows and other events.
3) Was easy to find. It was one of the first things that came up when I looked up "WWE Forum" on Google.

Hate:
1) The Mods at times tended to have a bit of a God complex. I understand keep things on track, but its a discussion forum. Let people vent.
2) Trolls. They are everywhere on the internet, but there were a few that lingered on for too long on WWE-Club. JC, DirttheReb, and Cena54 (Unintentional troll) just to name a few.
3) Lack of NXT discussion. This may just be me, but I feel that NXT is a very legit show with a good fan base. I was surprised that we never got an update of NXT results or spoilers from the monthly tapings.

[Everlong]

Being banned for using a care bears sig and being nice.

And no, I am not joking about that.

Legendary.

My goal with this forum is to take all the positives from the old place (great community, sports discussion, chats, good WWE discussion, knowledgeable and friendly folks) and carry it over into this new place, without the negatives (terrible moderation, inconsistent and dumb rules, etc.) I want this place to just be fun which, let's be honest, WWE-Club kind of stopped being a while ago.

To those people worried that activity here will cause the old club to go under, I hate to break it to you but... it's pretty much a done deal as it is. There are almost no positives for Bryan in keeping that site up. The smart decision is to close it so he can spare his money and sanity. But as long as we are able to get a good amount of people from that community over here, I see no reason why we can't be better in almost every way except name recognition and search engine ranking. While we might not get a ton of new outside users at first or in the future, I think we can definitely be a better run, more enjoyable community.

[Chewy]

I appears the dear old club is now dead forever.

I propose a moments silence.

[Twister]

Positives:
- The community as a whole (with a few exceptions but you get that on every forum), that's what made me want to rejoin the club in the first place.
- The old GFX section with the tournaments and stuff, shame that it had died by the time I decided to return.

Negatives:
Basically what everyone else mentioned. I always thought Bryan had a stick up his arse for the most part. This might sound harsh but he could have done more to try and keep the old club afloat imo.

[Locke]

Well, that escalated quickly.

[Chewy]

Well, that escalated quickly.

Well look who finally decided to show up.

Good to have you here mate.

[PorkChop]

Just realised, now we're here no one will have to put up with The Icon crysturbating over Manny Pacquiao. This has legit made my day

[Twister]

Ohh I forgot another positive from my previous tenure on the club: Honkytonkman. He was infuriating but I kind of missed him.

[Enygma]

The title of this thread makes it sound like WWE-Club has died. Bryan will probably keep it open but then if people stop going on there and come on here his member rating will drop and he'll close.

That post looks stupid now.

[HFX]

Being banned for using a care bears sig and being nice.

And no, I am not joking about that.

Legendary.

My goal with this forum is to take all the positives from the old place (great community, sports discussion, chats, good WWE discussion, knowledgeable and friendly folks) and carry it over into this new place, without the negatives (terrible moderation, inconsistent and dumb rules, etc.) I want this place to just be fun which, let's be honest, WWE-Club kind of stopped being a while ago.

To those people worried that activity here will cause the old club to go under, I hate to break it to you but... it's pretty much a done deal as it is. There are almost no positives for Bryan in keeping that site up. The smart decision is to close it so he can spare his money and sanity. But as long as we are able to get a good amount of people from that community over here, I see no reason why we can't be better in almost every way except name recognition and search engine ranking. While we might not get a ton of new outside users at first or in the future, I think we can definitely be a better run, more enjoyable community.

That's nothing. Remember when Bryan banned me simply because he felt like it? I just go to sign in one day and I've been banned. For no damn reason except he could.

[Enygma]

Being banned for using a care bears sig and being nice.

And no, I am not joking about that.

Legendary.

My goal with this forum is to take all the positives from the old place (great community, sports discussion, chats, good WWE discussion, knowledgeable and friendly folks) and carry it over into this new place, without the negatives (terrible moderation, inconsistent and dumb rules, etc.) I want this place to just be fun which, let's be honest, WWE-Club kind of stopped being a while ago.

To those people worried that activity here will cause the old club to go under, I hate to break it to you but... it's pretty much a done deal as it is. There are almost no positives for Bryan in keeping that site up. The smart decision is to close it so he can spare his money and sanity. But as long as we are able to get a good amount of people from that community over here, I see no reason why we can't be better in almost every way except name recognition and search engine ranking. While we might not get a ton of new outside users at first or in the future, I think we can definitely be a better run, more enjoyable community.

That's nothing. Remember when Bryan banned me simply because he felt like it? I just go to sign in one day and I've been banned. For no damn reason except he could.

Similar thing happened to me. I got IP banned once for no reason, I sent him an email questioning it and I changed my browser and it worked :S

[Camstud]

Cris. God she was such a bitch. And Bryan. And JC was just-- well, you all know.

As for the good stuff, the GFX forums back say '06-'08 were great. When I have a bit more time I'm gonna get PS and try and get these ones going.

And nevermind this "JC was there for 9 years" stuff, plenty of us were there for basically as long and got shat all over. It's sad that it's gone but this place can become a much, much better place because of it.

[Hanley!]

There were a whole pile of people who got banned for basically no reason over the years. Plenty of people got banned just for arguing with JC, which made it even more infuriating that he survived each time. Messiah got banned once for just ... having opinions? I still don't know what happened there. Other people got kicked off for making threads that were a little silly but in no way offensive.

It was just dumb. The amount of times I remember arguing with Bryan and Cris about these things back when I was a moderator, but you could never get them to compromise on anything.

[Tom]

I think the biggest positive about the club was the WCSF in its height (probably between Rev IV and Annihilation 2011). There was an awesome and enthusiastic community involved in the game at the time and it was always fun to write and read what was going on. Props goes to everyone who was involved at that time. Hopefully PCW can do the same and be enjoyable for everyone involved.

The wrestling discussion was also awesome for the first few years I joined. It was always great to share opinions and debate with the likes of Hanley, iknowcool, Tikal, FanNBham, The Legend amongst others. My interest in wrestling and debating about it has since drained but I still have fond memories of that time. I probably would have stopped watching consistently long before if it had not been for the forum.

One thing that is going to be great about this place is that it will not be run by people who want to demonstrate power and control. It's run by people who the community are friendly with so that will make this place alot more fun to post in than WWE-Club was in its dying days!

[Locke]

Well, that escalated quickly.

Well look who finally decided to show up.

Good to have you here mate.

Thankies! Absolutely diggin' The Cosby.

[UTK]

If I recall correctly, I was banned for retaliating at a guy who said my deceased relative was a piece of shit, or something along those lines.

But to be fair, I would've been banned for a credible reason around that time eventually anyway.

[Kyle]

Television and Movie discussion was a blast a few years ago with NoDQ running wild.

[PorkChop]

Television and Movie discussion was a blast a few years ago with NoDQ running wild.

Do you have any way of contacting him?

[DanielsonTHAGOAT]

Wait what exactly did Messiah get banned for? I remember nobody would tell me when I asked.